World of Literature: The Reading List

This is a list of authors I’ve read as part of my World Literature project to read books by authors from 50 different countries, including those linked by the Equator and the Prime Meridian. Links are added when I’ve posted the review.

Target 50 countries

Current progress: 37 countries visited. You can find a map of my reading travels here 

• Australia: The Snow Kimono  by Mark Henshaw. Read August 2014
• Afghanistan: And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini Read May 2013
• Algeria: 

           Memory in the Flesh by Ahlam Mosteghanemi Read August 2013
           The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra Read February 2017

• Belgium: Fear and Trembling by Amelie Nothomb. Read June 2016
• Brazil:  Dom Casmurro  by Joachim Maria Machado de Assis 
• Burkina Faso: The Parachute Drop by Norbert Zongo Read July 2014
• Canada: Dear Life by Alice Munro. Read Jan 2014
• Chile:  The Infinite Plan by Isabelle Allende. Read June 2014
• China: Kinder than Solitude by Yiyun Li. Read March 2015
• Colombia:  The Armies  by Evelio Rosero Diago
• Czechoslovakia: Miss Silver’s Past by Josef Škvorecký
• Democratic Republic of The Congo: Full Circle by Frederick  Yamusangie
• Denmark: The Murder of Halland by Pia Juul Read Dec 2016
• Finland White  Hunger by Aki Ollikainen Read May 2015
• France:
  The Gourmet  by Muriel Barbary Read May 2013
  L’Assommoir by Emile Zola Read April 2014
  Nagasaki by Eric Faye. Read Sept 2014
  Old Goriot by Balzac Read September 2015.

• Germany: The Search for Christa T by Christa Wolf. Read Sept 2015
• Ghana:   

Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartery. Read September 2013
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi  Read December 2017

• Guadeloupe: The Tree of Life by Maryse Conde Read July 2016
• Holland: The Evenings by Gerard Reve Read 2017
• Hungary: Satantango. Read February 2014
• Ireland:
  The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan Read July 2014
  History of the Rain by Niall Williams Read Sept 2014
• Israel: 

           A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar Read 2015
           Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-goshen Read 2017

• Italy:
  The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (part read Dec 2013)
  Inspector Montelbano series by Andrea Camilleri. Read September 2014
• India: The Glass Palace  by Amitav Ghosh Read March 2014
• Japan: 
  After the Banquet  by  Yukio Mishima Read Dec 2013
  The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa Read July 2016
  Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto
  A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
• Kenya: Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
• Korea: 

         Please Look After Mom by Shin Kyong-sook
The Vegetarian by Hang Kang

• New Zealand:
  The Bone People by Keri Hulme. Read April 2014
  The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton Read July 2014
• Nigeria:  Americanah  by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Read May 2014
• Norway: The Blue Room  by Hanne Ørstavik  Read Dec 2016
• Pakistan:
  The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid Read Jan 2014
  The Holy Woman by Qaisra Shahraz Read Aug 2014
• Republic of the Congo:   Broken Glass by  Alain Mabanckou
• Somalia:  From a Crooked Rib by Nurradin Farah Read April 2014
• South Africa: Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton Read April 2015
• Wales:
  The Alone to the Alone by Gwyn Thomas. Read February 2014
  The Redemption of Galen Pike by Carys Davies
• Zimbabwe: We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo Read April 2015

How are your reading travels going? If you also are trying to broaden your reading this year, do share your experience. Perhaps you found some other gems for the countries I’ve mentioned. If you need inspiration take a look at the recommendations of bloggers who have written guest posts about the literature from their country – you’ll find them all on the View from Here page.