✨The World Lit Bucket List ✨

What I hope to read from around the world before I die...

I’m fed up with looking up great works of literature and only seeing Moby Dick, Pride & Prejudice and literally anything by Shakespeare. I want new perspectives from different cultures and different languages to teach me, heal me, and give me inspiration.

The list will address one classic, contemporary, and magical/historical fiction book in order from every country on the globe (including some cultures and tribes).

Let’s change the algorithm from Charles Dickens to Sadegh Hedayat.

Some countries or cultures were not listed to due my inability to find much literature from them. If you know of any books from such peoples, please comment down below and I will edit the post. Thank you!

EUROPE:

Albania: The Highland Lute (Gjergj Fishta), Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History (Lea Ypi), The Palace of Dreams (Ismail Kadare)

Andorra: the poetry of Marta Repullo i Grau, The Teacher of Cheops (Albert Salvadó), The Mysterious Balloon Man (Albert Salvadó)

Armenia: The Wounds of Armenia (Khachatur Abovian), Bringing Ararat (Armand Inezian), Three Apples Fell from the Sky (Narine Abgaryan)

Austria: Venus in Furs (Leopold von Sacher-Masoch), The Piano Teacher (Elfriede Jelinek), Ecstasy (Mary Sharratt)

Azerbaijan: Days in the Caucasus (Banine), The Orphan Spy (Ella Leya), Stone Dreams (Akram Aylisli)

Belarus: Alindarka’s Children (Alhierd Bacharevič), Motherfield : Poems and Belarusian Protest Diary, King Stakh’s Wild Hunt (Uladzimir Karatkevich)

Belgium: The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (George Simenon), King Leopold’s Ghost (Adam Hochschild), Blue Bird (Maurice Maeterlinck)

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Zlata’s Diary (Zlata Filipović), Death and the Dervish (Meša Selimović), Before the Feast (Saša Stanišić)

Bulgaria: The poetry of Peyo Yavorov, East of the West: A Country in Stories (Miroslav Penkov), Mamnik (Vasil Popov)

Croatia: Croatian Tales of Long Ago (Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić), A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism (Slavenka Drakulić), Baba Yaga Laid an Egg (Dubravka Ugrešić)

Cyprus: Ledra Street (Nora Nadjarian), The Island of Missing Trees (Elif Shafak), The Silent Patient (Alex Michaelides)

Czechia: The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka), The Devil’s Workshop (Jáchym Topol), I Served the King of England (Bohumil Hrabal)

Denmark: Babette’s Feast (Karen Blixen), Butterfly Valley: A Requiem (Inger Christensen), The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century (Olga Ravn)

Estonia: Baltic Belles: The Dedalus Book of Estonian Women's Literature (Elle-Mari Talivee), Walker on Water (Kristiina Ehin), The Man Who Spoke Snakish (Andrus Kivirähk)

Finland: The Kalevala (Elias Lönnrot), Fishing for the Little Pike (Juhani Karila), The Year of the Hare (Arto Paasilinna)

France: The Song of Roland (Unknown), The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux), The Mirror Pass Series (Christelle Dabos)

Georgia: A Man Was Going Down the Road (Otar Chiladze), Hard by a Great Forest (Leo Vardiashvili), The Lame Doll (Besik Kharanauli)

Germany: The Nibelungenlied (Unknown), Perfume (Patrick Süskind), The Carpet Makers (Andreas Eschbach)

Greece: The Bacchae (Euripides), Zorba the Greek (Nikos Kazantzakis), Kassandra and the Wolf (Margarita Karapanou)

Hungary: Embers (Sándor Márai), Celestial Harmonies (Peter Esterhazy), Metropole (Ferenc Karinthy)

Iceland: The Sagas of Icelanders (Penguin Edition), Heaven and Hell (Jón Kalman Stefánsson), The secret of Lake Mývatn (Unnur Jökulsdóttir)

Ireland: Early Irish Myths and Sagas (Penguin Classics), The Wren, The Wren (Anne Enright), Prophet Song (Paul Lynch)

