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This literary passport is your ticket to aworld of new books and differentperspectives!Name:Favorite Genre:We’ve done our best to providecontemporary suggestions for eachcountry, but feel free to explore on yourown and choose a book that soundsinteresting to you. Chart your owncourse!When you’ve read a book from acountry, write its title and author in thecorresponding country, stop by thebookstore, and we’ll stamp yourpassport.Every 3 stamps and something cool willhappen!

AfghanistanAlbania1The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (2003)Above Us the Milky Way - Fowzia Karimi (2020)Sparks Like Stars - Nadia Hashimi (2021)What I Read: ______________________________A Girl in Exile - Ismail Kadare (2009)Free - Lea Ypi (2021)Chronicle in Stone - Ismail Kadare (1971)What I Read: ______________________________AlgeriaThe Earthquake - Tahir Wattar (2000)The Star of Algiers - Aziz Chouaki (1998)The Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry - Assia Djebar (1997)What I Read: ______________________________

AndorraAngola2Crewe Train - Rose Macaulay (1926) - set in AndorraWhat I Read: ______________________________A General Theory of Oblivion - José Eduardo Agualusa (2012)Good Morning Comrades - Ondjaki (2003)What I Read: ______________________________Antigua & BarbudaA Small Place - Jamaica Kincaid (1988)Annie John - Jamaica Kincaid (1985)What I Read: ______________________________

ArgentinaArmenia3Our Share of Night - Mariana Enríquez (2019)Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges (1944)Fever Dream - Samanta Schweblin (2014)What I Read: ______________________________Three Apples Fell from the Sky - Narine Abgaryan (2015)The Forty Days of Musa Dagh - Franz Werfel (1933)An Armenian Sketchbook - Vasily Grossman (1965)What I Read: ______________________________AustraliaTerra Nullius - Claire G. Coleman (2017)True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey (2000)The Dry - Jane Harper (2016)What I Read: ______________________________

AzerbaijanThe Bahamas4The Orphan Sky - Ella Leya (2015)Ali and Nino - Kurban Said (1937)Days in the Caucasus - Banine (1945)What I Read: ______________________________Learning to Breathe - Janice Lynn Mather (2018)Greenland - David Santos Donaldson (2022)Woman Take Two - Telcine Turner (2002)What I Read: ______________________________AustriaThe Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelinek (1983)Chess Story - Stefan Zweig (1942)Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke (1929)What I Read: ______________________________

BangladeshBarbados5A Golden Age - Tahmima Anam (2007)Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating - Adiba Jaigirdar (2021)Selected Short Stories - Rabindranath Tagore (1917)What I Read: ______________________________How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House - Cherie Jones (2021)The Star Side of Bird Hill - Naomi Jackson (2015)No Man in the House - Cecil Foster (1991)What I Read: ______________________________BahrainThe Pearl Thief - Noor Al Noaimi (2015)What I Read: ______________________________

BelgiumBelize6War and Turpentine - Stefan Hertmans (2013)Thirty Days - Annelies Verbeke (2015)The Adventures of Tintin - Hergé (1929-1976)What I Read: ______________________________Beka Lamb - Zee Edgell (1982)On Heroes, Lizards and Passion - Zoila Ellis (1991)What I Read: ______________________________BelarusMusic for the Dead and Resurrected: Poems - Valzhyna Mort (2020)Alindarka's Children - Alhierd Bacharevič (2020)King Stakh's Wild Hunt - Uladzimir Karatkevich (1964)What I Read: ______________________________

BhutanBolivia7The Circle of Karma - Kunzang Choden (2005)Buttertea at Sunrise - Britta Das (2006)What I Read: ______________________________Selected Poetry & Prose - Adela Zamudio (1928)Turing's Delirium - Edmundo Paz Soldán (2004)Affections - Rodrigo Hasbún (2015)What I Read: ______________________________BeninAs She Was Discovering Tigony - Olympe Bhêly-Quenum (2017)Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes - Barnaby Phillips (2021)What I Read: ______________________________

BotswanaBrazil8Call and Response - Gothataone Moeng (2023)When the Rain Clouds Gather - Bessie Head (1969)What I Read: ______________________________ The Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector (1977)The Words That Remain - Stênio Gardel (2021)The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas - Machado de Assis (1881)What I Read: ______________________________Bosnia & HerzegovinaPostcards from the Grave - Emir Suljagic (2005)Nowhere Man - Aleksandar Hemon (2002)Before the Feast - Saša Stanišić (2014)What I Read: ______________________________

