Books to fulfill you reading around the world challenge. Ideally, the author is from the country they are writing about. Bonus points if it’s translated!
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last updated February, 2026
I Was Never the First Lady
Wendy Guerra
Sista, Stanap Strong! A Vanuatu Women's Anthology
Mikaela Nyman
The Collector of Names
Miha Mazzini
The Man Who Spoke Snakish
Andrus Kivirähk
The Mountains Sing
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
These Ghosts Are Family
Maisy Card
Elena Knows
Claudia Piñeiro
Daughters of Smoke and Fire
Ava Homa
Happy Stories, Mostly
Norman Erikson Pasaribu
Sphinx
Anne Garréta
Freshwater
Akwaeke Emezi
By Night in Chile
Roberto Bolaño
A Land Without Jasmine
Wajdi Al-Ahdal
A Girl Is a Body of Water
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Soviet Milk
Nora Ikstena
Four Minutes
Nataliya Deleva
The Ultimate Tragedy
Abdulai Sila
Auē
Becky Manawatu
Alindarka's Children
Alhierd Bacharevič
The Impatient
Djaïli Amadou Amal
Crossing
Pajtim Statovci
Jawbone
Mónica Ojeda
Bottled Goods
Sophie van Llewyn
It Would Be Night in Caracas
Karina Sainz Borgo
Bangkok Wakes to Rain
Pitchaya Sudbanthad
Blue
Emmelie Prophète
Afterparties
Anthony Veasna So
Solito
Javier Zamora
Madonna in a Fur Coat
Sabahattin Ali
We All Loved Cowboys
Carol Bensimon
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