Reading lists, some have reviews.
2022
The Alexandria Quartet - Lawrence Durrell
Journey Without Maps - Graham Greene
City of Djinns - William Dalrymple
2021
A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East - William Dalrymple
Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories - M. R. James
The Green Man - Kingsley Amis
The Posthumous Memories of Bras Cubas - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
The Last Mughal - William Dalrymple
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company - William Dalrymple
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42 - William Dalrymple
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica - Zora Neale Hurston
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kerns Goodwin
Out of Istanbul - Bernard Ollivier
Slowly Down the Ganges - Eric Newby
The Marsh Arabs - Wilfred Thesiger
Winds of the Steppe: Walking the Great Silk Road from Central Asia to China - Bernard Ollivier
The King of the World - Rene Guenon
The Emigrants - W. G. Sebald
Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dreams of an Empire in Asia - Peter Hopkirk
Mine Were of Trouble: A Nationalist Account of the Spanish Civil War - Peter Kemp
The True Dharma Eye - John Daido Loori
Beasts, Men, and Gods - Ferdinand Ossendowski
First Russia, Then Tibet - Robert Byron
Travels into Bokhara - Alexander Burnes
The Road to Oxiana - Robert Byron
In Ethiopia with a Mule - Dervla Murphy
2019
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Comedians - Graham Greene
Stamboul Train - Graham Greene
The Station - Robert Byron
The Byzantine Achievement - Robert Byron
Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories in China's Countryside - Xiawei Wang
Piranesi - Susanna Clark
The Mirage Man
The Demon in the Feezer
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Nada Devi: Exploration and Ascent - Eric Shipton
Sea and Sardinia - D.H. Lawrence
The Broken Road - Patrick Leigh Fermor
Between Woods and Water - Patrick Leigh Fermor
A Time of Gifts - Patrick Leigh Fermor
Los suicidias - Antonio Di Benedetto
O silencierio - Antonio Di Benedetto
The Naked Sun - Isaac Asimov
The Plague - Albert Camus
Prospero's Cell - Lawrence Durrell
The Greek Islands - Lawrence Durrell
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus: Life on a Mediterranean Island - Lawrence Durrell
Mogreb-el-Acksa: A Journey in Morocco - R.B. Cunningham Graham
At Swim-Two-Birds: A Novel - Flann O'Brien
Dubliners - James Joyce
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying - Sogyal Rinpoche
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin - Jonathan Phillips
Sevens Years in Tibet - Heinrich Harrer
Religio Medici, Hydrotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend - Sir Thomas Brown
2018
The Mosquito - Timothy C. Winegard
The Borgias: Power and Fortune - Paul Strathern
Jews and Magic in Medici Florence - Edward L. Goldberg
The Street of Crocodiles - Bruno Schultz
The Garden of the Gods - Gerald Durell
Birds, Beasts, and Relatives - Gerald Durrell
My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durell
GEB - Douglas R. Hofstadter
A Small Place in Italy - Eric Newby
Pavilion of Women - Pearl S. Buck
Death in the Castle - Pearl S. Buck
Round Ireland in Low Gear - Eric Newby
Zama - Antonio Di Benedetto
Something Wholesale - Eric Newby
Kant and the Platypus - Umberto Eco
Love and War in the Apennines - Eric Newby
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush - Eric Newby
The Lore of Scotland: A Guide to Scottish Legends - Jennifer Westwood
Walking on the Orkney and Shetland Islands - Graham Uney
Trekking Tibet - Gary McCue
An Elemental Thing - Eliot Weinberger
The Rings of Saturn - W. G. Sebald
The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra - Vaseem Khan
Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red - Harry Kemelman
Thursday the Rabbi Walked Out - Harry Kemelman
Monday the Rabbi Took Off - Harry Kemelman
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late - Harry Kemelman
Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry - Ha - G. K. Chestertonrry Kemelman
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
Young Goodman Brown and Other Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Persuasion - Jane Austen
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
The Innocence of Father Brown - G. K. Chesterton
The Wisdom of Father Brown - G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Knew Too Much - G. K. Chesterton
2017
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
Martin Fierro - Jose Hernandez
Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Teutonic Mythology - Viktor Rydberg
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
Old Man's War - John Scalzi
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
The Glass Bead Game - Hermann Hesse
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
Outer Dark - Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Catch-22 - Jospeh Heller
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