BulgariaBurkina Faso9Under the Yoke - Ivan Vazov (1888)Time Shelter - Georgi Gospodinov (2020)Four Minutes - Nataliya Deleva (2017)What I Read: ______________________________So Distant From My Life - Monique Ilboudo (2020)The Parachute Drop - Norbert Zongo (1988)What I Read: ______________________________BruneiThe Fisherman King - Kathrina Mohd Daud (2020)Written in Black - K.H. Lim (2014)What I Read: ______________________________

Cabo VerdeCambodia10The Madwoman of Serrano - Dina Salústio (2012)The Last Will and Testament of Senhor Da Silva Araujo - Germano Almeida (1988)What I Read: ______________________________First They Killed My Father - Loung Ung (2000)In the Shadow of the Banyan - Vaddey Ratner (2012)Ma and Me - Putsata Reang (2022)What I Read: ______________________________BurundiSmall Country - Gaël Faye (2016)Baho! - Roland Rugero (2012)The Tears of a Man Flow Inward - Pacifique Irankunda (2022)What I Read: ______________________________

CanadaCentral African Republic11The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (1985)Spilt Tooth - Tanya Tagaq (2018)Runaway: Stories - Alice Munro (2004)What I Read: ______________________________Co-Wives, Co-Widows - Adrienne Yabouza (2015)Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime - Anjan Sundaram (2023)What I Read: ______________________________CameroonHow Beautiful We Were - Imbolo Mbue (2021)Houseboy - Ferdinand Oyono (1956)Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories - Nana Nkweti (2021)What I Read: ______________________________

ChileChina12The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende (1982)My Tender Matador - Pedro Lemebel (1986)Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair - Pablo Neruda (1924)What I Read: ______________________________Love in a Fallen City - Eileen Chang (1943)Strange Beasts of China - Yan Ge (2006)To Live - Yu Hua (1992)What I Read: ______________________________ChadTold by Starlight in Chad - Joseph Brahim Seid (1962)Nimrod: Selected Works - Nimrod (2018)What I Read: ______________________________

ComorosCongo, Democratic Republic of the13A Girl Called Eel - Ali Zamir (2016)The Kaffir of Karthala - Mohamed Toihiri (1992)What I Read: ______________________________Tram 83 - Fiston Mwanza Mujila (2014)Before the Birth of the Moon - V.Y. Mudimbe (1976)Dancing in the Glory of Monsters - Jason K. Stearns (2010)What I Read: ______________________________ColombiaOne Hundred Years of Solitude -Gabriel García Márquez (1967)The Bitch - Pilar Quintana (2017)An Orphan World - Giuseppe Caputo (2016)What I Read: ______________________________

Costa RicaCôte d’Ivoire14Saints of the Household - Ari Tison (2023)Where There Was Fire - John Manuel Arias (2023)What I Read: ______________________________Allah Is Not Obliged - Ahmadou Kourouma (2000)In the Company of Men - Véronique Tadjo (2017)Aya - Marguerite Abouet & Clément Oubrerie (2005)What I Read: ______________________________ Congo, Republic of theBlack Moses - Alain Mabanckou (2015)Broken Glass - Alain Mabanckou (2005)What I Read: ______________________________

CubaCyprus15Explosion in a Cathedral - Alejo Carpentier (1962)The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love - Óscar Hijuelos (1989)Everyone Leaves - Wendy Guerra (2006)What I Read: ______________________________Iktsuarpok - Nora Nadjarian (2024)Songbirds - Christy Lefteri (2021)The Fury - Alex Michaelides (2024)What I Read: ______________________________CroatiaBaba Yaga Laid an Egg - Dubravka Ugrešić (2007)Girl at War - Sara Nović (2015)Belladonna - Daša Drndić (2012)What I Read: ______________________________

DenmarkDjibouti16We, the Drowned - Carsten Jensen (2006)Seven Gothic Tales - Isak Dinesen (1934)The Copenhagen Trilogy - Tove Ditlevsen (1967)What I Read: ______________________________In the United States of Africa - Abdourahman A. Waberi (2006)The Land Without Shadows - Abdourahman A. Waberi (1994)What I Read: ______________________________Czech RepublicSpaceman of Bohemia - Jaroslav Kalfar (2017)The Movement - Petra Hůlová (2018)The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera (1984)What I Read: ______________________________

