Around the World in 80 Books discussion
ATW in 80 Books World Challenge
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Mome_Rath - Circumnavigator
1. United StatesRegion: North America
The Chosen by Chaim Potok, 2006
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead, 2007
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 2008
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway, 2008
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, 2009
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2009
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, 2009
Selected Poems by E.E. Cummings, 2009
East of Eden by John Steinbeck, 2010
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, 2010
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, 2010
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, 2010
Beloved by Toni Morrison, 2010
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, 2010
The Call of the Wild by Jack London, 2011
White Fang by Jack London, 2011
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, 2011
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner, 2011
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, 2011
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, 2012
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 2012
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 2012
The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 2012
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, 2013
My Ántonia by Willa Cather, 2013
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather, 2013
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather, 2013
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow, 2013
Moby Dick by Herman Melville, 2014
Billy Budd and Other Tales by Herman Melville, 2014
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy, 2014
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, 2014
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson, 2015
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow, 2015
Herzog by Saul Bellow, 2015
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger, 2015
The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos, 2016
1919 by John Dos Passos, 2016
The Big Money by John Dos Passos, 2016
The Robber Bridegroom by Eudora Welty, 2017
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty, 2017
Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty, 2017
English Creek by Ivan Doig, 2018
Dancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig, 2018
Ride With Me, Mariah Montana by Ivan Doig, 2018
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, 2019
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, 2019
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, 2019
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, 2020
The Maze at Windermere by Gregory Blake Smith, 2020
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, 2020
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon, 2020
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, 2020
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, 2020
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis, 2020
The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper, 2021
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, 2021
The First Four Books of Poems by Louise Glück, 2021
The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 2021
The Color Purple by Alice Walker, 2022
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, 2022
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, 2022
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, 2022
Home by Marilynne Robinson, 2022
A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold, 2022
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka, 2023
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, 2023
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 2023
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown, 2023
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth, 2023
The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth, 2023
American Pastoral by Philip Roth, 2023
Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton, 2023
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, 2023
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin, 2024
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, 2024
West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge, 2024
There There by Tommy Orange, 2024
The Sellout by Paul Beatty, 2025
Washington Square by Henry James, 2025
2. BotswanaRegion: Africa
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith, 2006
Cry of the Kalahari by Mark Owens, 2019
A Carrion Death by Michael Stanley, 2021
3. RussiaRegion: Europe
The Winter Queen: A Novel by Boris Akunin, 2006
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, 2007
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 2008
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, 2013
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, 2013
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov, 2014
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 2014
Pushkin Hills by Sergei Dovlatov, 2014
And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov, 2015
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, 2016