Italy: The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories, New Finnish Grammar (Diego Marani), A Girl Returned (Donatella Di Pietrantonio)

Kosovo: Bolla (Pajtim Statovci), My Cat Yugoslavia (Pajtim Statovci), How To Be a Kosovan Bride (Naomi Hamill)

Latvia: The Green Crow (Kristine Ulberga), Soviet Milk (Nora Ikstena), “Which one of us is gonna fly?” (Andra Manfelde)

Liechtenstein: Sagenwelt Liechtenstein (Herbert Hilbe), Dust (Stefan Sprenger), The Pleasure of Drowning (Jean Bürlesk)

Lithuania: I Must Betray You/Salt to the Sea (Ruta Sepetys), Vilnius Poker (Ričardas Gavelis), Siberian Haiku (Jurga Vile)

Luxembourg: At the Devil’s Banquets (Anise Koltz), Minute Stories (Robi Gottlieb-Cahen), Amatér (Jean Back)

Malta: L-Antipodi (Alex Vella Gera), In The Name Of The Father (Immanuel Mifsud), The Other Face (Ġorġ Peresso)

Moldova: Moldavian Autumn (Ion Drutse), The Good Life Elsewhere (Vladimir Lorchenkov), Kinderland (Liliana Corobca)

Montenegro: The Mountain Wreath (Petar II Petrović-Njegoš), Catherine the Great and the Small (Olja Knezevic), Mouth Full of Dirt (Branimir Scepanovic)

Netherlands: The House of the Mosque (Kader Abdolah), The Discomfort of Evening (Lucas Rijneveld), D: A Tale of Two Worlds (Michel Faber)

North Macedonia: Sigmund Freud’s Sister/Conversation with Spinoza (Goce Smilevski), A Spare Life (Lidija Dimkovska), Scribbles (Rumena Bužarovska)

Norway: A Doll’s House (Henrik Ibsen), A Shining (Jon Fosse), Sophie’s World (Jostein Gaarder)

Poland: Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead (Olga Tokarczuk), Snow White and Russian Red (Dorota Masłowska), On The Road To Babadag (Andrzej Stasiuk)

Portugal: The Book of Disquiet (Fernando Pessoa), Blindness/The Gospel According to Jesus Chris (José Saramago), The Dedalus Book of Portuguese Fantasy

Romania: Nostalgia (Mircea Cartarescu), Little Fingers (Filip Florian), The Forbidden Forest (Mircea Eliade)

Sámi: The Sun, My Father (Nils-Aslak Valkeapää), Wolf Winter (Cecilia Ekbäck)/Stolen (Ann-Helén Laestadius), By the Fire: Sami Folktales and Legends (Emilie Demant Hatt)

Serbia: Landscape Painted with Tea (Milorad Pavic), Dictionary of Khazars (Milorad Pavic), Back in a Spell (Lana Harper)

Slovakia: Three Chestnut Horses (Margita Figuli), Away! Away! (Jana Beňová), Samko Tále's Cemetery Book (Daniela Kapitáňová)

Slovenia: I Saw Her That Night (Drago Jančar), Yugoslavia: My Fatherland (Goran Vojnovic), The Harvest of Chronos (Mojca Kumerdej)

Spain: Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes), A Heart So White (Javier Marias), War of the Saints (Jorge Amado)

Sweden: Nils Holgersson (Selma Lagerlöf), The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Jonas Jonasson)/An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good (Helene Tursten), Nordic Visions: The Best of Nordic Speculative Fiction

Switzerland: Death in Persia (Annemarie Schwarzenbach)/The Black Spider (Jeremias Gotthelf), Sweet Days of Discipline (Fleur Jaeggy), Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse),

Turkey: The Loiterer (Yusuf Atılgan)/Madonna in a Fur Coat (Sabahattin Ali), 10 Minutes and 38 Seconds In This Strange World/The Forty Rules of Love (Elif Shafak), Snow/Istanbul/My Name is Red (Orhan Pamuk)

Ukraine: The Forest Song (Lesya Ukrainka), Gray Bees/Death and the Penguin (Andrey Kurkov), Arkan of Wolves (Pavlo Derevyanko)

