Thanks for the link back to the other. Saved for digging through later, and added my book.

Here are two from me with below 500 Goodreads ratings, that I personally rated as 5 star books and have over 4 star average on Goodreads (note: I do not use Goodreads so my rating is not included in that average):

• The White Space Between by Ami Sands Brodoff

>Willow is a loner, an artist and an acclaimed puppeteer whose marionettes have become the family she has missed. But secrets from the past can no longer be hidden away when mother and daughter journey back to their homeland to resurrect the past.

• Diary of Interrupted Days by Dragan Todorovic

>Diary of Interrupted Days is playful, blazingly intelligent, occasionally erotic and ultimately tragic, unfurling from the cliffhanger scene that opens the book: a lone exile, returning to Belgrade for the first time since he fled to Canada in the mid-nineties, is stranded on the only bridge into the city that hasn't been destroyed by NATO bombers as air raid sirens sound.

/editing to add that I didn't even realize they'd both appear to have a 'theme' by the snippets from Goodreads that I quoted. Totally NOT intentional.