Where the Jews Aren't: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region by Masha Gessen, 2017
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 2018
Five Plays: Ivanov / The Seagull / Uncle Vanya / The Three Sisters / The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, 2019
The Trans-Siberian Express by Victor Kuranov, 2021
The Big Green Tent by Lyudmila Ulitskaya, 2022
Brief Loves That Live Forever by Andreï Makine, 2024
Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva, 2024
4. CanadaRegion: North America
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston, 2006
The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe, 2007
The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro, 2010
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, 2011
O Canada: Travels in an Unknown Country by Jan Morris, 2013
Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat, 2013
Who Has Seen the Wind by W.O. Mitchell, 2013
The Hockey Sweater by Roch Carrier, 2013
The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy, 2014
Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro, 2014
Two Solitudes by Hugh MacLennan, 2015
Still Life by Louise Penny, 2015
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery, 2017
Terry Fox: His Story by Leslie Scrivener, 2017
This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki, 2018
Paul Up North by Michel Rabagliati, 2018
Sanaaq: An Inuit Novel by Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk, 2020
I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven, 2020
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx, 2022
Paying the Land by Joe Sacco, 2022
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede, 2022
Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat, 2023
5. AfghanistanRegion: Asia
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, 2006
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi, 2014
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, 2015
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini, 2018
Earth and Ashes by Atiq Rahimi, 2019
The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra, 2021
The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad, 2024
6. TurkeyRegion: Europe
Region: Asia
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk, 2006
Snow by Orhan Pamuk, 2009
The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin, 2015
Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk, 2017
The Architect's Apprentice by Elif Shafak, 2018
The Fisherman of Halicarnassus: The man who made Bodrum famous by Roger Williams, 2019
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk, 2019
Honor by Elif Shafak, 2019
The Stone Building and Other Places by Aslı Erdoğan, 2019
Memed, My Hawk by Yaşar Kemal, 2020
7. NigeriaRegion: Africa
The Famished Road by Ben Okri, 2006
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2010
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2014
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, 2015
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala, 2016
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta, 2017
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma, 2018
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite, 2020
Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor, 2022
Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka, 2023
On Ajayi Crowther Street by Elnathan John, 2023
Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole, 2025
8. ArgentinaRegion: Latin America (South America)
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges, 2006
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira, 2014
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges, 2015
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares, 2016
Martín Fierro by José Hernández, 2016
Facundo: Or, Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, 2017
The Seamstress and the Wind by César Aira, 2018
The Penguin Lessons by Tom Michell, 2019
The Scent of Buenos Aires by Hebe Uhart, 2022
Mort Cinder by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Alberto Breccia, 2023
Portrait of an Unknown Lady by María Gainza, 2023
Not a River by Selva Almada, 2024
9. ChileRegion: Latin America (South America)
The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda, 2006
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, 2007
Selected Poems by Gabriela Mistral, 2010
Inés of My Soul by Isabel Allende, 2014
Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra, 2017
Isla Negra by Pablo Neruda, 2018
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende, 2020
The Neruda Case by Roberto Ampuero, 2020
Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas by Roberto Bolaño, 2024
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende, 2024
10. AustraliaRegion: Oceania
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin, 2007
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey, 2012
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough, 2012
Voss by Patrick White, 2012
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton, 2012
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey, 2012
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay, 2012
My Brother Jack by George Johnston, 2012
