I decided to set myself on a (life long) quest to read one book from each country of the world. More details can be found here.

Below is a list of all the countries I’ve read so far, with some of my favourite books.

• Afghanistan: Dancing in the Mosque (Homeira Qaderi)
• Albania
• Algeria
• Andorra
• Angola
• Antigua and Barbuda
• Argentina: Fictions (Jorge Luis Borges)
• Armenia
• Australia: The Book Thief (Markus Zusak (
• Austria: 3,096 Days (Natascha Kampusch)
• Azerbaijan
• Bahamas
• Bahrain
• Bangladesh
• Barbados
• Belarus
• Belgium
• Belize
• Benin
• Bhutan
• Bolivia
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Botswana
• Brazil: Crooked Plow (Itamar Vieira Jr.), Child of the Dark (Carolina Maria de Jesus)
• Brunei
• Bulgaria: The Collector of Worlds (Ilija Trojanow)
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cabo Verde
• Cambodia
• Cameroon
• Canada: The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood), Daughter (Claudia Dey)
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Chile: A Long Petal of the Sea (Isabel Allende)
• China
• Colombia: A 100 Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez)
• Comoros
• Congo, Democratic Republic of the
• Congo, Republic of the
• Costa Rica
• Cote d’Ivoire
• Croatia
• Cuba
• Cyprus: The Beekeper of Alepo (Christy Lefteri)
• Czech Republic: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
• Denmark
• Djibouti
• Dominica
• Dominican Republic
• Ecuador
• Egypt: Palace Walk (Naguib Mahfouz)
• El Salvador
• Equatorial Guinea
• Eritrea
• Estonia
• Eswatini
• Ethiopia
• Fiji
• Finland
• France: Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Georgia
• Germany: Siddharta (Hermann Hesse)
• Ghana: Nightbloom (Peace Adzo Medie)
• Greece
• Grenada
• Guatemala: Severina (Rodrigo Rey Rosa)
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Guyana
• Haiti
• Honduras
• Hungary
• Iceland
• India: Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Salman Rushdie)
• Indonesia
• Iran: Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi)
• Iraq
• Ireland: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (John Boyne)
• Israel: Sapiens (Yuval Noah Harari)
• Italy: The Baron in the Trees (Italo Calvino)
• Jamaica
• Japan: The Memory Police (Yōko Ogawa)
• Jordan
• Kazakhstan
• Kenya
• Kiribati
• Kosovo
• Kuwait
• Kyrgyzstan
• Laos
• Latvia
• Lebanon
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Libya
• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Malaysia: The House of Doors (Tan Twan Eng)
• Maldives
• Mali
• Malta
• Marshall Islands
• Mauritania
• Mauritius
• Mexico: The Murmur of Bees (Sofía Segovia)
• Micronesia
• Moldova
• Monaco
• Mongolia
• Montenegro
• Morocco
• Mozambique: Sleepwalking Land (Mia Couto)
• Myanmar
• Namibia
• Nauru
• Nepal
• Netherlands: The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
• New Zealand: Purakau (several authors)
• Nicaragua
• Niger
• Nigeria: Americanah (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
• North Korea
• North Macedonia
• Norway: The Solitaire Mystery (Jostein Gaarder)
• Oman
• Pakistan: I Am Malala (Malala Yousafzai)
• Palau
• Palestine: Salt Houses (Hala Alyan)
• Panama
• Papua New Guinea
• Paraguay
• Peru: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (Mario Vargas Llosa)
• Philippines
• Poland
• Portugal: Blindness (José Saramago)
• Qatar
• Romania
• Russia: Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
• Rwanda
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Samoa
• San Marino
• Sao Tome and Principe
• Saudi Arabia
• Senegal
• Serbia
• Seychelles
• Sierra Leone
• Singapore
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Solomon Islands
• Somalia
• South Africa: Born a Crime (Trevor Noah)
• South Korea: Free Food for Millionaires (Min Jin Lee)
• South Sudan
• Spain: Don Quijote (Miguel de Cervantes)
• Sri Lanka: A Passage North (Anuk Arudpragasam)
• Sudan
• Suriname
• Sweden: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson)
• Switzerland: Chariots of the Gods (Erich von Däniken)
• Syria
• Taiwan
• Tajikistan
• Tanzania
• Thailand
• Timor-Leste
• Togo
• Tonga
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Tunisia
• Turkey
• Turkmenistan
• Tuvalu
• Uganda: A Girl is a Body of Water (Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi)
• Ukraine
• United Arab Emirates (UAE)
• United Kingdom (UK): Piranesi (Suzanna Clarke)
• United States of America (USA): Circe (Madeline Miller), What’s Our Problem? (Tim Urban), Women Who Run With the Wolves (Clarissa P. Estés)
• Uruguay: The Open Veins of Latin America (Eduardo Galeano)
• Uzbekistan
• Vanuatu
• Venezuela
• Vietnam: The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching (Thich Nhat Hanh)
• Yemen
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe: Glory (NoViolet Bulawayo)