Longing to travel abroad but life gets in the way? Lucky for you, we have a list of international destinations just waiting for you to board the plane from the comfort of wherever you like to read. If you want to get lost abroad, check out some of these recommendations that are guaranteed to make you feel like you just landed in your new favorite destination.
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Searching for true love in Europe? Check out The Year of What If by Phaedra Patrick
On the brink of her second marriage, Carla Carter believes that she has finally found her perfect match in Tom, the amazing man she met through her dating agency, Logical Love. But when a fortune teller’s tarot reading reveals that her true love is one of the several men she briefly dated during a European gap year twenty-one years ago, she is determined to prove the reading wrong. Carla embarks on a journey across Europe to reconnect with her exes, hoping to rewrite her family’s history of being unlucky in love.
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Looking for some thrilling secrets in Greece? Check out Ladykiller by Katherine Wood
Childhood friends Gia and Abby are bound by a tragic event in Greece in their youth. At thirty, Gia is now an heiress living a glamorous life in Greece, while Abby works her life away in long hours as an attorney. When Abby flies to Sweden for Gia’s birthday, she receives a threatening email and finds Gia missing, leading her and Gia’s bother, Benny, back to Greece. There they discover Gia’s unfinished manuscript which reveals dark secrets and leaves them questioning Gia’s whereabouts and the truth behind her disappearances.
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Running away to Mallorca sound like a plan? Check out The Vacationers by Emma Staub
Franny and Jim Post are embarking on a two-week trip to the island of Mallorca with their family and friends to celebrate their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary and their daughter Sylvia’s high school graduation. Finally being able to escape Manhattan, the group thinks this is going to be the perfect vacation. As the vacation continues, secrets are exposed, unexpected events occur, and ancient wounds rear their heads in present time.
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Mending a heartbreak in Mexico more your style? Check out How We Named the Stars by N. Ordorica
Daniel de La Luna is a scholarship student who has just arrived at an East Coast University. Everything changes when Daniel meets his roommate, Sam and the two go from brotherly to something much more intimate resulting in Daniel falling in love with a man who makes him see himself for who he truly is. When a brutal event changes everything, Daniel finds himself dealing with a loss so heavy, he finds his way back to his family’s ancestral homeland in Mexico with his grandfather. Now he must learn to cope, find himself again, and find out if he and his late uncle share more than just the same name.
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One historical mystery set in Paris? Check out A Lethal Lady by Nekesa Afia
Louise Lloyd truly has it all working for a parfumerie by day and hanging out with her friends every night at the Aquarius club in Paris. Louise’s peaceful life is about to come to an end when a woman asks for her help in locating her artist daughter. When the woman shows Louise a letter of introduction from a friend in Harlem, she’s ready to help. The daughter, Iris Wright, is part of an elite social circle of young artists who will stop at nothing to get ahead. As Louise is drawn to this world of privilege, she wonders if they are really capable of killing one of their own.
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Want a WWII drama that will take you from France to North Africa? Check out Tomorrow Is For the Brave by Kelly Bowen
In 1939 France, socialite Violet St. Croix seemingly has it all, but craves a life with more purpose and meaning. When France falls to Germany, Violet goes against her parents wishes and joins the war effort. With a skill for thriving under pressure, Violet is sent to North Africa to shepherd French Foreign Legion officers carrying valuable intelligence through dangerous territory. When a series of mishaps begin to form, Violet feels someone in the ranks could be a spy. Soon, the commanding officer is murdered and Violet feels that she’s the only one who can discover who the spy is and save the lives of the remaining soldiers.
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In the mood for a family saga set in Korea? Check out Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
In the early 1900s, Sunja is a teenager who falls for a wealthy man at a seashore near her home in Korea. When she discovers he is married and she’s pregnant, Sunja accepts an offer for marriage from a sickly and gentle minister on his way to Japan. Not only will this decision change her life completely, but generations to come.
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A literary fiction story that takes you from Greece to London during the civil war? Check out Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
In a country on the verge of war, Nadia and Saeed meet as their city explodes, resulting in a love affair. When the two hear about secret doors that can whisk people away for a price, the violence escalates and they decide that they need to find a door to step through so that they can leave their old lives behind.
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Longing for Lagos? Check out My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Korede always feels like she’s saving her sister, Ayoola. Ayoola is the favorite child; she’s beautiful, bright, and possibly a sociopath. Now that Ayoola’s third boyfriend in a row is dead, stabbed in the heart with her knife, Korede is set out to clean up another crime scene. Things take a disastrous turn when a handsome doctor that Korede works with asks for Ayoola’s number. Korede has been in love with him for a while and she knows what the outcome will be if these two connect.
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Do you crave a lustful Italian summer? Check out Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
Call Me By Your Name is the love story between a young man and the summer guest at his parents mansion on the Italian Rivera. When they both find themselves attracted to one another, a mutual obsession begins causing the two to go against their fear and find intimacy in the least likely place.
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In the mood for a dark Irish serial killer thriller? Check out The Trap by Catherine Ryan Howard
Lucy’s sister, Nicki, went missing a year ago and was the third woman to vanish. Since her disappearance, Lucy has not stopped looking for Nicki. Meanwhile, Angela works a thankless job in the Missing Persons Unit but is desperate to be part of the Irish police force. When the investigation into the missing women is put on hold, Angela takes it into her own hands. As both Lucy and Angela search for the missing women, a man is driving through the streets with a woman in his backseat and he’s prepared to tell her everything.
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An LGBT steamy romance in the South of France up your alley? Check out Midnights Like This by Max Walker
Eric Ruiz and Colton Cooper thought they would never see each other again when things ended tragically for them. When they run into each other at a coffee shop, Eric is surprised that not only is Colton back in town, but he needs Eric to get his life back in order after his mother is killed in a burglary gone wrong. Colton’s proposal is to have Eric be his fake boyfriend when he travels to the South of France to find out which family member is responsible for his mother’s death.
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