Dominican RepublicEast Timor17In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez (1994))Tentacle - Rita Indiana (2015)Clap When You Land - Elizabeth Acevedo (2020)What I Read: ______________________________The Crossing - Luís Cardoso (1997)Beloved Land - Gordon Peake (2013)What I Read: ______________________________DominicaWide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys (1966)The Orchid House - Phyllis Shand Allfrey (1953)What I Read: ______________________________

EgyptEl Salvador18Palace Walk - Naguib Mahfouz (1956)If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English - Noor Naga (2022)Woman at Point Zero - Nawal El Saadawi (1975)What I Read: ______________________________One Day of Life - Manlio Argueta (1980)Solito - Javier Zamora (2022)Slash and Burn - Claudia Hernández (2017)What I Read: ______________________________EcuadorCockfight - María Fernanda Ampuero (2018)The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina - Zoraida Córdova (2021)Jawbone - Mónica Ojeda (2018)What I Read: ______________________________

EritreaEstonia19African Titanics - Abu Bakr Khaal (2008)Silence is My Mother Tongue - Sulaiman Addonia (2018)Gratitude in Low Voices - Dawit Gebremichael Habte (2017)What I Read: ______________________________The Man Who Spoke Snakish - Andrus Kivirähk (2007)Professor Martens' Departure - Jaan Kross (1984)Apothecary Melchior & the Mystery of St Olaf's Church - Indrek Hargla (2010)What I Read: ______________________________Equatorial GuineaBy Night the Mountain Burns - Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel (2008)Shadows of Your Black Memory - Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo (1987)La Bastarda - Trifonia Melibea Obono (2016)What I Read: ______________________________

EthiopiaFiji20The Shadow King - Maaza Mengiste (2019)The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears - Dinaw Mengestu (2007)Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese (2009)What I Read: ______________________________Kalyana - Rajni Mala Khelawan (2016)Kava in the Blood - Peter Thomson (1999)What I Read: ______________________________EswatiniWhen the Ground Is Hard - Malla Nunn (2019)A Beautiful Place to Die - Malla Nunn (2008)What I Read: ______________________________

FranceGabon21At Night All Blood is Black - David Diop (2018)The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery (2006)The Years - Annie Ernaux (2008)What I Read: ______________________________Awu’s Story - Justine Mintsa (2000)The Fury and Cries of Women - Angele Rawiri (1989)Mema - Daniel Mengara (2003)What I Read: ______________________________FinlandThe Summer Book - Tove Jansson (1972)True - Riikka Pulkkinen (2010)Purge - Sofi Oksanen (2008)What I Read: ______________________________

GeorgiaGermany22Dagny, or a Love Feast - Zurab Karumidze (2011)Me, Margarita: Stories - Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili (2005)Journey to Karabakh - Aka Morchiladze (1992)What I Read: ______________________________The Artificial Silk Girl - Irmgard Keun (1932)You Should Have Left - Daniel Kehlmann (2016)Kairos - Jenny Erpenbeck (2021)What I Read: ______________________________The GambiaReading the Ceiling - Dayo Forster (2007)Chaff on the Wind - Ebou Dibba (1986)What I Read: ______________________________

GreeceGrenada23Why I Killed My Best Friend - Amanda Michalopoulou (2003)The Murderess - Alexandros Papadiamantis (1903)Seven Lives and One Great Love - Lena Divani (2012)What I Read: ______________________________The Bone Readers - Jacob Rose (2016)The Ladies Are Upstairs - Merle Collins (2011)What I Read: ______________________________GhanaThe Missing American - Kwei Quartey (2020)Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi (2016)The Hundred Wells of Salaga - Ayesha Harruna Attah (2018)What I Read: ______________________________

GuineaGuinea-Bissau24The Radiance of the King - Camara Laye (1954)The King of Kahel - Tierno Monénembo (2008)The Dark Child - Camara Laye (1954)What I Read: ______________________________The Ultimate Tragedy - Abdulai Sila (2017)Return to the Source - Amílcar Cabral (1973)Anos Ku Ta Manda - Yasmina Nuny (2019)What I Read: ______________________________GuatemalaMr. President - Miguel Ángel Asturias (1946)I, Rigoberta Menchú - Rigoberta Menchú (1984)The Popol Vuh (~1554)What I Read: ______________________________

