The Book List
The Kite Runner ↗
by Khaled Hosseini
Afghanistan
Above Us the Milky Way ↗
by Fowzia Karimi
Afghanistan
Broken April
by Ismail Kadare
Albania
What the Day Owes the Night
by Yasmina Khadra
Algeria
Death Has a Thousand Doors
by Patricia Grey
Andorra
A General Theory of Oblivion ↗
by José Eduardo Agualusa
Angola
A Small Place ↗
by Jamaica Kincaid
Antigua and Barbuda
Things We Lost in the Fire ↗
by Mariana Enriquez
Argentina
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed ↗
by Mariana Enriquez
Argentina
The Tunnel ↗
by Ernesto Sabato
Argentina
The Adventures of China Iron ↗
by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
Argentina
How I Became a Nun ↗
by César Aira
Argentina
Three Apples Fell From the Sky ↗
by Narine Abgaryan
Armenia
Remembering Babylon ↗
by David Malouf
Australia
Cloudstreet ↗
by Tim Winton
Australia
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence ↗
by Doris Pilkington Garimara
Australia
Picnic at Hanging Rock ↗
by Joan Lindsay
Australia
Oscar and Lucinda ↗
by Peter Carey
Australia
All the Birds, Singing ↗
by Evie Wyld
Australia
Women as Lovers ↗
by Elfriede Jelinek
Austria
The Piano Teacher ↗
by Elfriede Jelinek
Austria
The Left Handed Woman ↗
by Peter Handke
Austria
Days in the Caucasus ↗
by Banine
Azerbaijan
Thine is The Kingdom
by Garth Buckner
Bahamas
QuixotiQ ↗
by Ali Al Saeed
Bahrain
The Good Muslim ↗
by Tahmima Anam
Bangladesh
In the Castle of My Skin ↗
by George Lamming
Barbados
Alindarka's Children ↗
by Alhierd Bacharevič
Belarus
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster ↗
by Svetlana Alexievich
Belarus
The Abyss ↗
by Marguerite Yourcenar
Belgium
Beka Lamb ↗
by Zee Edgell
Belize
Snares Without End
by Olympe Bhêly-Quenum
Benin
The Circle of Karma
by Kunzang Choden
Bhutan
Our Dead World ↗
by Liliana Colanzi
Bolivia
Sarajevo Blues ↗
by Semezdin Mehmedinović
Bosnia and Herzegovina
When Rain Clouds Gather
by Bessie Head
Botswana
K ↗
by Bernardo Kucinski
Brazil
The End ↗
by Fernanda Torres
Brazil
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon ↗
by Jorge Amado
Brazil
We All Loved Cowboys ↗
by Carol Bensimon
Brazil
With My Dog Eyes ↗
by Hilda Hilst
Brazil
Split Milk ↗
by Chico Buarque
Brazil
Written in Black ↗
by KH Lim
Brunei
The Physics of Sorrow ↗
by Georgi Gospodinov
Bulgaria
The Parachute Drop
by Norbert Zongo
Burkina Faso
Small Country ↗
by Gaël Faye
Burundi
In the Shadow of the Banyan ↗
by Vaddey Ratner
Cambodia
Days Come and Go ↗
by Hemley Boum
Cameroon
The Blind Assassin ↗
by Margaret Atwood
Canada
Bad Cree ↗
by Jessica Johns
Canada
Lives of Girls and Women ↗
by Alice Munro
Canada
Obasan ↗
by Joy Kogawa
Canada
Fall on Your Knees ↗
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Canada
All My Puny Sorrows ↗
by Miriam Toews
Canada
The Glass Hotel ↗
by Emily St John Mandel
Canada
The Last Will and Testament of Senhor Da Silva Araujo ↗
by Germano Almeida
Cape Verde
Co-Wives, Co-Widows ↗
by Adrienne Yabouza
Central African Republic
Told by Starlight In Chad
by Joseph Brahim Seid
Chad
The House of the Spirits ↗
by Isabel Allende
Chile
Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral ↗
by Gabriela Mistral
Chile
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair ↗
by Pablo Neruda
Chile
To Live ↗
by Yu Hua
China
Wild Swans ↗
by Jung Chang
China
Love in a Fallen City ↗
by Eileen Chang
China
Mo Yan ↗
by Red Sorghum
China
Sky Burial ↗
by Xinran
