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