Read around the world - the A’s

A list inspired by (and copied from) @cortneyhenningnovak, including (mainly) fiction reads from every country in alphabetical order! Any suggestions and add-ons welcome to expand the list🫶

11 countries including:

Afganistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria & Azerbaijan ❣️

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created by bookb

last updated February, 2026

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Free: Coming of Age at the End of History

Lea Ypi

A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story

Qais Akbar Omar

The Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation

Alex Dehgan

Punainen morsian

Anilda Ibrahimi

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini

The Orphan Sky

Ella Leya

The Secret River

Kate Grenville

Three Apples Fell from the Sky

Narine Abgaryan

Eva Peron: A Biography

Alicia Dujovne Ortiz

Annie John

Jamaica Kincaid

The Return of the Water Spirit (African Writers Series)

Pepetela Pepetela

The Doll

Ismail Kadare

The Teacher of Cheops

Albert Salvadó

Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade

Assia Djebar

My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women

Lyse Doucet

The Piano Teacher

Elfriede Jelinek

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Algeria: 1) Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade

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Also I can recommend Zabor or the psalms by Kamel Daoud

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Afganistan: 1) My Pen is the Wing of a Bird - Multiple Authors, 2) A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini, 3) The Snow Leopard Project - Alex Dehgan, 4) A Fort of Nine Towers - Qais Akbar Omar

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Albania: 1) The Doll - Ismail Kadare, 2) Punainen morsian (eng. Red Like a Bride) - Anilda Ibrahimi, 3) Free: Coming of Age at the End of History - Lea Ypi

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Armenia: 1) Three Apples Fell from the Sky

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Andorra: 1) The Teacher of Cheops

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Angola: 1) The Return of the Water Spirit

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Antigua and Barbuda: 1) Annie John

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Argentina: 1) Eva Peron: a Biography

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I can also recommend The fish child by Lucía Puenzo