The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women by Deborah J. Swiss, 2014
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute, 2017
I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak, 2017
Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood, 2018
Carpentaria by Alexis Wright, 2019
The Dry by Jane Harper, 2020
That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott, 2020
The Barrakee Mystery by Arthur W. Upfield, 2021
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf, 2022
Breath by Tim Winton, 2023
11. FranceRegion: Europe
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky, 2007
A Bag of Marbles by Joseph Joffo, 2008
The Thibaults by Roger Martin du Gard, 2013
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 2013
Candide by Voltaire, 2015
Missing Person by Patrick Modiano, 2016
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, 2017
Asterix the Gaul by René Goscinny, 2018
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, 2018
Three Shadows by Cyril Pedrosa, 2020
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, 2022
The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe: A novel by Romain Puértolas, 2023
Gigi and The Cat by Colette, 2023
Jellyfish Have No Ears by Adèle Rosenfeld, 2024
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas, 2025
The Black Notebook by Patrick Modiano, 2025
The President's Hat by Antoine Laurain, 2025
Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix, 2025
12. ItalyRegion: Europe
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 2007
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, 2009
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, 2013
The Almond Picker by Simonetta Agnello Hornby, 2016
The Adventures of Pinocchio: The Story of a Puppet by Carlo Collodi, 2017
The Dog Who Ate the Truffle: A Memoir of Stories and Recipes from Umbria by Suzanne Carreiro, 2018
The Infinity of Lists by Umberto Eco, 2019
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, 2019
The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri, 2019
The Art of the Publisher by Roberto Calasso, 2021
Three O'Clock in the Morning by Gianrico Carofiglio, 2021
The Rule of Saint Benedict by Benedict of Nursia, 2021
Nives by Sacha Naspini, 2021
Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions by Mario Giordano, 2022
Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo, 2024
I'm Not Scared by Niccolò Ammaniti, 2024
The Lion of Rora by Christos Gage, 2024
13. ChinaRegion: Asia
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 2007
War Trash by Ha Jin, 2009
God is Red: The Secret Story of How Christianity Survived and Flourished in Communist China by Liao Yiwu, 2012
Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong, 2014
Decoded by Mai Jia, 2014
Boxers by Gene Luen Yang, 2014
Saints by Gene Luen Yang, 2014
Red Sorghum by Mo Yan, 2015
The Three Kingdoms: The Sacred Oath by Luo Guanzhong, 2016
The Three Kingdoms: The Sleeping Dragon by Luo Guanzhong, 2016
The Three Kingdoms: Welcome The Tiger by Luo Guanzhong, 2016
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li, 2017
Rickshaw Boy by Lao She, 2018
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang, 2020
Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian, 2020
Cuisine Chinoise: Five Tales of Food and Life by Zao Dao, 2020
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, 2021
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos, 2022
Double Radiance: Poetry and Prose of Li Qingzhao by Li Qingzhao, 2022
The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa, 2022
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie, 2023
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham, 2023
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness by Alan Burgess, 2023
Concentric Circles by Yang Lian, 2024
The Last Quarter of the Moon by Chi Zijian, 2025
Waiting by Ha Jin, 2025
14. United KingdomRegion: Europe
England
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, pre-2006
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, pre-2006
The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers, 2007
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan, 2007
Atonement by Ian McEwan, 2007
Saturday by Ian McEwan, 2009
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, 2009
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C.S. Forester, 2010
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, 2010
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 2010
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, 2010
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, 2012
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, 2012
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes, 2012
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, 2013
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, 2013
Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare, 2014
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively, 2014
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel, 2014
The 39 Steps by John Buchan, 2014
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, 2015
Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare, 2015
Carry on, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse, 2015
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot, 2015