United Kingdom: The Faerie Queene (Edmund Spenser), I’m A Fan (Sheena Patel), Piranesi/Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (Susanna Clarke)

NORTH AMERICA:

Bahamas: God’s Angry Babies (Ian Strachan), Greenland (David Santos Donaldson), An Evening in Guanima : A Treasury of Folktales from the Bahamas (Patricia Glinton-Meicholas)

Canada: Anne of Green Gables (L. M. Montgomery), A History of My Brief Body (Billy-Ray Belcourt), A Dream of a Woman (Arsenal Pulp Press, Casey Plett)

Costa Rica: Cuentos Ticos: Short Stories of Costa Rica (Ricardo Fernandez Guardia), Colonel Lágrimas (Carlos Fonseca Suárez), Where There Was Fire (John Manuel Arias)

Cuba: A Planet for Rent (Yoss), Broken Paradise (Cecilia Samartin), Dreaming in Cuban (Cristina García)

Greenland: From the Writings of the Greenlanders: Kalaallit Atuakklaannit, Last Night in Nuuk (Niviaq Korneliussen), The Thrall’s Tale (Judith Lindbergh)/The Wolf in the Whale (Jordanna Max Brodsky)

Guatemala: Men of Maize (Miguel Ángel Asturias), A Mayan Life (Gaspar Pedro González), Knitting the Fog (Claudia D. Hernández)

Haiti: Krik? Krak! (Edwidge Danticat), Claire de Luz Marina (Edwidge Danticat), Hadriana in All My Dreams (René Depestre)

Honduras: Catrachos: Poems (Roy G. Guzmán), Senselessness (Horacio Castellanos Moya), Points of Light (Guillermo Yuscaran)

Inuit: Harpoon Hunter (Markoosie Patsauq), Sanaaq (Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk), Split Tooth (Tanya Tagaq)

Jamaica: The River’s Song (Jacqueline Bishop), A Brief History of Seven Killings (Marlon James), A Tall History of Sugar (Curdella Forbes)/Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Marlon James)

Mexico: Pedro Paramo (Juan Rulfo), The Iliac Crest (Cristina Rivera Garza), Like Water for Chocolate (Laura Esquivel)

Nicaragua: Ashes of Izalco (Claribel Alegra), Natural History (Carlos Fonseca), Infinity in the Palm of her Hand: A Story of Adam and Eve (Gioconda Belli)

United States of America: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories: Penguin Classics (Washington Irving)/The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan), A Council of Dolls (Mona Susan Power)/A Grandmother Begins the Story (Michelle Porter)/There, There (Tommy Orange)/Poet Warrior (Joy Harjo), Empire of Wild (Dimaline, Cherie)

OCEANIA:

Aboriginal: Works of David Unaipon, Madukka the River Serpent (Julie Janson), Terra Nullius (Claire G. Coleman)

Australia: Monkey Grip (Helen Garner), All the Birds, Singing (Evie Wyld)/Beauty (Bri Lee), The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)

New Zealand: Bliss and Other Stories (Katherine Mansfield), Black Ice Matter (Gina Cole), Aue (Becky Manawatu)

Papua New Guinea: Maiba: A Papuan Novel (Russell Soaba), Cultural Refugees: Anthology of Poems (Julie Mota), Mata Sara (Regis Tove Stella)

Samoa: Afakasi Woman (Lani Wendt Young), They who Do Not Grieve (Sia Figiel), The Girl in the Moon Circle (Sia Figiel)

SOUTH AMERICA:

Argentina: Jorge Luis Borges Collections/Hopscotch (Julio Cortázar), Elena Knows (Claudia Pineiro), Tender is the Flesh (Agustina Bazterrica)

Bolivia: Oblivion and Stone: A Selection of Bolivian Poetry and Fiction, Fresh Dirt from the Grave (Giovanna Rivero), Woven in Moonlight (Isabel Ibañez)

Brazil: The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector)/The Alchemist/Veronika Decides to Die (Paulo Coelho), Amora: Stories (Natalia Borges Polesso), Crooked Plow (Itamar Vieira Junior)

