As many of you know Sissi is a huge book-nerd (and a very critical one, too). And Franzl is not that much different. So it felt natural to compile a list of books we bought, found*, exchanged, downloaded on Kindle and read on our travels around the world (starting 2016):
- Ru Freeman – On Sal Mal Lane
Rating: ♦♦♦◊◊
Found / bought in: Vienna, Austria
Read in: Austria and Sri Lanka
Left behind in: Kandy, Sri Lanka - Yasmine Gooneratne – The Sweet And Simple Kind
Rating: ♦♦♦◊◊
Found / bought in: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Read in: Sri Lanka
Left behind in: Mirissa, Sri Lanka - Wilkie Collins – The Moonstone
Rating: ♦♦♦♦◊
Found / bought in: Mirissa / Sri Lanka
Read in: Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia
Left behind in: Langkawi, Malaysia - Tan Twang Eng – The Gift Of Rain
Rating: ♦♦♦♦◊
Found / bought in: Georgetown, Malaysia
Read in: Malaysia, Thailand
Left behind in: Koh Hai, Thailand - E.M. Foster – A Passage to India
Rating: ♦♦♦♦◊
Found / bought in: Singapore
Read in: Thailand
Left behind in: Koh Hai, Thailand - G. Willow Wilson – Alif the Unseen
Rating: ♦♦◊◊◊
Found / bought in: Koh Hai, Thailand
Read in: Thailand
Left behind in: Koh Hai, Thailand - Mikael Niemi – Populärmusik aus Vittula
Rating: ♦♦♦♦◊
Found / bought in: Koh Hai, Thailand
Read in: Thailand
Left behind in: Koh Hai, Thailand - Juli Zeh – Schilf
Rating: ♦♦♦♦◊
Found / bought in: Koh Hai, Thailand
Read in: Thailand
Left behind in: Koh Hai, Thailand - Amin Maalouf – Der Geograph des Papstes
Rating: ♦♦♦♦◊
Found / bought in: Koh Hai, Thailand
Read in: Thailand
Left behind in: Koh Yao Noi, Thailand - Elena Ferrante – My Brilliant Friend
Rating: ♦♦♦♦♦
Found / bought in: Tangalle, Sri Lanka
Read in: Thailand
Left behind in: Koh Yao Noi, Thailand - Amy Tan – The Hundred Secret Senses
Rating: ♦♦♦◊◊
Found / bought in: Koh Hai, Thailand
Read in: Thailand & Myanmar
Left behind on: MV Sea Gipsy, Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - Christos Tsiolkas – The Slap
Rating: ♦♦♦♦♦
Found / bought on: MV Sea Gipsy, Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar
Read in: Myanmar
Left behind on: MV Sea Gipsy, Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - Janice Y. K. Lee – The Expatriates
Rating: ♦♦♦♦◊
Found / bought in: Bangkok, Thailand
Read in: Thailand & Cambodia
Left behind in: Battambang, Cambodia - Helen Dunmore – The Betrayal
Rating: ♦♦♦♦◊
Found / bought in: Langkawi, Malaysia
Read in: Cambodia
Left behind in: Kampot, Cambodia - Carlos Ruis Zafón – Der Schatten des Windes
Rating: ♦♦♦♦◊
Found / bought in: Battambang, Cambodia
Read in: Cambodia
Left behind in: Koh Rong Samloen, Cambodia
- Batya Gur – Denn am Sabbat sollst du ruhen
Rating: ♦♦♦◊◊
Found / bought in: Koh Rong Samleon, Cambodia
Read in: Cambodia
Left behind in: Tatai River / Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia - Anthony Doerr – All the light we cannot see
Rating: ♦♦♦♦♦
Found / bought in: Bangkok, Thailand
Read in: Cambodia & Thailand
Left behind in: Bangkok, Thailand - Sunjeev Sahota – The Year of the Runaways
Rating: ♦♦♦♦◊
Found / bought in: Bangkok, Thailand
Read in: Indonesia
Left behind in: Banda Neira, Indonesia - Lily King – Euphoria
Rating: ♦♦♦♦♦
Found / bought in: Koh Jum, Thailand
Read in: Indonesia
Left behind in: Besar Bay – Raja Ampat / West Papua, Indonesia - Kate Atkinson – When Will There Be Good News?
