Books from Every Country in the World

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AFGHANISTAN

The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby

Afghan Caravan by Idris Shah

ALBANIA

Broken April by Ismail Kadare

Biografi by Lloyd Jones

ALGERIA

Between Sea and Sahara: An Algerian Journal by Eugene Fromentin

Nedjima by Kateb Yacine

ANDORRA

Andorra by Peter Cameron

Approach to the History of Andorra by Lidia Armengol Vila

ANGOLA

Angola Beloved by T. Ernest Wilson

ANGUILLA  

Green Cane and Juicy Flotsam: Short Stories by Caribbean Women

Under an English Heaven by Donald E. Westlake

ANTARCTICA

Aurora Australis by Ernest Shackleton

Shiver by Nikki Gemmell

ANTIGUA & BARBUDA

Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid

Antigua, Barbuda and Redonda: A Historical Sketch by Desmond Nicholson

ARGENTINA

A Secret for Julia by Patricia Sagastizabal

Bad Times in Buenos Aires by Miranda France

ARMENIA

The Crossing Place by Phillip Marsden

ARUBA & NETHERLANDS ANTILLES

Nights in Aruba by Andrew Holleran

AUSTRALIA

Remembering Babylon by David Malouf

Songlines by Bruce Chatwin

AUSTRIA

The Left-Handed Woman by Peter Hanke

The Nebelungenlied

Tractatus by Wittgenstein

AZERBAIJAN

Leyli and Majnun by Mehmed bin Suleyman Fuzuli

Ali and Nino by Kurban Said

BAHAMAS

Paradise Overdose by Brian Antoni

BAHRAIN

Looking for Dilmun by Geoffrey Bibby

BANGLADESH

Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore

Bangladesh: Reflections on the Water by James J. Novak

BARBADOS

Castle of My Skin by George Lamming

BELARUS

Two Souls by Maxim Haradsky

BELGIUM

A Tall Man in a Low Land by Harry Pearson

The Sorrow of Belgium by Hugo Claus

BELIZE

Belizious Cuisine

BENIN

The Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin

BERMUDA

Bermuda’s Story by Terry Tucker

BHUTAN

A Baby in a Backpack to Bhutan by Bunty Avieson

BOLIVIA

The Fat Man from La Paz: Contemporary Fiction from Bolivia by Rosario Santos

BOSNIA & HERCEGOVINA

The Fall of Yugoslavia by Misha Glenny

BOTSWANA

Bayeyi & Hambukushu: Tales from the Okavango

The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

BRAZIL

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

The Masters and the Slaves by Gilberto Freyre

BRUNEI

Time and the River by Prince Mohamed Bolkiah

BULGARIA

Bulgarian Rhapsody by Linda J. Forristal

BURKINA FASO

The Maxims, Thoughts and Riddles of the Mossi by Dim-Dolobsom Oudraogo

BURUNDI

Burundi on the Brink 1993-95 by Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah

CAMBODIA

The River of Time by John Swain

CAMEROON

The Poor Christ of Bomb by Mongo Beti

The White Man of God by Kenjo Jumban

CANADA

Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje

CAPE VERDE

Arquipelago by Jorge Barbosa

CAYMAN ISLANDS

The Cayman Islands: The Beach and Beyond by Martha K. Smith

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

The Central African Republic: The Continent’s Hidden Heart by Thomas E. O’Toole

CHAD

Chad: A Nation in Search of Its Future by Mario J. Azevedo

CHILE

House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

CHINA

The Search for Modern Island by Jonathan D. Spence

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

Imperial Women by Pearl S. Buck

COLUMBIA

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Poetry by Jose Asuncion Silva

COMOROS & MAYOTTE

The Comoros Islands: Struggle Against Dependency in the India Ocean by Malyn Newitt

CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF (ZAIRE)

