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| MONTH/ & YR |
SELECTIONS |
LOCALE |
| Aug 11 |
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (Mueenuddin) |
Pakistan |
| Jul 11 |
House at Sugar Beach (Cooper) |
Liberia |
| Jun 11 |
Jade Lady Burning (Limon)
or Corpse in the Koryo (Church) |
Korea |
| May 11 |
Baking Cakes at Kigali (Parkin) |
Rwanda |
| Apr 11 |
Memories of a Pure Spring (Huong) |
Vietnam |
| Mar 11 |
The Bookshop (Firzgerald) |
England |
| Feb 11 |
Strength in What Remains (Kidder) |
Burundi |
| Jan 11 |
Invisible Mountain (DeRobertis) |
Uruguay |
| Dec 10 |
Snow (Pamuk) |
Turkey |
| Nov 10 |
A Star Called Henry (Doyle) |
Ireland |
| Oct 10 |
The Pearl Diver (Talarigo) |
Japan |
| Sep 10 |
Girl with the Dragon Tatoo (Larsson) |
Sweden |
| Aug 10 |
House on the Lagoon (Ferre) |
Puerto Rico |
| Jul 10 |
Wide Saragasso Sea (Rhys) |
Jamaica |
| Jun 10 |
Elegance of the Hedgehog (Barbery) |
France |
| May 10 |
Cossacks (Tolstoy) |
Russia |
| Apr 10 |
White Tiger (Adiga) |
India |
| Mar 10 |
Death in a Strange Country (Leon) |
Italy |
| Feb 10 |
Waiting for the Barbarians (Coetzee) |
South Africa |
| Jan 10 |
Bastard of Istanbul (Shafak) |
Turkey |
| Dec 09 |
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society (Shaffer & Barrows) |
England |
| Nov 09 |
Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman (Andrzej Szczpiorski) |
Poland |
| Oct 09 |
True Sources of the Nile (Sarah Stone) |
Burundi |
| Sep 09 |
White Man's Grave (Richard Dooling) |
Sierra Leone |
| Aug 09 |
Annie John (Jamaica Kincaid) |
Antigua |
| Jul 09 |
Homestead (Rosina Lippi) |
Austria |
| Jun 09 |
The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho) |
Chile |
| May 09 |
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Sijie Dai) |
China |
| Apr 09 |
Tree of Red Stars (Tessa Bridal) |
Uruguay |
| Mar 09 |
Woman in the Mists (Farley Mowat) |
Rwanda |
| Feb 09 |
Death in the Andes (Vargas Llosa) |
Peru |
| Jan 09 |
Girls of Riyadh (Alsanea) |
Saudi Arabia |
| Dec 08 |
Wild Sheep Chase (Murkami) |
Japan |
| Nov 08 |
Anil's Ghost (Ondaatje) |
Sri Lanka |
| Oct 08 |
The Reader (Schlink) |
Germany |
| Sep 08 |
Pomegranate Soup (Mehran) |
Ireland |
| Aug 08 |
Bangkok 8 (Burdett) |
Thailand |
| Jul 08 |
Chinese Lessons (Pomfret) |
China |
| Jun 08 |
Frangipani (Vaite) |
Tahiti |
| May 08 |
Visitation (Reidy) |
New Zealand |
| Apr 08 |
Miss Garnet's Angel (Vickers) |
Italy |
| Mar 08 |
The Skull Mantra (Pattison) |
Tibet |
| Feb 08 |
All the Names (Saramano) |
Portugal |
| Jan 08 |
Rasputin's Daughter (Alexander) |
Russia |
| Dec 07 |
American Chica (Arana) |
Peru |
| Nov 07 |
Renato's Luck (Shapiro) |
Italy |
| Oct 07 |
Shadow of the Wind (Zafron) |
Spain |
| Sep 07 |
True History of the Kelly Gang (Carey) |
Australia |
| Aug 07 |
House Under Snow (Jill Bialosky) |
Lapland |
| Jul 07 |
Bitter Grounds (Sandra Benitez) |
El Salvador |
| Jun 07 |
The Lemon Tree (Sandy Tolan) |
Palestine |
| May 07 |
In the Palm of Darkness (Mayra Montero) |
Haiti |
| Apr 07 |
A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry) |
India |
| Mar 07 |
American Chica (Marie Arana) |
Peru |
| Feb 07 |
Land of a Thousand Hills (Rosamund Halsey Carr) |
Rwanda |
| Jan 07 |
Waiting for Snow in Havana (Carlos Eire) |
Cuba |
| Dec 06 |
Lie in the Dark (Dan Fesperman) |
Sarajevo |
| Nov 06 |
The Journey Home (Olafur Johann Olafsson) |
Iceland |
| Oct 06 |
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (Anne Fadiman) |
Hmong |
| Sep 06 |
I Heard the Owl Call My Name (Margaret Craven) |
Canada |
| Aug 06 |
The Kite Runner (Khaled Husseini) |
Afghanistan |
| Jul 06 |
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency (Alexander McCall Smith) |
Botswana |
| Jun 06 |
Palace Walk (Naguib Mahfouz) |
Egypt |
| May 06 |
Purple Hibiscus (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) |
Nigeria |
| Apr 06 |
Power of One (Bryce Courtenay) |
South Africa |
| Mar 06 |
Haunted Ground (Erin Hart) |
Ireland |
| Feb 06 |
In the Time of Butterflies (Julia Alvarez) |
Dominican Republic |
| Jan 06 |
Moghul Buffet (Cheryl Bernard) |
Pakistan |
| Dec 05 |
Le Divorce (Diane Johnson) |
France |
| Nov 05 |
Leaning to Bow (Bruce Feiler) |
Japan |
| Oct 05 |
Dreaming in Cuban (Christina Garcia) |
Cuba |
| Sep 05 |
Piano Tuner (Daniel Mason) |
Burma |
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