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Books Worth Reading Around The World

A constantly updated list of books worth reading for every country in the world, combining classic novels and contemporary authors.

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Africa

Algeria

  • Camus, Albert – The Stranger

  • Dib Mohammed – The Savage Night

  • Djebar, Assia – The Children of the New World

  • Feraoun Mouloud – The Poor Man's Son

  • Khadra Yasmina – What the Day Owes the Night

  • Marouane, Leila – The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris

  • Yacine Kteb – Nedjma

Botswana

  • Head, Bessie – When Rain Clouds Gather

  • Kubuitsile, Lauri – Scattering

  • (Mc Call Smith Alexander) – The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency

  • Molefhe, Wame – Go Tell the Sun

  • Zwani, Brigitta – The Shrink 

Cameroon

  • Beti, Mongo – Mission to Kala

  • Mbue, Imbolo – Behold the Dreamers

  • Miano, Leonora – Dark Heart of the Night

  • Mukong, Albert – Prisoner Without a Crime

  • Oyono, Ferdinand – The Old Man and the Medal 

Chad

  • Seid, Joseph Brahin – Told by Starlight in Chad

  • (not) Taboye, Ahmat – Le Patriarche

Congo Democratic Republic

  • Mudimbe, Valentin Y. – Before the Birth of the Moon

  • Mwanza Mujilla, Fiston – Tram 83

  • Uwiringiyimana, Sandra – How Dare the Sun Rise

  • Yamusangie, Frederick – Full Circle

Gabon

  • Mengara, Daniel – Mema

  • Mintsa. Justine – Awu's Story

  • Rawiri, Angela – The Fury and Cries of a Woman

Guinea

  • Laye, Camara – The Dark Child

  • Tierno, Monenembo – The King of Kahel

Kenya

  • Ikonya, Philo – Kenya, Will You Marry Me?

  • Ogolla, Margaret – The River and the Source

  • Thiong'o, Ngugi wa – Wizard of the Crow

  • Wainaina, Binyavanga – One Day I Will Write About This Place

Libya

  • Al Koni, Ibrahim – The Bleeding of the Stone

  • Fagih, Ahmed – The Homeless Rats

  • Matar, Hishan– The Return… Fathers ,Sons, and the Land in between  

Mali

  • Hampate Ba, Amadou – The Fortunes of Wagrin

  • Kouyate, Mamadou – Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali

Mauritania

  • Bouya Bamba, Mohamed – Angels of Mauritania and the Course of Language

  • Ould Beyrouk, Mbarek – The Desert and the Drun

Mozambique

  • Ba Ka Khosa, Ungulani –Ualalapi: Fragments from the End of the Empire

  • Chiziane, Paulina – The First Wife

  • Couto, Mia – Sleepwalking Land

  • Momple, Lilia –Neighbors: The Story of a Murder

Senegal

  • Bâ, Mariama – So Long a Letter

  • Diop, Boubacar Boris – Murambi, The Book of Bones

  • Hamidou Kane, Cheick –Ambiguous Adventure

  • NDyaye, Marie – Three Strong Women

  • Sarr. Mbougar – Brotherhood

  • Sembène, Ousmane – God’s Bits of Wood

  • Sow, Aminata – The Beggar’s Strike

São Tome and Prince

  • Beja, Olinda – The Shepard’s House

Somalia

  • Dirie, Waris – Desert Flower

  • Farah, Nuruddin – Secrets

  • Hirsi Ali, Ayaan –Infidel

  • (Lindhout, Amanda) – A House in the Sky

  • Mohamed Nadifa – The Fortune Man

  • Mohamud, Ayaan – You Think You Know Me

Sudan

  • Aboulela, Leila – Lyrics Alley

  • Bashir, Halima – Tears of the Desert

  • Hari, Daoud – The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfour

  • Salih, Tayeb – Season of Migration to the North

Tanzania

  • Gurnah, Abdulrazak – Gravel Heart

Zambia

  • Serpell, Namwali – The Old Drift

  • Sinyangue, Binwell – A Cowrie of Hope

Angola

  • Agualusa, Jose Eduardo – The Book of Chameleons

  • Ondjaki  – Transparent City

  • Pepetela – The Return of the Water Spirit

  • Pereira de Almeida, Djamilia – That Hair

  • Tavares, Gonçalo – Jerusalem

Burkina Faso

  • Inbound, Monique – So Distant From My Life

  • Some, Malidoma Patrice – Of Water and the Spirit 

  • Zongo, Norbert – The Parachute Drop

Cape Verde

  • Almeida, Germano – The Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva Araujo

  • Amarilis, Orlanda – Nina

  • Lopes, Baltasar – Chiquinho

  • Salustio, Dina – The Madwoman of Serrano

Comoros

  • Toihiri, Mohammed – The Kafir of Karthala 

  • Zamir, Ali – A Girl Called Eel

Congo Republic

  • Dongala,Emmanuel – Jazz and Palm Wine

  • Labou Tansi, Sony –  Life and a Half

  • lMabanckou, Alain – Black Moses

Eritrea

  • Addonia, Sulaiman – The Consequences of Love

  • Pool, Hannah – My Father's Daughter

  • (Wrong, Michelle – I didn't do It For You

Gambia

  • Forster, Dayo – Reading the Ceiling

  • Singhateh, Sally –The Sun will Soon Shine 

Guinea Bissau

  • Cabral, Amilcar – Tell No Lies, Clamis No Easy Victories

  • Sila, Abdulai – The Ultimate Tragedy

Lesotho

  • M'Atsepo Nthunya Moho – Singing Away the Hunger

  • Mofolo, Thomas – Chaka

Madagascar

  • Bourgeack, Jacques – Voices from Madagascar

  • Hatzfeld, Jean – Machete Season

  • Naivo – Beyond the Rice Fields

  • Ravaloson, Johary –Return to the Enchanted Island

Mauritius

  • Appanah, Nathacha – The Last Brother

  • Devi, Ananda – Eve Out of Her Ruins

  • Le Clezio J.M.G – The Prospector

  • Pyamootoo, Barlen – Benares

Nigeria

  • ​Achebe, Chinua – Things Fall Apart

  • Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda – Half of a Yellow Sun

  • Okri, Ben – The Famished Road

  • Soyinka, Wole – Interpreters

  • Tutuola, Amos – The Palm-Wine Drunkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

