The Point Reading List … books featuring foreign lands

Here are today’s reading lists. As always you can hear the repeat at 7:30 p.m. on WCAI or listen to the podcast online.

Patron Suggestions

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows.

In a Far Country : the true story of a mission, a marriage, a murder, and the remarkable reindeer rescue of 1898 by John Taliaferro. (I’ll make sure we order a copy!)

Jill’s Suggestions

China: 3,000 Years of Art and Literature edited by Jason Steuber

Healing Spaces: the science of place and well-being by Esther M. Sternberg

Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust (translated by Lydia Davis)

Paintings in Proust: a visual companion to In Search of Lost Time by Eric Karpeles

Darling Jim by Christian Moerk

Ocean Wide, Ocean Deep by Susan Lendroth, illustrations by Raul Allen (picture book)

The Way of Herodotus: travels with the man who invented history by Justin Marozzi

Caravans by James A. Michener

My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk

Three books I didn’t get a chance to mention:

Eiffel’s Tower and the World’s Fair Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count by Jill Jonnes

Dreaming in Hindi: coming awake in another language by Katherine Russell Rich

Previous Convictions: assignments from here and there by A. A. Gill (Includes a chapter on Edward Hopper which talks about Cape Cod.)

Melanie’s Suggestions

The Archivist’s Story by Travis Holland

However Tall the Mountain: A Dream, Eight Girls & a Journey Home by Awista Ayub

Tomato Rhapsody by Adam Schell

Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin

The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran by Hooman Majd

Evil for Evil: A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery by James R. Benn

And she would have mentioned, but ran out of time: Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder