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Favourite Books (Read the World Challenge)

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Larissa Veloso

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I decided to set myself on a (life long) quest to read one book from each country of the world.

So far I’ve read authors of 52 countries!

More details can be found here.

I’m counting some books I’ve read a kid as well, but here’s a list of some of my current favourite titles, authors, their countries and some reviews:

North America

Canada

  • Margaret Atwood
    • The Handmaid’s Tale
    • Alias Grace
    • The Blind Assassin
  • Yann Martel
    • Life of Pi

United States

  • Elizabeth Gilbert
    • The Signature of All Things
  • Madeline Miller
    • Circe
    • The Song of Achilles

Latin America

Brazil

  • Martha Batalha
    • The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao
  • Itamar Vieira Jr.
    • Crooked Plow

Chile

Colombia

  • Gabriel García Marquez
    • 100 Years of Solitude

Mexico

  • Sofia Segova
    • The Murmur of Bees

Peru

  • Mario Vargas Llosa
    • Aunt Julia and The Scriptwriter

Uruguay

  • Eduardo Galeano
    • The Open Veins of Latin America

Europe

Czech Republic

  • Milan Kundera
    • The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Italy

  • Italo Calvino
    • The Baron in the Trees
    • Invisible Cities
  • Elena Ferrante
    • The Neapolitan Quartet

Norway

  • Jostein Gaarder
    • The Solitaire Mystery

Portugal

  • José Saramago
    • Blindness
    • Death with Interruptions

Serbia

  • Téa Obreht
    • The Tiger’s Wife

Sweden

  • Stieg Larsson
    • The Millennium Trilogy
  • Hans Rosling
    • Factfulness

United Kingdom

  • Agatha Christie
    • Several
  • Suzanna Clarke
    • Piranesi
  • Sophie Hannah
    • Closed Casket
    • The Monogram Murders

Middle East

Egypt

  • Naguib Mahfouz
    • Palace Walk

Iran

  • Marjane Satrapi
    • Persepolis

Israel

Palestine

Asia

China

India

  • Salman Rushdie
    • Knife

Japan

Malaysia

  • Tan Twan Eng
    • The House of Doors
    • The Garden of Evening Mists

Pakistan

South Korea

Sri Lanka

  • Anuk Arudpragasam
    • A Passage North

Africa

Ghana

Kenya

Mozambique

  • Mia Couto
    • Sleepwalking Land

Nigeria

  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

South Africa

  • Trevor Noah
    • Born a Crime

Uganda

  • Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
    • A Girl is a Body of Water

Zimbabwe

  • NoViolet Bulawayo
    • Glory

Oceania

Australia

  • Markus Zusak
    • The Book Thief
  • Mikki Brammer
    • The Collected Regrets of Clover
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