Rwanda

  • Anamaliya – Terrorized in Rwanda: Healed by Grace

  • Ndizeye, Omar – Life and Death in Nyamata

  • Scholastique Mukasonga – Our Lady of the Nile

  • Wamaryia, Clemantine –The Girl who Smiled Beads

Sierra Leone

  • Beah, Ishmael – A Long Way Gone

  • Kamara, Mariatu – The Bite of the Mango

South Africa

  • Brink, Andre – A Dry White Season

  • Coetzee, J.M. – Disgrace

  • Gordimer, Nadine – July’s People

  • Mandela, Nelson – Long Walk to Freedom

  • Mda, Zakes – Ways of Dying

  • Vladislavic, Ivan – The Exploded View

Togo

  • Efoui, Kossi – The Shadow of Things to Came

  • Kpomassie, Tete-Michel – An African in Greenland

Tunisia

  • Halimi, Gisele – Milk for the Orange Tree

  • Manai, Yamen – The Ardent Swarm

  • Meddeb. Abdelwahab – Talismano

  • Memmi, Albert – The Colonizer and the Colonized

  • Tlili, Mustapha – Lion Mountain

Zimbabwe

  • Chinodya, Shimmer –Harvest of Thorns

  • Dangaremgba. Titsi –Nervous Conditions

  • Fuller, Alexandra – Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight

  • Gappah, Petina – An Elegy for Easterly: Stories

  • Huchu, Tendai – The Hairdresser of Harare

Benin

  • Bhely-Quenun, Olympe – As She Was Discovering Tigony

  • Eweka Iro – Dawn to Dust

  • Ismaili, Rashidah – Stories we Tell Each Other

  • Kidjo, Angelique – Spirit Rising

  • Mama Raouf – Why Goats Smell Bad

Burundi

  • Faye, Gaël – Small Country

  • Momapalli, Jessica – My Country Wept

  • Toyi, Marie-Therese – Weep Not, Refugee

Central African Republic

  • Bamboté, Makombo – Dada’s Travel from Ouada to Bangui

  • Yabouze, Adrienne – Co wives, Co-widows

Equatorial Guinea

  • Avila Laurel, Juan Thomas – Night the Mountain Burns

  • Ndongo, Donato – Shadows of your Black Memory

Djibouti

  • (not) Ahmed, Mouda Houdan – Les Enfants du Khat 

  • Waberi, Abdourahman – In the United States of Africa

Ethiopia

  • Edemarian, Aida – The Wife's Tale

  • Mengestu. Dinaw  – Beautiful Things that Heavens Bear

  • Mengiste, Maaza – Beneath the Lion’s Gaze

  • Mexlekia, Nega – Notes from the Hyena's Belly

  • Verghese, Abraham  – Cutting for Stone

Ghana

  • Agambila, G.A. – Journey

  • Ata Aidoo, Ama – Changes

  • Armah, Ayi Kwei – The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born

  • Gyasi, Yaa – Homegoing

  • Quartey, Kwei – Wife of the God

  • Selasy, Take – Ghana Must Go

Ivory Coast

  • Abouet, Marguerite – Aya (comics)

