Treasure Chest ...

 

 

... OR: Favourite Books from around the World

Traveling, Reading, Longing for the Faraway ...
We prefer traveling with as little luggage as possible, but one thing should never be missing:
A pile of good reads for long flights, long bus rides, waiting times and, last but not least,
for relaxing holidays.

In its own way, reading is a bit like traveling -
especially when the story of a book takes place in a foreign country or even in the
respective holiday destination. You dive into different worlds, learn about other places, different people -
sometimes even about yourself - and get the opportunity to enlarge your own wealth of experience and knowledge.
Both at home and en route there are so many opportunities for reading and dreaming of far away places.
For this reason, our backpacks always contain an eBook-Reader, sometimes even "real" (!) paperbacks.

So let's cast a glance into our "treasure chest", take out some of the books therein and
recommend a couple of them well worth reading, ordered by geographical aspects:


If what will follow now is too much for you, here are 10 favourite books/authors:

Charlotte McConaghy: Once there where Wolves, Migrations
Delia Owens: Where the Crawdads sing
Ann-Helén Laestadius: Stolen
Jean-Michael Guenassia: The Incorrigible Optimists Club
Keri Hulme: The Bone People
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: Waking Lions
T.C. Boyle: When the Killing's done
Katharina Hagena: The taste of apple seeds
Virginie Despentes: Vernon Subutex 1-3



Africa



West Africa:

Barley, Nigel: The innocent Anthropologist

Barley, Nigel: A Plague of Caterpillars. - A Return to the African Bush

Boyd, William: Brazzaville Beach

Boyd, William: A good man in Africa

Cleave, Chris: Little Bee



East Africa

Blixen, Tania: Letters from Africa (by "Isaak Dinesen")

Blixen, Tania: Out of Africa

Drayson, Nicholas: A Guide to the Birds of East Africa

Farah, Nuruddin: Sweet and Sour Milk

Gordimer, Nadine: A Guest of Honour

Halsey Carr, Rosamond: Land of a thousand Hills

Mohamed, Nadifa: The orchard of lost souls

Mwangi, Meja: Going down River Road

Naipaul, V.S.: A bend in the river

Ruete, Emily: Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar



Southern Africa:


Coetzee, J.M.: Boyhood: A Memoir. Scenes from provincial Life

Coetzee, J.M.: Waiting for the Barbarians

Degré, Tippi: Tippi of Africa

Gordimer, Nadine: Complete Works, e.g. The Pickup, ...

McCall Smith, Alexander: he No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Mandela, Nelson: Long Walk to Freedom

Mankell, Henning: The Eye of the Leopard

Mankell, Henning: Chronicler of the Winds

Michener, James A.: The Convenant

Randall, Will: Botswana Time

van der Post, Laurens: The Lost World of the Kalahari




North America


USA - New York:


Alam, Rumaan: Leave the World behind

Auster, Paul: Sunset Park

Auster, Paul: The New York Trilogy

Salinger, J.D.: The Catcher in the Rye


USA


Boyle, T.C.: Budding Prospects

Boyle, T.C.: The Tortilla Curtain

Boyle, T.C.: When the killing's done

Eggers, Dave: The Monk of Mokha

Eggers, Dave: The Circle

Eggers, Dave: The Every

Eggers, Dave: Zeitoun

Maupin, Armistead: Tales of the City

Owens, Delia: Where the Crawdads sing

Steinbeck, John: Cannery Row

Walker, Alice: The Color Purple


Canada

Hagena, Katharina: Das Geräusch des Lichts






Asia

Burdett, John: Bangkok Eight

Cotterill, Colin: The Coroner's Lunch

Duong Thu Huong: Novel without a name

Duong Thu Huong: Paradise of the blind

Greene, Graham: The quiet American

Gundar-Goshen, Ayelet: Waking Lions

Gunesekera, Ramesh: Reef

Hayslip, Le Ly: When Heaven and Earth changed places

Mistry, Rohinton: A fine Balance

Nesbo, Jo: Cockroaches

Ondaatje, Michael: Anil's Ghost

Ondaatje, Michael: Running in the Family

Orwell, George: Burmese Days

Osborne, Lawrence: Bangkok Days

Pattison, Eliot: The Skull Mantra

Pham, Andrew X.: Catfish and Mandala

Selvadurai, Shyam: Cinnamon Gardens

Swarup, Vikas: Slumdog Millionaire / Q&R

Thanegi: The Native Tourist

Willemsen, Roger: Bangkok Noir

Yousafzai, Malala: Ich bin Malala / I am Malala




Australia and New Zealand

Bryson, Bill: In a sunburned country

Chatwin, Bruce: The Songlines

Hulme, Keri: The Bone People

Nesbo, Jo: The Bat (The Harry Hole series)

Pilkington, Doris: Long walk home





Europe: France, Spain, Portugal:


France:


de Beauvoir, Simone: Mandarins

Despentes, Virginie: Vernon Subutex (1-3

Guenassia, Jean-Michel: The Incorrigible Optimists Club

Izzo, Jean-Claude: Aldebaran / Les marins perdus

Izzo, Jean-Claude: The Marseilles Trilogy Books

Mayle, Peter: A year in Provence

Queneau, Raymond: Zazie in the Metro


Spain, Portugal:


Kerr, Peter: Manana Manana

Ruiz Zafón, Carlos: Shadow of the Wind

Tabucchi, Antonio: Pereira Declares: A Testimony


More from Europe

Hagena, Katharina: Der Geschmack von Apfelkernen / The Taste of Apple Seeds

Kutscher, Volker: The Gereon-Rath Mystery Series (TV-Series: "Babylon Berlin")

Laestadius, Ann-Helén: Das Leuchten der Rentiere / Stolen

McConaghy, Charlotte: Zugvögel / Migrations

McConaghy, Charlotte: Wo die Wölfe sind / Once there were Wolves

Pfeijffer, Ilja Leonard: Das schönste Mädchen von Genua / La Superba

Pfeijffer, Ilja Leonard: Grand Hotel Europe






From over the World incl. Fantasy & SciFi

Bourdain, Anthony: Ein Küchenchef reist um die Welt / Cook's Tour. In Search of the Perfect Meal

Cullen, Paul: Der Fahrplan ist die Speisekarte / Cook's Tour: A Haphazard Journey from Guanghzou to Dublin and Back Again

Golding, William: Lord of the Flies

McConaghy, Charlotte: Avery - Thorne - Isadora (Die Kaya-Chroniken / The Kaya Chronicles)

McConaghy, Charlotte: The Cure: Fury - Melancholy - Limerence

McConaghy, Charlotte: Zugvögel / Migrations

Mitchell, David: Der Wolkenatlas / Cloud Atlas

Tolkien, J.R.R.: Der kleine Hobbit & Der Herr der Ringe / The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings





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