HaitiHonduras25Krik? Krak! - Edwidge Danticat (1996)God Loves Haiti - Dimitry Elias Léger (2015)Sweet Undoings - Yanick Lahens (2018)What I Read: ______________________________Complete Works and Other Stories - Augusto Monterroso (1959)The Lost City of the Monkey God - Douglas Preston (2017)What I Read: ______________________________GuyanaThe Palace of the Peacock - Wilson Harris (1960)The Ventriloquist's Tale - Pauline Melville (1997)Sunlight on Sweet Water - Beryl Gilroy (1994)What I Read: ______________________________

IcelandIndia26Miss Iceland - Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir (2018)Cold Moons - Magnús Sigurðsson (2013)The Blue Fox - Sjón (2003)What I Read: ______________________________The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy (1997)A Burning - Megha Majumdar (2020)The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga (2008)What I Read: ______________________________HungaryThe Door - Magda Szabó (1987)Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming - László Krasznahorkai (2016)Tranquility - Attila Bartis (2001)What I Read: ______________________________

IranIraq27Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi (2003)The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree - Shokoofeh Azar (2017) The Immortals of Tehran - Alireza Taheri Araghi (2020)What I Read: ______________________________Frankenstein in Baghdad - Ahmed Saadawi (2013)God in Pink - Hasan Namir (2015)The President's Gardens - Muhsin Al-Ramli (2012)What I Read: ______________________________IndonesiaSpinner of Darkness & Other Tales - Intan Paramaditha (2015)Beauty Is a Wound - Eka Kurniawan (2002)Birth Canal - Dias Novita Wuri (2023)What I Read: ______________________________

IsraelItaly28The Hilltop - Assaf Gavron (2013)To The End of The Land - David Grossman (2008)Love - Maayan Eitan (2020)What I Read: ______________________________My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante (2011)If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino (1979)The Empire of Dirt - Francesca Manfredi (2019)What I Read: ______________________________IrelandThe Country Girls - Edna O’Brien (1960)Normal People - Sally Rooney (2018)In the Woods - Tana French (2008)What I Read: ______________________________

JapanJordan29Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami (2002)Breasts and Eggs - Mieko Kawakami (2019)The Memory Police - Yōko Ogawa (1994)What I Read: ______________________________Pillars of Salt - Fadia Faqir (1996)The Monotonous Chaos of Existence - Hisham Bustani (2022)The Bride of Amman - Fadi Zaghmout (2012)What I Read: ______________________________JamaicaA Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James (2014)Augustown - Kei Miller (2016)These Ghosts Are Family - Maisy Card (2020)What I Read: ______________________________

KenyaKiribati30Petals of Blood - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1977)Dust - Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (2013)Unbury Our Dead With Song - Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ (2021)What I Read: ______________________________Waa in Storms - Teweiariki Teaero (2004)What I Read: ______________________________KazakhstanAmanat: Women's Writing from Kazakhstan - Various (2022)Winter Pasture - Li Juan (2012)What I Read: ______________________________

Korea, SouthKosovo31The Vegetarian - Han Kang (2007)Love in the Big City - Sang Young Park (2019)Pachinko - Min Jin Lee (2017)What I Read: ______________________________Bolla - Pajtim Statovci (2019)Elegy for Kosovo - Ismail Kadare (1998)My Cat Yugoslavia - Pajtim Statovci (2014)What I Read: ______________________________Korea, NorthThe Accusation - Bandi (2014)The Girl with Seven Names - Hyeonseo Lee (2014)Nothing to Envy - Barbara Demick (2009)What I Read: ______________________________

KyrgyzstanLaos32Jamilia - Chingiz Aitmatov (1958)The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years - Chingiz Aitmatov (1980)What I Read: ______________________________How to Pronounce Knife - Souvankham Thammavongsava (2020)Mother’s Beloved - Outhine Bounyavong (1999)Land of Smiles - T.C. Huo (2000)What I Read: ______________________________KuwaitAll That I Want to Forget - Bothayna Al-Essa (2019)Mama Hissa's Mice - Saud Alsanousi (2015)The Book Censor’s Library - Bothayna Al-Essa (2024)What I Read: ______________________________

LebanonLesotho33I Remember Beirut - Zeina Abirached (2008)An Unnecessary Woman - Rabih Alameddine (2013)The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran (1923)What I Read: ______________________________Chaka - Thomas Mofolo (1925)Singing Away the Hunger - Mpho M'Atsepo Nthunya (1996)What I Read: ______________________________LatviaDOOM 94 - Jānis Joņevs (2013)Among the Living and the Dead - Inara Verzemnieks (2017)Birthday - Jana Egle (2020)What I Read: ______________________________