  • Kourouma, Ahmadou – Allah is Not Obliged

  • Tadio, Veronique – In the Company of Men

Liberia

  • Cooper, Helen – The House at Sugar Beach 

  • Kamara-Ummuna, Agnes – And Still Peace Didn't Come

  • Moore,Bay T – Murder in the Cassava Patch

  • Moore,Wayetu – She Would be a King

  • Stone, Mardia – Konkai: Living Between Two Worlds

Malawi

  • Chimonbo, Steve – The Bird Boy's Song

  • Chisala, Upile – Soft Magic

  • Kambalu Sanson – The Jive Talker

  • Mapanje, Jack – And Crocodiles Are Hunger at Night 

Morocco

  • Ben Jellou, Tahar – The Blinding Absence of Light

  • (Bowles, Paul) – The Sheltering Sky

  • Choukry, Mohamed – For Bread Alone

  • Slimani Leïlla – The Perfect Nanny

  • Taia, Abdellah – Another Morocco

Niger

  • Malio, Nouhou – The Epic of Askia Mohamed

Namibia

  • Andreas, Neshani – The Purple Violet of Oshaantu

  • Katjavivi, Jane –Undisciplined Heart

  • Namhila, Ellen Ndeshi –Mukwahepo, Woman, Soldier, Mother

  • Tjipombo, Tupa – I Am Not Your Slave

Seychelles

  • Burridge, Glynn – Voices

  • Tyrant, A.R. – Echoes from the Oasis

Swaziland

  • Mkhonza, Sarah – Wedding the Flowerbeds

  • Nunn, Malla – A Beautiful Place to Die

South Sudan

  • Deng, Benson – They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky

  • Duany, Julia Aker – Making Peace and Nurturing Life

  • Tong, Nyuol Lueth – There is a Country

Uganda

  • Isegawa, Moses – Abyssinian Chronicles: A Novel

  • Makumbi, Jennifer Nansubuga– Kintu

  • Manji, Irshad – The Trouble with Islam

  • Zayyan, Hafsa – We are all Birds of Uganda

Asia

Afghanistan

  • Hosseini, Khaled – The Kite Runner

  • Rahimi, Atiq – The Patience Stone

  • Zaeef, Abdul Salam – My Life with the Taliban

Bhutan

  • Choden, Kunsang – The Cercle of Karma

  • Pham, Zoya – Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival

  • Saki – The Complete Short Stories

  • Suu Kyi, Aung San –Letters from Burma

China

  • Chang, Jung – Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

  • Hua, Yu – Chronicle of a Blood Merchant

  • Min, Anchee – Red Azalea

  • Ran, Chen – Private Life

  • Yan, Mo – Red Sorghum

  • Xinjian, Gao – Soul Mountain

  • Xueqin, Cao – Dream of the Red Chamber

Hong Kong

  • (Booth, Martin) – Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood

  • Cheung, Karen – The Impossible City

  • Ho Kei, Chan – The Borrowed

  • Lee, Janice – The Piano Teacher

Laos

  • Bounyavong, Outhine – Mother’s Beloved

  • (Coterill Colin) – The Coroner’s Lunch

  • Thammavongsa, Souvankham – How to Pronounce Knife

  • Yang, Kao Khalia – The Late Homecomer

Malaysia

  • Aw, Tash – We the Survivors

  • Halkaf, Hanna – The Weight of Our Sky

  • Kow, Shih-li – Ripples and Other Stories

  • Manicka, Rani – The Rice Mother

  • Twan Eng, Tan – The Gift of Rain

Mongolia

  • Tschinag, Galsan – The Blue Sky

North Korea

  • Bandi – The Accusation

  • Lee, Hyeonseo – The Girl with Seven Names

  • Mo, Ri In – Memoirs: My Life and Faith

  • Park, Yeon-my – In Order to Live 

Russia

  • Bulgakov, Mikhail – The Master and Margarita

  • Chekov, Anton – Selected Stories

  • Dostoyevsky – Brothers Karamazov

  • Erofeev, Venedikt – Moscow to the End of the Line

  • Ganieva, Alisa – The Mountain and the Wall

  • Nabokov, Vladimir –

  • Lolita

  • Tolstaya, Tatyana – The Slynx

  • Tolstoy, Leo – Anna Karenina

Sri Lanka

  • Arudpragsam, Anuk – A Passage North

  • Gunesekera. Romesh – Reef

  • Karunatilaka, Sheham – Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

  • Muller, Carl – The Jam Fruit Tree

  • Ondaatje, Michael – Running in the Family

Turkmenistan

  • Welsapar, Ak – The Tale of Aypi

Vietnam

  • Duras, Marguerite – The Lover

  • Huong, Thu Duong – Paradise of the Blind

  • Ninh, Bao – The Sorrow of War

  • Phan Que May, Nguyen – The Mountains Sing

  • Thanh Nguyen, Viet – The Sympathizer

  • Vuong, Ocean – On Earth we Were Briefly Gorgeous

Azerbaijan

  • Leya, Ella – The Orphan Sky

  • Rzayev, Anar – Summer and Me

  • Said, Kurban – Ali and Nino

Brunei

  • Falique Amir – Brunei Secret Intelligence Service

East Timor

  • Cardoso, Luis – The Crossing

  • (Peake, Gordon) – Beloved Land

Indonesia

  • Chudori, Leila – Home

  • Hirata, Andrea – The Rainbow’s Troop

  • Kurniawan, Eka – Beauty Is a Wound

  • Toer, Pramoedya Ananta – Child of All Nations

  • Utami, Ayu – Saman

Kazakhstan

  • Lukyanenko, Sergei – The Night Watch

  • Seisembayev, Rollan – The Dead Wander in the Desert

  • Shayakhmethov, Mukamhet – Silent Steppe

  • Volkov, Alexander – Tales of Magic Land

Macau

  • Fernandes, Henrique de Senna – The Bewitching Bride

Myanmar

  • Pham, Zoya – Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival

  • Saki – The Complete Short Stories

  • Suu Kyi, Aung San –Letters from Burma

  • Yi Nu Nu – Smile as they Bow

Pakistan

  • Ahmad, Jamil – The Wandering Falcon

  • Durrani, Tehmina – My Feudal Lord

  • Hamid, Mohsin – Exit West

  • Hanif, Mohammed – A Case of Exploding Mangoes

  • Sidhwa Bapsi – Cracking India

  • Yousufi, Mushtaq Ahmed – Mirages of the Mind

  • Yousafzai Malala – I am Malala

Singapore

  • Goenawan, Clarissa –Rainbirds

  • Kwan, Kevin – Crazy Rich Asians

  • Lim, Su-Chem Christine – Fistful of Colours

  • Teo, Sharlene – Ponti

Taiwan

  • Hsien-Young, Pai – Cristal Boys

  • Ming-Yi, Wu – The Stolen Bicycle

  • Qiu Miaojin – Notes of a Crocodile

  • Yang Ryan, Shawna – Green Island

Thailand

  • Arsan, Emmanuelle –Emmanuelle

  • Lapcharoensap, Rattawut –Sightseeing 

  • (Leather, Stephan) –Private Dancer

  • Korbjitti, Chart – The Judgement

  • Sangsuk, Saneh – Venin

  • Sudbanthad, Pitchaya –Bangkok Wakes to Rain

  • Yoon, Prabda – The Sad Part Was

Bangladesh

  • Ali, Monica – The Brick Lane

  • Anan, Tahmina – The Good Muslin

  • Devi, Mahasweta – Mother of 1084

  • Nasrim, Taslima – Lajja: Shame

Cambodia

  • Him, Chanrity – When Broken Glass Floats

  • Kuy, Sreureyath – The Soul of a Tiger

  • Mam, Somaly – The Road of Lost Innocence

  • Ratner, Vaddey – In the Shadow of the Banyan

  • Ung, Loung – First They Killed My Father

Japan

  • Enchi, Fumiko – Masks

  • Ishiguro, Kazuo – Never Let Me Go

  • Kitakaka, Kenzo – The Cage

  • Mishima, Yukio – The Sound of Waves

  • Murakami, Haruki –Norwegian Woods

  • Ogawa, Yoko – The Housekeeper and the Professor

  • Soseki, Natsume – Kokoro

  • Tanizaki, Jushiro – The Marioka Sisters

India

  • Adiga, Aravind – The White Tiger

  • Desai, Kiran – The Inheritance of Loss

  • Lahiri, Jhupa – The Lowland

  • Mistry, Rohinton – A Fine Balance

  • Roy, Arundhati – The God of Small Things

  • Rushdie, Salman –Midnight’s Children

  • Seth, Vikram – A Suitable Boy

Kyrgyztan

  • Aitmatov, Chingiz – Jamila

  • Ismailov, Hamid – Dead Lake

Maldives

  • Romero-Frias, Xavier –Folk Tales of the Maldives

  • Sadiq, Abdoula – Dhom Hiyala and Ali Fulhu

Nepal

  • Bahadur Chettri, Lil –Mountains Painted with Turmeric

  • Baral, Ajit – The Lazy Conman

  • Thapa, Manjushree – Forget Katmandu

  • Upadhyay, Samrat– Buddha’s Orphans

  • Wagle, Narayan – Palpasa Cafe

Philippines

  • Alvar, Mia – In the Country

  • Hagerdon, Jessica –Dogeaters

  • Rizal, Jose – Noli me Tangere (Don’t Touch Me)

