Reading the world, one book at a time.
This list features a book from every country I’ve read (forgive me any errors). Unless otherwise stated, all books are fiction.
A
🇦🇷 Argentina: Fever Dream – Samanta Schweblin
🇦🇺 Australia: The Strays – Emily Bitto
B
🇧🇷 Brazil: Perfect Days – Raphael Montes
C
🇨🇦 Canada: We Were the Salt of the Sea – Roxanne Bouchard
🇨🇿 Czech Republic: The Cremator – Ladislav Fuks
F
🇫🇮 Finland: The Hummingbird – Kati Hiekkapelto
🇫🇷 France: Lullaby– Leila Slimani
G
🇩🇪 Germany: The Sinner – Petra Hammesfahr
🇬🇭 Ghana: Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
🇬🇾 Guyana: The Girl from the Sugar Plantation – Sharon Maas
H
🇭🇹 Haiti: Mouths Don’t Speak – Katia D. Ulysse
I
🇮🇸 Iceland: The Darkness – Ragnar Jónasson
🇮🇳 India: I, Phoolan Devi – Phoolan Devi (Nonfiction)
🇮🇩 Indonesia: Beauty is a Wound – Eka Kurniawan
🇮🇶 Iraq: The Last Girl – Nadia Murad (Nonfiction)
🇮🇪 Ireland: The Abandoned – Sharon Thompson
🇮🇹 Italy: Kill the Father – Sandrone Dazieri
J
🇯🇲 Jamaica: The Book of Night Women – Marlon James
🇯🇵 Japan: Confessions – Kanae Minato
K
🇰🇷 Korea, South: The Good Son – You-jeong Jeong
N
🇳🇱 Netherlands: Butterfly on the Storm – Walter Lucius
🇳🇿 New Zealand: Overkill – Vanda Symon
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
🇳🇴 Norway: The Bird Tribunal – Agnes Ravatn
R
🇷🇺 Russia: Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
🇷🇼 Rwanda: The Girl Who Smiled Beads – Clemantine Wamariya (Nonfiction)
S
🇸🇱 Sierra Leone: A Long Way Gone – Ishmael Beah (Nonfiction)
🇿🇦 South Africa: Born a Crime – Trevor Noah (Nonfiction)
🇪🇸 Spain: The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka: ?? – Nayomi Munaweera
🇸🇪 Sweden: The Ice Princess – Camilla Lackberg
T
🇹🇹 Trinidad [and Tobago]: Golden Child – Claire Adam
U
🇬🇧 United Kingdom:
- England: Tennison – Lynda LaPlante
- Northern Ireland: Music Love Drugs War – Geraldine Quigley
- Scotland – Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
- Wales:
🇺🇸 United States: Here and Gone by Haylen Beck
Z
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe: The Book of Memory – Petina Guppah
