| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Life on Books Read the World List | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | Follow us on Instagram | Subscribe on YouTube | Listen to our Podcast | ||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Country | NonFiction | Fiction | Classic | About/History | ||||||||||||||||||
5 | Afghanistan | Opium Nation by Fariba Nawa | A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini | A Nobleman from Khorasan | The Places in Between by Rory Stewart | ||||||||||||||||||
6 | Albania | Free by Lea Ypi | Sworn Virgin by Elvira Dones | General of the Dead Army by Ismail Kadare | Mud Sweeter Than Honey by Margo Rejmer | ||||||||||||||||||
7 | Algeria | Algerian White by Assia Djebar | A Bookshop in Algiers by Kaouther Adimi | Nedjma by Kateb Yacine | A Savage War of Peace by Alistair Home | ||||||||||||||||||
8 | Andorra | The Teacher of Cheops by ALbert Salvado | |||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Angola | A General Theory of Oblivion by Jose Eduardo Agualusa | Another Day of Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski | ||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Antigua and Barbuda | A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid | Unburnable by Marie Elena John | Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | Argentina | Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number by Jocobo Timerman | Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin | Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges | And the Money Kept Rolling In by Paul blustein | ||||||||||||||||||
12 | Armenia | Armenian Golgotha by Grigoris Balakian | Three Apples Fell from the Sky by Narine Abgrayan | The Fool by Raffi | The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel | ||||||||||||||||||
13 | Australia | The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes | Cloudstreet by Tim Winton | My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin | The Dig Tree by Sarah Murgatroyd | ||||||||||||||||||
14 | Austria | The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig | The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek | Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig | The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig | ||||||||||||||||||
15 | Azerbaijan | Stone Dreams by Akram Aylisli | Ali and Nino by Kurban Said | Azerbaijan Diary by Thomas Goltz | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | Bahamas | Greenland by David Santos Donaldson | Zami: A New Spelling of my Name | A History of the Bahamas by Michael Craton | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | Bahrain | A Bahraini's Life Journey by Ali Al Shihabi | QuixoteQ by Ali Al Saeed | Bahrain: Political Development in a Modernizing Society by Emilie Nakhleh | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | Bangladesh | Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War | The Good Muslim by Tahima Anam | Lajja by Taslima Nasrin | The Blood Telegram by Gary J. Boss | ||||||||||||||||||
19 | Barbados | Growing up Stupid Under the Union Jack by Austin Clarke | Pictures of a Dying Man by Agymah Kamau | In the Castle of my Skin by George Lamming | A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes by Richard Ligon | ||||||||||||||||||
20 | Belarus | The Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich | Paranoia by Victor Martinovich | Alpine Ballad by Vasil Bykau | The Burning Edge by Arthur Chichester | ||||||||||||||||||
21 | Belgium | Congo: The Epic History of a People by David Van Reybrouck | The Misfortunates by Dimitri Verhulst | War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans | The Legend of the Glorious Advenures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Landers and elsewhere by Charles De Coster | A Tall Man in a Low Land by Harry Pearson | ||||||||||||||||||
22 | Belize | Beka Lamb by Zee Edgell | On Heroes, Lizards, and Passion by Zoila Ellis | The Last flight of the Scarlet Macaw by Bruce Barcott | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | Benin | As She was Discovering Tigony by Olympe Bhely-Quenum | The Dark Child by Camara Laye | The Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin | |||||||||||||||||||
24 | Bhutan | Treasures of the Thunder Dragon by Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck | The Circle of Karma by Kunzang Choden | The Hero with a Thousand Eyes by Karma Ura | Beyond the Sky and Earth by Jamie Zeppa | ||||||||||||||||||