White Teeth by Zadie Smith, 2016
The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch, 2017
Richard III by William Shakespeare, 2017
Henry VIII by William Shakespeare, 2018
Richard II by William Shakespeare, 2019
Beowulf by Unknown, 2020
A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters, 2020
Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane, 2021
Watership Down by Richard Adams, 2021
Little Bee by Chris Cleave, 2023
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë, 2023
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, 2023
To Sir, With Love by E.R. Braithwaite, 2024
Redwall by Brian Jacques, 2024
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown, 2024
A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman, 2025
The Birth of Britain by Winston S. Churchill, 2025
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker, 2025
Regeneration by Pat Barker, 2025
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn, 2025
The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker, 2025
The War Poems by Siegfried Sassoon, 2025
Scotland
Selected Poems by Robert Burns, 2009
Waverley by Walter Scott, 2015
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, 2015
Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin, 2015
Alec Forbes of Howglen by George MacDonald, 2015
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark, 2019
Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Golden Samovar by Olga Wojtas, 2020
Wales
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn, 2014
The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The Original Edition by Dylan Thomas, 2014
The Matter of Wales: Epic Views of a Small Country by Jan Morris, 2022
Northern Ireland
Human Chain by Seamus Heaney, 2015
North by Seamus Heaney, 2015
An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor, 2015
Channel Islands
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, 2009
15. AlbaniaRegion: Europe
The Palace of Dreams by Ismail Kadare, 2007
The Three-Arched Bridge by Ismail Kadare, 2007
Broken April by Ismail Kadare, 2013
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare, 2019
Siege by Ismail Kadare, 2025
16. IndiaRegion: Asia
Haroun And The Sea Of Stories by Salman Rushdie, 2007
In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce, 2007
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, 2008
Kim by Rudyard Kipling, 2009
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 2009
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh, 2010
The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Named by John Keay, 2011
Gitanjali: Song Offerings by Rabindranath Tagore, 2011
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, 2013
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo, 2014
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, 2016
The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika by Sudraka, 2017
The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall, 2018
All Quiet in Vikaspuri by Sarnath Banerjee, 2018
Final Poems by Rabindranath Tagore, 2019
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, 2019
Kingfishers Catch Fire by Rumer Godden, 2019
A Collection of Kachári Folk-Tales and Rhymes by J.D. Anderson, 2020
Malgudi Days by R.K. Narayan, 2020
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai, 2021
A Burning by Megha Majumdar, 2021
Staying On by Paul Scott, 2021
The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan, 2022
Anandamath, or The Sacred Brotherhood by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, 2023
The House Next to the Factory by Sonal Kohli, 2025
17. PortugalRegion: Europe
All the Names by José Saramago, 2007
Blindness by José Saramago, 2008
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, 2012
The Elephant's Journey by José Saramago, 2018
Codex 632 by José Rodrigues dos Santos, 2020
The Maias by Eça de Queirós, 2022
18. JapanRegion: Asia
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, 2008
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, 2010
A Personal Matter by Kenzaburō Ōe, 2010
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa, 2013
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata, 2014
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami, 2014
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, 2015
The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami, 2015
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami, 2016
I Am a Cat by Sōseki Natsume, 2017
Out by Natsuo Kirino, 2018
Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima, 2019
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino, 2020
The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata, 2021
Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata, 2021Junko Takase
Silence by Shūsaku Endō, 2022
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, 2023
The Chibineko Kitchen by Yuta Takahashi, 2024
Building Waves by Taeko Tomioka, 2025
May You Have Delicious Meals by Junko Takase, 2025
19. EgyptRegion: Africa
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz, 2008
Palace of Desire by Naguib Mahfouz, 2008
Sugar Street by Naguib Mahfouz, 2008
Aunt Safiyya and the Monastery by Bahaa Taher, 2013
The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz, 2017
