Books Around The World

Hello, it is my goal to read books from authors from all over the world. These are books I have found in a library, not knowing anything about the authors. Some of these books I liked, and some, not so much. So far, I have read:

Afghanistan: The Honey Thief by Najaf Mazari (short stories of a people enduring difficulties)

Albania: Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History by Lea Ypi (the end of Communism in the Balkans)

Algeria (French): The Stranger by Albert Camus (a man drawn into murder)

American Samoa (U.S.A.)(Tutuila, Tau, Olosega, Ofu, Aunuu, Manu'a Islands, Rose Atoll, Swains Island): For Love of Country by Tulsi Gabbard

Andorra: New Description of the Principality and Valleys of Andorra by Albert Villaró

Angola: A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa

Anguilla: The Holy Piby by Robert Athlyi Rogers

Antigua and Barbuda: At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid (short stories, memories of childhood in the Caribbean)

Argentina: Eartheater by Delores Reyes

Armenia: Three Apples Fell from the Sky by Narine Abgaryan

Aruba: Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran

Australia: The Big History of Civilizations by Craig G. Benjamin (migration, innovation, social development)

Australia: Uses of Heritage by Laurajane Smith (case studies of Australia, U.S.A., Asia, and New Zealand--explores heritage use)

Austria: Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Austria: Night Duty by Melitta Breznik (a female doctor does an autopsy then looks at her dysfunctional family through the same type of detachment)

Azerbaijan: The End of Days by Zecharia Sitchin

Bahamas: Cornelius by Tanya R. Taylor

Bahrain: The Adult by Bronwyn Fischer

Bangladesh: A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam (About a mother's love for her children, 1971, war)

Barbados: Unraveling by Karen Lord

Belarus: Voices From Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich

Belgium: Brussels by André de Vries (culture, history, arts, and literature of Brussels, Belgium)

Belize:

Benin:

Bermuda (U.K.)

Bhutan:

Bolivia: Stranded by Ben Mikkelsen

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Call me Esteban by Lejla Kalamujić

Botswana:

Brazil: The Air You Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles (An orphan from a sugar plantation in the 1930s and her wealthy friend find themselves alone. Music is a theme)

British Virgin Islands:

Brunel:

Bulgaria: Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov 

Burkina Faso.

Burundi:

Cabo Verde:

Cambodia:

Cameroon:

Canada (First Nations): Dreaming in Indian by various authors, edited by Lisa Charleyboy (Tsilhquo'in)

Canada: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Canada: The Piano by Kate Pulling and Jane Campion (a woman and her young daughter, and her piano go from Scotland to a remote place in New Zealand in the 19th century)

Cape Verde:

Caribbean Netherlands:

Cayman Islands:

Central African Republic:

Chad:

Channel Islands (U.K.):

Chile: Ines of My Soul by Isabel Allende (events surrounding the founding of Chile)

China: Waiting by Ha Jin

Colombia: I'm Not Here to Give a Speech by Gabriel García Márquez

Comoros:

Congo:

Cook Islands (Partly New Zealand):

Côte d'Ivoire:

Costa Rica: Costa Rica by various authors, edited by Barbara Ras

Croatia:

Cuba: Selected Writings by José Julián Martí Pérez

Curaçao:

Cyprus:

Czech Republic (Czechia/Bohemia): The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Denmark: The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen

Djibouti: Transit by Abdourahman A. Waberi

Dominica:

Dominican Republic:

DR Congo:

Ecuador: The Spanish Daughter by Lorena Hughes. (historical family saga)

Egypt: A Certain Woman by Hala El Badry

El Salvador:

England: If These Walls Could Talk by Lucy Worsley

Equatorial Guinea:

Eritrea:

Estonia:

Eswatini:

Ethiopia: Notes from the Hyena's Belly by Nega Mezlekia (Life in Ethiopia in the 1970s and 1980s)

Faeroe Islands (Denmark):

Falkland Islands (U.K.):

Fiji:

Finland: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

France: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

French Guiana:

French Polynesia:

Gabon:

Gambia:

Georgia:

Germany: The Little French Bistro by Nina George (A German woman finds herself in Brittany, France)

Ghana: Tuesday's Child by Mary Ashun

Gibraltar (U.K.):

Greece: Plato's Crito by Plato

Greenland (Denmark): Last Night in Nuuk by Niviaq Korneliussen

Grenada:

Guadeloupe:

Guam (U.S.A.):

Guatemala:

Guinea: L'Enfant Noir by Camera Laye

Guinea-Bissau:

Guyana: Day Zero by Muneef Ahmad (A water crisis novel)

Haiti: Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat

Holy See:

Honduras:

Hong Kong (China):

Hungary:

Iceland: A Fist or a Heart by Kristin Eiriksdottir

Isle of Man (U.K.):

India: Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda

India: The Apple by Devashish Sardana

Indonesia:

Iran: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi (She defies convention. She teaches literature and relates it to events around her.)

