A book from every country
Reading my way around the world — one country at a time. 195 countries.
216
Total Read
43
Countries Read
Africa
| Country | Book | Author | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
Egypt |  Slipping | Mohamed Kheir | Read |
Libya |  In the Country of Men / The Return | Hisham Matar | Read |
Nigeria |  Things Fall Apart / Half of a Yellow Sun | Achebe, Adichie | Read |
Senegal |  At Night All Blood Is Black | David Diop | Read |
Togo |  An African in Greenland | Tété-Michel Kpomassie | Read |
Algeria | The Wretched of the Earth | Frantz Fanon | On list |
Ethiopia | The Emperor | Ryszard Kapuściński | On list |
Ghana | Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi | On list |
Ivory Coast | In the Company of Men | Véronique Tadjo | On list |
Kenya | The Perfect Nine | Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | On list |
Liberia | She Would Be King | Wayétu Moore | On list |
Morocco | The Travels of Ibn Battutah | Ibn Battuta | On list |
Rwanda | The Girl Who Smiled Beads | Clemantine Wamariya | On list |
Somalia | The Fortune Men | Nadifa Mohamed | On list |
South Africa | Born a Crime | Trevor Noah | On list |
Tanzania | Afterlives | Abdulrazak Gurnah | On list |
Uganda | Kintu | Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi | On list |
Angola | tryThe Book of Chameleons | José Eduardo Agualusa | — |
Botswana | tryThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency | Alexander McCall Smith | — |
Burkina Faso | tryThe Parachute Drop | Norbert Zongo | — |
Cameroon | tryHouseboy | Ferdinand Oyono | — |
Congo (DRC) | tryJohnny Mad Dog | Emmanuel Dongala | — |
Guinea | tryThe Dark Child | Camara Laye | — |
Madagascar | tryBeyond the Rice Fields | Naivo | — |
Malawi | tryThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind | William Kamkwamba | — |
Mali | tryAmbiguous Adventure | Cheikh Hamidou Kane | — |
Mozambique | trySleepwalking Land | Mia Couto | — |
Sierra Leone | tryA Long Way Gone | Ishmael Beah | — |
South Sudan | tryWhat Is the What | Dave Eggers | — |
Sudan | trySeason of Migration to the North | Tayeb Salih | — |
Tunisia | tryThe Bliss of Being Tired | Hassouna Mosbahi | — |
Zambia | tryThe Old Drift | Namwali Serpell | — |
Zimbabwe | tryWe Need New Names | NoViolet Bulawayo | — |
Suggestions welcome Benin · Burundi · Cabo Verde · CAR · Chad · Comoros · Congo (Republic) · Djibouti · Equatorial Guinea · Eritrea · Eswatini · Gabon · Gambia · Guinea-Bissau · Lesotho · Mauritania · Mauritius · Namibia · Niger · Sao Tome & Principe · Seychelles | |||
Americas
| Country | Book | Author | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
Argentina |  In Patagonia / A Musical Offering / In the Distance | Chatwin, Sagasti, Diaz | Read |
Chile |  When We Cease to Understand the World | Benjamín Labatut | Read |
Colombia |  Oblivion: A Memoir | Héctor Abad Faciolince | Read |
Cuba |  The Motorcycle Diaries | Che Guevara | Read |
Dominican Republic |  The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Díaz | Read |
Mexico | Loop | Brenda Lozano | Read |
Trinidad & Tobago |  The Mermaid of Black Conch | Monique Roffey | Read |
USA |  A Promised Land + many | Obama, Feynman, DFW… | Read |
Brazil | The Passion According to G.H. | Clarice Lispector | On list |
Canada | The Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood | On list |
Venezuela | Bolívar: American Liberator | Marie Arana | On list |
Bolivia | tryThe Vice of Art | Giovanna Rivero | — |
Guatemala | tryMen of Maize | Miguel Ángel Asturias | — |
Haiti | tryMasters of the Dew | Jacques Roumain | — |
Peru | tryThe Time of the Hero | Mario Vargas Llosa | — |
Uruguay | tryThe Truce | Mario Benedetti | — |
Suggestions welcome Antigua & Barbuda · Bahamas · Barbados · Belize · Costa Rica · Dominica · Ecuador · El Salvador · Grenada · Guyana · Honduras · Jamaica · Nicaragua · Panama · Paraguay · Saint Kitts & Nevis · Saint Lucia · Saint Vincent · Suriname | |||
Asia
| Country | Book | Author | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
Afghanistan |  A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | Read |
India |  Midnight's Children + many | Rushdie, Dalrymple, Ghosh, Mistry… | Read |
Iran |  Persepolis / Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree | Satrapi, Azar | Read |
Occupied Palestine |  Sapiens / Homo Deus | Yuval Noah Harari | Read |
Palestine |  Minor Detail | Adania Shibli | Read |