The Automobile Club of Egypt by Alaa Al Aswany, 2018
Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters, 2019
The Keys of Egypt: The Race to Crack the Hieroglyph Code by Lesley Adkins, 2019
The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif, 2019
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi, 2021
Beer in the Snooker Club by Waguih Ghali, 2022
20. ColombiaRegion: Latin America (South America)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, 2008
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, 2011
Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden, 2012
The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, 2017
The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, 2018
Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras, 2021
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez, 2023
Bochica by Carolina Flórez-Cerchiaro, 2025
21. South AfricaRegion: Africa
We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love by Jim Wooten, 2008
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton, 2008
The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer, 2008
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee, 2010
July's People by Nadine Gordimer, 2010
Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor, 2017
Child of the River by Irma Joubert, 2018
The Crooked Path by Irma Joubert, 2019
We Kiss Them With Rain by Futhi Ntshingila, 2019
Devil's Peak by Deon Meyer, 2020
The Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee, 2021Shevlyn Mottai
Mandela and the General by John Carlin, 2021
A Dry White Season by André Brink, 2022
Islands by Dan Sleigh, 2023
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela, 2024
Across the Kala Pani by Shevlyn Mottai, 2025
The Promise by Damon Galgut, 2025
22. PakistanRegion: Asia
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson, 2008
A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif, 2013
Between Clay and Dust by Musharraf Ali Farooqi, 2017
The House Of Fear by Ibn-e-Safi, 2018
The Crow Eaters by Bapsi Sidhwa, 2019
Written in the Stars by Aisha Saeed, 2020
The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad, 2023
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid, 2023
When the Fireflies Dance by Aisha Hassan, 2025
24. NorwayRegion: Europe
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson, 2009
The Wreath by Sigrid Undset, 2016
The Wife by Sigrid Undset, 2016
The Cross by Sigrid Undset, 2016
Hunger by Knut Hamsun, 2017
A Doll's House: And Two Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen by Henrik Ibsen, 2018
The World's Most Prestigious Prize: The Inside Story of the Nobel Peace Prize by Geir Lundestad, 2023
Peer Gynt : A Dramatic Poem by Henrik Ibsen, 2023
Blood on Snow by Jo Nesbø, 2024
The Bell in the Lake by Lars Mytting, 2024
The Reindeer Hunters by Lars Mytting, 2025
25. GermanyRegion: Europe
Faust: First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, pre-2006
Night by Elie Wiesel, 2009
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann, 2011
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson, 2012
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass, 2014
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, 2015
Michael Kohlhaas: A Tale from an Old Chronicle by Heinrich von Kleist, 2017
The Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse, 2018
Irmina by Barbara Yelin, 2019
Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner, 2024
26. New ZealandRegion: Oceania
Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story by Christina Thompson, 2009
The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield, 2010
The Bone People by Keri Hulme, 2010
The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera, 2010
Died In The Wool by Ngaio Marsh, 2013
Colour Scheme by Ngaio Marsh, 2014
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, 2014
Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff, 2017
Vintage Murder by Ngaio Marsh, 2018
In the Land of the Long White Cloud by Sarah Lark, 2021
Auē by Becky Manawatu, 2024
Prelude by Katherine Mansfield, 2025
27. IranRegion: Middle East (Asia)
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi, 2009
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return, by Marjane Satrapi, 2010
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyám, 2012
The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat, 2014
Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran by Azadeh Moaveni, 2017
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer, 2018
The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali, 2021
Seasons of Purgatory by Shahriar Mandanipour, 2022
Gold by Rumi, 2023
28. SamoaRegion: Oceania
Leaves of the Banyan Tree by Albert Wendt, 2009
Telesa - The Covenant Keeper by Lani Wendt Young, 2017
29. IndonesiaRegion: Asia
This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 2010
Child of All Nations by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 2010
Footsteps by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 2010
House of Glass by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 2010
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester, 2010
The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermoût, 2018
The Rainbow Troops by Andrea Hirata, 2019