  • Sionel Jose, F – Dusk

  • Syjuco, Miguel – Ilustrado

South Korea

  • Lee, Min Jin – Pachinko

  • Han Kang  – The Vegetarian

  • Kim, Young-Ha – Your Republic is Calling You

  • Park, Wan Suh – Who Ate Up All the Shinga

  • Shin Kyung-Sook – Please Look After Mom

Tajikistan

  • Voinovich, Vladimir –Private Ivan Chonkin

  • Volos, Andrei – Hurramabad

Uzbekistan

  • Ismailov, Hamid – The Railway

Caribbean

Antigua

  • Hillhouse, Joanne – Musical Youth

  • John, Marie-Elena – Unburnable

  • Kincaid, Jamaica – Lucy

  • Prince, Althea – Loving this Man

Curaçao

  • Arion, Frank Martinus –Double Play

Dominica

  • Alfrey, Phillys Shands – The Orchid House

  • Napier, Elma – Black and White Sands

  • Rhys, Jean – Wide Sargasso Sea

Guadeloupe

  • Bulle, Estelle–Sarah – Where Dogs Bark with their Tails

  • Conde, Maryse – Crossing the Mangrove

  • Schwartz-Bart Simone – The Bridge of Beyond

Jamaica

  • Dennis-Benn, Nicole – Here Comes the Sun

  • James, Marlon – A Brief History of Seven Killings

  • Cezair-Thompson, Margaret – The Pirate’s Daughter

  • Spence, Vanessa – The Roads are Down

  • Yonn Nichola – The Sun is also a Star

Trinidad and Tobago

  • Allen- Agostini, Lisa –The Bread the Devil Knead

  • Lloyd Banwo, Ayanna – When we Were Birds

  • Lovelace, Earl – Salt 

  • Naipaul, V.S. – A House for Ms. Biswas

  • Roffey, Monique – The Mermaid of Black Conch

  • Scott, Lawrence – Witchbroom

Aruba

  • Holleran, Andrew – Dancer from the Dance

  • Putkowski, Daniel – An Island Away

Bahamas

  • Bethel, Marion – Bouganvillea Ringplay

  • Glinton, Patricia – An evening in Guanima

  • (Hemingway, Ernest) – Islands in the Stream

  • Strachan, Ian – God’s Angry Babies

Dominican Republic

  • Acevedo, Elisabeth – With the Fire on High

  • Alvarez, Julia – In the time of the Butterflies

  • Cepeda, Raquel – Bird of Paradise

  • Cruz, Angie – Let it Rain Coffee

  • Diaz, Junot – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Haiti

  • Danticat, Edwidge – Breath, Eyes Memory

  • Laferriere, Dany – The Enigma of the Return

  • Roumain, Jacques – Masters of the Dew

  • Zoboi, Ibi – American Street

Saint Lucia

  • Aubertin, Michael – Neg Maron: Freedom Fighter

  • Walcott, Derek – Omeros

Saint Vincent and The Grenadines

  • Browne, Cecil – The Moon is Following Me

Cuba

  • Arenas, Reinaldo – Before Night Falls

  • Cabrera Infante, Guillermo – Three Trapped Tigers

  • Carpentier, Alejo – Explosion in a Cathedral

  • Garcia, Cristina – Dreaming in Cuban

  • Padura, Leonardo – Havana Fever

Barbados

  • Brathwhite, Kamau – Ancestors

  • Clarke, Austin – The Polished Hoe

  • Lamming, George – In the Castle of my Skin

  • Lord, Karen – The Best of All Possible Worlds

  • Lovel, Glenville – Song of Night

Grenada

  • Collins, Merle – The Ladies are Upstairs

  • Ross, Jacob – The Bone Readers

Martinique

  • Cesaire, Aime – Notebook of a Return to the Native Land

  • Chamoiseau, Patrick – Texaco

  • Fanon, Frantz – The Wretched of the Earth

  • Glissant, Edouard – The Collected Poems

  • Zober, Joseph – Black Shack Alley

Saint Kitts and Nevis

  • Roach, Bertran – Only God Can Make a Tree

Europe

Albania

  • Kadare, Ismail – The Palace of Dreams

Austria

  • Bernhard, Thomas – Woodcutters

  • Broch, Hermann – The Death of Virgil

  • Jelineck, Elfriede – The Piano Teacher

  • Musil, Robert – The Man Without Qualities

  • Roth, Joseph – The Radetzky March

  • Zweig Stephan – The World of Yesterday

Bosnia Herzegovina

  • Mehmedinovic, Semedzdin – Sarajevo Blues

  • Stanisic, Sasa – Before the Feast

  • Suljagic, Emir – Postcards from the Grave

Cyprus

  • Durrell, Lawrence – Bitter Lemons of Cyprus

  • Nadjarian, Nora – Ledra Street

  • Shafak, Elif – The Island of Missing Trees

Estonia

  • Luik, Viivi – The Beauty of History

  • Onnepalu, Tonu – Border State

  • Unt, Mati – The Autumn Ball

France

  • Despentes, Virginie – King Kong Theory

  • Houellebecq, Michel – The Elementary Particles

  • Hugo. Victor – Les Miserables

  • Proust, Marcel – In Search of Lost Time

  • Slimani, Leila – The Perfect Nanny

  • Zola, Emile – Germinal

Greece