China
Soul Mountain ↗
by Gao Xingjian
China
Waiting ↗
by Ha Jin
China
Beijing Comrades ↗
by Bei Tong
China
The Day the Sun Died ↗
by Yan Lianke
China
The Sound of Things Falling ↗
by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Colombia
One Hundred Years of Solitude ↗
by Gabriel García Márquez
Colombia
A Girl Called Eel ↗
by Ali Zamir
Comoros
Tram 83 ↗
by Fiston Mwanza Mujila
Congo [DRC]
Broken Glass ↗
by Alain Mabanckou
Congo [Republic]
The Lonely Men's Island
by José León Sánchez
Costa Rica
In the Company of Men ↗
by Véronique Tadjo
Côte d'Ivoire
The Ministry of Pain ↗
by Dubravka Ugrešić
Croatia
Before Night Falls ↗
by Reinaldo Arenas
Cuba
Ledra Street
by Nora Nadjarian
Cyprus
Bringing Up Girls in Bohemia ↗
by Michal Viewegh
Czech Republic
The Copenhagen Trilogy ↗
by Tove Ditlevsen
Denmark
Passage of Tears ↗
by Abdourahman A. Waberi
Djibouti
The Orchid House ↗
by Phyllis Shand Allfrey
Dominica
Wide Sargasso Sea ↗
by Jean Rhys
Dominica
In the Time of the Butterflies ↗
by Julia Alvarez
Dominican Republic
The Potbellied Virgin ↗
by Alicia Yánez Cossío
Ecuador
The Thief and the Dogs ↗
by Naguib Mahfouz
Egypt
One Day of Life ↗
by Manlio Argueta
El Salvador
By Night the Mountain Burns ↗
by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel
Equatorial Guinea
My Father's Daughter ↗
by Hannah Pool
Eritrea
The Beauty of History ↗
by Viivi Luik
Estonia
The Shadow King ↗
by Maaza Mengiste
Ethiopia
Kava in the Blood ↗
by Peter Thomson
Fiji
The Summer Book ↗
by Tove Jansson
Finland
Dog Park ↗
by Sofi Oksanen
Finland
The Elementary Particles ↗
by Michel Houellebecq
France
So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood ↗
by Patrick Modiano
France
A Man's Place ↗
by Annie Ernaux
France
Girl ↗
by Camille Laurens
France
The Elegance of the Hedgehog ↗
by Muriel Barbery
France
The Woman Destroyed ↗
by Simone De Beauvoir
France
Awu's Story ↗
by Justine Mintsa
Gabon
Reading the Ceiling ↗
by Dayo Forster
Gambia
Adibas
by Zaza Burchuladze
Georgia
The Reader ↗
by Bernhard Schlink
Germany
Flight and Metamorphosis ↗
by Nelly Sachs
Germany
Go, Went, Gone ↗
by Jenny Erpenbeck
Germany
The Seventh Cross ↗
by Anna Seghers
Germany
The Quest for Christa T. ↗
by Christa Wolf
Germany
Tail of the Blue Bird ↗
by Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Ghana
Why I Killed My Best Friend ↗
by Amanda Michalopoulou
Greece
Under the Silk Cotton Tree
by Jean Buffong
Grenada
Mr. President ↗
by Miguel Ángel Asturias
Guatemala
The Radiance of the King ↗
by Camara Laye
Guinea
The Ultimate Tragedy ↗
by Abdulai Sila
Guinea-Bissau
Palace of the Peacock ↗
by Wilson Harris
Guyana
Krik? Krak! ↗
by Edwidge Danticat
Haiti
Don't Be Afraid, Gringo: A Honduran Woman Speaks from the Heart ↗
by Elvia Alvarado
Honduras
The Door ↗
by Magda Szabo
Hungary
From the Mouth of the Whale ↗
by Sjón
Iceland
The God of Small Things ↗
by Arundhati Roy
India
Family Life ↗
by Akhil Sharma
India
Gora ↗
by Rabindranath Tagore
India
White Tiger ↗
by Aravind Adiga
India
A Fine Balance ↗
by Rohinton Mistry
India
Midnight's Children ↗
by Salman Rushdie
India
A Burning ↗
by Megha Majumdar
India
Nectar in a Sieve ↗
by Kamala Markandaya
India
The Far Field ↗
by Madhuri Vijay
India
Beauty Is a Wound ↗
by Eka Kurniawan
Indonesia
This Earth of Mankind ↗
by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Indonesia
Home ↗
by Leila S Chudori
Indonesia
The Complete Persepolis ↗
