Reading Around the World

I have decided I’d like to expand my reading palate and read books from other countries and from non-English authors. So I have put together a list of every country in the world (I hope I haven’t missed any), and picked 1 book per country to read. Some of these books I already own, and others I will have to buy/borrow as time goes on.

*You will note that England and USA are not on this list, and that is because the majority of the books I read are by authors from these two countries and I didn’t feel the need to add them.*

Please do let me know if there are any mistakes here, or if I have attributed an author/book to the wrong country and I shall amend. There are also a few countries where I was unable to find a related author who had a book translated into English; if you have any to suggest, please let me know.

Country	Author	Book Title	Completed (Rating /5)
Afghanistan	Khaled Hosseini	The Kite Runner (OWN)	YES (5)
Albania	Ismail Kadare	General of the Dead Army (OWN)
Algeria	Kaouther Adimi	A Bookshop in Algiers (OWN)	YES (4)
Andorra	Albert Salvado	The Mysterious Balloon Man
Angola	Kalaf Epalanga	Whites Can Dance Too (OWN)
Antigua & Barbuda	Marie-Elena John	Among Flowers
Argentina	Andres Neuman	Fracture (OWN)
Armenia	Mariam Petrosyan	The Gray House (OWN)
Australia	Elizabeth Von Arnim	The Enchanted April (OWN)
Austria	Daniel Glattauer	Love Virtually (OWN)
Azerbaijan	Banine	Days in the Caucasus (OWN)
Bahamas	David Santos Donaldson	Greenland (OWN)
Bahrain	Noor Al Noaimi	The Pearl Thief
Bangladesh	Adiba Jaigirdar	Rani Choudhury Must Die
Barbados	Karen Lord	The Best Of All Possible Worlds (OWN)
Belarus	Sasha Filipenko	Red Crosses (OWN)
Belgium	Stefan Hertmans	The Ascent
Belize	Zee Edgell	Time and the River
Benin	Agnes Agboton	Voice of the Two Shores
Bhutan	Kunzang Choden	Dawa: The Story of a Stray Dog in Bhutan
Bolivia	Isabel Ibanez	Woven in Moonlight (OWN)
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Aleksandar Hemon	The Lazarus Project
Botswana	Gothataone Moeng	Call and Response
Brazil	Paulo Coelho	The Alchemist (OWN)
Brunei	Kathrina Mohd Daud	The Fisherman King
Bulgaria	Georgi Gospodinov	Time Shelter
Burkina Faso	Malidoma Patrice Some	Of Water and the Spirit
Burundi	Gael Faye	Small Country
Cape Verde	Dina Salustio	The Madwoman of Serrano
Cambodia	Vaddey Ratner	Music of the Ghosts
Cameroon	Imbolo Mbue	How Beautiful We Were
Canada	Elliot Page	Pageboy (OWN)
Central African Republic	Adrienne Yabouza	The Magic Doll
Chad	Joseph Brahim Seid	Told By Starlight
Chile	Alejando Zambra	Chilean Poet
China	C. Pam Zhang	Land of Milk and Honey (OWN)
Colombia	Gabriel García Márquez	One Hundred Years of Solitude (OWN)
Comoros	Mohamed A Toihiri	The Kaffir of Karthala
Congo. Democratic Republic Of,	Denis Mukwege	The Power of Women
Congo. Republic Of,	Alain Mabanckou	Broken Glass
Costa Rica	Ari Tisona	Saints of the Household
Cote d’Ivoire	Laetitia Ky	Love and Justice
Croatia	Lana Bastašić	Catch the Rabbit
Cuba	Ruth Behar	Lucky Broken Girl
Cyprus	Alex Michaelides	The Silent Patient
Czechia	Milan Kundera	The Unbearable Lightness of Being (OWN)
Denmark	Hans Christian Andersen	Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales
Djibouti	Abdourahman A Waberi	Why Do You Dance When You Walk
Dominica	Jean Rhys	Wide Sargasso Sea
Dominican Republic	Rita Indiana Hernandez	Tentacle
East Timor	Luis Cardoso	The Crossing
Ecuador	Zoraida Cordova	The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina
Egypt	Nadia Wassef	Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller (OWN)
El Salvador	Javier Zamora	Solito