  • Karapanou, Margarita – Kassandra and the Wolf

  • Kazantzakis, Nikos – Zorba, the Greek

  • Markaris, Petros – The Late-night News

  • Nikolaidou, Sophia – The Scapegoat

  • Taktsis, Costa – The Third Wedding

Iceland

  • Indridason, Arnaldur – The Jar City

  • Jonasson, Ragnar –Snowblind

  • Kent, Hannah – Burial Rites

  • Ólafsdottir. Auöur – The Greenhouse

  • Sjon  – The Blue Fox

Kosovo

  • (Kadare, Ismail) – Elegy for Kosovo

  • Statovci, Pajtim – My Cat Yugoslavia

Lithuania

  • Kuncinas, Jurgis – Tula

  • Sepetys, Ruta – Between Shades of Gray

  • Skema, Antanas – White Shroud

Malta

  • Ebejer, Francis – The Maltese Baron

  • Mifsud, Immanuel – In the Name of the Father

Montenegro

  • Knesevic. Olja – Catherine the Great and the Small

  • Nikolaidis, Andrej – The Son

  • Popovich, Xenia – A Lullaby for No Man’s Wolf

  • Spahic, Ognjen – Hansen’s Children

Poland

  • Bashevis Singer, Isaac – A Day of Pleasure

  • Conrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness

  • Lem, Stanislaw – Solaris

  • Maslowska, Dorotha – Snow White and Russian Red

  • Potocki, Jan – The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

  • Schulz, Bruno – The Street of Crocodiles

  • Tokarczuk, Olga – Flights

San Marino

  • (not) Ercolani, Milena –Figlie della Luna

  • Rossi, Giuseppe – The Republic of San Marino

Slovenia

  • Jancar, Drago – I Saw Her That Night

  • Novak, Maja – The Feline Plague

  • Pahor, Boris –Necropolis

  • Vojnovic, Goran –Yugoslavia, My Fatherland

Switzwerland

  • Durrenmatt, Friedrich –The Visit (Play)

  • Frisch, Max – Homo Faber

  • Kracht, Christian – Imperium

  • Mercier, Pascal – Night Train to Lisbon

  • Nadj Abonji, Melinda –Fly Away, Pigeon

  • Walser, Robert – The Walk

United Kingdom

  • Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice

  • Bronte, Charlotte – Jane Eyre

  • Dickens, Charles – Tale of Two Cities

  • Mc Ewan, Ian – Atonement

  • Orwell, George – 1984

  • Shelley, Mary –Frankenstein

  • Wolf, Virginia – Mrs. Dalloway

Andorra

  • Salvado, Alberto – The Teacher of Cheops

Belarus

  • Alexievitch, Svetlana – Chernobil Prayer: Voices of Chernobil

  • Karaktevich, Uladzimir – King Stakh’s Wild Hunt

Bulgaria

  • Canetti. Elias – Auto da Fe

  • Gospodinov, Georgi – The Physics of Sorrow

  • Petrov, Ivailo – Wolf Hunt

  • Vazov, Ivan – Under the Yoke

Czech Republic

  • Capek, Karel – The war with the Newts

  • Havel, Vaclav – The Garden Party (play)

  • Hazek, Jaroslav – The Good Soldier Svejk

  • Hrabal, Bohumil – Too Loud a Solitude

  • Kafka, Franz – Metamorphosis

  • Kundera, Milan – The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Finland

  • Jansson, Tove – The Summer Book

  • Krohn, Leena – The Collected Fiction

  • Linna, Vaino – Unknown Soldiers

  • Oksanen, Sofi – Purge

  • Paasilinna, Arto – The Year of the Hare

  • Pulkkinen, Riikka – True

  • Westō, Kjell – The Wednesday Club

Georgia

  • Chiladze, Otar – A Man Was Going the Road

  • Dumbadze, Nadar – Granny, Iliko, Illarium, and I

  • Korzaia-Samadashvili, Ana – Me, Margarita

  • Morkildze, Aka – Journey to Karabakh

  • Turashvili, Dato – Flight from the U.S.S.R.

Greenland

  • Aidt, Naja Marie – Rock, Paper, Scissors

  • Korneliussen, Nivial – Last Night in Nuuk

  • Rasmussen, Knud – Eskimo Folk Tales

Ireland

  • Beckett, Samuel – Waiting for Godot (play)

  • Joyce, James – Ulysses

  • O’Brien, Edna – The Country Girls

  • O’Brien, Flann – The Third Policeman

  • Rooney, Sally – Normal People

  • Wilde, Oscar – The Picture of Dorian Gray

Latvia

  • Abele, Inga – High Tide

  • Ikstena, Nora – Soviet Milk

  • Jonevs, Janis – Doom 94

  • Kalniete, Sandra – With Dance Shoes in Siberian Snow

Luxembourg

  • Burlesk, Jean – The Pleasure of Drowning

  • Portante, Jean – In Reality

Moldova

  • Beinzeanu, Stela –Bessarabian Nights

  • Ciocan, Iulian – Before Brezhnev died

  • Drutse, Ion – Moldavian Autumn

  • Lorchenkov, Vladimir – The Good Life Elsewhere

Netherlands

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  • Bakker, Gerbrand – The Twin

  • Buruma, Ian – Murder in Amsterdam (Non-fiction)

