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6 months ago Hello again. I finished the list and updated it according to some corrections and suggestions you kindly offered. I am aware there might be mistakes still, and I would do my best to perfect it as mush as my human capacity allows me. I did my best to stick to literature (fiction or poetry)- although in a few cases I chose non fiction. For one case I couldn’t find any book by a native author so I chose a book by a lawyer who lived there. For Vatican, I couldn’t find any, so I decided not to include it. I added Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland to make it richer. I hope you get to enjoy the books and to join me in reading a book from each country. My aim is to broaden my knowledge and scope, learn about my fellow humans, and to travel the world thought the finest minds. I chose books according to my taste, mood, and what I am seeking to know, which is completely subjective. Feel free to share the list or to copy it. Happy New Year ❤️🥰😊
1- Afghanistan: Alas, Mullah Omar by Asef Soltanzadeh
2- Albania: Broken April by Ismail Kadare
3- Algeria: The Kingdom of the Butterfly by Waciny Laredj
4- Andorra: Bring Me His Dead Body by Albert Salvado
5- Angola: A General Theory of Oblivion by Jose Eduardo Agualusa
6- Antigua and Barbuda: Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
7- Argentina: The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
8- Armenia: The Fool by Raffi
9- Australia: True History of Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
10- Austria: The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelink
11- Azerbaijan: Stone Dreams by Akram Aylisli
12- Bahamas: Greenland by David Santos Donaldson
13- Bahrain: Yummah by Sarah A. Al Shafei
14- Bangladesh: The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam
15- Barbados: No Man in the House by Cecil Foster
16- Belarus: Down Among the Fishes by Natalka Babina
17- Belgium: The Sorrow of Belgium by Hugo Claus
18- Belize: Beka Lamb by Zee Edgell
19- Benin: Snares Without End by Olympe Bhely Quenum
20- Bhutan: Born in Jangbi by Damber S. Mongar
21- Bolivia: Our Dead World by Liliana Colanzi
22- Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric
23- Botswana: Go Tell the Sun
by Wame Molefhe
24- Brazil: Captains of the Sands by Jorge Amado
25- Brunei: The Fisherman King by Kathrina Mohd Daud
26- Bulgaria: Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinor
27- Burkina Faso: The Parachute Drop by Norbert Zongo
28- Burundi: Small Country by Gael Faye
29- Cape Verde: The Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva Araujo by Germano Almeida
30- Cambodia: In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner
31- Cameroon: Footprints of Destiny by Azanwi Nchami
32- Canada: Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
33- Central African Republic: Co-Wives, Co-Widows by Adrienne Yabouza
34- Chad: Told by Starlight in Chad by Joseph Brahim Seid
35- Chile: The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
36- China: Wild Swans by Jung Chang
37- Colombia: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
38- Comoros: A Girl Called Eel by Ali Zamir
39- Congo DR: No Place to Call Home by JJ Bola
40- Congo: The Antipeople by Sony Labou Tansi
41- Costa Rica: The Lonely Men's Island by José León Sánchez
42- Cote d’Ivoire: Allah is Not Obliged by Ahmadou Kourouma
43- Croatia: Café Europa by Slavenka Drakulić
44- Cuba: Cuba Libre by Elmore Leonard
45- Cyprus: Ledra Street by Nora Nadjarian
46- Czech Republic: Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
47- Denmark: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg
48- Djibouti: Transit by Abdourahman A. Waberi
49- Dominica: The Orchid House by Phyllis Shand Allfrey
50- Dominican: In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
51- East Timor: The Crossing by Luís Cardoso
52- Ecuador:Don Goyo by Demetrio Aguilera Malta
53- Egypt:In the Eye of the Sun by Ahdaf Soueif
54- El Salvador: Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya
55- Equatorial Guinea: Shadows of Your Black Memory by Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo
56- Eritrea: Silence Is My Mother Tongue by Sulaiman Addonia