25 | Bolivia | When Rains Became Floods by Lurgio Gavilan Sanchez | Affections by Rodrigo Hasbun | Juan De La Rosa by Nataniel Aguirre | Bolivar: American LIberator by Marie Arana | ||||||||||||||||||
26 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | My Heart by Semezdin Mehmedinovic | How the Soldier Repairs the Gramaphone by Sasa Stanisic | The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric | Bosnia: A Shorty History by Noel Malcolm | ||||||||||||||||||
27 | Botswana | Saturday is for Funerals by Unity Dow | Call and Response by Gothataone Moeng | A Question of Power by Bessie Head | Whatever You Do, Don't Run by Peter Allison | ||||||||||||||||||
28 | Brazil | Child of the Dark by Carolina Maria de Jesus | The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector | The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Machado De Assis | Brazil a Biography by Lila M. Scharcz and Heloisa M. Starling | ||||||||||||||||||
29 | Brunei | The Forlorn Adventure by Amir Falique | Brunei by Marie-Sybille de Vienne | ||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Bulgaria | Street Without a Name by Kakpa Kassabova | The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov | Under the Yoke by Ivan Vazov | The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova | ||||||||||||||||||
31 | Burkina Faso | Of Water and The Spirit by Malidoma Patrice Some | The Parachute Drop by Norbert Zongo | Thomas Sankara: An African Revolutionary by Ernest Harsch | |||||||||||||||||||
32 | Burundi | The Tears of a Man Flow Inward by Pacifique Irankunda | Baho! By Roland Rugero | Life After Violence by Peter Uvin | |||||||||||||||||||
33 | Cabo Verde | Return to My Native Land by Aime Cesaire | The Last Will and Testament of Senhor Da Silva Araujo | Chaquinho by Baltasar Lopes | Street Without a Name by Kapka Kassabova | ||||||||||||||||||
34 | Cambodia | First they Killed my Father by Loung Ung | When Broken Glass Floats by Chanrithy HIm | ||||||||||||||||||||
35 | Cameroon | Limbe to Lagos | How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue | The Story of the Madman by Mongo Beti | Man No Be God by Deiter Lemke | ||||||||||||||||||
36 | Canada | A Map to the Door of No Return by Dionne Brand | The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood | Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery | The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King | ||||||||||||||||||
37 | Central African Republic | Dancing in the Glory of Monsters by Jason Stearns | |||||||||||||||||||||
38 | Chad | Told by Starlight in Chad by Joseph Brahim Seid | |||||||||||||||||||||
39 | Chile | My Invented Country by Isabel Allende | When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut | The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende | Pinochet and Me by Marc Cooper | ||||||||||||||||||
40 | China | The Corpse Walker by Liao Yiwu | War Trash by Ha Jin | Monkey King by Wu Cheng'en | Last Boat out of Shanghai by Helen Zia | ||||||||||||||||||
41 | Colombia | News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez | One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | |||||||||||||||||||
42 | Comoros | The Kaffir of Karthala by Mohamed Toihiri | |||||||||||||||||||||
43 | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila | |||||||||||||||||||||
44 | Congo, Republic of the | The Lights of Point-Noire by Alain Mabanckou | Johnny Mad Dog by Emmanuel Dongala | ||||||||||||||||||||
45 | Costa Rica | Cadence of the Moon by Oscar Nunez Olivas | |||||||||||||||||||||
46 | Côte d'Ivoire | Allah is Not Obliged by Ahmadou Kourouma | |||||||||||||||||||||
47 | Croatia | The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugresic | |||||||||||||||||||||
48 | Cuba | Heretics by Leonardo Padura | |||||||||||||||||||||
49 | Cyprus | The Cypriot by Andreas Koumi | |||||||||||||||||||||
50 | Czech Republic | Angel Station by Jachym Topol | |||||||||||||||||||||
51 | Denmark | Borderliners by Peter Hoeg | |||||||||||||||||||||
52 | Djibouti | The United States of Africa by Abdourahman Waberi | |||||||||||||||||||||
53 | Dominica | Wide Sagrasso Sea by Jean Rhys | |||||||||||||||||||||
54 | Dominican Republic | Tentacle by Rita Indiana | |||||||||||||||||||||
55 | Ecuador | Jawbone by Monica Ojeda | |||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Egypt | Cairo Circles by Doma Mahmoud | |||||||||||||||||||||
57 | El Salvador | Senseless by Horacio Castellanos Moya | One Day of life by Manilo Argueta | ||||||||||||||||||||