  • Mulisch, Harry – The Discovery of Heaven

  • Reve, Gerard – The Evenings: A winter’s tale

  • Weijers, Nina – The Consequences

  • Wolkers, Jan – The Turkish Delight

Portugal

  • Antunes, Antonio Lobo – The Return of the Caravels

  • DeMello, Sophia – Exemplary Tales

  • Jorge, Lidia – The Wind Whistling in the Cranes

  • Pessoa, Fernando – A Little Larger than the Entire Universe

  • Saramago, Jose – The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

  • Torga, Miguel – Tales from the Mountains

Serbia

  • Andric, Ivo – The Bridge on the Drina

  • Basara, Svetislav – The Cyclist Conspiracy

  • Kis, Danilo – A Tomb for Boris Davidovic

  • Pavic, Milorad – Dictionary of the Khazars

  • Pekic, Borislav – Houses

Spain

  • Alfau, Felipe – Locos: A Comedy of Gestures

  • Cela, Camilo Jose – The Hive

  • Cervantes, Miguel – Don Quixote

  • Garcia Lorca, Federico –The Collected Poems

  • Marias, Javier – The Infatuations

  • Perez-Reverte – The Club Dumas

  • Ruiz Zafon, Carlos – The Shadow of the Wind

Turkey

  • Ali, Sabahattin – Madonna in a Fur Coat

  • Kemal, Yasar – Memed, My Hawk

  • Kulin, Ayse – Last Train to Istanbul

  • Pamuk, Orhan – Snow

  • Shafak. Elif – The Bastard of Istanbul

  • Tanpinar, Ahmet Hamdi –The Time Regulation Institute

Vatican City

  • (Harris, Robert) –Conclave

  • Milenary and Marinello, Luigi – Shroud of Secrecy

  • (West, Morris) – The Shoes of the Fisherman

Armenia

  • Balakian, Grigoris – Armenian Golgotha

  • Saroyan, William – My name is Aram

Belgium

  • Buwalda, Peter – Bonita Avenue

  • Claus, Hugo – The Sorrow of Belgium

  • Herge – Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (comics)

  • Nothomb, Amelie – Fear and Trembling

  • Simenon, George – Dirty Snow

Croatia

  • Drndic, Dasa– Trieste

  • Krleža, Miroslav – The Return of Philip Latinowicz

  • Perisic, Robert – Our Man in Iraq

  • Ugresic, Dubravka – The Ministry of Pain

Denmark

  • Dinesen, Isak – Seven Gothic Tales

  • Ejersbo, Jakob – Exile

  • Grondahl, Jens Christian – Silence in October

  • Høeg, Peter – Smilla’s Sense of Snow

  • Klougart, Josefine – Of Darkness

Faroe Island

  • Bru, Henin – The Old Man and His Sons

  • Heinesen, Willia– The Tower at the Edge of the World

  • Jacobsen, Jorgen-Frantz – Barbara

Germany

  • Doblin, Alfred – Berlin Alexanderplatz

  • Erpenbeck, Jenny – Go, Went, Gone

  • Fallada, Hans – Every Man Dies Alone

  • Grass, Gunter – The Tin Drum

  • Hesse, Herman – Siddhartha

  • Mann Thomas – The Sacred Mountain

  • Schlink, Bernhard – The Reader

Hungary

  • Kertesz, Imre – Fatelesness

  • Krasnahorkai, Lazlo – Satantango

  • Kristof, Agota – The Notebook

  • Márai, Sándor – Embers

  • Szabo, Magda – The Door

Italy

  • Calvino, Italo – Invisible Cities

  • Camilleri, Andrea – The Shape of Water

  • Eco, Umberto – The Name of the Rose

  • Ferrante, Elena – My Brilliant Friend

  • Levi, Primo – The Truce

  • Vittorini, Elio –Conversations in Sicily 

Liechtenstein

  • Harrer, Henrich – Seven Years in Tibet

  • (not) Ohri, Armin – The Dark Muse

Macedonia

  • Dimkovska, Lidija – A Spare Life

  • Janevski, Slavko – The Bandit Wind (poems)

  • Smilevski, Goce – Freud’s Sister

Monaco

  • (not) Casiraghi, Charlote – Passions’ ArchipelagoProjetii, Danae – Grace Kelly Princesse du Cinema

Norway

  • Hamsum, Knut – Hunger

  • Ibsen, Henrik – The Doll’s House (play)

  • Knausgaard, Karl Ove – My Struggle

  • Lunde, Maja – The History of the Birds

  • Nesbo, Jo – The Snowman

  • Tiller, Carl Frode – Encircling

  • Vesaas, Tarjei – The Birds

Romania

  • Blecher, Max –Adventures in Immediate Irreality

  • Cartarescu, Mircea –Nostalgia

  • Eliade, Mircea – Bengal Nights

  • Ionesco, Eugene –Rhinoceros (play)

  • Iuga, Nora – The Sixty-year-old Woman and the Young Man

  • Muller, Herta – The Hunger Angel

Slovakia

  • Benova, Jana – Seeing People Off

  • Dobrakovova, Ivana –Bellevue

  • Pištanek, Peter – Rivers of Babylonia

  • Stur, Ludovit – Slavdon

Sweden

  • Backman, Fredrik – A Man Called Ove

  • Jonasson, Jonas – The 100 Years Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