by Marjane Satrapi
Iran
Frankenstein in Baghdad ↗
by Ahmed Saadawi
Iraq
Milkman ↗
by Anna Burns
Ireland
Normal People ↗
by Sally Rooney
Ireland
The Country Girls ↗
by Edna O'Brien
Ireland
The Heart's Invisible Furies ↗
by John Boyne
Ireland
To the End of the Land ↗
by David Grossman
Israel
The Days of Abandonment ↗
by Elena Ferrante
Italy
The Mother and the Priest ↗
by Grazia Deledda
Italy
The Solitude of Prime Numbers ↗
by Paolo Giordano
Italy
A Girl Returned ↗
by Donatella Di Pietrantonio
Italy
Family Lexicon ↗
by Natalia Ginzburg
Italy
A Brief History of Seven Killings ↗
by Marlon James
Jamaica
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ↗
by Haruki Murakami
Japan
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids ↗
by Kenzaburō Ōe
Japan
Snow Country ↗
by Yasunari Kawabata
Japan
Kitchen ↗
by Banana Yoshimoto
Japan
Heaven ↗
by Mieko Kawakami
Japan
Pillars of Salt ↗
by Fadia Faqir
Jordan
The Dead Wander in the Desert ↗
by Rollan Seisenbayev
Kazakhstan
A Grain of Wheat ↗
by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Kenya
Bolla ↗
by Pajtim Statovci
Kosovo
An Unlasting Home ↗
by Mai Al-Nakib
Kuwait
Jamilia ↗
by Chingiz Aïtmatov
Kyrgyzstan
Dia's Story Cloth ↗
by Dia Cha
Laos
High Tide ↗
by Inga Abele
Latvia
De Niro's Game ↗
by Rawi Hage
Lebanon
The Dragons, The Giant, The Women ↗
by Wayétu Moore
Liberia
In the Country of Men ↗
by Hisham Matar
Libya
Silva Rerum
by Kristina Sabaliauskaitė
Lithuania
The Pleasure of Drowning ↗
by Jean Bürlesk
Luxembourg
A Spare Life ↗
by Lidija Dimkovska
Macedonia
Beyond the Rice Fields ↗
by Naivo
Madagascar
The Jive Talker: Or How to Get a British Passport
by Samson Kambalu
Malawi
The Garden of Evening Mists ↗
by Tan Twan Eng
Malaysia
The Fortunes of Wangrin
by Amadou Hampâté Bâ
Mali
In the Name of the Father ↗
by Immanuel Mifsud
Malta
The Desert and the Drum ↗
by Mbarek Ould Beyrouk
Mauritania
Eve Out of Her Ruins ↗
by Ananda Devi
Mauritius
Hurricane Season ↗
by Fernanda Melchor
Mexico
The Story of My Teeth ↗
by Valeria Luiselli
Mexico
The Labyrinth of Solitude ↗
by Octavio Paz
Mexico
The Death of Artemio Cruz ↗
by Carlos Fuentes
Mexico
I'll Sell You a Dog ↗
by Juan Pablo Villalobos
Mexico
The Good Life Elsewhere ↗
by Vladimir Lorchenkov
Moldova
The Blue Sky ↗
by Galsan Tschinag
Mongolia
Catherine the Great and the Small ↗
by Olja Knezevic
Montenegro
This Blinding Absence of Light ↗
by Tahar Ben Jelloun
Morocco
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits ↗
by Laila Lalami
Morocco
Sleepwalking Land ↗
by Mia Couto
Mozambique
Letters from Burma ↗
by Aung San Suu Kyi
Myanmar [Burma]
The Purple Violet of Oshaantu
by Neshani Andreas
Namibia
Arresting God in Kathmandu ↗
by Samrat Upadhyay
Nepal
The Diary of a Young Girl ↗
by Anne Frank
Netherlands
The Luminaries ↗
by Eleanor Catton
New Zealand
The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War ↗
by Gioconda Belli
Nicaragua
Sarraounia
by Abdoulaye Mamani
Niger
The Death of Vivek Oji ↗
by Akwaeke Emezi
Nigeria
Things Fall Apart ↗
by Chinua Achebe
Nigeria
Ake ↗
by Wole Soyinka
Nigeria
Americanah ↗
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nigeria
The Famished Road ↗
by Ben Okrie
Nigeria
A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea ↗
by Masaji Ishikawa
North Korea
My Struggle, Book One ↗
by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Norway
The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am ↗
