My Read Around the World Challenge book list that took me multiple times (and still correcting) to perfect.
created by maddieglanzer
last updated May, 2026
I Served the King of England
Bohumil Hrabal
Songbirds
Christy Lefteri
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
Carlos Eire
Our Man in Iraq
Robert PeriĆĄiÄ
Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World
Peter Chapman
The Lights of Pointe-Noire
Alain Mabanckou
A Girl Called Eel
Ali Zamir
The General in His Labyrinth
Gabriel GarcĂa MĂĄrquez
My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
Isabel Allende
Told by Starlight in Chad
Joseph Brahim Seid
Co-Wives, Co-Widows
Adrienne Yabouza
The Last Will & Testament of Senhor da Silva AraĂșjo
Germano Almeida
From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way
Jesse Thistle
Mission to Kala
Mongo Beti
Small Country
Gaël Faye
The Physics of Sorrow
Georgi Gospodinov
Some Girls: My Life in a Harem
Jillian Lauren
The Jaguar's Roar
Micheliny Verunschk
When Rain Clouds Gather
Bessie Head
Girl at War
Sara NoviÄ
The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now
Alma Guillermoprieto
Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan
Jamie Zeppa
Doguicimi: The First Dahomean Novel (1937)
Paul Hazoume
Beka Lamb
Zee Edgell
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Svetlana Alexievich
No Man in the House
Cecil Foster
A Golden Age
Tahmima Anam
Yummah
Sarah A. Al Shafei
Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War
Thomas de Waal
The Radetzky March (Von Trotta Family, #1)
Joseph Roth
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