LibyaLiechtenstein34My Friends - Hisham Matar (2024)The Slave Yards - Najwa Bin Shatwan (2020)The Return - Hisham Matar (2016)What I Read: ______________________________Rapids - Patrick Boltshauser (2014)Of Things - Michael Donhauser (2016)What I Read: ______________________________LiberiaShe Would Be King - Wayétu Moore (2018)Land of My Fathers - Vamba Sherif (1999)The Dragons, the Giant, the Women - Wayétu Moore (2020)What I Read: ______________________________

LuxembourgMadagascar35At the Devil’s Banquets - Anise Koltz (1998)The Pleasure of Drowning - Jean Bürlesk (2020)What I Read: ______________________________Beyond the Rice Fields - Naivo (2016)Return to the Enchanted Island - Johary Ravaloson (2013)What I Read: ______________________________LithuaniaThose Whom I Would Like to Meet Again - Giedra Radvilavičiūtė (2013)Between Shades of Gray - Ruta Sepetys (2011)Tula - Jurgis Kunčinas (1992)What I Read: ______________________________

MalaysiaMaldives36The Age of Goodbyes - Li Zi Shu (2010)Though I Get Home - YZ Chin (2018)The Garden of Evening Mists - Tan Twan Eng (2011)What I Read: ______________________________Dhon Hiyala and Ali Fulhu - Abdullah Sadiq (1976)Dreams of My Heart - Aminath Neena (2021)What I Read: ______________________________MalawiThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - William Kamkwamba (2009)Smouldering Charcoal - Paul Tiyambe Zeleza (1992)What I Read: ______________________________

MaltaMarshall Islands37On the Island at the Center of the Center of the World - Elizabeth Kadetsky (2015)What I Read: ______________________________Iep Jaltok - Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner (2017)Surviving Paradise - Peter Rudiak-Gould (2009)What I Read: ______________________________MaliThe Fortunes of Wangrin - Amadou Hampâté Bâ (1973)Amkoullel, the Fula Boy - Amadou Hampâté Bâ (1991)What I Read: ______________________________

MauritiusMexico38The Last Brother - Nathacha Appanah (2007)Eve out of Her Ruins - Ananda Devi (2006)Riambel - Priya Hein (2022)What I Read: ______________________________Hurricane Season - Fernanda Melchor (2017)Loop - Brenda Lozano (2014)Umami - Laia Jufresa (2015)What I Read: ______________________________MauritaniaThe Desert and the Drum - Mbarek Ould Beyrouk (2015)Pariahs - Mbarek Ould Beyrouk (2023)What I Read: ______________________________

MoldovaMonaco39The Good Life Elsewhere - Vladimir Lorchenkov (2008)Bessarabian Nights - Stela Brinzeanu (2014)Living Tissue, 10x10 - Emilian Galaicu-Păun (2020)What I Read: ______________________________Loser Takes All - Graham Greene (1955) - set in MonacoWhite Truffles in Winter - N.M. Kelly (2011) - set in MonacoWhat I Read: ______________________________Micronesia, Federated States ofMy Urohs - Emelihter Kihleng (2008)Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia - Various (2019)What I Read: ______________________________

MontenegroMorocco40Catherine the Great and the Small - Olja Knezevic (2019)The Son - Andrej Nikolaidis (2006)Head Full of Joy - Ognjen Spahić (2014)What I Read: ______________________________Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits - Laila Lalami (2005)For Bread Alone - Mohamed Choukri (1973)In the Country of Others - Leïla Slimani (2020)What I Read: ______________________________MongoliaThe Blue Sky - Galsan Tschinag (1997)The Gray Earth - Galsan Tschinag (2001)Wolf Totem - Jiang Rong (2004)What I Read: ______________________________

MyanmarNamibia41The River of Lost Footsteps - Thant Myint-U (2006)Miss Burma - Charmaine Craig (2017)The Long Path to Wisdom - Jan-Philipp Sendker (2018)What I Read: ______________________________The Eternal Audience of One - Rémy Ngamije (2019)The Purple Violet of Oshaantu - Neshani Andreas (2001)Born of the Sun - Joseph Diescho (1988)What I Read: ______________________________MozambiqueWoman of the Ashes - Mia Couto (2015)The First Wife - Paulina Chiziane (2002)We Killed Mangy-Dog & Other Stories - Luís Bernardo Honwana (1964)What I Read: ______________________________

