Voices from Around the Globe
A view beyond Oprah's book list.
So you loved several of Oprah's books, and of course you have read non-Oprahs that you could rave about. Let us know the novels you've hated or loved.
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We are currently on a mission to circle the globe to hear the voices of authors who are not U.S.-based writers. Thus far, we have ventured to countries listed below.
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Where We've Been . . .
| We have read many excellent novels. In the list below, see where we have been. |  A novel by French Albert that is on our list of upcoming books. |
Asia:
- Jung Chung: Wild Swans, Three Daughters of China
- Banana Yoshimoto: Kitchen
India:
- Anita Desai: Clear Light of Day
Iran/England:
- Salomon Rushdie:
- The Moor's Last Sigh
- Satanic Verses
West Africa:
- Buchi Emecheta: The Joys of Motherhood
- Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
Russia:
- Michail Bulgakof, The Master and the Margarita
- Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamozov
- Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
- A. I. Solzhenitsyn: The Gulag Archipelago
- A. I. Solzhenitsyn:
A Day in the Life of
Ivan Ivanovich
Europe:
- Jane Austin, Pride and Prejudice
- Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim
- Charles Dickens:
- Hard Times
- Bleak House
- Umberto Eco: The Baron in the Trees
- George Elliot:
- Middlemarch
- Adam Bede
- The Mill on the Floss
- Thomas Hardy:
- Far from the Madding Crowd
- Tess D'urberville
- Ursala Hegi: Stones from the River
- James Joyce: Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
- C.S. Lewis:
- Through the Looking Glass
- Alice in Wonderland
- Frank McCourt: Angela's Ashes
- Milorad Pavic: Landscape Painted with Tea
- Max Frisch: I'm Not Stiller
Scandinavia:
- Peter Hoeg: Smillia's Sense of Snow
Americas
Mexico:
- Carolos Fuentes: The Old Gringo
South America:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Hundred Years of Solitude
- Carlos Castanada:
- Rigoberta Menchu: I, Rigoberta Menchu
- Isabella Allende:
- House of the Spirits
- The Infinite Plan
North America:
- John Dos Pasos, 1919
- Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence
- Thorton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Jack London: Seawolf
- Mark Saltzman: The Soloist
- Isaac Singer: Enemies, a love story
- Nathanael West: The Day of the Locust
- Lois-Ann Yamanaka: Blu's Hanging
- Joyce Carol Oates: Foxfire
- E.L. Doctorov: The Waterworks
- Louise Erdrich: The Beet Queen
- Norman Mailer: Executioner's Song
- Toni Morrison:
- Beloved
- Jazz
Others we have read, and the dates we've read each one.
- The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf, Kathryn Davis Dec. '99
- Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons, Nov. '99
- Brothers Karamozov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Oct. '99
- Seawolf, Jack Londo,n Sept. '99
- Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden, August '99
- Bul's Hanging, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, July '99
- June '99
- May '99
- Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton, April '9:
- The Soloist, Mark Saltzman, March '99
- Dogeaters, Jessica Hagehorn, Feb. '99
- Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, R. Welles
- Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder Jan '99
- Hard Times, Charles Dickens Dec '9
- Alice in Wonderland, C.S. Lewis Through the Looking Glass, C.S. Lewis Nov '98
- Widow for A Year, John Irving, Oct '98
- Enemies, A Love Story, Isaac Singer, Sept. '98
- The Joys of Motherhood, Buchi Emecheta
- Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe, August '98
- Clear Light of Day, Anita Desai June/July: May '98
- The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West April '98
- Middlemarch, George Eliott/MaryAnn Evans, March '98
- : Independent People, Halldor Laxness, Feb '98
- The Book of Ruth, Jane Hamilton, Ja.n '98
- Possession, A.S. Byatt, Nov. '97
- Far From the Madding Crowd, Thomas, Hardy Oct. '97:
- Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood, Sept. '97:
- Wild Swans, Jung Chang, August '97:
- Felicia's Journey, William Trevor
- Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt, June '97:
- Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterso,n May '97:
- Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad, April '97:
- The Realms of Gold, Margaret Drabble, March '97:
- The Waterworks, E.L. Doctorow, Feb. '97:
- Boy's Life, Robert R. McCannon, Jan '97:
- The Moor's Last Sigh, Salmon Rushdie, Nov. '96:
- Grass Dancer, Susan Power, Oct. '96:
- The White Hotel, C.M. Thomas, Sept. '96:
- A Fool's Progress, Edward Abbey, August '96:
- Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann, June '96:
- I'm Not Stiller, Max Frisch, May '96:
- To the Lighthouse, Virginia Wolfe, April '96:
- If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin, March '96:
- Lady's Maid, Margaret Foster, Feb. '96:
- Dreaming in Cuban, Christina Garcia, Jan '96:
- Ishmael, Daniel Quinn ,Nov. '95:
- Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro, Oct. '95:
- The Master and Margarita, Michail Bulgakof, Sept. '95:
- Stone Diaries, Caroline Shield,s July '95:
- One True Thing, Anna Quinlan, June '95:
- Foxfire, Joyce Carol Oates, May '95:
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Brend,t April '95
- Hide and Seek, Charlotte Lamb, March '95:
- I, Rigoberta Menchú, Rigoberta Menchú, Feb. '95:
- The Old Gringo, Carlos Fuentes, Jan '95: 1919,
- John Dos Pasos, Nov. '94:
- The Shipping News, Annie Proulx, Oct. '94:
- Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer, Sept. '94:
- The Infinite Plan, Isabel Allende, August '94:
- Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto, June '94:
- Smilla's Sense of Snow, Peter Hoeg May '94: April '94:
- A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley, March '94:
- Jazz, Toni Morrison, Feb. '94:
- The Beet Queen, Louise Erdrich, Jan '94:
- Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver, Nov. '93:
- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy, Oct. '93:
- Bleak House, Charles Dickens, June '93:
- Beloved, Toni Morrison
- A Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Continental Drift, Russell Banks
- House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende
- The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
- Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
- Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
- Collected Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce
- The Education of Little Tree, Forrest Carter Kolya,
- Love Medicine, Louise Erdrich
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