Wanderlust stories

I'm sure you wish you were anywhere else besides studying for midterms right now! Luckily, reading is what can take you somewhere fun when you're forced to physically stay in one place. Here are some books that take place all across the globe.

Europe:

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

-A blind girl and a member of the Hitler Youth maneuver life during World War II.

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

-Like Clue, but on a train. Whodunnit??

Asia:

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

-Four generations of a Korean immigrant family try to shape their fate in Japan.

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

-Cinderella as a teenage cyborg who fights for Earth against intergalactic enemies.

South America:

Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

-The life of an endearing orphan growing up in an unidentified South American country.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

-The story of a fictional Colombian town and its association with a multigenerational family.

Africa:

The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini

-Two childhood friends turned enemies learn what it means to be a man.

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche

-A fifteen-year-old girl growing up in a wealthy and religious Nigerian family.

The Ocean:

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

-Three teenage refugees on a doomed German ship are forced to trust each other to survive during the fallout post-World War II.