Countries


The Kite Runner
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The House of the Spirits
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Blind Owl
Ali and Nino
Broken April
The Name of the Rose
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
For Your Eyes Only (James Bond, #8)
Homegoing
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
Minor Detail
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverWarleggan by Winston GrahamAssassin's Apprentice by Robin HobbHallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie
Favourites from 2017
88 books — 23 voters

Siberian Education by Nicolai LilinHunger by Knut HamsunVoices by Arnaldur IndriðasonGösta Berling's Saga by Selma LagerlöfThe Unknown Soldier by Väinö Linna
World Literature List - Europe
36 books — 2 voters
The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib MahfouzThe Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al AswanyTaxi by Khaled Al KhamissiNo One Sleeps in Alexandria by Ibrahim Abdel MeguidThe Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
English Books on Modern Egypt
179 books — 52 voters

Kim Ji-young, nacida en 1982 by Cho Nam-JooEl maestro de go by Yasunari KawabataUn mago de Terramar by Ursula K. Le GuinEl pájaro demoníaco y otros relatos fantásticos by Haruo SatōEl Libro de la Almohada by Sei Shōnagon
World Books English And Español
36 books — 1 voter
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertJourney to the West by Biao  Wang
Life in a Foreign Country
822 books — 432 voters

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
Aphra Behn

Richard Blanco
To love a country as if you’ve lost one: as if it were you on a plane departing from America forever, clouds closing like curtains on your country, the last scene in which you’re a madman scribbling the names of your favorite flowers, trees, and birds you’d never see again, your address and phone number you’d never use again, the color of your father’s eyes, your mother’s hair, terrified you could forget these. To love a country as if I was my mother last spring hobbling, insisting I help her cl ...more
Richard Blanco, How to Love a Country

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