my reading list

Afghanistan - Ukmina Manoori - I Am a Bacha Posh [Memoir]

Albania - Lea Ypi - Free: Coming of Age at the End of History [Memoir]

Algeria -

Andorra -

Angola -

Antigua and Barbuda -

Argentina - Marcelo Figueras  - Kamchatka [Fiction]; Camila Sosa Villada - The Queens of Sarmiento Park [Fiction]

Armenia - Narine Abgaryan - Three Apples Fell From the Sky [Fiction]

Australia - Graeme Simsion - The Rosie Project [Fiction]

Austria - Viktor E. Frankl - Man's Search for Meaning [Non-Fiction/Memoir]

Azerbaijan -

Bahamas -

Bahrain -

Bangladesh -

Barbados - Cherie Jones - How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps the House [Fiction]

Belarus -

Belgium -

Belize -

Benin -

Bhutan -

Bolivia - Giovanna Rivero - Fresh Dirt from the Grave [Fiction]

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Senka Marić - Body Kintsugi [Fiction]

Botswana -

Brazil -

Brunei -

Bulgaria - Kapka Kassabova - Elixir [Non-Fiction/Memoir]

Burkina Faso - Monique Ilboudo - So Distant From My Life [Fiction]

Burundi -

Cabo Verde -

Cambodia - Loung Ung - First They Killed My Father [Memoir]

Cameroon - Djaili Amadou Amal - The Impatient [Fiction]

Canada - L.M. Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables [Fiction]; Alicia Elliott - A Mind Spread Out on the Ground [Memoir/Essays]; Richard Wagamese - One Native Life; One Story, One Song [Memoir]; Tanya Talaga - Seven Fallen Feathers [Non-Fiction]; Uzma Jalaluddin - Ayesha at Last [Fiction]

Central African Republic -  Adrienne Yabouza - Co Wives, Co Widows [Fiction]

Chad -

Chile - Marcela Serrano - Ten Women [Fiction]

China - Jung Chang - Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China [Biography/Memoir]; Xinran - Sky Burial [Biography/Memoir];

Colombia - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera [Fiction]

Comoros -

Congo (Republic of) -

Côte d'Ivoire - Gauz - Standing Heavy [Fiction]

Costa Rica -

Croatia -

Cuba - Karla Suarez - Havana Year Zero [Fiction]; Reinaldo Arenas - Before Night Falls [Memoir]

Cyprus -

Czechia -

Dem. Republic of Congo -

Denmark -

Djibouti -

Dominica -

Dominican Republic - Junot Díaz - Drown [Fiction]

Ecuador - Natalia Garcia Freire - This World Does Not Belong to Us [Fiction] 

Egypt - Waguih Ghali - Beer in the Snooker Club [Fiction]

El Salvador -

Equatorial Guinea -

Eritrea -

Estonia -

Eswatini -

Ethiopia - 

Faroe Islands - Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen - Island [Fiction]

Fiji -

Finland - Tove Jansson - The Summer Book [Fiction]

France - Annie Ernaux - Happening [Memoir]; Angelique Villeneuve - Winter Flowers [Fiction]; Françoise Sagan - Bonjour Tristesse [Fiction]

Gabon -

The Gambia -

Georgia -

Germany - Herman Hesse - Siddhartha [Fiction], The Glass Bead Game [Fiction]

Ghana - Yaa Gyasi - Homegoing [Fiction]

Greece - Eugene Trivizas - The Last Black Cat [Children's Fiction] 

Grenada - 

Guatemala -

Guinea -

Guinea-Bissau -

Guyana -

Haiti -

Holy See (The Vatican) -

Honduras -

Hungary -

Iceland - Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir - Butterflies in November [Fiction]

India - Aravand Adiga - The White Tiger [Fiction]; J. Krishnamurti  - The Awakening of Intelligence [Non-Fiction]; Vivek Shanbhag - Ghachar Ghochar [Fiction]

Indonesia -

Iran - Ava Homa - Daughters of Smoke and Fire [Fiction]

