Australia Office of Innocence by Thomas Keneally (during World War II) Canada Let Loose the Dogs by Maureen Jennings (19th century Toronto) Dominican Republic The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa (1960s) Egypt Cheops by Paul West (ancient times) France The Monsters of St. Helena by Brooks Hansen (exile of Napolean) The Jester by James Patterson (11th century) Silk by Alessandro Baricco (1860s) Great Britain As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann (English Civil War) The Grail Prince, by Nancy McKenzie (Galahad) The Wishing Game by Patrick Redmond (life in a strict and uncanny boarding school in rural Norfolk in the 1950s) Laura Blundy by Julie Myerson (Victorian London) The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe (1970s) The Green and the Gold by Christopher Peachment (17th century) The Voyage Destiny by Robert Nye (about Sir Walter Releigh) The Serpent in the Garden by Janet Gleeson (18th century London) The Fiend in Human by John MacLachlan Gray (1850s London) Greece Hades’ Daughter by Sara Douglass (ancient times) India The Sabre’s Edge by Allan Mallinson (1820s) Ireland The Big Snow by David Park (1960s) Another Kind of Life by Catherine Dunne (19th century) The Fall of Light by Niall Williams (19th century) Israel Ten Thousand Lovers by Edeet Ravel (1970s) Italy Caravaggio by Christopher Peachment (16th and 17th century) Lucrezia Borgia by John Faunce (biographical novel; Renaissance) Japan Cloud of Sparrows by Takashi Matsuoka (19th century) One Man’s Justice by Akira Yoshimura (1940s U.S. occupation) The Dragon King’s Palace by Laura Joh Rowland (17th century) Netherlands The Coffee Trader by David Liss (17th century) Poland The Stars Can Wait by Jay Basu (World War II) Roman Empire Emperor: The Gates of Rome by Conn Iggulden A Song for Nero by Thomas Holt (1st century) Russia The White Russian by Tom Bradby (1917 St. Petersburg) The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander (Bolshevik revolution, seen through the eyes of the Tsar’s kitchen boy) The Retreat by Patrick Rambaud (Napolean's invasion) South Africa Frankie & Stankie by Barbara Trapido (1950s) Tibet Blue Poppies by Jonathan Falla (during Chinese invasion) United States The Hornet's Nest, by Jimmy Carter (American Revolution) Lucy, by Ellen Feldman (1930s and 1940s) A Place Called Rainwater, by Dorothy Garlock (Oklahoma in the late 1920s) I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company by Brian Hall (Lewis and Clark Expedition) Freedom Land by Martin Marcus (Seminole War) Alaska by James A. Michener (Alaska) Shadow Boxer by Eddie Muller (San Francisco late 1940s) Angels Watching Over Me by Michael Phillips (The South in the 1850s) Waltz into Darkness by William Irish (New Orleans in 1880) The Road to Wellville by T.C. Boyle (the story of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of the cornflake, and his Battle Creek Sanitarium. It is set in 1907) When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka (Japanese-Americans during World War II) A Greater Glory by James Scott Bell (early 1900s in Los Angeles) Oscar Wilde Discovers America by Louis Edwards (Oscar Wilde tours the United States) The Battle of Milroy Station by Robert Fowler (Civil War) Property by Valerie Martin (slave rebellion) Daughter of the Loom by Tracie Peterson and Judith Miller (19th century Lowell, Massachusetts) Into the Valley: The Settlers by Rosanne Bittner (Revolutionary War) More than a Dream by Lauraine Snelling (Scandinavian immigrants in 1897 Minnesota) Fanny and Sue by Karen Stolz (St. Louis during the Great Depression) White Doves at Morning by James Lee Burke (Civil War) The Runaway Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini (the Underground Railroad) The Final Confession of Mabel Stark by Robert Hough (female animal trainer in Barnum & Bailey circus during 1930s) Unholy Fire by Robert Mrazek (Civil War) Blood and Bitter Wind by Earl Murray (California gold rush) Home to Trinity by Delia Parr (1830s Pennsylvania) Hope by Mary Ryan (Colorado gold rush) Sweet Sunday by John Lawton (1960s New York) Vietnam The Tapestries by Kien Nguyen