Equatorial Guinea	Juan Tomas Avila Laurel	The Gurugu Pledge
Eritrea	Abu Bakr Kahal	African Titanics
Estonia	Andrus Kivirähk	The Man Who Spoke Snakish
Eswatini	Malla Nunn	Sugar Town Queens
Ethiopia	Abraham Verghese	The Covenant of Water
Fiji	Nalini Singh	Angels’ Blood
Finland	Tove Jansson	The Summer Book (OWN)
France	Jules Verne	Around the World in Eighty Days (OWN)
Gabon	Daniel M Mengara	Mema
Gambia	Sally Singhateh	The Sun Will Soon Shine
Georgia	Nino Haratischwill	The Eighth Life
Germany	Bernhard Schlink	The Reader (OWN)
Ghana	Peace Adzo Medie	Nightbloom (OWN)
Greece	Aesop	Fables (OWN)
Grenada	Jennifer Hosten	Miss World 1970
Guatemala	Miguel Asturias	Mr President
Guinea	Djibril Tamsir Niane	Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
Guinea-Bissau	Abdulai Sila	The Ultimate Tragedy
Guyana	Sharon Maas	The Violin Maker’s Daughter
Haiti	Ben Philippe	The Field Guide to the North American Teenager
Honduras	Roy G Guzman	Catrachos
Hungary	Imre Kertész	Fateless
Iceland	Ragnar Jonasson	Reykjavic (OWN)
India	Arundhati Roy	The God of Small Things (OWN)
Indoesnia	Intan Paramaditha	Apple and Knife
Iran	Cassandra Clare	Sword Catcher (OWN)
Iraq	Ahmed Saadawai	Frankenstein in Baghdad (OWN)
Ireland, Northern	C.S Lewis	Narnia Series (OWN)	Partially
Ireland, Republic of	Joseph O’Connor	My Father’s House (OWN)
Israel	Ayelet Gundar Goshen	The Wolf Hunt (OWN)
Italy	Carlo Collodi	Pinocchio (OWN)
Jamaica	Nicola Yoon	Everything, Everything
Japan	Banana Yoshimoto	Kitchen (OWN)	YES (3)
Jordan	Fadia Faqir	Willow Trees Don’t Weep
Kazakhstan	Sergei Lukyanenko	Night Watch
Kenya	Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o	A Grain of Wheat
Kiribati	Unable to Find	Unable to Find
Korea, North	Eunsun Kim	A Thousand Miles to Freedom
Korea, South	Hwang Bo-reum	Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop (OWN)
Kosovo	Pajtim Statovci	My Cat Yugoslavia
Kuwait	Shahd Alshammari	Head Above Water
Kyrgyzstan	Chingiz Aitmatov	Mother Earth
Laos	Souvankham Thammavongsa	How to Pronounce Knife
Latvia	Zigmunds Skujiņš	Flesh-Coloured Dominoes
Lebanon	Hanan Al-Shaykh	One Thousand and One Nights
Lesotho	Thomas Mofolo	Chaka
Liberia	Wayetu Moore	She Would Be King
Libya	Najwa Bin Shatwan	The Slave Yards
Liechtenstein	Unable to Find	Unable to Find
Lithuania	Alvydas Šlepikas	In the Shadow of Wolves
Luxembourg	Unable to Find	Unable to Find
Madagascar	Naivo	Beyond the Rice Fields
Malawi	Michelle Paver	Dark Matter
Malaysia	Tan Twan Eng	The Garden of Evening Mists
Maldives	Aminath Neena	Dreams of My Heart
Mali	Unable to Find	Unable to Find
Malta	Immanuel Mifsud	In the Name of the Father
Marshall Islands	Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner	IEP Jaltok: Poems From a Marshallese Daughter
Mauritania	Mbarek Ould Beyrouk	Desert and the Drum
Mauritius	Caroline Laurent	An Impossible Return
Mexico	Silvia Moreno-Garcia	The Daughter of Doctor Moreau (OWN)
Micronesia, Federated States of	Unable to Find	Unable to Find
Moldova	Ruth Madievsky	All-Night Pharmacy
Monaco	Unable to Find	Unable to Find
Mongolia	Various Authors	Suncranes and Other Stories
Montenegro	Olja Knezevic	Catherine the Great and the Small
Morocco	Laila Lalami	The Moor’s Account
Mozambique	Mia Couto	Confession of hte Lioness
Myanmar	Pascal Khoo Thwe	From the Land of Green Ghosts
Namibia	Tupa Tjipombo	I Am Not Your Slave
Nauru	Unable to Find	Unable to Find
Nepal	Narayan Wagle	Palpasa Cafe
Netherlands	Bessel Van der Kolk	The Body Keeps the Score (OWN)
New Zealand	Eleanor Catton	Birnam Wood (OWN)
Nicaragua	Gioconda Belli	The Inhabited Woman
