Hippie
by Paulo Coelho | 
The Violins of Saint-Jacques
by Patrick Leigh Fermor | 
Questions of Travel
by Michelle de Kretser | 
Mutant Message Down Under
by Marlo Morgan | 
A Captive of the Caucasus
by Andrei Bitov | 
Hotel Pastis
by Peter Mayle | 
The Sly Company of People Who Care
by Rahul Bhattacharya | 
In the Land of No Right Angles
by Daphne Beal | 
Lost Children Archive
by Valeria Luiselli | 
Tales of the Pacific
by Jack London | 
My Other Life
by Paul Theroux | 
Every Day Is for the Thief
by Teju Cole | 
Leaving the Atocha Station
by Ben Lerner | 
Hideous Kinky
by Esther Freud | 
The Wishing Trees
by John Shors | 
A Good Year
by Peter Mayle | 
Enlightenment for Idiots
by Anne Cushman | 
Losing Gemma
by Katy Gardner | 
Take Me With You
by Catherine Ryan Hyde | 
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo |
In Jennifer Egan's highly acclaimed first novel, set in 1978, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of Phoebe O'Connor, age eighteen. Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. In order to find out the truth about Faith's life and death, Phoebe retraces her steps from San Francisco across Europe, a quest which yields both complex and disturbing revelations about family, love, and Faith's lost generation. This spellbinding novel introduced Egan's remarkable ability to tie suspense with deeply insightful characters and the nuances of emotion.