In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz by Michaela Wrong

The Catastrophist by Ronan Bennett

CONGO, REPUBLIC OF

Congo Journey by Redmond O’Hanlon

COOK ISLANDS

An Island to Oneself by Tom Neale

COSTA RICA

Costa Rica: A Traveler’s Literary Companion

COTE D’IVOIRE

Climbie by Bernard Dadie

Le Fils de la Femme Male by Maurice Bandaman

CROATIA

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West

Café Europa by Slavenka Drakulic

CUBA

Trading with the Enemy byTom Miller

CYPRESS

Journey into Cypress by Colin Thubron

CZECH REPUBLIC

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera

Utz by Bruce Chatwin

DENMARK

Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg

Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales

Kierkegaard’s philosophical works

DJIBOUTI

Khamsine by William JF Syad

DOMINICA

Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rys

The Orchid House by Phyllis Shad Allfrey

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa

EAST TIMOR

The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo

Crossing: A Story of East Timor by Luis Cardoso

ECUADOR

Huasipungo (The Villagers) by Jorge Icaza

Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

EGYPT

Cairo: The City Victorious by Max Rodenbeck

The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz

EL SALVADOR

Cuentos de Barro (Tales of Mud) by Salarrue

ENGLAND

The English by Jeremy Paxman

EQUATORIAL GUINEA

Travels in West Africa by Mary Kingsley

ERITREA

Eritrea at a Glance by Mary Houdek

Even the Stones are Burning by Roy Pateman

ESTONIA

The Czar’s Madman by Jaan Kross

ETHIOPIA

The Sign and the Seal by Graham Hancock

FALKLAND ISLANDS

The Battle for the Falklands by Max Hastings

FIJI

Children of the Sun by Bryan McDonald

FINLAND

Seven Brothers by Aleksis Kivi

FRANCE

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

FRENCH GUIANA

Papillon by Henri Charriere

GABON

African Silences by Peter Matthiessen

GAMBIA

Chaff on the Wind by Ebou Dibba

GEORGIA

Please Don’t Call It Soviet Georgia by Mary Russel

Bread and Ashes by Tony Anderson

GERMANY

Faust by Goethe

The Tin Drum by Gunther Grass

GHANA

Asante: The Making of a Nation by Nana Otamakuro Adubofour

GREECE

Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres

GREENLAND

Last Places: A Journey in the North by Lawrence Millman

GRENADA

Under the Silk Cotton Tree: A Novel by Jean Buffong

GUADELOUPE

Anabase by Alexis Leger

The Tree of Life by Maryse Conde

GUAM & NORTHERN MARIANAS

Micronesia: Winds of Change

GUATEMALA

Hombres de Maiz by Miguel Angel Asturias

GUINEA

L’Enfant Noir by Camara Laye

GUINEA-BISSAU

Under the Neem Tree by Susan Lowerre

GUYANA

To Sir With Love by ER Braitwaite

Nine-Two Days by Evelyn Waugh

HAITI

Beast of the Haitian Hills by Pierre Marcelin

All Souls’ Rising by Madison Smartt Bell

HONDURAS

El Gran Hotel by Guillermo Yuscaran

The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuscinski

HONG KONG

An Insular Possession by Timothy Mo

Fragrant Harbour by John Lanchester

HUNGARY

Fateless by Kmre Kertesz

Eclipse of the Crescent Moon by Geza Gardonyi

ICELAND

Independent People by Halldor Laxness

Angels of the Universe by Einar Mar Gudmundsson

INDIA

Discovery of India by Jawaharlal

India: A Milion Mutinies Now by V S Naipaul

INDONESIA

The Fugitive by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Saman by Ayu Utami