Chile: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Pablo Neruda), A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays (Pedro Lemebel), Nervous System (Lina Meruane)

Columbia: The Vortex (José Eustacio Rivera), Estuary Waters (Velia Vidal), 100 Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

Ecuador: The Flyers (Monica Ojeda), Human Sacrifices: Stories (María Fernanda Ampuero), Jawbone (Mónica Ojeda)

Guyana: I Have Crossed an Ocean: Selected Poems (Grace Nichols), The Girl from Lamaha Street (Sharon Maas), The Ventriloquist’s Tale (Pauline Melville)

Paraguay: The Curse of Nemur (Ticio Escobar), I the Supreme (Augusto Roa Bastos), The Apocalypse According To Benedict & Other Stories (Esteban Bedoya)

Peru: Birds without a Nest (Clorinda Matto de Turner), The World is Wide and Foreign (Ciro Alegría), Lituma in the Andes/The Feast of the Goat/Death in the Andes (Mario Vargas Llosa)

Suriname: We Slaves of Suriname (Cornelis Gerard Anton Kom), Reconstruction (Karin Amatmoekrim), The Cost of Sugar (Cynthia McLeod)

Uruguay: Book of Embraces (Eduardo Galeano), Time Box (Mario Benedetti), Football in Sun and Shadow (Eduardo Galeano)

Venezuela: The Third Country (Karina Sainz Borgo), Mrs. Barbara (Romulo Gallegos), The Comb Maker (Ines Quintero)

AFRICA:

Algeria: Algerian White (Assia Djebar), A Bookshop in Algiers (Kaouther Adimi), 2084: The End of the World (Boualem Sansal)

Angola: Good Morning Comrades (Ondjaki), A General Theory of Oblivion (Jose Eduardo Agualusa)/Angola Janga (Marcelo d’Salete), The Almost End of the World (Pepetela)

Benin: Autobiography of the Lower East Side (Rashidah Ismaili), As She Was Discovering Tigony (Olympe Bhely-Quenum), Why Goats Smell Bad (Raouf Mama)

Botswana: The Careless Seamstress (Tjawangwa Dema), Call and Response (Gothataone Moeng), Far and Beyon’ (Unity Dow)

Burkina Faso: Crossroads of Widows (Monique Ilboudo), So Distant From My Life (Monique Ilboudo), Of Water and the Spirit—Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman

Burundi: Weep Not, Refugee (Marie-Therese Toyi), Baho! (Roland Rugero)

Cameroon: Lost Honors (Calixthe Beyala), A LONG WAY FROM DOUALA (Max Lobe), A Basket of Flaming Ashes (Joyce B. Ashuntantang)

Chad: the plays of Baba Moustapha, There is No Rainbow in Heaven (Netonon Noel Ndjékéry), Told by Starlight in Chad (Joseph Brahim Seid)

Comoros: The Kaffir of Karthala (Mohamed A. Toihiri), Girl Called Eel (Ali Zamir)

Congo: Little Boys Come from the Stars (Emmanuel Boundzéki Dongala), Black Bazar/African Psycho (Alain Mabanckou), Memoirs of a Porcupine (Alain Mabanckou)/One Ocean, Two Seas, Three Continents (Wilfried N’Sondé)

Djibouti: The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink From the Big Dipper (Abdourhaman A. Waberi), Why Do You Dance When You Walk? (Abdourahman A. Waberi) In the United States of Africa (Abdourahman A. Waberi)

Egypt: Writings from Ancient Egypt (Penguin Classics), Beer in the Snooker Club (Waguih Ghali), Akhenatón (Naguib Mahfuz)

Eritrea: Nomenclatures of Invisibility (Mahtem Shiferraw), The Consequences of Love (Sulaiman Addonia), African Titanics (Abu Bakr Kahal)

Eswatini: Blessed are the Dead (Malla Nunn), When the Ground Is Hard (Malla Nunn), Let the Dead Lie (Malla Nunn)

Ethiopia: Cutting for Stone (Abraham Verghese), The History of a Difficult Child (Mihret Sibhat), The Shadow King (Maaza Mengiste)