by Kjersti A. Skomsvold
Norway
Out Stealing Horses ↗
by Per Petterson
Norway
Kristin Lavransdatter Trilogy ↗
by Sigrid Undset
Norway
Celestial Bodies ↗
by Jokha Alharthi
Oman
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders ↗
by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Pakistan
I Am Malala ↗
by Malala Yousafzai
Pakistan
The Crocodile
by Vincent Eri
Papua New Guinea
I The Supreme ↗
by Augusto Roa Bastos
Paraguay
A World for Julius
by Alfredo Bryce Echenique
Peru
The Feast of the Goat ↗
by Mario Vargas Llosa
Peru
Ilustrado ↗
by Miguel Syjuco
Philippines
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead ↗
by Olga Tokarczuk
Poland
Here ↗
by Wisława Szymborska
Poland
Swallowing Mercury ↗
by Wioletta Greg
Poland
The Natural Order of Things ↗
by António Lobo Antunes
Portugal
The Migrant Painter of Birds
by Lídia Jorge
Portugal
The Implacable Order of Things ↗
by José Luís Peixoto
Portugal
The Girl Who Fell to Earth ↗
by Sophia Al-Maria
Qatar
The Appointment ↗
by Herta Müller
Romania
Maidenhair ↗
by Mikhail Shishkin
Russia
The Slynx ↗
by Tatyana Tolstaya
Russia
Between Dog and Wolf ↗
by Sasha Sokolov
Russia
Day of the Oprichnik ↗
by Vladimir Sorokin
Russia
Oblivion ↗
by Sergei Lebedev
Russia
Other Russias ↗
by Victoria Lomasko
Russia
Our Lady of the Nile ↗
by Scholastique Mukasonga
Rwanda
Omeros ↗
by Derek Walcott
Saint Lucia
The Moon is Following Me
by Cecil Browne
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Where We Once Belonged ↗
by Sia Figiel
Samoa
Girls of Riyadh ↗
by Rajaa Alsanea
Saudi Arabia
Xala ↗
by Ousmane Sembene
Senegal
The Tiger's Wife ↗
by Téa Obreht
Serbia
Voices
by Glynn Burridge
Seychelles
Radiance of Tomorrow ↗
by Ishmael Beah
Sierra Leone
Crazy Rich Asians ↗
by Kevin Kwan
Singapore
Seeing People Off ↗
by Jana Beňová
Slovakia
Galley Slave ↗
by Drago Jancar
Slovenia
Maps ↗
by Nuruddin Farah
Somalia
Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood ↗
by Trevor Noah
South Africa
Long Walk to Freedom ↗
by Nelson Mandela
South Africa
The Woman Next Door ↗
by Yewande Omotoso
South Africa
July's People ↗
by Nadine Gordimer
South Africa
Disgrace ↗
by J. M. Coetzee
South Africa
The Vegetarian ↗
by Han Kang
South Korea
Human Acts ↗
by Han Kang
South Korea
Please Look After Mom ↗
by Kyung-Sook Shin
South Korea
I Have the Right to Destroy Myself ↗
by Young-Ha Kim
South Korea
At Least We Can Apologize ↗
by Lee Ki-Ho
South Korea
Tongue
by Jo Kyung-ran
South Korea
No More Betrayals ↗
by Apuk Ayuel Mayen
South Sudan
Cathedral of the Sea ↗
by Ildefonso Falcones
Spain
The Winterlings ↗
by Cristina Sánchez-Andrade
Spain
Nada ↗
by Carmen Laforet
Spain
The Dinner Guest ↗
by Gabriela Ybarra
Spain
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida ↗
by Shehan Karunatilaka
Sri Lanka
Season of Migration to the North ↗
by Tayeb Salih
Sudan
Free Negress Elisabeth ↗
by Cynthia McLeod
Suriname
When the Ground is Hard ↗
by Malla Nunn
Swaziland
Let the Right One In ↗
by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Sweden
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared ↗
by Jonas Jonasson
Sweden
The Saga of Gosta Berling ↗
by Selma Lagerlöf
Sweden
Sweet Days of Discipline ↗
by Fleur Jaeggy
Switzerland
No Knives in the Kitchens of This City ↗
by Khaled Khalifa
Syria
Notes of a Crocodile ↗
by Qiu Miaojin
Taiwan
Afterlives ↗
by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Tanzania