Japan |  Murakami, Kawakami, Murata, Tanizaki… | 20+ books | Read |
Lebanon |  From Beirut to Jerusalem | Thomas Friedman | Read |
Malaysia |  The Garden of Evening Mists | Tan Twan Eng | Read |
Myanmar |  First, They Erased Our Name | Habiburahman | Read |
North Korea |  Nothing to Envy | Barbara Demick | Read |
Pakistan |  Exit West / Moth Smoke + many | Hamid, Hanif, Bhutto, Peer | Read |
South Korea |  No One Writes Back / Pachinko | Jang Eun-Jin, Min Jin Lee | Read |
Sri Lanka | This Divided Island / Noontide Toll | Subramanian, Gunesekera | Read |
Vietnam |  The Sympathizer | Viet Thanh Nguyen | Read |
China | The Three-Body Problem | Liu Cixin | On list |
Indonesia | Beauty Is a Wound | Eka Kurniawan | On list |
Kazakhstan | Winter Pasture | Li Juan | On list |
Syria | The Arab of the Future | Riad Sattouf | On list |
Bangladesh | tryA Golden Age | Tahmima Anam | — |
Cambodia | tryFirst They Killed My Father | Loung Ung | — |
Iraq | tryThe Corpse Washer | Sinan Antoon | — |
Jordan | tryThe Hakawati | Rabih Alameddine | — |
Kyrgyzstan | tryJamilia | Chinghiz Aitmatov | — |
Mongolia | tryThe Blue Sky | Galsan Tschinag | — |
Nepal | tryArresting God in Kathmandu | Samrat Upadhyay | — |
Philippines | tryNoli Me Tangere | José Rizal | — |
Saudi Arabia | tryGirls of Riyadh | Rajaa Alsanea | — |
Singapore | tryPonti | Sharlene Teo | — |
Taiwan | tryNotes of a Crocodile | Qiu Miaojin | — |
Thailand | tryThe Judgment | Chart Korbjitti | — |
UAE | tryTemporary People | Deepak Unnikrishnan | — |
Suggestions welcome Bahrain · Bhutan · Brunei · Kuwait · Laos · Maldives · Oman · Qatar · Tajikistan · Timor-Leste · Turkmenistan · Uzbekistan · Yemen | |||
Europe
| Country | Book | Author | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
Austria |  Man's Search for Meaning | Viktor Frankl | Read |
Bulgaria |  East of the West | Miroslav Penkov | Read |
Czech Republic |  Growth | Vaclav Smil | Read |
Germany |  Visitation / The Art of Loving | Erpenbeck, Fromm | Read |
Greece |  Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | Read |
Italy |  Seven Brief Lessons on Physics | Carlo Rovelli | Read |
Norway | Spring (Seasons Quartet) | Karl Ove Knausgård | Read |
Poland |  Flights | Olga Tokarczuk | Read |
Portugal |  The Book of Disquiet | Fernando Pessoa | Read |
Russia |  Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Read |
Spain |  The Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | Read |
Turkey |  Snow | Orhan Pamuk | Read |
United Kingdom |  Lord of the Rings / Harry Potter + many | Tolkien, Rowling, Haig… | Read |
Albania | The Doll | Ismail Kadare | On list |
Bosnia & Herzegovina | The Bridge on the Drina | Ivo Andrić | On list |
Denmark | The Chestnut Man | Søren Sveistrup | On list |
France | Swann's Way | Marcel Proust | On list |
Georgia | The Pear Field | Nana Ekvtimishvili | On list |
Iceland | Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night | Jón Kalman Stefánsson | On list |
Ireland | A Ghost in the Throat | Doireann Ní Ghríofa | On list |
Netherlands | Summer Brother | Jaap Robben | On list |
Slovenia | Alamut | Vladimir Bartol | On list |
Sweden | Beartown | Fredrik Backman | On list |
Ukraine | Voices from Chernobyl | Svetlana Alexievich | On list |
Armenia | tryThe Forty Days of Musa Dagh | Franz Werfel | — |
Azerbaijan | tryAli and Nino | Kurban Said | — |
Belarus | tryThe Last Witnesses | Svetlana Alexievich | — |
Belgium | tryThe Sorrow of Belgium | Hugo Claus | — |
Croatia | tryThe Ministry of Pain | Dubravka Ugrešić | — |
Estonia | tryTruth and Justice | A.H. Tammsaare | — |
Finland | tryThe Year of the Hare | Arto Paasilinna | — |
Hungary | tryFatelessness | Imre Kertész | — |
Romania | tryNostalgia | Mircea Cărtărescu | — |
Serbia | tryA Tomb for Boris Davidovich | Danilo Kiš | — |
Switzerland | tryMan in the Holocene | Max Frisch | — |
Suggestions welcome Andorra · Cyprus · Latvia · Liechtenstein · Lithuania · Luxembourg · Malta · Moldova · Monaco · Montenegro · North Macedonia · San Marino · Slovakia · Vatican City | |||
Oceania
| Country | Book | Author | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
Australia |  Migrations | Charlotte McConaghy | Read |
New Zealand | tryThe Bone People | Keri Hulme | — |
Papua New Guinea | tryThe Crocodile | Vincent Eri | — |
Suggestions welcome Fiji · Kiribati · Marshall Islands · Micronesia · Nauru · Palau · Samoa · Solomon Islands · Tonga · Tuvalu · Vanuatu | |||