Gabon: Awu’s Story (Justine Mintsa), Mema (Daniel M. Mengara)/The Fury and Cries of Women (Angèle Rawiri)

Gambia: The Graveyard Cannot Pray (Baba Galleh Jallow)/Reading the Ceiling (Dayo Forster)

Ghana: Changes (Ama Ata Aidoo), The Hundred Wells of Salaga (Ayesha Harruna Attah), Homegoing (Yaa Gyasi)

Kenya: Birth of a Dreamweaver: A Writer’s Awakening/Weep Not, Child/A Grain of Wheat (Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o), Betrayal in the City (Francis Imbuga), Devil on the Cross (Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o)

Lesotho: Chaka (Thomas Mofolo), How We Buried Puso (Morabo Morojele), Three Egg Dilemma (Morabo Morojele)

Liberia: Land of My Fathers (Vamba Sherif), His Only Wife (Peace Adzo Medie), Nightbloom (Peace Adzo Medie)

Libya: My Friends/The Return (Hisham Matar), Under the Tripoli Sky (Kamal Ben Hameda), The Night Will Have Its Say (Ibrahim al-Koni)

Madagascar: Beyond the Rice Fields (Naivo), Translated from the Night (Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo), Return to the Enchanted Island (Johary Ravaloson)

Malawi: Smouldering Charcoal (Paul Tiyambe Zeleza), Nectar/Soft Magic (Upile Chisala), The Bird Boy’s Song (Steve Chimombo)

Mali: The Epic of Sundiata, Segu (Maryse Condé), Bound to Violence (Yambo Ouologuem)

Mauritania: The Desert and the Drum (Mbarek Ould Beyrouk), I’m Alone (Beyrouk), Rabia has arrived: chronicles of Trarza (Aichetou)

Morocco: , The Truth Comes Out of the Horse’s Mouth (Meryem Alaoui), Blood Feast (Malika Moustadraf)

Mozambique: The First Wife (Paulina Chiziane), Neighbours (Lília Momplé), Confession of the Lioness (Mia Couto)

Namibia: The Purple Violet of Oshaantu (Neshani Andreas), I Am Not Your Slave (Tupa Tjipombo)

Niger: The Battle for Gao (Nouhou Malio)/The Hero Who went to Hell and Heard His Epic Being Sung There (Safiatou Amadou)

Nigeria: Something Around Your Neck (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie), Love Offers No Safety (Olumide F. Makanjuola)/A Spell of Good Things (Ayobami Adebayo), Vagabonds! (Eloghosa Osunde)

Rwanda: Cockroaches (Scholastique Mukasonga), All Your Children, Scattered (Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse), Igifu (Scholastique Mukasonga)

Senegal: God’s Bits of Wood/Xala (Ousmane Sembène), Brotherhood (Mohamed Mbougar Sarr)

Somalia: Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head (Warsan Shire), Desert Dawn (Waris Dirie), From A Crooked Rib (Nuruddin Farah)

South Africa: Gem Squash Tokoloshe Rachel Zadok, Coconut (Kopano Matlwa), Ways to Die (Zakes Mda)

South Sudan: Beneath the Darkening Sky (Majok Tulba), No Time to Mourn: An Anthology by South Sudanese Women, A Long Walk to Water (Linda Sue Park)

Tanzania: By the Sea (Abdulrazak Gurnah)

Togo: An African in Greenland (Tété-Michel Kpomassie), Do They Hear You When You Cry (Fauziya Kassindja)

Tunisia: Behind Closed Doors: Women’s Oral Narratives in Tunis (Monia Hejaiej), A Tunisian Tale (Hassouna Mosbahi), The Ardent Swarm (Yamen Manai)/Talismano (Abdelwahab Meddeb)

Uganda: Abyssinian Chronicles (Moses Isegawa), We Are All Birds of Uganda (Hafsa Zayyan), A Girl is a Body of Water (Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi)

Zambia: Obligations to the Wounded: Stories (Mubanga Kalimamukwento), A Blood Condition (Kayo Chingonyi), Patchwork (Ellen Banda-Aaku)

