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Open Borders Books
There are a number of books and videos available for OBLC participants to check out.
OPEN BORDERS: Fiction Collection |
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Author/Country |
Title |
Pages |
Achebe, Chinua (Nigeria) |
Things Fall Apart |
209 |
Achebe, Chinua (Nigeria) |
Anthills of the Savannah |
216 |
Aidoo, Ama Ata (Ghana) |
No Sweetness Here |
135 |
Al-Shaykh, Hanan (Lebanon) |
I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops |
288 |
Ali, Monica (Bangladesh) |
Brick Lane |
415 |
Arrabal, Fernando (Spain) |
The Compass Stone |
165 |
Azzopardi, Trezza (Wales) |
The Hiding Place |
282 |
Berger, John (England) |
Pig Earth |
213 |
Bordewijk, F. (Netherlands) |
Character |
286 |
Bowles, Paul (USA) |
The Sheltering Sky |
318 |
Bowles, Paul (USA) |
The Spider’s House |
406 |
Boyd, William (England) |
A Good Man in Africa |
342 |
Bulgakov, Mikhail (Russia) |
The Master and Margarita |
402 |
Cabrera Infante, G. (Cuba) |
Three Trapped Tigers |
487 |
Carrere, Emmanuel (France) |
The Adversary |
191 |
Carver, Raymond (USA) |
When We Talk About Love |
159 |
Chai, Arlene (Philippines) |
The Last Time I Saw Mother |
340 |
Conde, Maryse (Guadaloupe) |
Windward Heights |
348 |
Danticat, Edwidge (Haiti) |
Breath, Eyes, Memory |
234 |
Desai, Anita (India) |
Clear Light of Day |
183 |
Dorris, Michael (USA) |
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water |
343 |
Enchi, Fumiko (Japan) |
The Waiting Years |
203 |
Esquivel, Laura (Mexico) |
Like Water for Chocolate |
241 |
Fischer, Tibor (Hungary) |
Under the Frog |
250 |
Foden, Giles (Scotland) |
The Last King of Scotland |
352 |
Fuks, Ladislav (Czechoslavakia) |
Mr. Theodore Mundstock |
214 |
Gaarder, Jostein (Norway) |
Sophie’s World |
394 |
Geok-Lim, Shirley (Malaysia) |
Joss and Gold |
274 |
Ghose, Zulfikar (Pakistan) |
The Incredible Brazilian |
336 |
Gibbons, Kaye (USA) |
Ellen Foster |
126 |
Gunesekera,
Romesh (Sri Lanka) |
Monkfish Moon |
138 |
Guterson, David (USA) |
Snow Falling on Cedars |
460 |
Harrison, Jim (USA) |
Sundog |
347 |
Johnson, Charles (USA) |
Middle Passage |
209 |
Johnson, Denis (Germany) |
Angels |
209 |
Johnston, Wayne (Canada) |
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams |
562 |
Kemal, Yashar (Turkey) |
Seagull |
250 |
Kesey, Ken (USA) |
Sometimes a Great Notion |
628 |
Koch, Christopher (Australia) |
The Year of Living Dangerously |
278 |
Laye, Camara (Guinea) |
The Dark Child |
159 |
Lind, Jakov (Austria) |
Soul of Wood |
190 |
Lindgren, Torgny (Sweden) |
Hash |
236 |
Mantel, Hilary (England) |
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street |
278 |
Marahimin, Ismail (Indonesia) |
And the War is Over |
167 |
Martinez, Tomas Eloy (Argentina) |
Santa Evita |
369 |
McGahern, John (Ireland) |
The Barracks |
232 |
McKnight, Reginald (USA) |
I Get on the Bus |
296 |
Mehta, Gita (India) |
A River Sutra |
282 |
Mistry, Rohinton (India/Canada) |
Swimming Lessons |
250 |
Mo, Timothy (Hong Kong/England) |
The Monkey King |
275 |
Mukherjee, Bharati (India) |
Jasmine |
241 |
Munro, Alice (Canada) |
Lives of Girls and Women |
288 |
Murray, John (USA) |
A Few Short Notes on Topical Butterflies |
274 |
Musil, Robert (Germany) |
Young Torless |
217 |
Naipaul, V. S. (Trinidad) |
A House for Mr. Biswas |
590 |
Niwa, Fumio (Japan) |
The Buddha Tree |
380 |
Oe, Kenzaburo (Japan) |
A Personal Matter |
165 |
Orwell, George (English) |
Burmese Days |
287 |
Puig, Manuel (Argentina) |
Kiss of the Spiderwoman |
192 |
Rodoreda, Merce (Spain) |
The Time of the Doves |
201 |
Roy, Arundhati (India) |
The God of Small Things |
321 |
Sakamoto, Kerri (Canada) |
The Electrical Field |
305 |
Schami, Rafik (Syria) |
Damascus Nights |
263 |
Sebold, Alice (USA) |
The Lovely Bones |
328 |
Sidhwa, Bapsi (Pakistan) |
The Crow Eaters |
267 |
Sijie, Dai (China) |
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress |
184 |
Smith, Zadie (England) |
White Teeth |
448 |
Tan, Amy (China/USA) |
The Joy Luck Club |
288 |
Theroux, Paul (USA) |
Fong and the Indians |
199 |
Thuy, Le Thi Diem (Vietnam) |
The Gangster We Are All Looking For |
158 |
Tournier, Michel (France) |
The Ogre |
370 |
Upadhyay, Samrat (Nepal) |
Arresting God in Kathmandu |
191 |
Warner, Alan (Scotland) |
The Sopranos |
324 |
Williams, Thomas (USA) |
Town Burning |
325 |
Yan, Geling (China) |
The Lost Daughter of Happiness |
276 |
OPEN BORDERS: Non-Fiction Collection |
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Author/Country |
Title |
Pages |
Chaudhuri, Nirad (India) |
Autobiography of an Unknown Indian |
535 |
Egan, Timothy (USA) |
The Good Rain |
254 |
Ehrlich, Gretel (USA) |
This Cold Heaven |
356 |
Fadiman, Anne (USA) |
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down |
329 |
Frazier, Ian (USA) |
On the Rez |
279 |
Hollinger, David (USA) |
Postethnic America |
172 |
Kapuscinski, Ryszard (Poland) |
The Soccer War |
234 |
Kertscher, Kevin (USA) |
Africa Solo |
256 |
Kingston, Maxine Hong (USA) |
China Men |
308 |
Kusz, Natalie (Poland/USA) |
The Road Song |
258 |
Levi, Primo (Italy) |
Survival in Auschwitz |
187 |
Mah, Adeline Yen (China) |
Chinese Cinderella |
205 |
McCourt, Frank (Ireland) |
Angela's Ashes |
362 |
Warnock Fernea, Elizabeth (USA) |
Guests of the Sheik |
333 |
Exploring Florida |
288 |
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Newcomer's Handbook for Mpls/St. Paul |
276 |
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Ourselves Among Others |
663 |
Peace Corps and More |
121 |
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