Iraq: Chaldeans in Detroit by Jacob Bacall

Ireland: The Guardian Angel's Journal by Carolyn Jess-Cooke

Ireland: The Judge's House by Bram Stoker

Israel: Suddenly, a Knock on the Door by Etgar Keret (short stories about daily life)

Italy: The Mortal and Immortal Life of the Girl from Milan by Domenico Starnone

Jamaica: These Ghosts are Family by Maisy Card

Japan: Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Japan: 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

Jerusalem: Orientalism by Edward W. Said

Jordan:

Kazakhstan:

Kenya: Lwanda Magere and the Cave of Wonders by Fidel Namisi

Kiribati:

Korea: The Story of Hong Gildong translated by Minsoo Kang

Kuwait: Mama Hissa's Mice by Said Alsanousi

Kyrgyzstan (Central Asia): Jamila (a love story) by Chingiz Aitmatov

Laos:

Latvia:

Lebanon: The Story of Zahra by Hanan Al-Shaykh

Lesotho:

Liberia:

Libya:

Liechtenstein:

Lithuania: Beginning with My Streets: Essays and Recollections by Czeslaw Milosz

Luxembourg:

Macao (China):

Madagascar: Beyond the Rice Fields by Naivo

Malawi: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba (and Bryan Mealer)

Malaysia:

Maldives:

Mali:

Malta:

Marshall Islands:

Martinique:

Mauritania:

Mauritius:

Mayotte (France):

Mexico: How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems by Mikes Sanchez (Indigenous, Zoque)

Mexico: Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea

Mexico: Daughter of Fire by Sofia Robleda (1500s Guatemala)

Micronesia:

Moldova: All-Night Pharmacy by Ruth Madievsky

Monaco:

Mongolia:

Montenegro:

Montserrat:

Morocco:

Mozambique:

Myanmar:

Namibia:

Nauru:

Nepal:

Netherlands: D (A Tale of Two Worlds) by Michel Faber

New Caledonia (France):

New Zealand: The Piano by Jane Campion and Kate Pullinger

Nicaragua:

Niger:

Nigeria: Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe

Niue (Partly New Zealand):

Northern Ireland:

Northern Mariana Islands (U.S.A.):

North Korea: Passcode to the Third Floor by Thae Yong-Ho

North Macedonia:

Norway: Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder

Oman: Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi

Pakistan:

Palau (Micronesia):

Palestine: Palestinian Walks by Raja Shehadeh (A lawyer walks in his home of Ramallah, on the Palestinian West Bank and reflects on the land, family, and the Israeli settlers)

Panama:

Papua New Guinea (Melanesia):

Paraguay:

Peru: The Mystery of Capital by Hernando De Soto

Philippines: Fairest by Meredith Talusan (A Filipino man with Albinism moves to the U.S., goes to Harvard, and transitions into womanhood.)

Poland:

Portugal: Le conte de l'île inconnue by José Saramago

Puerto Rico: Harvest of Empire by Juan Gonzalez

Qatar: The Girl Who Fell to Earth by Sophia Al-Maria

Réunion (France):

Roma:

Romania: Adventures in Immediate Irreality by Max Blecher

Russia: Shadows and Light by Anton Chekhov

Rwanda:

Saint Helena (U.K.):

Saint Kitts & Nevis:

Saint Lucia:

Saint Pierre & Miquelon (France):

Samoa (Polynesia):

San Marino:

São Tomé & Principe:

Saudi Arabia:

Scotland: Across the Sea Beyond Skye, and But For Freedom, Book 2: Rebellious Echo of the White Cockade, by Elizabeth Rodger

Scotland: The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

Senegal: The Silence of the Choir by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (Immigrants in Sicily)

Serbia:

Seychelles:

Sierra Leone:

Singapore:

Sint Maarten (Netherlands)

Slovakia: The Hot Summer of 1968 by Viliam Klimáček 

Slovenia:

Solomon Islands (Melanesia):

Somalia, Somaliland: Black Mama Boy by Nadia Mohamed (1930s Somalia, over a decade. War and its results, through the point of view of an orphan boy)

South Africa:

South Korea: Table for One by Yun Ko-eun

South Sudan:

Spain: The Force of Blood by Miguel de Cervantes

Sri Lanka:

State of Palestine:

St. Vincent & Grenadines:

Sudan:

Suriname:

Sweden: A Nearly Normal Family by M.T. Evardsson

Sweden: The Secret Language Of Cats by Susanne Schotz

Switzerland: Psychology by Rolf Reber

Switzerland: Siddhartha by Hermann Karl Hesse

Syria: Death is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa 

Taiwan:

Tajikistan:

Tanzania:

Thailand:

Tibet:

Timor-Leste:

Togo:

Tokelau (New Zealand):

Tonga (Polynesia):

Trinidad and Tobago:

Tunisia: A Calamity of Noble Houses by Amira Ghenim. (1930s Tunisia)

Turkey: The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak 

Turkmenistan:

Turks and Caicos:

Tuvalu (Polynesia):

Uzbekistan:

Uganda: Snakepit by Moses Isegawa 

Ukraine: Doctor on Call: Chernobyl Responder, Jewish Refugee, Radiation Expert by Alla Shapiro, MD

United Arab Emirates:

United Kingdom:

United States: John Adams by David McCullough

Uruguay: Hunter of Stories by Eduardo Galeano

U.S. Virgin Islands:

Uzbekistan:

Vanuatu (Melanesia):

Vatican City: Walking with Jesus by Pope Francis

Venezuela: It Would Be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo

Vietnam: The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế

Wales: Longing by Mary Baloch

Wallis & Futuna (France):

Western Sahara:

Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico: Polvos de Arroz by Sergio Galindo

Yemen: Suslov's Daughter by Habib Abdulrab Sarori (Re-introduce believers to Jesus)

Zambia: On Leopard Rock by Wilbur Smith (a writer's adventurous life)

Zimbabwe: Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga (politics of decolonization, women's rights)