World Literature Project

I've got a project going on and it's to read a book from every country of the world to the extent that it's possible. On this page, I'll update the list every time I manage to read a new book for this project, just to keep track of my progress.

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Afghanistan; Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns (TBR)
Albania; Ismail Kadare - The Successor
Algeria; Albert Camus - The Stranger
Andorra; Albert Salvadó - The Teacher of Cheops (TBR)
Angola; José Eduardo Agualusa - The Book of Chameleons
Antigua and Barbuda; Jamaica Kincaid - At the Bottom of the River
Argentina; Che Guevara - The Motorcycle Diaries
Armenia - Zoyâ Pirzâd - Vi venner oss til det
Australia; Max Barry - Jennifer Government
Austria; Angelika Rust - The Girl on the Red Pillow
Azerbaijan; Kurban Said - Ali and Nino (TBR)
Bahamas; K. A. Ashbury - Life On A Rock
Bahrain; Ali Al Saeed - The Randomist (TBR)
Bangladesh; Munayem Mayenin - The Sound of Eternity
Barbados; Karen Lord - Redemption in Indigo
Belarus; Svetlana Aleksijevitsj - Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Belgium; Marguerite Yourcenar - Memoirs of Hadrian
Belize; Felicia O. Hernandez - A Child Grows Up and Wonders
Benin; Raouf Mama - Why Monkeys Live in Trees and Other Stories from Benin
Bhutan; Britta Das - Buttertea at Sunrise (TBR)
Bolivia; Liliana Colanzi - Our Dead World
Bosnia and Herzegovina; Nenad Velickovic - Min datters far
Botswana; Alexander McCall Smith - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Brazil; Paulo Coelho - By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Brunei Darussalam; Aammton Alias - The Last Bastion of Ingrei (TBR)
Bulgaria; Elias Canetti - The Voices of Marrakesh
Burkina Faso
Burundi; John Bosco Ngendakurio - Kryssild: Mitt liv som flyktning
Cabo Verde; Germano Almeida - The Last Testament & Will of Senhor da Silva Araújo
Cambodia; Loung Ung - First They Killed My Father
Cameroon; Werewere Liking - The Amputated Memory (TBR)
Canada; Leonard Cohen - Book of Longing
Catalonia (Spain); Narcís Oller - The Madness (TBR)

Central African Republic; Adrienne Yabouza - The Magic Doll

Chad
Chile; Alejandro Zambra - Bonsai
China; Anchee Min - Katherine
Colombia; Gabriel García Marquez - Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Comoros; Ali Zamir - A Girl Called Eel (TBR)
Congo; Emmanuel Dongala - Jazz and Palm Wine (TBR)
Costa Rica; Eunice Odio - The Fire's Journey, Part I: Integration of the Parents
Côte d'Ivoire; Marguerite Abouet - Aya
Croatia; Kristian Noval - Dark Mother Earth (TBR)
Cuba; Fabiola Santiago - Habanita
Cyprus
Czech Republic; Hana Doskocilova/Zdenek Miler - Muldvarpen feirer jul
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea); Bandi - The Accusation
Democratic Republic of the Cong; In Koli Jean Bofane - Congo Inc (TBR)
Denmark; Anne Cathrine Bomann - Agathe
Djibouti; Abdourahman A Waberi - Transit 
Dominica; Alick Lazare - Pharcel Runaway Slave
Dominican Republic; Junot Díaz - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Ecuador; Jorge Carrera Andrade - Century of the Death of the Rose
Egypt; Nawal el-Saadawi - Woman at Point Zero
El Salvador; Roque Dalton - Small Hours of the Night
Equatorial Guinea; Trifonia Melibea Obono - La Bastarda
Eritrea; Sulaiman Addonia - The Consequences of Love
Estonia; Sofi Oksanen - Purge
Ethiopia; Mahteme- Sillase Welde-Mesqel - Hvorfor skulle jeg sove?
Fiji
Finland; Tove Jansson - The Summer Book
France; Marguerita Durás - The Lover
Faroe Islands; Jógvan Isaksen - Blid er sommarnatta
Gabon; Aida Toure - Nocturnal Lights: Sufi Poems
Gambia
Georgia; Nino Haratischwili - The Eighth Life (TBR)
Germany; Michael Wallner - April in Paris
Ghana; Amma Darko - Faceless
Greece; Sophocles - Antigone
Greenland; Mads Peter Nordbo - The Girl Without Skin
Grenada; Jacob Ross - Pynter Bender
Guadeloupe (France); Maryse Condé - I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

