25 best-selling expat books

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In the past 18 months, Kia and I have either been on the go or hid in our tiny French village. As with many people, our reading habits have changed to reflect our lifestyle, which means that we have worked ourselves through a fairly versatile mix of travel guides, adventure travel books and "Expat books", stories about how we have left the ordinary life behind us to look for something new.

because Christmas is getting closer, we have decided to take a look at some of the best-selling expat books of 2015-perfect gifts for those who do not live at home or consider the leap for 2016.

Our curated list of expat books is based on bestseller lists on Amazon and Goodreads and includes novels about expats, personal memoirs about expat life, guidelines for general expat life and adaptation to a new expat life. We have omitted more country -specific guidelines because they have no broader attraction. Enjoy!

1. The Expats: A Roman von Chris Pavonein Luxembourg are Kate's days filled with appointments for playing, coffee and weekends in Paris or the Alps. But Kate also keeps a secret that threatens her expat life.
2. The Sun therefore Risesvon Ernest Hemingwayder epitome of the lost generation novel. The story follows the extravagant board and the unfortunate Jake on their journey from the wild nightlife of the Paris of the 1920s to the brutal bullfight rings of Spain with a colorful group of expats.
3. The International Living Guide to Retiring Overseas On A Budget: How to Live Well On $ 25,000 A Yearvon Suzan Haskins The premise is simple: Enjoy a happier, healthier and more fulfilling retirement than you could find out in the USA or Canada by finding the right retirement abroad.
4. Emergency Sex (and other Desperate Measures) by Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait and Andrew Thomsonin in the 1990s, three young people try to change their lives. Attached by the UN, Andrew, Ken and Heidi meet for the first time in Cambodia, where their fates are inextricably linked.
5. Tales from the expat harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkeyvon Anastasia M. Asman and Jennifer Eaton Gökmenein Windows in the paradoxes of modern Turkey and its most personal nuances from the perspective of 32 expatriates from seven different nations.
6. The Global Expatriate’s Guide To Investing: From Millionaire Teacher To Millionaire Expatvon Andrew Hallamdie Most expats do not contribute to the social programs of your home country. This comprehensive guide shows expats how you can build up assets with index funds abroad.
7. A year in the Merdeby Stephen Clarkein young Englishman arrives in Paris and finds out how the French really are. They eat a lot of cheese, they do not wash their armpits with garlic and strike is really the second sport to Pétanque. And yes, you use suppositories.
8. MOVING WITHOUT SHAKING: The Guide to Expat Life Success (from Women to Women) by Yelena Parker This guide is aimed at women who want to build an international career and get to know life abroad. He answers many questions that ask both new and experienced expats and offers practical, factual information advice.
9. The year of Danish life: revealing the secrets of the happiest country in the world of Helen Russell in view of the opportunity to start a new life in rural Jutland, the Londoner Helen Russell discovered a amazing statistics: the happiest place in the world is not Disneyland, but Denmark.
10. Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worldsvon David C. Pollock and Ruth E. van Rekenkinder of Expats have unique problems with personal development and identity. The authors research the emotional and psychological realities that are associated with being a "TCK".
11. Chasing Chaos: My Decade in And Out of Humanitarian Aid by Jessica Alexanderjessica came to Rwanda as an idealistic intern in 1994. But the world that she met in the field was dramatically different from anything she could have imagined.
12. Into Africa: 3 Kids, 13 Crates and a Husbandby Ann Patras This story of expats in Africa of the 80s, interspersed with excerpts from Ann's letters, describes encounters that range from lion to lion, servants when shopping and from cockroaches.
13. The Coconut Latitudes: Secrets, Storms, and Survival in the Caribbean by Rita M. Gardner Rita is a toddler when her father leaves a successful career in the USA to live in the Dominican Republic. This is their urgent, lyrical memory of the survival of a reality away from the imaginative Eden - and to keep secrets to the terrible costs.
14. I Stand Corrected: How Teaching Western Maniers in China Became Its Own unforgettable Lesson by Eden Collinsworth In the conviction that the Chinese are still socially uncomfortable towards their western colleagues, the author has worked together with a Chinese publisher to produce this best -selling guide to western etiquette
fifteen. The Expert Expat: Your Guide to Successful Relocation Abroadvon Melissa Brayer Hess and Patricia LinderManberußend On personal stories directly from the many years of experience abroad by the author gives the experts practical advice and encouragement.
16. SEVE LETTERS From Paris: A Memoirby Samantha Vérantmit 40 device Samantha's life from joint-she is unemployed, indebted and feels stated ... Until she finds seven old love letters from Jean-Luc, the sexy Frenchman, whom she got to know at 19 in Paris.
17. Home Sweet Anywhere: How We Sold Our House, Create A New Life, and Saw The World by Lynne Martin after 35 years of reunification and a difficult case of Fernweh decided to sell her house and her property and live abroad all day. You never looked back.
18. The Expat Almanach: Sell everything. Pack a bag. Hit The Roadby Louise Laguegut In their second 50 years Louise Lague and Tom Lichty gave up everything convenient and safe, packed one bag and got involved with a large adventure.
19. Notes of a small island von Bill Brysonim year 1995 before Bryson left his beloved home in North Yorkshire to return to the States, Bryson insisted on taking a last trip through the UK, a kind of farewell tour through the green and friendly island that had done so long.
20. Expat Women: Confessions-50 Answers to Your Real-Life Questions About Living Abroadvon Andrea Martins and Victoria Hepworththie Experienced Expats Andrea Martins and Victoria Hepworth share a wealth of wisdom and positive tips to motivate you in every phase of your expat trip.
21. A year in the Provencevon Peter Maylein this funny and warm report tells Peter Mayle what it is like to realize a long -cherished dream and to draw with his wife and two dogs to a 200 -year -old farmhouse in a remote area of ​​France.
22. The Imperfectionists: A Novelby Tom Rachmantom Rachmans celebrated debut novel follows the upside down private life of the reporters and editors of an English -language newspaper in Rome.
23. Staying Onvon Paul Scottcolonel Tusker and his wife Lucy remain according to Indian independence. This eloquent, funny Booker award winner illustrates the class voltages among the British of the Raj and gives loneliness, anger and persistent affection of the couple's marriage.
24. The Expat Diaries: Single in the Cityvon Michele Gormanglaube, Hannah has ever believed that Americans from British differed mainly in pronunciation, cultivation and dentistry. With little more armed than her enthusiasm, she storms upside down to London and amazes the locals in their pursuit of a new life, a new love and self -esteem.
25. serious, mom, what is an alpaca?: An adventure in the frying pan of Spain from Alan Parksdie open and charming story of a courageous couple who moves to Spain to breed alpacas, and his way through the Spanish real estate market, local characters, renegade builders and the worst has seen weather that Andalusia has seen for 100 years.

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