World Understanding

World Understanding Book Suggestions

The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt  by Caroline Preston

 

The Rent Collector by Cameron Wright

 

Mastering the Art of French Murder by Colleen Cambridge


Boards and Spreads by Yasmin Fahr

 

The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

 

The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

 

The Day I Met Jesus by Frank Viola

 

A Song of Comfortable Chairs: The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency #23 (23 books in the series) by Alexander McCall Smith

 

Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury by Drew Gilpin Faust

Also by Faust: Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War and This Republic of Suffering:  Death and the American Civil War

 

Blue Sunrise by Gregg R. Overman

 

Hello Stranger by Katherine Center

extra bites by Center: The Bodyguard, Things You Save in a Fire, How to Walk Away, Happiness for Beginners

Netflix movies from Center's books: Happiness for Beginners and The Lost Husband. Forthcoming - Things You Save in a Fire


The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

 

Don't Let Go by Harlan Coben

extra bites: Netflix series taken from Coben’s books include The Five, Safe, and The Stranger

 

Return to Veletto by Dominic Smith 

 

Horse by Geraldine Brooks

 

The Rent Collector by Camron Wright