Iraq -

Ireland - Claire Keegan - Small Things like These [Fiction]; Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray [Fiction];  Sally Rooney - Normal People [Fiction]; Lauren Foley - Polluted Sex [Fiction]

Israel -

Italy - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - The Leopard [Fiction]; Elena Ferrante - The Days of Abandonment [Fiction]

Jamaica - Kei Miller - Augustown [Fiction]; Things I Have Withheld [Essays]

Japan - Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore; IQ84 trilogy; Norwegian Wood; South of the Border West of the Sun [Fiction];  Yoko Ogawa - The Memory Police [Fiction];  Hiromi Kawakami - Strange Weather in Tokyo; The Nakano Thrift Shop [Fiction];  Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow [Fiction];  Tomoka Shibasaki - Spring Garden [Fiction]; Miri Yu - Tokyo Ueno Station [Fiction]; Aoko Matsuda - Where the Wild Ladies Are [Fiction]; Toshikazu Kawaguchi - Before the Coffee Gets Cold [Fiction]; Hiro Arikawa - The Traveling Cat Chronicles [Fiction]; Toshiyuki Horie - The Bear and the Paving Stone [Fiction]; Mizuki Tsujimura -Lonely Castle in the Mirror [Fiction]; Yasunari Kawabata - Snow Country [Fiction]; Rin Usami - Idol, Burning [Fiction]; Osamu Dazai -The Setting Sun [Fiction]; Kaori Fujino - Nails and Eyes [Fiction]; Hideo Furukawa - Slow Boat [Fiction]

Jordan - Fadi Zaghmout - Laila [Fiction]

Kazakhstan -

Kenya - Wanjiru Koinange - The Havoc of Choice [Fiction]

Kiribati -

Kosovo - Patjim Statovaci - My Cat Yugoslavia [Fiction]

Kuwait -

Kyrgyzstan - Chinghiz Aitmatov - Jamilia [Fiction]

Laos -

Latvia -

Lebanon -

Lesotho -

Liberia - Leymah Gbowee - Mighty be our Powers [Memoir]

Libya - Hisham Matar - The Return [Memoir]

Liechtenstein - 

Lithuania - Dalia Grinkevičiūtė - Shadows on the Tundra [Memoir]

Luxembourg -

Madagascar -

Malawi - Samson Kambalu - The Jive Talker [Memoir]

Malaysia - Tan Twan Eng - The Garden of Evening Mists; The Gift of Rain; The House of Doors [Fiction]

Maldives - 

Mali -

Malta -

Marshall Islands -

Mauritania -

Mauritius - Priya Hein - Riambel [Fiction]

Mexico - Yuri Herrera - The Transmigration of Bodies [Fiction]

Micronesia - 

Moldova -

Monaco -

Mongolia - 

Montenegro - Multiple Authors, ed. by Will Firth - Balkan Bombshells [Short Story Anthology]

Morocco -

Mozambique -

Myanmar - Pyae Moe Thet War - You've Changed [Essays/Memoir]

Namibia -

Nauru -

Nepal -

Netherlands - Jaap Robben - Summer Brother [Fiction]; Maartje Wortel - Something Has To Happen [Fiction]

New Zealand - Patricia Grace - Potiki [Fiction]; Nina Mingya Powles - Small Bodies of Water [Essays/Memoir]

Nicaragua -

Niger -

Nigeria -

North Korea - Hyeongseo Lee - The Girl with 7 Names [Memoir]

North Macedonia -

Norway - Jenny Hval - Paradise Rot [Fiction]; Agnes Ravatn - The Bird Tribunal [Fiction]

Oman - Jokha Alharthi - Celestial Bodies [Fiction]

Pakistan - Malala Yousafzai - I Am Malala [Memoir]; Samra Habib - We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir [Memoir]

Palau -

Palestine -

Panama - Adania Shibli - Minor Detail [Fiction]; Nada Elia - Greater than the Sum of our Parts: Feminism, Inter/nationalism and Palestine [Non-Fiction]