57- Estonia: The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirähk
58- Eswatini: When the Ground Is Hard by Malla Nunn
59- Ethiopia: The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
60- Fiji: Kalyana by Rajni Mala Khelawan
61- Finland: The Egyptian by Mika Waltari
62- France: Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
63- Gabon: The Fury and Cries of Women by Angele Rawiri
64- Gambia: The Sun Will Soon Shine by Sally Singhateh
65- Georgia: A Man Was Going Down the Road by Otar Chiladze
66- Germany: The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
67- Ghana: This Earth, My Brother by Kofi Awoonor
68- Greece: Zorba, the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
69- Grenada: The Colour of Forgetting by Merle Collins
70- Guatemala: The President by Miguel Ángel Asturias
71- Guinea: The Radiance of the King by Camara Laye
72- Guinea-Bissau: The Ultimate Tragedy by Abdulai Sila
73- Guyana: The Palace of the Peacock by Wilson Harris
74- Haiti: Dance On the Volcano by Marie Vieux-Chauvet
75- Honduras: The Difficult Days by Roberto Sosa
76- Hungary:The Door by Magda Szabó
77- Iceland: The Fish Can Sing by Halldór Laxness
78- India: The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
79- Indonesia: Saman by Ayu Utami
80- Iran: Savushun by Simin Daneshvar
81- Iraq: The Book of Collateral Damage by Sinan Antoon
82- Ireland: Ulysses by James Joyce
83- Israel: Judas by Amos Oz
84- Italy: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
85- Jamaica: Escape to Last Man Peak by Jean D'Costa
86- Japan: Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
87- Jordan: Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber
88- Kazakhstan: The Silent Steppe: The Memoir of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin by Mukhamet Shayakhmetov
89- Kenya: Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
90- Kiribati: Waa in Storms by Teweiariki Teaero
91- Korea, North: Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite by Suki Kim
92- Korea, South: The Vegetarian by Han Kang
93- Kosovo: The Alpinist by Eqram Basha
94- Kuwait: The Old Woman and the River by Ismail Fahd Ismail
95- Kyrgyzstan: The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years by Chingiz Aitmatov
96- Laos: Mother's Beloved: Stories from Laos by Outhine Bounyavong
97- Latvia: High Tide by Inga Ābele
98- Lebanon: Beirut Nightmares by Ghada Samman
99- Lesotho: Chaka by Thomas Mofolo
100- Liberia:She Would be King by Wayétu Moore
101- Libya: In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
102- Liechtenstein: The State in the Third Millennium by Hans Adam II
103- Lithuania: Those Whom I Would Like to Meet Again by Giedra Radvilavičiūtė
104- Luxembourg:In Reality by Jean Portante
105- Madagascar: Beyond the Rice Fields by Naivo
106- Malawi: And Crocodiles are Hungry at Night by Jack Mapanje
107- Malaysia: The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
108- Maldives: Dhon Hiyala aai Alifulhu by Abdoulla Sadiq.
109- Mali: Bound to Violence by Yambo Ouologuem
110- Malta:Children Come by Ship by Oliver Friggieri
111- Marshall Islands: Marshall Islands Legends and Stories, edited by Nashton T. Nashon and Daniel A. Kelin II
112- Mauritania: The Desert and the Drum by Mbarek Ould Beyrouk
113- Mauritius: The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah
114- Mexico: The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
115- Micronesia:My Urohs by Emelihter Kihleng
116- Moldova: Moldavian Autumn by Ion Druță
117- Monaco: about the legend of Saint Devota By Louis Notari
118- Mongolia: The Blue Sky by Galsan Tschinag
119- Montenegro: The Red Cock Flies to Heaven by Miodrag Bulatović
120- Morocco: The Sand Child by Tahar Ben Jelloun
121- Mozambique: The First Wife by Paulina Chiziane
122- Myanmar:Not Out of Hate: A Novel of Burma by Ma Ma Lay
123- Namibia: The Purple Violet of Oshaantu by Neshani Andreas
124- Nauru: Legends, traditions and tales of Nauru by Timothy Detudamo
125- Nepal: Blue Mimosa by Parijat
126- Netherlands: The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch
127- New Zealand: The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
128- Nicaragua: Divine Punishment by Sergio Ramírez