The Girl from the Coast by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 2020
Coconut & Sambal: Recipes from my Indonesian Kitchen by Lara Lee, 2021
Beauty Is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan, 2023
30. RomaniaRegion: Europe
Nadirs by Herta Müller, 2010
The Land of Green Plums by Herta Müller, 2010
In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond by Robert D. Kaplan, 2019
Mihai Eminescu: Poezii alese / Selected Poems by Mihai Eminescu, 2020
31. PhilippinesRegion: Asia
Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal, 2010
Ermita: A Filipino Novel by F. Sionil José, 2017
The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical Gothic by Nick Joaquín, 2020
Smaller and Smaller Circles by F.H. Batacan, 2021
After Lambana: A Graphic Novel: Myth and Magic in Manila by Eliza Victoria, 2023
32. AlgeriaRegion: Africa
The Stranger by Albert Camus, 2010
The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud, 2017
Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 2017
The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar, 2018
Children of the New World by Assia Djebar, 2018
Confessions of Saint Augustine by Augustine of Hippo, 2020
The Bridges of Constantine by Ahlam Mosteghanemi, 2020
Our Riches by Kaouther Adimi, 2021
33. South KoreaRegion: Asia
Waiting for Mama by Tae-Jun Lee, 2010
Your Republic Is Calling You by Young-Ha Kim, 2011
Seesaw Girl by Linda Sue Park, 2017
The Color of Earth by Kim Dong Hwa, 2018
The Story of Hong Gildong by Unknown, 2019
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-mi Hwang, 2019
The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong, 2019
At Dusk by Hwang Sok-yong, 2020
The Vegetarian by Han Kang, 2020
Uncomfortably Happily by Yeon-Sik Hong, 2021
Untold Night and Day by Bae Suah, 2021
Please Look After Mom by Shin Kyung-sook, 2022
The Plotters by Kim Un-su, 2023
Human Acts by Han Kang, 2024
34. BrazilRegion: Latin America (South America)
Epitaph of a Small Winner by Machado de Assis, 2010
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard, 2010
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann, 2010
Brazil on the Rise: The Story of a Country Transformed by Larry Rohter, 2011
Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis, 2013
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado, 2017
Daytripper by Fábio Moon, 2018
The Silence of the Rain by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza, 2018
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector, 2019
Blood of the Wicked by Leighton Gage, 2020
Two Brothers by Fábio Moon, 2021
The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel, 2023
The Spies by Luis Fernando Verissimo, 2024
Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior, 2024
All Dogs Are Blue by Rodrigo de Souza Leão, 2025
36. IrelandRegion: Europe
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, 2010
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle, 2015
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift, 2015
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, 2015
Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy, 2015
The Heather Blazing by Colm Tóibín, 2015
Ulysses by James Joyce, 2015
Selected Poems and Four Plays by W.B. Yeats, 2015
Troubles by J.G. Farrell, 2015
The Sea by John Banville, 2017
A Slanting of the Sun by Donal Ryan, 2018
The Counsels of Cormac: An Ancient Irish Guide to Leadership by Thomas Cleary, 2019
Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy, 2021
The Gathering by Anne Enright, 2021
Orchid & the Wasp by Caoilinn Hughes, 2023
37. Marshall IslandsRegion: Oceania
The Atomic Times: My H-Bomb Year at the Pacific Proving Ground by Michael Harris, 2010
38. North KoreaRegion: Asia
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle, 2010
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick, 2011
The Ginseng Hunter by Jeff Talarigo, 2011
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite by Suki Kim, 2015
The Waiting by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, 2023
39. UgandaRegion: Africa
Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda's Children by Faith J.H. McDonnell, 2010
The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden, 2014
Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol by Okot p'Bitek, 2014
Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption by Katie J. Davis, 2014
A Distant Grief: The Real Story Behind the Martyrdom of Christians in Uganda by F. Kefa Sempangi, 2014
War Brothers: The Graphic Novel by Sharon E. McKay, 2018
Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, 2021
BONUS: AntarcticaRegion: Antarctica
See Message 136
40. LebanonRegion: Middle East
The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine, 2011
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, 2015
Balthasar's Odyssey by Amin Maalouf, 2021
A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return: Expanded Edition by Zeina Abirached, 2022
41. Sri LankaRegion: Asia
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje, 2011
July by Karen Roberts, 2013
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala, 2014
The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam, 2017
Madol Doova by Martin Wickramasinghe, 2020
Trouble in Nuala by Harriet Steel, 2020
A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam, 2024
