Given the limitations imposed on a ten week module, this is a list of contemporary (2000-2022) novels that have been suggested by students currently taking the module or interested in doing so (in alphabetical order).

Adiche, Chimamanda Ngozi. Americanah. 2013. USA

Doerr, Anthony. All the Light We Cannot See. 2015. USA

Dunn, Mark. Ella Minnow Pea. 2001. USA

Morris, Heather. The Tatooist of Auschwitz. 2018. Australia/New Zealand

Murakami, Haruki. 1Q84: The Complete Trilogy. 2009-2011. Japan

Owens, Delia. Where the Crawdads Sing. 2018. USA.

Saramago, José. Blindness. [1995] 1998 (just outside range). Portugal

Hamid, Moshin. The Reluctant Fundamentalist. 2007. Pakistan

Yu, Charles. Interior Chinatown. 2020. USA