Papua New Guinea -

Paraguay -

Peru - Silvia Vasquez-Lavado - In the Shadow of the Mountain [Memoir]; Mario Vargas Llosa - Harsh Times [Fiction]

Philippines -

Poland - Olga Tokarczuk - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead [Fiction]

Portugal -

Qatar -

Romania - Sophie Van Llewyn - Bottled Goods [Fiction]

Russia - Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita [Fiction];  Vladimir Nabakov - Lolita [Fiction]

Rwanda - Scholastique Mukasonga - The Barefoot Woman [Memoir]

Saint Kitts and Nevis -

Saint Lucia -

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines -

Samoa -

San Marino -

Sao Tome and Principe -

Saudi Arabia -

Senegal -

Serbia - Multiple Authors, ed. by Will Firth - Balkan Bombshells [Short Story Anthology]; Srdja Popovic - Blueprint for a Revolution [Non-Fiction]

Seychelles -

Sierra Leone -

Singapore -

Slovakia - Jana Bodnárová - Necklace/Choker [Fiction]

Slovenia -

Solomon Islands -

Somalia -

South Africa - Trevor Noah - Born a Crime [Memoir]; Wilma Stockenström - The Expedition to the Baobab Tree [Fiction]

South Korea - Min-Jin Lee - Pachinko [Fiction]; Hwang Yeo Jung -  The Specters of Algeria  [Fiction]; Haemin Sunim - The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down [Non-Fiction]; Baek Sehee - I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki [Memoir]

South Sudan - Deng Adut - Songs of a War Boy [Memoir]

Spain -

Sri Lanka - Shehan Karunatilaka - The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida [Fiction]

Sudan -

Suriname -

Sweden - Fredrik Backman - A Man Called Ove [Fiction];  John Ajvide Lindqvist - Handling the Undead [Fiction]

Switzerland -

Syria -

Taiwan -

Tajikistan -

Tanzania -

Thailand -

Timor-Leste -

Togo -

Tonga - Epeli Hauʻofa - Tales of the Tikongs [Fiction]

Trinidad and Tobago - Ayanna Lloyd Banwo - When We Were Birds [Fiction]

Tunisia -

Turkey - Ahmet Altan - I Will Never See the World Again [Memoir]

Turkmenistan -

Tuvalu -

Uganda -

Ukraine - Andrey Kurkov - Death and the Penguin [Fiction]; Marina Lewycka - A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian [Fiction]

United Arab Emirates -

United Kingdom - Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion [Fiction];  Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca [Fiction];  Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights [Fiction]; Bernadine Evaristo - Girl, Woman, Other; Mr Loverman [Fiction];  Zadie Smith - White Teeth [Fiction];  Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting [Fiction]; Paul Mendez - Rainbow Milk [Fiction]; Akala - Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire [Non-Fiction]; Lemn Sissay - My Name is Why [Memoir]; Benjamin Zephaniah - The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah [Memoir]; Kit De Waal - Without Warning and Only Sometimes [Memoir]; Sam Selvon - The Lonely Londoners [Memoir]

United States of America - Colson Whitehead - The Nickel Boys; The Underground Railroad [Fiction]; Alice Walker - The Color Purple [Fiction]; Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X [Memoir];  Ruth Ozeki - The Book of Form and Emptiness [Fiction];  Amor Towles - The Rules of Civility [Fiction]; Clint Smith - How the Word is Passed [Non-Fiction]; Louise Erdrich - Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country [Memoir]; Dee Brown - Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee [Non-Fiction]

Uruguay - Carolina De Robertis - Cantoras [Fiction]

Uzbekistan -

Vanuatu -

Venezuela - Alberto Barrera Tyszka - The Sickness [Fiction]

Vietnam - Viet Thanh Nguyen - The Sympathizer; The Committed [Fiction]

Yemen -

Zambia -

Zimbabwe - Tsitsi Dangarembga - Nervous Conditions [Fiction]

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