Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My TBR List With Nationalities in the Title

We made it to the -ber months. Yay! We've even had some cloudy, cooler days here in the blistering hot Arizona desert. It won't last, but I'm enjoying it while I can. How's the weather in your corner of the globe?

Contributed by the always delightful Cathy over at What Cathy Read Next, our topic du jour is: Top Ten Books With Nationalities in the Title. This prompt was a bit difficult since I wanted to use books on my TBR list and find ten different nationalities. European and U.K. ones were way easier to find than anything else, but I managed to include a few unique ones. I had to use some subtitles to get to ten, but I made it. 

As always, Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely Jana over at That Artsy Reader Girl.

Top Ten Books On My TBR List With Nationalities in the Title

1. The Last Russian Doll by Kristen Loesch—Although she grew up in Moscow, Rosie is living in England, attending Oxford, and living a very British life. All she wants, though, is to understand her Russian heritage. Returning to her native country to explore her family's history there, she uncovers a sweeping story that spans from the 1917 revolution to the end of the Soviet Union.

2. Murder in an Irish Village by Carlene O'Connor—Naomi's Bistro has always been at the heart of small town life in Kilbane, County Cork. When a man is found murdered in the restaurant, the siblings who run the bistro become suspects. Fearing the scandal may mean the end of their family business, they throw their energy into solving the murder.

3. The French Bookshop Murder by Greg Mosse—Englishwoman Zoe Pascal says au revoir to her home country and heads to the South of France, where she opens a bookshop. Just as she is settling into her French life, a tourist is murdered in her new town. As Zoe was the last to see the victim alive, she becomes the prime suspect in the killing. Desperate to clear her name, she launches her own investigation to prove her innocence.

4. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez—In this YA novel, a Mexican American family is grieveing the death of their perfect older daughter. Julia, the younger daughter, feels pressure to live up to Olga's example, even though she is beginning to suspect that her sister was never as perfect as she seemed. Who was Olga, really?

5. The Swiss Nurse by Mario Escobar—This historical novel tells the story of Elisabeth Eidenbenz, a real woman who saved the lives of hundreds of mothers and children during both the Spanish Civil War and World War II. 

6. The School for German Brides by Aimie K. Runyan—Taught to be an independent thinker, Hanna Rombauer is thrown for a loop when her mother dies and she is sent to live with an aunt and uncle. Now living an unexpected life of luxury, she is reluctantly paired with an up-and-coming SS officer. Sent to a school that will turn her into the perfect Nazi wife, Hanna is horrified by what she is being taught. When she discovers a desperate Jewish woman hiding near the school, Hanna risks everything to help her and her unborn baby.

7. The Cuban Heiress by Chanel Cleeton—Inspired by the true story of the SS Morro Castle, this historical novel features two women traveling on the ship on its journey between New York and Havana. One is an heiress, or so everyone thinks. The other is a jewel thief. The women team up to help each other achieve their goal of making sure justice is served where it is due.

8. The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies by Dawn Raffel—Two of my four children were born prematurely, at just 29 weeks gestation. One of them weighed 3.3 lbs., the other was 3.6. Thankfully, they are now strong, healthy men with few side effects from their traumatic births, but ever since the first was born in 1998, I've been fascinated by the history of how premature babies have been treated over time. Dr. Couney is an interesting figure whose controversial tactics really did make a difference in the care of these fragile infants.

9. Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic by Dr. Jeremy Brown—I'm also fascinated by infectious diseases, viruses, and epidemics. This book is supposed to be interesting and enlightening.

10. The Lost English Girl by Julia Kelly—It's 1935 and Viv Byrne—who has been raised in a strict Catholic household—discovers she is pregnant following a fling with Joshua Levinson, a Jewish man. Marriage is the only acceptable solution to her crisis, but when Joshua makes a stunning decision on their wedding day, Viv is forced to stay with her disapproving family. Five years later, with war breaking out, the young mother must evacuate her daughter to the English countryside to live with a wealthy family. As Viv scrambles to decide what to do, she struggles to figure out how to keep her broken family together.

There you are, ten books with nationalities in the title that I want to read. Have you read any of them? Which books did you come up with for the prompt today? I'd truly love to know. Leave me a comment on this post and I will gladly return the favor on your blog.

Happy TTT!