Read a book from every country

Afghanistan ✅

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini ✅
• An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan by Jason Elliot ✅

Albania ✅

• The Palace of Dreams by Ismail Kadare ✅

Algeria ✅

• The Stranger by Albert Camus ✅

Andorra

Angola

• A Practical Guide to Levitation: Stories by Jose Eduardo Agualusa 🔜

Antigua and Barbuda

• Mr. Potter: A Novel by Jamaica Kincaid

Argentina ✅

• The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto Che Guevara ✅

Armenia

• The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan 🔜
• The Gardens of Silihdar by Zabel Yessayan

Australia

• The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A Novel by Richard Flanagan 🔜
• Voss by Patrick White 🔜

Austria

• The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig 🔜
• The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick: A Novel by Peter Handke 🔜

Azerbaijan

• Ali And Nino by Kurban Said
• The Orphan Sky by Ella Leya

Bahamas

• An Evening in Guanima: A Treasury of Folktales from The Bahamas by Patricia Glinton-Meicholas

Bahrain

Bangladesh

• Brick Lane by Monica Ali 🔜

Barbados

Belarus

• Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich 🔜

Belgium

• War and Turpentine: A Novel by Stefan Hertmans 🔜
• King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild 🔜

Belize

Benin

Bhutan ✅

• Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey Into Bhutan by Jamie Zeppa ✅
• The History of Bhutan by Karma Phuntsho 🔜

Bolivia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

• How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišić 🔜
• The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić 🔜

Botswana

• The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith 🔜

Brazil ✅

• Captains of the Sands by Jorge Amado ✅

Brunei

Bulgaria

• Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov 🔜

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cambodia

• Alive in the Killing Fields: Surviving the Khmer Rouge Genocide by Nawuth Keat & Martha E. Kendall 🔜
• Afterparties: Stories by Anthony Veasna So 🔜

Cameroon

Canada

• Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro 🔜

Cape Verde

Central African Republic

Chad

Chile

• The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño 🔜
• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende 🔜

China ✅

• The Art of War by Sun Tzu ✅
• Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux ✅

Colombia

• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 🔜

Comoros

Congo

• Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou

Congo (Dem. Rep.)

Costa Rica

Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)

Croatia

• The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugrešić 🔜

Cuba

Cyprus

Czech Republic ✅

• The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka ✅
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 🔜

Denmark

• The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen 🔜

Djibouti

Dominica

Dominican Republic ✅

• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz ✅
• In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez 🔜

Ecuador

Egypt

• Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz 🔜
• Dongola by Idris Ali

El Salvador

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Estonia

Eswatini

Ethiopia

• The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste

Fiji

Finland

France

• In the Café of Lost Youth by Patrick Modiano 🔜

Gabon

Gambia

Georgia

• The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischwili

Germany

• Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck 🔜
• Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin 🔜
• Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann 🔜

Ghana

Gibraltar

Greece ✅

• Aesop's Fables by Aesop ✅
• Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis 🔜

Grenada

Guatemala

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Guyana

Haiti

• Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat
• Rainy Season: Haiti-Then and Now by Amy Wilentz 🔜

Honduras

Hong Kong

• The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir by Karen Cheung 🔜
• The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee 🔜
• Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok 🔜

Hungary

• The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai 🔜

Iceland

• Independent People by Halldor Laxness 🔜

India ✅

• The White Tiger: A Novel by Aravind Adiga ✅
• An Area of Darkness: A Discovery of India by V.S. Naipaul ✅
• God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 🔜

Indonesia

• Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David Van Reybrouck 🔜
• Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan
• Brief History of Indonesia: Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation by Tim Hannigan 🔜

Iran ✅

• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi ✅

Iraq

• Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi 🔜

Ireland ✅

• The Playboy of the Western World by John M. Synge ✅
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde ✅
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift ✅
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce ✅
• House Don't Fall on Me by Maidhc Dainín Ó Sé ✅

Israel

• The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge by Ilan Pappe 🔜
• To the End of the Land by David Grossman 🔜

Italy ✅

• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli ✅
• The Inferno by Dante Alighieri ✅
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemmingway ✅
• My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante 🔜

Jamaica

• A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James 🔜
• The Long Song by Andrea Levy 🔜

Japan ✅

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami ✅
• Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo 🔜

Jordan

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Kiribati

Kosovo

• Crossing: A Novel by Pajtim Statovci 🔜

Kuwait

Kyrgyzstan

Laos

Latvia

• Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena

Lebanon

• Disordered World: Setting a New Course for the Twenty-First Century by Amin Maalouf 🔜
• History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani 🔜