  • Lackberg, Camilla – The Ice Princess

  • Lagerkvist, Par –Barabbas

  • Larsson, Stieg – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

  • Mankell Henning –Faceless Killers

Ukraine

  • Belorusets, Yevguenia –Lucky Breaks

  • Duda, Tamara – Daughter

  • Kurkov, Andrey – Death and the Penguin

  • Matios, Maria – Sweet Darusya

  • Oksana Zabuzhko – Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex

  • Zhadam, Serhiy – Mesopotamia

Middle East

Bahrain

  • Al Shafeih, Sarah A. –Yummah

  • Saeed, Ali Al – Quixotiq

Iraq

  • Antoon, Sinan – The Corpse Washer

  • Blasim. Hassan – The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories

  • Saadawi, Ahmed – Frankenstein in Baghdad

Kurdisthan

  • Ali, Bakhtiyar – I Stared at the Night of the City

  • Barzanji, Jalal – The Man in Blue Pyjamas

Oman

  • Alharthi, Joka –Celestial Bodies

  • Al Farsi, Abdulaziz – Earth Sweeps, Saturn Laughs

Saudi Arabia

  • Alem Raja – The Dove’s Necklace

  • Al Hamad, Turki – Adama: A Novel

  • Alsanea, Rajaa – The Girls of Riyadh

  • Badawi, Raif – 1000 Lashes: Because I Say what I Think

Yemen

  • Al Ahdal, Wajdi – A Land Without Jasmine

  • Abdul-Wali, Mohammad – They Die Strangers

  • Al-Murqui, Ali – Hurma

  • Dammaj, Zayd Mutee – The Hostage

Egypt

  • Abdel Aziz, Basma – The Queue  

  • Al- Aswany. Alaa – The Yacoubian Building

  • Cavafy C.P. – Selected Poems

  • El Saadawy, Nawal – Women at Point Zero

  • Mahfouz, Naguib –Children of Gewelaby

  • Soueif, Adhaf – In the Eye of the Sun

Israel

  • Appelfeld, Aharon – Blooms of Darkness

  • Gavron, Assaf – The Hilltop

  • Grossman, David – To The End of Land

  • Harari, Yuval Noah –Sapiens

  • Heret, Etgar – The Seven Good Years

  • Oz, Amos – A Tale of Love and Darkness

  • Shavit, Ari – My Promised Land

Kuwait

  • AlAammar, Layla – Silence is a Sense

  • Alshammari, Shahd – Notes on the Flesh

  • Danderma – The Chronicles of Dathra

Palestine

  • Abulhawa, Susan –Mornings in Jenin

  • Barghouti, Mourid – I Saw Ramallah

  • Darwish, Mahmoud – In the Presence of Absence

  • Hanafani, Ghassan – A Men in the Sun

  • Karmi, Ghada – In Search of Fatima

  • Said, Edward – Culture and Imperialism

  • Shukair, Mahmoud – Mordechai’s Moustache and his Wife’s Cats

Syria

  • Adonis – Adonis, Selected Poems

  • Almohammad, Assad – An Ishmahel of Syria

  • Khalifa, Mustafa – The Shell: Memoirs of a Hidden Observer

  • Mina, Hanna – Fragments of a Memoir

  • Schami, Rafiq – Damascus Night

Iran

  • Daneshvar, Simin – Savushun

  • Hedayat, Sadegh – The Blind Owl

  • Kamali, Marjan – The Stationery Shop

  • Mandanipour, Shahriar – Censoring an Iranian Love Story

  • Nafisi, Azar – Reading Lolita in Teheran

  • Satrapi, Marjane – The Complete Persepolis (comics)

Jordan

  • Alameddine, Rabih – An Unnecessary Woman

  • Faqir, Fadia – Pillars of Salt

  • Munif, Abdulrahman – Cities of Salt

  • Zaghmout, Fadi – The Bride of Amman

Lebanon

  • Al Shaykh, Hanan – Retelling: One Thousand and One Nights

  • Gibran, Khalil – The Prophet

  • Khoury, Elias – Gate of the Sun

  • Maalouf, Amin – Leo Africanus

  • Naimy, Mikhail – The Book of Mirdad

  • Ziade, Lamia – Bye Bye Babylon

Qatar

  • Al Mahmoud, Abdulaziz – The Corsair

  • Al Maria, Sophia – The Girl Who Fell to Earth

  • Rajakumar, Mohanalakshmi – Love Comes Later

United Arab Emirates

  • Al Murr, Mohamad – The Wink of Mona Lisa

  • Gargash, Maha– The Sand Fish: A Novel from Dubai

  • Ghobash, Omar Saif –Letters to a Young Muslin

Oceania

Australia

  • Jones, Gail – A Guide to Berlin

  • Flanagan, Richard – The Narrow Road to Deep North

  • Garner, Helen – The House of Grief

  • Lindsay, Joan – Picnic at Hanging Rock

  • Winton, Tim – Cloudstreet

  • Zusak, Marcus – The Book Thief

Marshal Island

  • Kelin, Daniel – Marshal Islands Legends and Stories

  • Rudiak-Gould, Peter –Surviving Paradise

New Zealand

  • Duff, Allan – Once Were Warriors

  • Grace, Patricia – Cousins

  • Hulme, Keri – Bone People

  • Ihimahera, Witi – The Whale Rider

  • Manawatu, Becky – Aue

  • Mansfield, Katherine – The Collected Stories

Samoa

  • Figiel, Sia – Where we Once Belonged

  • Young, Lani Wendt – Telesa: The Covenant Keeper

  • Wendt, Albert – Sons for the Return Home

Tuvalu

  • Laracy, Hugg (Editor) – Tuvalu: A History

  • (Ellis, Philipp) – Where the Hell is Tuvalu? 

French Polynesia

  • Hitiura Vaite, Celestine – Frangipani

  • Gauguin, Paul – Noa Noa

  • Spitz, Chantal – Island of Shattered Dreams

  • (Somerset Maughan, W) – The Moon and Six Pence

Micronesia

  • Bernart, Luellen – Book of Luelen

  • Hezel, Francis) – Making Sense of Micronesia

Palau

  • (Barnett, Homer) – Being a Palauan

Solomon Island

  • (Kent, Graeme) – Devil-Devil

  • Makini, Julia – Civilized Girl

  • Saunana, John – The Alternative

Vanuatu

  • Mera Molissa, Grace – Black Stone

  • Nyman, Michaela – Sista, Stanap Strong(women’s anthology)

