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Book Bingo NW 2025 - Author From Another Continent

Here are some suggestions for your 2025 Book Bingo NW category: Author from Another Continent. Summer Book Bingo is our NEW adult summer reading program presented in partnership with Seattle Public Library and Seattle Arts & Lectures. Annotations by staff, review sources, or publisher as noted.

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  • Fiction. Africa, Sudan. This enchanting and eye-opening new novel follows an embattled young woman coming of age during the Mahdist War in nineteenth-century Sudan, and illuminates the tensions that shape her course. (Publisher Description)
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2023. — FIC ABOULELA
  • Fiction. Asia, Palestine. Amiry’s stirring debut novel (after the memoir My Damascus) follows the young love between two Palestinians whose families become displaced during the 1947–1948 civil war. (Publishers Weekly)
    Book, 2022New York : Pantheon Books, 2022. — FIC AMIRY
  • Fiction. Asia, Japan. For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this charming Japanese novel shows how the perfect book recommendation can change a reader's life. (Publisher Description)
    Book, 2023Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, 2023. — FIC AOYAMA
  • Fiction. Europe, Spain/Catalonia. Originally written in Catalan, Boulder is a book about navigating queerness in a often hostile world and how to balance the desire for love with the want of independence. (Publisher Description)
    Book, 2022Sheffield : And Other Stories, 2022. — FIC BALTASAR
  • Fiction. Europe, United Kingdom. British Cambodian writer Bradley’s clever debut features time travel, romance, cloak-and-dagger plotting, and a critique of the British Empire. (Publishers Weekly)
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC, 2024. — FIC BRADLEY
  • Fiction. Oceania, New Zealand. Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood is a psychological thriller that combines Shakespearean drama with Austenian wit. It explores human intentions, actions, and consequences, offering a captivating examination of our survival…
    Book, 2023New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. — FIC CATTON
  • Fiction. Asia, Sri Lanka. Chandrasekera debuts with a lyrical fantasy following “chosen one” Fetter, son of Mother-of-Glory and her former husband, the Perfect and Kind. (Publishers Weekly)
    Book, 2023New York : Tor Publishing Group, 2023. — FIC CHANDRASEKERA
  • Fiction. Africa, Nigeria. Emezi returns to adult fiction (after YA novel Pet) with a brisk tale that whirs around the mysterious death of a young Nigerian man. (Publishers Weekly)
    Book, 2020New York : Riverhead Books, 2020. — FIC EMEZI
  • Nonfiction. Europe, France. Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present—even projections into the future—photos, books,…
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Seven Stories Press, [2017] — B ERNAUX
  • What My Bones Know

    a Memoir of Healing From Complex Trauma

    Foo, Stephanie,
    Nonfiction. Asia, Malaysia. Foo, radio journalist and former producer of This American Life, recounts her astounding story of living with complex PTSD (C-PTSD), a diagnosis that describes the psychological pain experienced by those who’ve suffered…
    Book, 2022New York : Ballantine Books, [2022] — 616.8521 FOO
  • Fiction. Africa, South Africa. Haunted by an unfulfilled promise, the Swart family drifts apart after their matriarch's death. Their dwindling family reflects the nation's atmosphere of resentment, renewal, and hope. (Publisher Description)
    Book, 2021New York, N.Y. : Europa Editions, 2021. — FIC GALGUT
  • Fiction. South America, Colombia. One Hundred Years of Solitude, one of the most significant works of the twentieth century, chronicles the rise and fall of Macondo through the Buendía family. The novel explores universal themes such as love, war,…
    Book, 2006New York : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006. — Y GARCIA MARQUEZ
  • Fiction. Africa, Tanzania. In Nobel laureate Gurnah’s riveting latest (after Gravel Heart), the lives of three East Africans play out in an unnamed coastal town during the period of German colonial rule in Africa in the early 20th century.…
    Book, 2022New York : Riverhead Books, 2022. — FIC GURNAH
  • Fiction. Asia, Pakistan. Kamal masterfully transports Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice from Regency England to modern-day Pakistan in this excellent retelling. (Publishers Weekly)
    Book, 2019New York : Ballantine Books, [2019] — ROM KAMAL
  • Fiction. Asia, India. In Kapoor’s searing portrait of India at the turn of the 21st century, finely wrought characters go to great lengths to escape the bonds into which they were born. (Publishers Weekly)
    Book, 2023New York : Riverhead Books, 2023. — FIC KAPOOR
  • Fiction. South America, Brazil. Lispector cuts away the reader's preconceived notions about poverty, identity, love and the art of fiction in this slim little book. This book follows Macabéa who is living in the slums of Rio and seeking out a poor…
    Book, 2011New York : New Directions, c2011. — FIC LISPECTOR
  • Fiction. Asia, China. Fans of hard SF will revel in this intricate and imaginative novel by one of China’s most celebrated genre writers. (Publishers Weekly)
    Book, 2014New York : Tor, [2014] — S LIU
  • Graphic Novel. Africa, Egypt. Mohamed (the Qahera webcomic) unspools the complexities—emotional, financial, logistical—that arise when magic meets corporate corruption and bureaucracy, in this splendid graphic novel. (Publishers Weekly)
    Book, 2022New York : Pantheon Books, [2022] — GN SHUBEIK LUBEIK
  • Fiction. Africa, Zambia. Young queer dancer Wilbess “Bessy” Mulenga is arrested by corrupt police, prompting rookie lawyer Grace Zulu to take on his pro bono case. (Publisher Description)
    Book, 2024Toronto, Ontario : Graydon House, [2024] — FIC MWANZA
  • Fiction. Asia, Vietnam. Nguyễn’s lyrical, sweeping debut novel chronicles the Tran family through a century of war and renewal. (Publishers Weekly)
    Book, 2020Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2020. — FIC NGUYEN