NepalNetherlands42Arresting God in Kathmandu - Samrat Upadhyay (2001)Palpasa Café - Narayan Wagle (2005)Karnali Blues - Buddhisagar (2010)What I Read: ______________________________The Discomfort of Evening - Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (2018)The Dinner - Herman Koch (2009)What I'd Rather Not Think About - Jente Posthuma (2020)What I Read: ______________________________NauruStories from Nauru - Ben Bam Solomon (1996)What I Read: ______________________________

NicaraguaNiger43The Inhabited Woman - Gioconda Belli (1988)The Country Under My Skin - Gioconda Belli (2001)Selected Poems - Rubén Darío (1915)What I Read: ______________________________The Epic of Askia Mohammed - Nouhou Malio (1996)Zarma Folktales of Niger - Amanda Cushman (2010)What I Read: ______________________________New ZealandThe Bone People - Keri Hulme (1984)The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton (2013)Auē - Becky Manawatu (2019)What I Read: ______________________________

North MacedoniaNorway44A Spare Life - Lidija Dimkovska (2012)I'm Not Going Anywhere - Rumena Bužarovska (2013)3 Minutes and 53 Seconds - Branko Prlja (2019)What I Read: ______________________________Paradise Rot - Jenny Hval (2009)The Ice Palace - Tarjei Vesaas (1963)The Snowman - Jo Nesbø (2007)What I Read: ______________________________NigeriaThe Death of Vivek Oji - Akwaeke Emezi (2020)Lightseekers - Femi Kayode (2021)My Sister, the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite (2018)What I Read: ______________________________

PakistanPalau45People Want to Live - Farah Ali (2021)Our Lady of Alice Bhatti - Mohammed Hanif (2010)Home Fire - Kamila Shamsie (2017)What I Read: ______________________________Microchild - Valentine Namio Sengebau (2004)What I Read: ______________________________OmanCelestial Bodies - Jokha Alharthi (2010)Bitter Orange Tree - Jokha Alharthi (2016)What I Read: ______________________________

PanamaPapua New Guinea46The Great Divide - Cristina Henríquez (2024)Stepmotherland - Darrel Alejandro Holnes (2022)Come Together, Fall Apart - Cristina Henríquez (2006)What I Read: ______________________________The Crocodile - Vincent Eri (1970)Maiba - Russell Soaba (1979)What I Read: ______________________________Palestine, State ofIn the Presence of Absence - Mahmoud Darwish (2006)Salt Houses - Hala Alyan (2017)Minor Detail - Adania Shibli (2017)What I Read: ______________________________

PeruPhilippines47Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter - Mario Vargas Llosa (1977)Blood of the Dawn - Claudia Salazar Jiménez (2013)You Shall Leave Your Land - Renato Cisneros (2017)What I Read: ______________________________The Woman Who Had Two Navels - Nick Joaquín (1961)Ilustrado - Miguel Syjuco (2008)In the Country - Mia Alvar (2015)What I Read: ______________________________ParaguayI the Supreme - Augusto Roa Bastos (1974)At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig - John Gimlette (2003)What I Read: ______________________________

PortugalQatar48Blindness - José Saramago (1995)The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa (1982)The Wind Whistling in the Cranes - Lídia Jorge (2022)What I Read: ______________________________The Girl Who Fell to Earth - Sophia Al-Maria (2012)The Holy Sail - Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud (2014)What I Read: ______________________________PolandDrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk (2009)Solaris - Stanisław Lem (1961)I’d Like to Say Sorry, but There’s No One to Say Sorry To - Mikołaj Grynberg (2017)What I Read: ______________________________

RussiaRwanda49Wound - Oksana Vasyakina (2023)The Slynx - Tatyana Tolstaya (2000)Ice - Vladimir Sorokin (2002)What I Read: ______________________________All Your Children, Scattered - Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse (2022)Igifu - Scholastique Mukasonga (2010)The Girl Who Smiled Beads - Clemantine Wamariya (2018)What I Read: ______________________________RomaniaThe Hunger Angel - Herta Müller (2009)FEM - Magda Cârneci (2011)Bottled Gods - Sophie van Llewyn (2018)What I Read: ______________________________