  • Regenvanu, Sethy John – Laef Blong Mi: From Village to Nation

Kiribati

  • Kanere Koru, Peter – Tales of Kiribati

  • (Maarten Trost, J) – The Sex Lives of Cannibals

  • Teaero, Teweiariki – Waa in Storms

Nauru

  • Detudamu, Timothy –Legends, Traditions and Tales from Nauru

  • Solomon, Ben Bam – Stories from Nauru

Papua New Guinea

  • Hau’ofa, Epeli – We’re the Ocean

  • Stella, Regis – Mata Sara

Tonga

  • Posesi Fanua, Tupou – Po Fananga: Folk Tales of Tonga

  • Taumoefolau, Joshua – A Providence of War

North America

Canada

  • Atwood, Margaret, – The Handmaid’s Tale

  • Brossard, Nicole – Mauve Desert

  • Cohen, Leonard – Book of Longing

  • Martel, Yann – The Life of Pi

  • Montgomery, L.M. – Anne of Green Gables

  • Munro, Alice – Dear Life

  • O’Neill, Heather – Lullabies for Little Crimes

Mexico

  • Boullosa, Carmen – Texas the Great Theft

  • Esquivel, Laura – Like Water for Chocolate

  • Fuentes, Carlos – The Death of Artemio Cruz

  • Luiselli, Valeria – The Story of My Teeth

  • Herrera, Yuri – Signs Preceding the End of the World

  • Paz, Otavio – The Labyrinth of Solitude

  • Rulfo, Juan – Pedro Paramo

United States

  • Franzen, Jonathan – Crossroads

  • Johnson, Adam – Fortune Smiles

  • Melville, Herman – Moby Dick

  • Morrison, Tony – Beloved

  • Salinger, J.D. – The Catcher in the Rye

  • Scott Fitzgerald, Francis – The Great Gatsby

  • Steinbeck, John – The Grapes of Wrath

Central America

Belize

  • Edgell Zee – Beka Lamb

  • Ellis, Zoila – On Heroes, Lizards and Passions

Guatemala

  • Asturias, Miguel Angel  – The President

  • De Leon, Jennifer – Don’t Ask me Where I’m From

  • Monterroso, Augusto – Complete Works and Other Stories

Panama

  • Morgan, Juan – The Golden Horse

  • (Mc Cullough, David) – The Path Between the Seas

Costa Rica

  • Duncan, Quince – A Message from Rose

Honduras

  • Alvarado, Elvia – Don’t be Afraid Gringo

  • Yuscaran, Guillermo – Points of Light

El Salvador

  • Argueta, Manlio – One Day of a Life

  • Hernandez, Claudia – Slash and Burn

  • Moya, Horacio Castellanos – Senselessness

  • Zamora, Javier – Solito

Nicaragua

  • Alegria, Claribel – They Won’t Take Me Alive

  • Belli, Gioconda – Infinity on the Palm of Her Hand

  • Dario, Ruben – Stories and Poems

  • Ramirez, Sergio – Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea

South America

Argentina

  • Borges, Jorge Luis –Fictions

  • Cortazar, Julio –Hopscotch

  • Martinez, Thomas Eloy –The Tango Singer

  • Piñeiro, Claudia – Elena Knows

  • Pron, Patricio – My Father’s Ghost is Climbing in the Rain

  • Puig, Manuel – Heartbrake Tango

  • Schweblin, Samanta –

  • Fever Dream

Chile

  • Allende, Isabel – The House of the Spirits

  • Bolaño, Roberto – The Savage Detectives

  • Bombal, Matia Luiza –House of Myst

  • Donoso, Jose – Curfew

  • Meruane, Line – Seeing Red

  • Neruda, Pablo – Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

  • Zambra, Alejandro – The Private Life of Trees

French Guyana

  • Author – TITLE

Peru

  • Alarcon, Daniel – Lost City Radio

  • Ribeyro, Julio Ramon –Marginal Voices

  • Santiago Roncagliolo –Red April

  • Vargas Llosa, Mario – The Time of the Hero

Venezuela

  • Barrera Tyszka, Alberto –The Sickness

  • Gallegos, Romulo – Doña Barbara

  • Neuman, Ariana – When Times Stopped

  • Sainz Borgo, Karina – It Would be Night in Caracas

  • (Not) Soto, Jesus Miguel – El Caso Boeuf

Bolivia

  • Colanzi, Liliana – Our Dead World

  • Hasbun, Rodrigo –Affections

  • Recaecochea, Juan De –American Visa

  • Santos, Rosario – The Fat Man from La Paz

  • Soldan, Edmundo Paz –Turing’s Delirium: A Novel

Colombia

  • Garcia Marquez, Gabriel –One Hundred Years of Solitude

  • Mutis, Alvaro – The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll

  • Restrepo, Laura –Delirium

  • Rosero, Evelio – The Armies

  • Vasquez, Juan Gabriel – The Sound of Things Falling

Guyana

  • Harris, Theodore Wilson –Jonestown

  • Kempadoo, Oonya – Buxton Spice

  • Maas, Sharon – The Girl from Lamaha Street

  • Lachmansingh, Reuben – A Dip at the Sangan

Suriname

  • De Kom, Anton – We Slaves of Suriname

  • Mc Leod, Cynthia – The Cost of Sugar

Brazil

  • Amado, Jorge – Gabriela Clove and Cinnamon

  • Batalha, Martha – The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmão

  • Cardoso, Lucio –Chronicle of the Murdered House

  • Coelho, Paulo – The Alchemist

  • Lispector, Clarice – The Passion According to G.H.

  • Machado de Assis, J.M.–The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas

  • Nassar, Raduan – A Cup of Rage

  • Vieira Junior, Itamar –Crooked Plow

Ecuador

  • Aleman, Gabriela – Pozo Wells

  • Ampuero, Maria Fernanda –Cockfight

  • Cardenas, Mauro Javier–The Revolutionaries Try Again

  • Icaza, Jorge – The Villagers (Huasipungo)

Paraguay

  • Roa Bastos, Augusto – I the Supreme

Uruguay

  • Benedetti, Mario – The Truce

  • Galeano, Eduardo – Open Veins of Latin America

  • Hernandez, Felisberto –Piano Stories

  • Levrero, Mario – The Luminous Novel

  • Onetti, Juan Carlos – A Brief Life

  • Peri Rossi, Cristina –The Ship of Fools

  • Quiroga, Horacio – The Decapitated Chicken 

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