Bangkok Wakes to Rain ↗
by Pitchaya Sudbanthad
Thailand
The Crossing: A Story of East Timor
by Luís Cardoso
Timor-Leste
An African in Greenland ↗
by Tété-Michel Kpomassie
Togo
A House for Mr. Biswas ↗
by V. S. Naipaul
Trinidad and Tobago
The Ardent Swarm ↗
by Yamen Manai
Tunisia
My Name Is Red ↗
by Orhan Pamuk
Turkey
The Tale of Aypi ↗
by Ak Welsapar
Turkmenistan
Kintu ↗
by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Uganda
Grey Bees ↗
by Andrey Kurkov
Ukraine
Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex ↗
by Oksana Zabuzhko
Ukraine
Voroshilovgrad ↗
by Serhiy Zhadan
Ukraine
Temporary People ↗
by Deepak Unnikrishnan
United Arab Emirates
The Remains of the Day ↗
by Kazuo Ishiguro
United Kingdom
The Golden Notebook ↗
by Doris Lessing
United Kingdom
White Teeth ↗
by Zadie Smith
United Kingdom
Orlando ↗
by Virginia Woolf
United Kingdom
The Sea, The Sea ↗
by Iris Murdoch
United Kingdom
Girl, Woman, Other ↗
by Bernardine Evaristo
United Kingdom
Bring Up the Bodies ↗
by Hilary Mantel
United Kingdom
Shuggie Bain ↗
by Douglas Stuart
United Kingdom
The Trick Is to Keep Breathing ↗
by Janice Galloway
United Kingdom
Go Tell it on the Mountain ↗
by James Baldwin
United States
The Joy Luck Club ↗
by Amy Tan
United States
The Sympathizer ↗
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
United States
Idaho ↗
by Emily Ruskovich
United States
The Underground Railroad ↗
by Colson Whitehead
United States
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter ↗
by Carson McCullers
United States
The Good Lord Bird ↗
by James McBride
United States
Salvage the Bones ↗
by Jesmyn Ward
United States
Ceremony ↗
by Leslie Marmon Silko
United States
Middlesex ↗
by Jeffrey Eugenides
United States
Gilead ↗
by Marilynne Robinson
United States
Lincoln in the Bardo ↗
by George Saunders
United States
The Known World ↗
by Edward P Jones
United States
Angels in America ↗
by Tony Kushner
United States
We Have Always Lived in the Castle ↗
by Shirley Jackson
United States
Man Gone Down ↗
by Michael Thomas
United States
My Antonia ↗
by Willa Cather
United States
American Indian Stories ↗
by Zitkala-Sa
United States
Where'd You Go, Bernadette ↗
by Maria Semple
United States
The Lathe of Heaven ↗
by Ursula K. Le Guin
United States
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh ↗
by Michael Chabon
United States
Olive Kitteridge ↗
by Elizabeth Strout
United States
The Book of Unknown Americans ↗
by Cristina Henríquez
United States
Where We Come From ↗
by Oscar Cásares
United States
The Liar's Club ↗
by Mary Karr
United States
Beloved ↗
by Toni Morrison
United States
The Orchid Thief ↗
by Susan Orlean
United States
Florida ↗
by Lauren Groff
United States
The Violent Bear It Away ↗
by Flannery O'Connor
United States
The Snow Child ↗
by Eowyn Ivey
United States
The Good Earth ↗
by Pearl Buck
United States
Tarantula ↗
by Bob Dylan
United States
The Wild Iris ↗
by Louise Glück
United States
The Naked Woman ↗
by Armonía Somers
Uruguay
The Railway ↗
by Hamid Ismailov
Uzbekistan
It Would Be Night in Caracas ↗
by Karina Sainz Borgo
Venezuela
The Mountains Sing ↗
by Mai Phan Que Nguyen
Vietnam
A Land Without Jasmine
by Wajdi Al-Ahdal
Yemen
The Old Drift ↗
by Namwali Serpell
Zambia
Nervous Conditions ↗
by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Zimbabwe
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight ↗
by Alexandra Fuller
Zimbabwe