Saint LuciaSaint Vincent & the Grenadines50Omeros - Derek Walcott (1990)Prisnms - Garth St. Omer (2015)What I Read: ______________________________The Moon is Following Me - Cecil Browne (2010)What I Read: ______________________________Saint Kitts & NevisThe Final Passage - Caryl Phillips (1985)A State of Independence - Caryl Phillips (1986)What I Read: ______________________________

San MarinoSão Tomé and Príncipe51Nothing in English as of 2024! Maybe you’d like to translate something?What I Read: ______________________________Nothing in English as of 2024! Maybe you’d like to translate something?What I Read: ______________________________SamoaCoconut Milk - Dan Taulapapa McMullin (2013)Freelove - Sia Figiel (2015)Leaves of the Banyan Tree - Albert Wendt (1979)What I Read: ______________________________

SenegalSerbia52So Long a Letter - Mariama Bâ (1980)God’s Bits of Wood - Ousmane Sembène (1960)No Heaven for Good Boys - Keisha Bush (2021)What I Read: ______________________________A Tomb for Boris Davidovich - Danilo Kiš (1976)Dictionary of the Khazars - Milorad Pavić (1983)The Tiger’s Wife - Téa Obreht (2011)What I Read: ______________________________Saudi ArabiaGirls of Riyadh - Rajaa Alsanea (2005)Daring to Drive - Manal Al-Sharif (2017)Bride of the Sea - Eman Quotah (2021)What I Read: ______________________________

Sierra LeoneSingapore53Radiance of Tomorrow - Ishmael Beah (2014)The Gilded Ones - Namina Forna (2020)The Memory of Love - Aminatta Forna (2010)What I Read: ______________________________Ministry of Moral Panic - Amanda Lee Koe (2013)The Tensorate Series - Neon Yang (2021)Ponti - Sharlene Teo (2018)What I Read: ______________________________SeychellesVoices: Short stories from the Seychelles Islands - Glynn Burridge (2014)What I Read: ______________________________

SloveniaSolomon Islands54The Fig Tree - Goran Vojnović (2016)I Saw Her That Night - Drago Jančar (2010)Games with Greta & Other Stories - Suzana Tratnik (2016)What I Read: ______________________________Under Solomon Skies - Berni Sorga-Millwood (2020)The Alternative - John Saunana (1982)What I Read: ______________________________SlovakiaSeeing People Off - Jana Beňová (2008)Mothers and Truckers - Ivana Dobrakovová (2018)On Wing - Róbert Gál (2015)What I Read: ______________________________

South AfricaSpain55Born a Crime - Trevor Noah (2016)Innards: Stories - Magogodi oaMphela Makhene (2023)Zoo City - Lauren Beukes (2010)What I Read: ______________________________The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón (2001)Dogs of Summer - Andrea Abreu López (2020)A Working Woman - Elvira Navarro (2014)What I Read: ______________________________SomaliaBlack Mamba Boy - Nadifa Mohamed (2010)Links - Nuruddin Farah (2003)Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2006)What I Read: ______________________________

SudanSudan, South56Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih (1966)River Spirit - Leila Aboulela (2023)The Drowning - Hammour Ziada (2022)What I Read: ______________________________There Is a Country - Nyuol Lueth Tong (2013)The Jungo, Stakes Of The Earth - Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin (2009)First Raise a Flag - Peter Martell (2018)What I Read: ______________________________Sri LankaThe Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - Shehan Karunatilak (2022)Island of a Thousand Mirrors - Nayomi Munaweera (2012)A Passage North - Anuk Arudpragasam (2021)What I Read: ______________________________

SwedenSwitzerland57Anxious People - Fredrik Backman (2019)The Memory Theater - Karin Tidbeck (2021)Let the Right One In - John Ajvide Lindqvist (2004)What I Read: ______________________________I Am the Brother of XX - Fleur Jaeggy (2014)Night Train to Lisbon - Pascal Mercier (2004)The Black Spider - Jeremias Gotthelf (1842)What I Read: ______________________________SurinameOn a Woman's Madness - Astrid Roemer (1982)The Cost of Sugar - Cynthia McLeod (1987)We Slaves of Suriname - Anton de Kom (1934)