Niger	Nouhou Malio	The Epic of Askia Mohammed
Nigeria	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Notes on Grief (OWN)	YES (4)
North Macedonia	Lidija Dimkovska	A Spare Life
Norway	Ingvild Rishøi	Brightly Shining (OWN)	YES (1)
Oman	Jokha Alharthi	Celestial Bodies (OWN)
Pakistan	Sanam Maher	A Woman Like Her
Palau	Unable to Find	Unable to Find
Palestine	Izzeldin Abuelaish	I Shall Not Hate
Panama	Mariano Rivera	The Closer: My Story
Papua New Guinea	Julie Mota	Cultural Refugees: Anthology of Poems
Paraguay	Esteban Bedoya	The Apocalypse According to Benedict
Peru	Isabel Allende	The Wind Knows My Name (OWN)
Philippines	Yangsze Choo	The Fox Wife (OWN)
Poland	Hannah Krall	Chasing the King of Hearts
Portugal	Fernando Pessoa	The Book of Disquiet
Qatar	Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud	The Corsair
Romania	Doina Rusti	The Book of Perilous Dishes
Russia	ETA Hoffmann	The Nutcracker (OWN)	YES (4)
Rwanda	Clemantine Wamariya	The Girl Who Smiled Beads
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Caryl Phillips	Crossing the River
Saint Lucia	Derek Walcott	Omeros
Saint Vincent & the Grenadines	Cecil Browne	Cassie P Caribbean PI
Samoa	Lani Wendt Young	Ocean’s Kiss
San Marino	Unable to Find	Unable to Find
Sao Tome and Principe	Gervásio Kaiser	Native Dance: An African Story
Saudi Arabia	Manal Al-Sharif	Daring to Drive
Scotland	Robert Louis Stevenson	Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (OWN)
Senegal	Mohamed Mbougar Sarr	Brotherhood
Serbia	Lana Harper	Back In a Spell
Seychelles	A.R Tirant	Echoes From the Oasis
Sierra Leone	Ishmael Beah	A Long Way Gone
Singapore	Balli Kaur Jaswal	Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows (OWN)
Slovakia	Jana Benová	Away! Away
Slovenia	Andrej Blatnik	You Do Understand
Solomon Islands	Unable to Find	Unable to Find
Somalia	Nadifa Mohamed	The Fortune Men
South Africa	J.M Coetzee	Waiting For the Barbarians
Spain	Antonio Iturbe	The Prince of the Skies	YES (4)
Sri Lanka	Shehan Karunatilaka	The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (OWN)
South Sudan	Various South Sudanese Women	No Time to Mourn: An anthology by South Sudanese Women
Sudan	Rania Mamoun	Thirteen Months of Sunrise
Suriname	Astrid Roemer	On a Woman’s Madness
Sweden	Christoffer Carlsson	Blaze Me a Sun
Switzerland	Alain de Botton	Art as Therapy (OWN)
Syria	Khaled Khalifa	Death Is Hard Work
Taiwan	Hsiao Li-hung	A Thousand Moons on a Thousand Rivers
Tajikistan	Unable to Find	Unable to Find
Tanzania	Abdulrazak Gurnah	Admiring Silence
Thailand	Pitchaya Sudbanthad	Bangkok Wakes to Rain
Togo	Tété-Michel Kpomassie	Michel the Great: An African in Greenland
Tongo	Unable to Find	Unable to Find
Trinidad & Tobago	Kevin Jared Hosein	Hungry Ghosts (OWN)
Tunisia	Shukri Mabkhout	The Italian
Turkey	Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar	The Time Regulation Institute
Turkmenistan	Ak Welsapar	The Tale of Aypi
Tuvalu	Unable to Find	Unable to Find
Uganda	Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi	Manchester Happened
Ukraine	Andrey Kurkov	Death and the Penguin (OWN)
United Arab Emirates	Janina Ramirez	Femina (OWN)
Uruguay	Eduardo Galeano	Football in Sun and Shadow
Uzbekistan	Bibish	The Dancer from Khiva: One Muslim Woman’s Quest for Freedom
Vanuatu	Grace Mera Molisa	Blackstone
Vatican City	Unable to Find	Unable to Find
Venezuela	Karina Sainz Borgo	No Place to Bury the Dead
Vietnam	Quan Barry	She Weeps Each Time You’re Born
Wales	Sarah Waters	Tipping the Velvet (OWN)
Yemen	Zayd Mutee’ Dammaj	The Hostage
Zambia	Namwali Serpell	The Furrows
Zimbabwe	Petina Gappah	The Book of Memory