This week’s topic for Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) is: “Books for Armchair Travellers”
There are lots of ways I could have approached this topic, but the ten books I’ve chosen are set in places that I’ve never visited and probably never will. It was nice to have the opportunity to ‘see’ them through the pages of these books!
1. The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (Sierra Leone)
2. The English Girl by Katherine Webb (Oman)
3. Little Black Lies by Sharon Bolton (The Falkland Islands)
4. The Missing Sister by Dinah Jefferies (Myanmar)
5. The Gabriel Hounds by Mary Stewart (Syria and Lebanon)
6. The Predicament by William Boyd (Multiple locations including Guatemala)
7. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan)
8. Death in Zanzibar by M.M. Kaye (Zanzibar)
9. Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain (Borneo)
10. Scales of Gold by Dorothy Dunnett (Multiple locations including Mali and The Gambia)
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Have you read any of these? And have you been to any of these places or, like me, are you only likely to visit them from your armchair?
She Reads Novels 
Great TTT topic this week! I haven’t read any of those but they are some unusual settings.
Yes, I enjoyed putting this list together. I doubt I’ll ever have the opportunity to visit any of these places.
It’s a great topic this week. And the mountains echoed is one of my all time favourites
I liked And the Mountains Echoed but I think A Thousand Splendid Suns is my favourite book by Hosseini.
I wish he’d write another 😂
I love the way you approached this topic. I haven’t read any of these but Memory of Love is on my TBR. I really liked her other book, Happiness. I also really like Rose Tremain,
I hope you enjoy The Memory of Love. I haven’t read anything else by Aminatta Forna but I have her book The Hired Man on my TBR – I’ll have to look for Happiness as well.
Good stuff–William Boyd has some great books in other locations. And Dinah Jefferies are always a good read.
I’ve read three William Boyd books, I think, and am looking forward to reading more of them. And yes, I usually enjoy Dinah Jefferies and her books are always set in interesting places!
Good idea. I doubt I’ll ever visit any of those places either!
That’s one of the things I love about reading – the chance to ‘visit’ places I’ll probably never go in real life!
Great to see The Gabriel Hounds on your list, Helen! I nearly put this on my list as well, but plumped for Madam, Will You Talk? instead. 😊
Mary Stewart’s books always have great settings! I loved Madam, Will You Talk? as well.