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    Looking for my next read. Currently reading / have read and enjoyed

    Any travelogues and/or books about expats gone wrong. Think:
    Heart of Darkness
    Graham Greene – recently read The Power and the Glory, Our Man in Havana and Journey Without Maps
    Paul Theroux – read most of his and most recently read the Lower River and loved it
    Paul Bowles – currently listening to the Spiders House, The Sheltering Sky is one of my all time favourites
    Have read two by Naipaul too – The Bend in the River and An Area of Darkness

    Also love authors/books whose work is very evocative of a particular place:
    Orhan Pamuk
    Tim Winton
    Lawrence Durrell
    Shantaram

    Japanese literature:
    Anything Haruki Murakami or Kazuo Ishiguro
    Recently read Butter and Convenience Store Woman, enjoyed both

    Anything about wildlife / nature epics (eg books by Gerald Durrell, David Attenborough)

    Other honourable mentions:
    I love F Scott Fitzgerald
    Rebecca
    Brooklyn / Long Island by Colm Toibin
    Anything by Patti Smith, Zadie Smith or Joan Didion

    My current shortlist:
    1) The City and its Uncertain Walls – Murakami
    2) The Magician – Colm Toibin
    3) Ways of Escape – Graham Greene
    4) The Constant Gardener – John Le Carre
    5) On Beauty – Zadie Smith

    Any and all suggestions welcome !

    by Ancient_Simple2122

    2 Comments

    1. quantified-nonsense on

      Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome is a Victorian comedy travelogue about three friends traveling down the Thames in a boat, and it’s very descriptive about the places they stop and what it was like to be on the river at that time.

    2. Successful-Try-8506 on

      The Magus by John Fowles, mainly set in Greece and definitely fits “expats gone wrong”. It’s also my all time favourite novel.

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