Sunday, November 29, 2020

Read Around the World

https://ayearofreadingtheworld.com/thelist/

https://taleaway.com/world-reading-challenge-books-around-globe/

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/52DU7X23VPP1?ref_=wl_share&fbclid=IwAR1lk3cNzxmDVAngcvpZJxC9G_NTXbHZ0JLzh226hAO1QlW0405NNKjHHmQ

AFRICA:

Algeria

 The Lovers of Algeria, by Anouar Benmalek


Angola

 Good Morning Comrades, by Ondjaki


Benin

Stories We Tell Each Other by Rashidah Ismaili Abubakr


Botswana

Saturday is for Funerals, by Unity Dow


Burkina Faso

The Parachute Drop by Norbert Zongo


Burundi
Cabo Verde
Cameroon
Central African Republic (CAR)
Chad
Comoros
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Congo, Republic of the
Cote d'Ivoire
Djibouti
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)

 Weeding the Flowerbeds, by Sarah Mkhonza

Ethiopia
    Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese

Gabon
Gambia

Ghana
    Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi

Guinea
Guinea-Bissau

Kenya
    The Dragonfly Sea, by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Lesotho

Basali! Stories by and about women in Lesotho, Various


Liberia
Libya
Madagascar

Beyond the Rice Fields (Au-delà des rizières) by Naivo, translated from the French by Allison M. Charette

Voices from Madagascar ed. Jacques Bourgeacq and Liliane Ramarosoa 


Malawi

The Jive Talker: Or, How to Get a British Passport by Samson Kambalu


Mali
Mauritania

The Desert and the Drum, Mbarek Ould Beyrouk

Mauritius
Morocco
Mozambique

Ualalapi by Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa

The First Wife (Niketche) by Paulina Chiziane,


Namibia

The Purple Violet of Oshaantu by Neshani Andreas


Niger
    In Sorcery's Shadow: A Memoir of Apprenticeship among the Songhay of Niger, by Paul Stoller

Nigeria
    C N Adichie
   
Akwaeke Emezi
    A Man of the People, by Chinua Achebe

Rwanda
Sao Tome and Principe

Senegal:
    So Long a Letter, by Mariama Ba

Seychelles

Sierra Leone
    A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah

Somalia

South Africa:
    It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, by Trevor Noah
   
The Blessed Girl, by Angela Makholwa

South Sudan

Sudan
    Thirteen Months of Sunrise, by Rania Mamoun

Tanzania


Togo
    Do They Hear You When You Cry, by Fauziya Kassindja


Tunisia

A Tunisian Tale, Hassouna Mosbahi


Uganda
Zambia

A Cowrie of Hope by Binwell Sinyangwe

Zimbabwe

EUROPE

France:

Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo

Ireland:
    Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Basket Island, by Peig Sayers

Russia:
    The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov


SOUTH AMERICA

Argentina:
    Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin


Belize:
    Zee Edgell
    Morte e Vida Severina
   
Iracema


Colombia:
    Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


ASIA

Afghanistan:
    The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
    A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini

China:
    Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now, by Jan Wong

India:
   
The Satanic Verses

Khazakstan:   
    The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, by Chingiz Aitmatov   
    The Dead Wander in the Desert, by Rollan Seisenbayev


 
Japan:
    Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

Lebanon:
    
The Prophet, by Khalil Gibran

Palestine:
    The Mural, by Mahmoud Darwish


NORTH AMERICA

Antigua:
   
A Small Place, by Jamaica Kincaid

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