Community Read. UNESCO City of Literature booklist

Posted: Wednesday Sep 23, 2015

This Summer we invite you to work your way through this recommended list of great reads from the 11 UNESCO Cities of Literature.   

The books were chosen as they are interesting, entertaining and have been widely translated, making them available to an international audience. Some of these books are available from the Dunedin Public Libraries - or any of our wonderful local bookstores.

• One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson – Edinburgh
  
  
• Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann - Dublin
  
  
• Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century by Patrik Ouředník - Prague
  
  
• Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera –Dunedin
  
  
• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson – Iowa City
  
  
• Der Vorleser (The Reader) by Bernhard Schlink - Heidelberg
  
  
• Ritual Murder by S. T. Haymon - Norwich
  
  
• Solaris by Stanislaw Lem – Krakow
  
  
• The Blue Fox by Sjón – Reykjavik
  
  
• The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas - Melbourne
  
  
• Traveller of the Century by Andrés Neuman - Granada