Zimbabwe: Butterfly Burning (Yvonne Vera), Glory (NoViolet Bulawayo), Drinking from Graveyard Wells (Yvette Lisa Ndlovu)

ASIA:

Afghanistan: 99 Nights in Logar (Jamil Jan Kochai), Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes to Weep (Siba Shakib)/My Pen is the Wing of a Bird (Various Authors), A Curse on Dostoevsky (Atiq Rahimi)

Bahrain: The Pearl Thief (Noor Al Noaimi), Yummah (Sarah A. Al Shafei)

Bangladesh: Brick Lane (Monica Ali), Babu Bangladesh (Numair Atif Choudhury), Djinn City (Saad Z. Hossain)

Bhutan: Tales in Colour and Other Stories (Kunzang Choden), Treasures of the Thunder Dragon (Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck), The Circle of Karma/Bhutanese Tales of the Yeti/Folktales of Bhutan (Kunzang Choden)

Brunei: Written In Black (KH Lim), The Fisherman King (Kathrina Mohd Daud)/The Forlorn Adventure (Amir Falique)

Cambodia: The Road of Lost Innocence (Somaly Mam), The Year of the Rabbit (Tian Veasna)/In the Shadow of the Banyan (Vaddey Ratner), Under a Thousand-Year-Old Tree (Vaddey Ratner)

China: The Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Luo Guanzhong)/Journey to the West, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (Xiaolu Guo)/1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows (Ai Weiwei)/A Stone Is Most Precious Where It Belongs : A Memoir of Uyghur Exile, Hope, and Survival (Gulchehra Hoja), Bliss Montage (Ling Ma), The Hundred Secret Senses (Amy Tan)

India: The Recognition of Shakuntala (Kālidāsa)/I, Lalla (Lal Ded), A Burning (Megha Majumdar), Midnight’s Children (Salman Rushdie)/The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)

Indonesia: All That Is Gone (Pramoedya Ananta Toer), Apple and Knife (Intan Paramaditha), Happy Stories, Mostly (Norman Erikson Pasaribu)

Iran: Persian Sufi poetry/The Conference of the Birds (Attar)/Layla and Majnun (Nizami Ganjavi)/The Avesta/Blind Owl (Sadegh Hedayat)/The Shahnameh (Abolghasem Ferdowsi) The Mirror Of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women, Calling a Wolf a Wolf/Martyr! (Kaveh Akbar)/Then the Fish Swallowed Him (Amir Ahmadi Arian)/Reading Lolita in Tehran (Azar Nafisi)/Women Without Men (Shahrnush Parsipur)/Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season (Forugh Farrokhzad), The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (Shokoofeh Azar)/The Immortals of Tehran (Ali Araghi)/Pomegranate Soup (Marsha Mehran)

Iraq: The Epic of Gilgamesh, Absent (Betool Khedairi), The Iraqi Christ (Hasan Balasim)/Frankenstein in Baghdad (Ahmed Saadawi)

Israel: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari)

Japan: No Longer Human (Osamu Diazai)/The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)/Snow Country (Yasunari Kawabata), A Woman of Pleasure (Kiyoko Murata)/Heaven/All Lovers in the Night (Mieko Kawakami)/Astral Season, Beastly Season (Tahi Saihate), any book by Haruki Murakami or Kazuo Ishiguro/Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Toshikazu Kawaguchi)

Jordan: The Cry of the Dove (Fadia Faqir), The Monotonous Chaos of Existence (Hisham Bustani)

Kazakhstan: A Life at Noon (Talasbek Asemkulov), Amanat: Women’s Writing from Kazakhstan, To Hell with Poets (Baqytgul Sarmekova)

Kuwait: Wasmiya Comes Out of the Sea (Laila Al Othman), Mama Hissa’s Mice (Saud Alsanousi)

Kyrgyzstan: the poetry of Moldo Niyaz, The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years/Yamilia (Chingiz Aitmatov), , The White Ship (Chingiz Aitmatov)

Laos: Phra Lak Phra Lam, How to Pronounce Knife (Souvankham Thammavongsa)