TaiwanTajikistan58Notes of a Crocodile - Qiu Miaojin (1994)Two Trees Make a Forest - Jessica J. Lee (2020)Hunter School - Sakinu Ahronglong (2020)What I Read: ______________________________Hurramabad - Andrei Volos (1998)Beyond the Oxus - Monica Whitlock (2003)The Disobedient Wife - Annika Milisic-Stanley (2015)What I Read: ______________________________SyriaDeath Is Hard Work - Khaled Khalifa (2016)As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow - Zoulfa Katouh (2022)The Map of Salt and Stars - Zeyn Joukhadar (2018)What I Read: ______________________________

ThailandTogo59Bangkok Wakes to Rain - Pitchaya Sudbanthad (2019)Bright - Duanwad Pimwana (2003)Sightseeing - Rattawut Lapcharoensap (2004)What I Read: ______________________________Do They Hear You When You Cry - Fauziya Kassindja (1998)An African in Greenland - Tété-Michel Kpomassie (1981)The Shadow of Things to Come - Kossi Efoui (2013)What I Read: ______________________________TanzaniaAfterlives - Abdulrazak Gurnah (2020)Paradise - Abdulrazak Gurnah (1994)Aftershocks - Nadia Owusu (2021)What I Read: ______________________________

Trinidad & TobagoTunisia60When We Were Birds - Ayanna Lloyd Banwo (2022)The God of Good Looks - Breanne Mc Ivor (2023)The Bread the Devil Knead - Lisa Allen-Agostini (2021)What I Read: ______________________________The Italian - Shukri al-Mabkhout (2014)The Ardent Swarm - Yamen Manai (2017)The Pillar of Salt - Albert Memmi (1953)What I Read: ______________________________TongaTales of the Tikongs - Epeli Hauʻofa (1988)A Providence of War - Joshua Taumoefolau (2011)We Are the Ocean - Epeli Hauʻofa (2008)What I Read: ______________________________

TurkmenistanTuvalu61The Tale of Aypi - Ak Welsapar (2015)Death of the Snake Catcher - Ak Welsapar (2018)What I Read: ______________________________Tuvalu: A History - Simati Faaniu (Editor) (1983)What I Read: ______________________________TurkeyThe Museum of Innocence - Orhan Pamuk (2008)Three Daughters of Eve - Elif Shafak (2016)Madonna in a Fur Coat - Sabahattin Ali (1943)What I Read: ______________________________

UkraineUnited Arab Emirates62I Will Die in a Foreign Land - Kalani Pickhart (2021)Lucky Breaks - Yevgenia Belorusets (2022)The Orphanage - Serhiy Zhadan (2017)What I Read: ______________________________Temporary People - Deepak Unnikrishnan (2017)The Sand Fish - Maha Gargash (1999)The Diesel - Thani Al-Suwaidi (1994)What I Read: ______________________________UgandaA Girl Is a Body of Water - Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (2020)We Are All Birds of Uganda - Hafsa Zayyan (2021)Abyssinian Chronicles - Moses Isegawa (1998)What I Read: ______________________________

United StatesUruguay63Choose your own adventure! There are zillions to choose from!What I Read: ______________________________Older Brother - Daniel Mella (2016)Cantoras - Carolina De Robertis (2019)The Rooftop - Fernanda Trías (2000)What I Read: ______________________________United KingdomChoose your own adventure! There are zillions to choose from!What I Read: ______________________________

VanuatuVenezuela64Sista, Stanap Strong! - Mikaela Nyman (Editor) (2021)Colonised People - Grace Mera Molisa (1987)What I Read: ______________________________It Would Be Night in Caracas - Karina Sainz Borgo (2019)Iphigenia - Teresa de la Parra (1992)Doña Bárbara - Rómulo Gallegos (1929)What I Read: ______________________________UzbekistanThe Devils’ Dance - Hamid Ismailov (2012)The Railway - Hamid Ismailov (2006)What I Read: ______________________________

YemenZambiaA Land Without Jasmine - Wajdi Al-Ahdal (2012)The Fox Hunt - Mohammed Al Samawi (2018)I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced - Nujood Ali (2009)What I Read: ______________________________The Old Drift - Namwali Serpell (2019)Some Bright Elegance - Kayo Chingonyi (2012)A Cowrie of Hope - Binwell Sinyangwe (2000)What I Read: ______________________________65VietnamThe Sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen (2015)The Mountains Sing - Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (2020)Build Your House Around My Body - Violet Kupersmith (2021)What I Read: ______________________________

Additional Notes:ZimbabweWe Need New Names - NoViolet Bulawayo (2013)Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga (1988)House of Stone - Novuyo Rosa Tshuma (2018)What I Read: ______________________________66

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