Lesotho

Liberia

Libya

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Macao

Madagascar

Malawi

• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba

Malaysia

• The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw 🔜
• The Gift of Rain: A Novel by Tan Twan Eng 🔜

Maldives

Mali

Malta

Marshall Islands

Mauritania

Mauritius

Mexico

• The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes 🔜
• Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo 🔜
• Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel 🔜

Micronesia

Moldova

Monaco

Mongolia

Montenegro

Morocco

• The Lemon by Mohammed Mrabet 🔜
• Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila Lalami 🔜

Mozambique

Myanmar (Burma)

• The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century by Thant Myint-U 🔜
• Letters from Burma by Aung San Suu Kyi 🔜
• Burmese Days by George Orwell 🔜

Namibia

Nauru

Nepal ✅

• Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Conor Grennan ✅

Netherlands

• The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld 🔜
• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 🔜

New Zealand

Nicaragua

Niger

Nigeria ✅

• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe ✅

North Korea

• Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home by Laura Ling & Lisa Ling 🔜

North Macedonia

Norway

Oman

• Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi
• Honey Hunger by Zahran Alqasmi

Pakistan

• I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai 🔜
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid 🔜

Palau

Palestinian Territories

• Mural by Mahmoud Darwish 🔜
• The Question of Palestine by Edward W. Said 🔜

Panama

Papua New Guinea

Paraguay

Peru

• Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa 🔜

Philippines

• Bibliolepsy by Gina Apostol 🔜
• Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco 🔜
• America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo

Poland ✅

• The Pianist by Władysław Szpilman ✅
• Flights by Olga Tokarczuk 🔜

Portugal

• All the Names by José Saramago 🔜
• The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa 🔜

Puerto Rico

• The Passion according to Antigona Perez by Luis Rafael Sánchez
• United States of Banana by Giannina Braschi

Qatar

Romania

• The Passport by Herta Müller 🔜
• Nostalgia by Mircea Cartarescu

Russian Federation ✅

• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ✅
• Among the Russians by Colin Thubron ✅
• The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 🔜

Rwanda

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

• What the Twilight Says: Essays by Derek Walcott 🔜

Samoa

San Marino

Sao Tome and Principe

Saudi Arabia

Senegal

Serbia

• The Attic by Danilo Kiš 🔜
• Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić 🔜
• When Pumpkins Blossomed by Dragoslav Mihailović

Seychelles

Sierra Leone

• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

Singapore

• To Catch a Tartar: A Dissident in Lee Kuan Yew's Prison by Francis T. Seow 🔜
• Crossroads: A Popular History of Malaysia and Singapore by Jim Baker 🔜
• Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan 🔜

Slovakia

Slovenia

Solomon Islands

Somalia

• Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali 🔜
• The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed 🔜

South Africa

• Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee 🔜
• July's People by Nadine Gordimer 🔜

South Korea

• Human Acts by Han Kang 🔜

South Sudan

Spain

• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 🔜

Sri Lanka

• A Disobedient Girl by Ru Freeman 🔜
• The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje 🔜
• The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Sudan

• Slave: My True Story by Mende Nazer 🔜

Suriname

Sweden

Switzerland

Syria

• Death Is Hard Work: A Novel by Khaled Khalifa 🔜
• Adonis: Selected Poems by Adonis 🔜

Taiwan

• The Stolen Bicycle by Wu Ming-Yi 🔜
• Green Island by Shawna Yang Ryan

Tajikistan

Tanzania

• Admiring Silence by Abdulrazak Gurnah 🔜

Thailand

• Bangkok Wakes to Rain: A Novel by Pitchaya Sudbanthad 🔜

Timor-Leste

Togo

Tonga

Trinidad and Tobago

• The Mystic Masseur by V. S. Naipaul 🔜
• Golden Child: A Novel by Claire Adam

Tunisia

• The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History by Ibn Khaldûn 🔜

Turkey

• The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk 🔜
• The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak 🔜

Turkmenistan

Tuvalu

Uganda

Ukraine

• The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister by Olesya Khromeychuk 🔜
• The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 🔜
• Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman 🔜

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom ✅

• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens ✅
• King Lear by William Shakespeare ✅
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ✅

United States of America ✅

• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck ✅
• Walden & Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau ✅
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee ✅
• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller ✅

Uruguay

• Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano 🔜

Uzbekistan

Vanuatu

Vatican City

Venezuela

Viet Nam

• The Sorrow of War by Bảo Ninh 🔜
• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen 🔜

Yemen

• I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali 🔜

Zambia

Zimbabwe

• We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo 🔜