Lebanon: The Prophet/The Broken Wings (Kahlil Gibran), An Unnecessary Woman (Rabih Alameddine), Balthasar’s Odyssey (Amin Maalouf)

Malaysia: Hikayat Raja-raja Pasai, Once We Were There (Bernice Chauly)/Bellies (Nicola Dinan), Black Water Sister (Zen Cho)

Maldives: Folk Tales of the Maldives (Xavier Romero-Frias), The Choice and Other Tales (Amyna)

Mongolia: Epic of Jangar, The Blue Sky (Galsan Tschinag)/Mongol (Uuganaa Ramsay)

Myanmar: Glass Palace Chronicle, Letters from Burma (Aung San Suu Kyi), Smile as They Bow (Nu Nu Yi)

Nepal: The poetry of Motiram Bhatta, Palpasa Café (Narayan Wagle), MAD COUNTRY (Samrat Upadhyay)

North Korea: A River in Darkness (Masaji Ishikawa)

Oman: Bitter Orange Tree (Jokha Alharthi)/Earth Weeps Saturn Laughs (Abdulaziz Al Farsi)

Pakistan: A Season for Martyrs (Bina Shah), Best of Friends (Kamila Shamsie)/Grieving for Pigeons: Twelve Stories of Lahore (Zubair Ahmad)

Palestine: Arabesques (Anton Shammas)/Orientalism (Edward W. Said), Minor Detail (Adania Shibli)/Mother of Strangers (Suad Amiry)/My First and Only Love (Sahar Khalifeh)

Philippines: Darangen/Hinilawod/Noli Me Tángere (José Rizal), Bibliolepsy (Gina Apostol), After Lambana (Eliza Victoria)

Qatar: Crops: Anthology of Qatari short stories

Russia: The complete works of Dostoyevsky/Puskin/First Love (Ivan Turgenev)/The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Leo Tolstoy)/Pale Fire/Loita (Vladimir Nabakov), Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Nikolaĭ Semenovich Leskov), The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)/There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby : Scary Fairy Tales (Ludmilla Petrushevskaya)

Saudi Arabia: Girls of Riyadh (Rajaa Alsanea)

Singapore: Dearest Intimate (Suchen Christine Lim)/Dinner on Monster Island (Tania De Rozario)

South Korea: The Cloud Dream of the Nine, The Vegetarian/Human Acts/Greek Lessons (Han Kang), Untold Night and Day (Bae Suah)

Sri Lanka: Anil’s Ghost (Michael Ondaatje)

Syria: The Epistle of Forgiveness (Abu al-ʿAlaʾ al-Maʿarri)/The Proof of the Honey (Salwa Al Neimi), A Sky So Close to Us (Shahla Ujayli)/Death is Hard Work (Khaled Khalifa)

Taiwan: Notes of a Crocodile (Qiu Miaojin), The Man with the Compound Eyes (Wu Ming-Yi)

Tajikistan: The City Where Dreams Come True (Gulsifat Shahidi)

Thailand: Ramakien, Bangkok Wakes to Rain (Pitchaya Sudbanthad), A True Good Thai (Sunisa Manning)

Turkmenistan: Death of the Snake Catcher/The Tale of Aypi (Ak Welsapar)

United Arab Emirates (UAE): Temporary People (Deepak Unnikrishnan)

Uzbekistan: In the Waters of the Forbidden Lake/Gaia Queen of Ants/The Devil’s Dance (Hamid Ismaïlov)

Vietnam: Mountains and Rivers of the Southern Country (Lý Thường Kiệt), Butterfly Yellow (Thanhhà Lai)/Banyan Moon (Thao Thai)/Elevator in Saigon (Thuân)/The Sympathizer (Viet Thanh Nguyen)

Yemen: What Have You Left Behind? (Bushra Al-Maqtari)/A Land Without Jasmine (Wajdī Ahdal)

***Again, if I missed any countries, it was because I could not find much information about their literature, but I would appreciate absolutely any recommendations in the comments!^💕***

Keep telling and collecting stories,

Ava