Rating: ♦♦♦◊◊
Found / bought in: Besar Bay, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia
Read in: Indonesia
Left behind in: Tatai River / Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia - Marlon James – A Brief History of Seven Killings
Rating: ♦♦♦♦♦
Found / bought in: Bangkok, Thailand
Read in: Indonesia
Left behind in: Banda Neira, Indonesia - Jack Kerouac – On the road
Rating: ♦♦◊◊◊
Found / bought in: Bangkok, Thailand
Read in: Indonesia
Left behind in: Banda Neira, Indonesia - Elena Ferrante – The Story of a New Name
Rating: ♦♦♦♦♦
Found / bought in: Bangkok, Thailand
Read in: Indonesia
Left behind in: Banda Neira, Indonesia - C. J. Sansom – Sovereign
Rating: ♦♦♦◊◊
Found / bought in: Banda Neira, Indonesia
Read in: Indonesia
Left behind in: Sepilok, Sabah, Malaysia - Elizabeth Gilbert – The Signature of All Things
Rating: ♦♦♦◊◊
Found / bought in: Bangkok, Thailand
Read in: Borneo, Malaysia
Left behind in: Kinabatangan / Sabah, Malaysia - Esi Edugyan – Half Blood Blues
Rating: ♦♦♦◊◊
Found / bought in: Koh Jum, Thailand
Read in: Borneo, Malaysia
Left behind in: Kota Kinabalu / Sabah, Malaysia - Richard Flanagan – The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Rating: ♦♦♦♦♦
Found / bought in: Bangkok, Thailand
Read in: Malaysia & Indonesia
Left behind in: Senggigi / Lombok, Indonesia - Jane Austen – Emma
Rating: ♦♦♦♦♦
Found / bought in: Singapore
Read in: Indonesia
Left behind in: Gili Air, Indonesia - Elena Ferrante – Those Who Stay and Those Who Leave
Rating: ♦♦♦♦♦
Found / bought in: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Read in: Indonesia
Left behind in: Gili Air, Indonesia - Marilynne Robinson – Lila
Rating: ♦♦♦♦◊
Found / bought in: Langkawi, Malaysia
Read in: Indonesia
Left behind in: Labuan Bajo / Flores – Indonesia - Hanya Yanagihara – A little life
Rating: ♦♦♦♦◊
Found / bought in: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Read in: Indonesia, Australia, Fiji
Left behind in: Nanuya Lai Lai / Yasawas, Fiji - F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
Rating: ♦♦♦◊◊
Found / bought in: Banda Neira, Indonesia
Read in: Fiji
Left behind in: Nanuya Lai Lai / Yasawas, Fiji
- Elena Ferrante – The Story of the Lost Child
Rating: ♦♦♦♦♦
Found / bought in: Port Douglas / Queensland, Australia
Read in: Fiji
Left behind in: Nanuya Lai Lai / Yasawas, Fiji - Kazuo Ishiguro – The Remains of the Day
Rating: ♦♦♦♦◊
Found / bought in: Bangkok, Thailand
Read in: Kingdom of Tonga
Left behind in: Vava’u, Kingdom of Tonga - Tom Rob Smith – Child 44
Rating: ♦♦♦♦◊
Found / bought in: Brisbane, Australia
Read in: Samoa
Left behind in: Honolulu / Oahu, Hawaii - Miriam Toews – All My Puny Sorrows
Rating: ♦♦♦♦◊
Found / bought in: Galiano Island / British Columbia, Canada
Read in: Colombia, Ecuador
Left behind in: Cotopaxi, Ecuador - Nicole Krauss – The History of Love
Rating: ♦♦♦♦♦
Found / bought in: Bangkok, Thailand
Read in: Ecuador
Left behind in: Cotopaxi, Ecuador
Rating – description:
♦◊◊◊◊ simply a bad book
♦♦◊◊◊ mediocre story, mediocre writing
♦♦♦◊◊ good story, good writing
♦♦♦♦◊ great story & good writing or good story & great writing
♦♦♦♦♦ great story & great writing
∗ “found” meaning that we exchanged books at guest houses or got a used book handed down by a fellow traveller.
Sissi and Franzl 