129- Niger: The Epic of Askia Mohammed, edited by Nouhou Malio
130- Nigeria: A Man of People by Chinua Achebe
131- North Ireland: Milkman by Anna Burns
132- North Macedonia: A Spare Life by Lidija Dimkovska
133- Norway: Trilogy by Jon Fosse
134- Oman: Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi
135- Pakistan: The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmed
136- Palau: Microchild by Valentine Namio Sengebau
137- Palestine: Time of White Horses by Ibrahim Nasrallah
138- Panama: Come Together, Fall Apart by Cristina Henríquez
139- Papua New Guinea: Maiba, a Papuan Novel by Russell Soaba
140- Paraguay: I, the Supreme by Augusto Roa Bastos
141- Peru: The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
142- Philippines: Po-On by F. Sionil José
143- Poland: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
144- Portugal:The Cave by Jose Saramago
145- Qatar: The Girl Who Fell to Earth by Sophia Al Maria
146- Romania: The Forbidden Forest by Mircea Eliade
147- Russia: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
148- Rwanda: Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga
149- Saint Kitts and Nevis: Adventure at Brimstone Hill by Carol Ottley-Mitchell
150- Saint Lucia: Dream on Monkey Mountain by Derek Walcott
151- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Spirits in the Dark by H. Nigel Thomas
152- Samoa: Where We Once Belonged by Sia Figiel
153- San Marino: The Republic of San Marino: The Oldest and Smallest Republic of the World by Giuseppe Rossi
154- Sao Tome and Principe: No Gods Live Here: Poems by Conceição Lima (expected to be published in April 2024)
155- Saudi Arabia: Cities of Salt by Abdelrahman Munif
156- Scotland:Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray
157- Senegal: God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembène
158- Serbia: A Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kiš
159- Seychelles: Brothers of the sea by D.R. Sherman
160- Sierra Leone :Little Family by Ishmael Beah
161- Singapore: Ministry of Moral Panic by Amanda Lee Koe
162- Slovakia: Fleeting Snow by Pavel Vilikovský
163- Slovenia: I Saw Her That Night by Drago Jančar
164- Solomon Islands The Alternative by: John Saunana
165- Somalia: Crossbones by Nuruddin Farah
166- South Africa: Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
167- Spain:The Shadow of the Wind by Ruiz Zafón
168- Sri Lanka: The Road from Elephant Pass by Nihal De Silva
169- Sudan:Season of Migration to the North by Tayib Salih
170- Sudan, South: When Elephants Fight by Majok Tulba
171- Suriname: Reconstruction by Karin Amatmoekrim
172- Sweden: The Deleted World by Tomas Tranströmer
173- Switzerland: Night Train to Lisbon by Peter Bieri
174- Syria: Sun on a Cloudy Day, by Hanaa Mina
175- Taiwan: The Butcher's Wife by Li Ang
176- Tajikistan: Glas 26--Hurramabad: A Novel as a Dotted Line by Andrei Volos
177- Tanzania: Desertion by Abdulrazak Gurnah
178- Thailand: Four Reigns by Kukrit Pramoj
179- Togo: Dirty Feet by Edem Awumey
180- Trinidad and Tobago: Golden Child by Claire Adam
181- Tunisia: The Italian by Shukri Mabkhout
182- Turkey: My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
183- Turkmenistan: The Tale of Aypi by Ak Welsapar
184- Tuvalu: Where the Hell Is Tuvalu by Philip Ells
185- Uganda: Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
186- Ukraine : Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
187- United Arab Emirates: The Sand Fish: A Novel from Dubai by Maha Gargash
188- United Kingdom: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
189- United States: The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
190- Uruguay: The Book of Embraces by Eduardo Galeano
191- Uzbekistan: The railway by Hamid Ismailov
192- Vanuatu: Colonized People: Poems by Grace Mera Molisa
193- Venezuela: It Would Be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo
194- Vietnam: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
195- Wales: The Withered Root by Rhys Davies
196- Yemen: Oranges in the Sun: Short Stories from the Arabian Gulf by Wajdi al-Ahdal
197- Zambia: The Mourning Bird by Mubanga Kalimamukwento
198- Zimbabwe: Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga.
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