58 | Equatorial Guinea | By Night the Mountain Burns by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel | |||||||||||||||||||||
59 | Eritrea | The Consequences of Love by Sulaiman Addonia | |||||||||||||||||||||
60 | Estonia | Sailing Against the Wind by Jaan Kross | |||||||||||||||||||||
61 | Eswatini | The Eternal Audience of One by Rémy Ngamije | |||||||||||||||||||||
62 | Ethiopia | The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste | |||||||||||||||||||||
63 | Fiji | Kava in the Blood by Peter Thomson | |||||||||||||||||||||
64 | Finland | The Man Who Died by Annti Tuomainen | |||||||||||||||||||||
65 | France | Resistance by Agnes Humbert | The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas | ||||||||||||||||||||
66 | Gabon | Mema by Daniel Mengara | |||||||||||||||||||||
67 | Gambia | Reading the Ceiling by Dayo Forster | |||||||||||||||||||||
68 | Georgia | The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili | A Man was Going Down the Road by Otar Chiladze | ||||||||||||||||||||
69 | Germany | All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque | |||||||||||||||||||||
70 | Ghana | Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi | |||||||||||||||||||||
71 | Greece | Zigzag Through the Bitter-Orange Trees by Ersi Sotiropoulos | Freedom or Death by Nikos Kazantzakis | ||||||||||||||||||||
72 | Grenada | A Stranger in the Citadel by Tobias Buckell | Angel by Merle Collins | ||||||||||||||||||||
73 | Guatemala | The Polish Boxer by Eduardo Halfon | |||||||||||||||||||||
74 | Guinea | The King of Kahel by Tierno Monénembo | |||||||||||||||||||||
75 | Guinea-Bissau | The Ultimate Tragedy by Abdulai Sila | |||||||||||||||||||||
76 | Guyana | The Ventriloquist’s Tale by Pauline Melville | The Palace of the Peacock by Wilson Harris | ||||||||||||||||||||
77 | Haiti | Moonbath by Yanick Lahens | Love, Anger, Madness by Marie Vieux-Chauvet | ||||||||||||||||||||
78 | Honduras | The Big Banana by Roberto Quesada | The Long Honduran Night by Dana Frank | ||||||||||||||||||||
79 | Hungary | Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb | The Melancholy of Resistance by Laszlo Kraznahorkai | ||||||||||||||||||||
80 | Iceland | History: A Mess by Sigrun Palsdottir | |||||||||||||||||||||
81 | India | The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee | The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy | ||||||||||||||||||||
82 | Indonesia | Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan | |||||||||||||||||||||
83 | Iran | Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi | To Keep the Sun Alive by Rabeah Ghaffari | ||||||||||||||||||||
84 | Iraq | Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi | |||||||||||||||||||||
85 | Ireland | The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce | ||||||||||||||||||||
86 | Israel | A Land Without Borders by Nir Baram | The Hilltop by Assaf Gavron | ||||||||||||||||||||
87 | Italy | If this is a Man by Primo Levi | My Stupid Intentions by Bernardo Zannoni | The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati | |||||||||||||||||||
88 | Jamaica | A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James | No Telephone in Heaven by Michelle Cliff | ||||||||||||||||||||
89 | Japan | My Annihilation by Fuminori Nakamura | No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai | ||||||||||||||||||||
90 | Jordan | The Bride of Amman by Fadi Zaghmout | |||||||||||||||||||||
91 | Kazakhstan | The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev | The Dead Wander in the Desert by Rollan Seisenbayev | ||||||||||||||||||||
92 | Kenya | One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina | The Dragonfly Sea by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor | Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o | |||||||||||||||||||
93 | Kiribati | Waa in Storms by Teweiariki Teaero | |||||||||||||||||||||
94 | Korea, North | Dear Leader by Jang Jin-Sung | The Accusation by Bandi | ||||||||||||||||||||
95 | Korea, South | 23 Things They Don't Tell you About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang | Human Acts by Han Kang | ||||||||||||||||||||
96 | Kosovo | The Time of Goats by Luan Strarova | |||||||||||||||||||||
97 | Kuwait | A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar | |||||||||||||||||||||
98 | Kyrgyzstan | The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years by Chingiz Aitmatov | |||||||||||||||||||||
99 | Laos | ||||||||||||||||||||||
100 | Latvia | High Tide by Inga Abele | |||||||||||||||||||||