Noontide Toll by Romesh Gunesekera, 2025
42. Papua New GuineaRegion: Oceania
Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea by Kira Salak, 2011
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones, 2016
Paper Lady by Judith Hollinshed, 2018
43. EthiopiaRegion: Africa
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese, 2011
Queen of Flowers and Pearls by Gabriella Ghermandi, 2017
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste, 2020
46. MexicoRegion: North America
The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings by Octavio Paz, 2012
The Orange Tree by Carlos Fuentes, 2014
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, 2015
Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea, 2016
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, 2017
The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes, 2017
The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela, 2018
La Perdida by Jessica Abel, 2019
The Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera, 2020
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. Traven, 2021
Home Reading Service by Fabio Morábito, 2022
47. PeruRegion: Latin America (South America)
The Green House by Mario Vargas Llosa, 2012
The Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrie, 2014
Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa, 2017
Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcón, 2018
48. ThailandRegion: Asia
Killed at the Whim of a Hat by Colin Cotterill, 2012
The Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle, 2012
Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap, 2015
Bangkok Wakes to Rain by Pitchaya Sudbanthad, 2019
Arid Dreams by Duanwad Pimwana, 2019
Bright by Duanwad Pimwana, 2023
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Index of Countries:
Africa: (43)
Algeria (Page 1)
Angola (Page 3)
Benin (Page 3)
Botswana (Page 1)
Burkina Faso (Page 4)
Cameroon (Page 2)
Central African Republic (Page 4)
Comoros (Page 4)
Congo (Page 3)
Côte d'Ivoire (Page 3)
Democratic Republic of Congo (Page 1)
Djibouti (Page 4)
Egypt (Page 1)
Equatorial Guinea (Page 4)
Eritrea (Page 4)
Ethiopia (Page 1)
Gabon (Page 4)
The Gambia (Page 4)
Ghana (Page 3)
Guinea (Page 3)
Kenya (Page 2)
Lesotho (Page 4)
Liberia (Page 4)
Libya (Page 3)
Madagascar (Page 2)
Malawi (Page 4)
Mauritius (Page 4)
Morocco (Page 2)
Mozambique (Page 3)
Namibia (Page 4)
Nigeria (Page 1)
Rwanda (Page 2)
Senegal (Page 3)
Seychelles (Page 4)
Sierra Leone (Page 2)
Somalia (Page 2)
South Africa (Page 1)
Sudan (Page 2)
Tanzania (Page 3)
Tunisia (Page 3)
Uganda (Page 1)
Zambia (Page 4)
Zimbabwe (Page 2)
Europe: (45)
Albania (Page 1)
Andorra (Page 2)
Austria (Page 2)
Azerbaijan (Page 2)
Belarus (Page 3)
Belgium (Page 2)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (Page 4)
Croatia (Page 3)
Cyprus (Page 4)
Czech Republic (Page 2)
Denmark (Page 2)
Estonia (Page 4)
Faroe Islands (Page 4)
Finland (Page 2)
France (Page 1)
Germany (Page 1)
Greece (Page 2)
Hungary (Page 2)
Iceland (Page 3)
Ireland (Page 1)
Italy (Page 1)
Latvia (Page 4)
Liechtenstein (Page 2)
Lithuania (Page 4)
Luxembourg (Page 3)
Malta (Page 3)
Moldova (Page 3)
Monaco (Page 3)
Montenegro (Page 4)
Netherlands (Page 2)
North Macedonia (Page 4)
Norway (Page 1)
Poland (Page 2)
Portugal (Page 1)
Romania (Page 1)
Russia (Page 1)
San Marino (Page 2)
Serbia (Page 3)
Slovenia (Page 3)
Spain (Page 2)
Sweden (Page 2)
Switzerland (Page 3)
Ukraine (Page 2)
United Kingdom (Page 1)
Vatican City (Page 3)
Middle East: (13)
Bahrain (Page 4)
Iran (Page 1)
Iraq (Page 2)
Israel (Page 2)
Jordan (Page 2)
Kuwait (Page 3)
Lebanon (Page 1)
Oman (Page 4)
Palestine (Page 3)
Saudi Arabia (Page 2)
Syria (Page 2)
United Arab Emirates (Page 2)
Yemen (Page 3)
Asia: (24)
Afghanistan (Page 1)
Bangladesh (Page 3)
Cambodia (Page 3)
China (Page 1)
India (Page 1)
Indonesia (Page 1)
Japan (Page 1)
Kazakhstan (Page 3)
Kyrgyzstan (Page 3)
Laos (Page 1)
Malaysia (Page 2)
Nepal (Page 2)
North Korea (Page 1)
Pakistan (Page 1)
Philippines (Page 1)
Singapore (Page 2)
South Korea (Page 1)
Sri Lanka (Page 1)
Taiwan (Page 4)
Thailand (Page 1)
Turkey (Page 1)
Turkmenistan (Page 4)
Uzbekistan (Page 4)
Vietnam (Page 2)
Oceania: (16)
Australia (Page 1)
Fiji (Page 3)
French Polynesia (Page 3)
Kiribati (Page 3)
Marshall Islands (Page 1)
Micronesia (Page 3)
Nauru (Page 2)
New Zealand (Page 1)
Palau (Page 4)
Papua New Guinea (Page 1)
Pitcairn Island (Page 4)
Samoa (Page 1)
Solomon Islands (Page 4)
Tonga (Page 1)
Tuvalu (Page 2)
Vanuatu (Page 3)
North America: (2)
Canada (Page 1)
United States (Page 1)
Latin America: (19)
Argentina (Page 1)
Belize (Page 4)
Bolivia (Page 4)
Brazil (Page 1)
Chile (Page 1)
Colombia (Page 1)
Costa Rica (Page 3)
Ecuador (Page 2)
El Salvador (Page 3)
Guatemala (Page 1)
Guyana (Page 4)
Honduras (Page 2)
Mexico (Page 1)
Nicaragua (Page 2)
Panama (Page 3)
Paraguay (Page 3)
Peru (Page 1)
Uruguay (Page 2)
Venezuela (Page 2)
Caribbean: (14)
Antigua and Barbuda (Page 2)
Bahamas (Page 4)
Barbados (Page 4)
Cuba (Page 3)
Dominica (Page 2)
Dominican Republic (Page 3)
Grenada (Page 3)
Guadeloupe (Page 4)
Haiti (Page 3)
Jamaica (Page 2)
Puerto Rico (Page 4)
Saint Lucia (Page 2)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Page 4)
Trinidad and Tobago (Page 2)
Antarctica: (1)
Antarctica (Page 3)