Guatemala; Eduardo Halfon - The Polish Boxer
Guinea; Camara Laye - The Dark Child
Guinea-Bissau; Selected Speeched of Amilcar Cabral
Guyana; Karen King-Aribisala - Bitter Leafing Woman
Haiti; Edwidge Danticat - Breath, Eyes, Memory
Honduras; Horacio Castellanos Moya - The Dream of My Return
Hungary; Imre Kertész - Fatelessness
Iceland; Yrsa Sigurdardottir - The Legacy
India; Anuradha Roy - The Folded Earth
Indonesia; Pramoedya Ananta Toer - The Girl from the Coast
Iran; Marjan Kamali - The Stationery Shop of Tehran
Iraq; Riverbend - Baghdad Burning - Girl Blog From Iraq
Ireland; Bram Stoker - Dracula
Israel; Ari Folman - Waltz With Bashir
Italy; Umberto Saba - Ernesto
Jamaica; Fiona Zedde - A Lover's Mercy
Japan; Sosuke Natsukawa - The Cat Who Saved Books
Jordan; Fadia Faqir - Willow Trees Don't Weep (TBR)
Kazakhstan; Sergei Lukyanenko - The Night Watch
Kenya; Shailja Patel - Migritude
Kiribati

Kosovo; Pajtim Statovci - My Cat Yugoslavia
Kurdistan; Mehmed Uzun - I skyggen av forspilt kjærlighet
Kuwait; Saud Alsanousi - Mamma Hissa's Mice (TBR)
Kyrgyzstan; Chingiz Aitmatov - Jamilia
Lao People's Democratic Republic (Laos); Outshine Bounyavong - Mother's Beloved: Stories from Laos
Latvia; Janis Jonevs - Doom '94
Lebanon; Rabih Alameddine - An Unnecessary Woman
Lesotho; Thomas Mofolo - Chaka (TBR)
Liberia; Won-Ldy Paye - Mrs Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile
Libya; Hisham Matar - The Return
Liechtenstein; Heinrich Harrer - Seven Years in Tibet (TBR)
Lithuania; Ruta Sepetys - Between Shades of Gray
Luxembourg
Macedonia; Goce Smilevski - Freud's Sister
Madagascar; Naivo – Beyond the Rice Fields (TBR)
Malawi; Jack Mapanje - The Last of the Sweet Bananas
Malaysia; Preeta Samarsan - Evening is the Whole Day
Maldives
Mali; Amadou Hampaté Bâ - The Fortunes of Wangrin (TBR)
Malta; Michael J. Sant - Letters from Melite (TBR)
Marshall Islands

Martinique (France); Patrick Chamoiseau - School Days (TBR)
Mauritania; Mbarek Ould Beyrouk – The Desert and the Drum (TBR)
Mauritius; Nathacha Appanah - The Last Brother
Mexico; Georgina Morales - Perpetual Night
Micronesia (Federated States of)
Monaco
Mongolia; Galsan Tschinag - The Blue Sky
Montenegro; Andrej Nikolaidis - The Son (TBR)
Morocco; Nedjma - The Almond
Mozambique; Mia Courto - Under the Frangipani
Myanmar; Pascal Khoo Thwee - From the Land of Green Ghosts
Namibia; Neshani Andreas - The Purple Violet of Oshaantu (TBR)
Nauru
Nepal; Santosh Kalwar - Yet Another Book of Poems
Netherlands - Tessa de Loo - The Twins
New Caledonia

New Zealand; Alfred Grace - Folktales of the Maori (TBR)
Nicaragua; Rubén Dario - Stories and Poems
Niger
Nigeria - Chimamanda Ngozi Adicie - Purple Hibiscus
Norway; Heine Bakkeid - I Will Miss You Tomorrow
Oman; Jokha Alharthi - Celestial Bodies
Pakistan; Mukhtar Mai - In The Name of Honour
Palau
Palestine; S. Yizhar - Khirbeth Khizah
Panama; Veronica Chambers – Mama’s Girl
Papua New Guinea; Behrouz Boochani - No Friend But the Mountains (TBR)
Paraguay; Ticio Escobar – The Curse of the Nemur (TBR)
Peru; Mario Vargas Llosa - The Neighbourhood
Philippines - Tess Uriza Holthe - When the Elephants Dance
Poland - Slavomir Rawicz - The Long Walk
Portugal; José Saramago - Blindness (TBR)
Puerto Rico; Esmeralda Santiago - Conquistadora
Qatar
Republic of Korea (South Korea) - Shin Kyung-Sook - Take Care of Mom
Republic of Moldova; Vladimir Lorchenkov - The Good Life Elsewhere (TBR)
Romania - Iana Matei - Til salgs: Mariana, 15 år
Russian Federation; Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
Rwanda; Immaculée Ilibagiza - Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa; Sia Figiel - Where We Once Belonged
San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia; Mohammed Hasan Alwan - Beveren
Scotland; Peter May - Coffin Road
Senegal; Mariama Bâ - So Long a Letter
Serbia; Veselin Markovic - Vi som er annerledes
Seychelles
Sierra Leone; Ishmael Beah - A Long Way Gone
Singapore; Timothy Joshua - Transience
Slovakia; Jana Benová - Away! Away!
Slovenia; Slavoj Zizek - Pandemic! COVID-19 Shakes the World (TBR)
Solomon Islands; Graeme Kent - Devil-Devil
Somalia; Nadifa Mohamed - Black Mamba Boy
South Africa; Kopano Matlwa - Evening Primrose
South Sudan
Spain; Arturo Pérez-Reverte - What We Become
Sri Lanka; Romesh Gunesekera - Reef
Sudan; Tayeb Salih - Season of the Migration to the North
Suriname; Cynthia McLeod - The Cost of Sugar (TBR)
Swaziland; Sarah Mkhonza - Weeding the Flowerbeds
Sweden; Linda Olsson - Astrid & Veronica
Switzerland; Fleur Jaeggy - S. S. Proleterka
Syrian Arab Republic; Osama Alomar - Fullblood Arabian
Tahiti; Célestine Hitiura Vaite - Frangipani (TBR)

Taiwan; Li An - The Lost Garden (TBR)

Tajikistan; Omar Khayyam - Ruba’iyat
Thailand; Minfong Ho - Hush! A Thai Lullaby
Tibet; Palden Gyatso - Fire Under the Snow (TBR)
Timor-Leste
Togo; Téte-Michel Kpomassie - An African In Greenland
Tonga; Epeli Hau'ofa - We Are the Ocean (TBR)
Trinidad and Tobago; V. S. Naipaul - The Mystic Masseur
Tsjuvasija; Gennardij Ajgi; Forutaning om eit rekviem
Tunisia; Lina Ben Mhenni - Tunisian Girl; Blogger i den arabiske våren
Turkey; Elif Shafak - The Architect's Apprentice
Turkmenistan; AK Welsapar - The Tales of the Aypi (TBR)
Tuvalu
Uganda; Doreen Baingana - Tropical Fish
Ukraine; Nikolai Gogol - Dead Souls
United Arab Emirates; Wael Al-Sayegh - A Poet's Oud
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Ian McEvan - On Chesil Beach
United Republic of Tanzania; Abdulrazak Gurnah - Paradise
United States of America; Donna Tartt - The Secret History
Uruguay; Carolina De Robertis - Perla
Uzbekistan; Hamid Ismailov – The Railway (TBR)
Vanuatu
Virgin Islands; Kacen Callender - Hurricane Child
Venezuela; Karina Sainz Borgo - It Would Be Night in Caracas
Vietnam; Lan Cao - The Lotus and the Storm
Yemen; Nujood Ali - I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
Zambia; Wilbur Smith - King of Kings
Zimbabwe; Petina Gappah - An Elegy for Easterly