IRAN

Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith by Gina Nahai

Persian Pilgrimages by Afshin Molavi

IRAQ

The New Iraz by Joseph Braude

Gilgamesh

IRELAND

McCarthy’s Bar

ISRAEL

Amos Oz

ITALY

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

JAMAICA

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

JAPAN

Inside Japan by Peter Tasker

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

JORDAN

Seven Pillars of Wisdom by TE Lawrence

KAZAKHSTAN

The Silk Road by Irene Frank

KENYA

Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

KIRIBATI

In Search of Tusitala by Gavin Bell

KOREA, NORTH

KOREA, SOUTH

Yi Sang’s Wings

Korea Unmasked by Rhie Won-Bok

KUWAIT

From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman

KYRGYZSTAN

Djamila by Chinghiz Aitmatov

LAOS

Bamboo Palace by Christopher Kremmer

LATVIA

Lacplesis (The Bear Slayer) by Andrejs Pumpurs

LEBANON

From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple

LESOTHO

Stories By and About Women in Lesotho by K. Limakatso Kendall

LIBERIA

Liberia: Portrait of a Failed State by John-Peter Pham

LIBYA

Ismailia Eclipse by Khaled Mattawa

LIECHTENSTEIN

Secrets of the Smallest State of Europe by Thomas Ecchardt

LITHUANIA

Balta drobule by Antanas Skma

LUXEMBOURG

How to Remain What You Are by George Muller

MACAU

City of Broken Promises by Austin Coates

MACEDONIA

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West

MADAGASCAR

Madagascar, Island of the Ancestors by John Mack

MALAWI

The Rainmaker by Steve Chimombo

Jungle Lovers by Paul Theroux

MALAYSIA

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

The Return by KS Maniam

MALDIVES

Mysticism in the Maldives

MALI

The Unveiling of Timbuctoo by Gailbraith Welch

MALTA

For Rozina…A Husband by Francis Ebejer

The Kappilan of Malta by Nicolas Monserrat

MARSHALL ISLANDS

Man This Reef by Gerald Knight

MARTINIQUE

The Collected Poetry of Aime Cesaire

Texaco by Patrick Chamoiseau

Malemort by ESdouard Glissant

MAURITANIA

Impossible Journey: Two Against the Sahara by Michael Asher

MAURITIUS

Paul et Virginie by Bernardin de St Pierre

Petrusmok by Malcolm de Chazal

MEXICO

History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo

The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz

MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF

Islands Islands: A Special Good by Bernadette V Wehrly

MOLDOVA

Playing the Moldovans a Tennis by Tony Hawkes

The Moldovans by Charles King

MONACO

Anything Considered by Peter Mayle

The Bridesmaids

MONGOLIA

The Secret History of the Mongols

MONTENEGRO

Wild Europe by Bozuidar Jezernik

MOROCCO

Year of the Elephant by Leila Abouzeid

Women of Marrakesh by Leonora Peet

MOZAMBIQUE

Dumba-Nengue by Lina Magaia

MYANMAR

Freedom from Fear & Other Writings by Aung San Sauu Kyi

Burmese Days by George Orwell

The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux

NAMIBIA

Born of the Sun by Joseph Diescho

NAURU

Nauru: Phosphate and Political Progress by Nancy Viviani

NEPAL

Tenzing and the Sherpas of Everest by Judy and Tashi Tenzing

NETHERLANDS

The Diary of Anne Frank

The Fall by Albert Camus

NEW CALEDONIA

Kanake by Jean-Marie Tjibao

NEW ZEALAND

The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera

NICARAGUA

Stories and Poems by Ruben Dario

The Jaguar Smile by Salman Rushdie

NIGER

In Sorcery’s Shadow by Paul Stoller

NIGERIA

Chinua Achebe

Ben Okri

Wole Soyinka

NORWAY

A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder

OMAN

Travels in Oman by Phillip Ward

PAKISTAN

Pakistan: The Eye of the Storm by Owen Bennett-Jones

Shame by Salman Rushdie

PALUA

Embattled Island by Arnold H. Leibowitz

PALESTINE

Gaza by Dick Doughty

The Bible

PANAMA

When New Flowers Bloomed

Tekkin’ a Waalk by Peter Ford

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Throwim Way Leg by Tim Flannery

PARAGUAY

Son of Man by Augusto Roa Bastos

At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig by John Gimlette

PERU

The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

PHILIPPINES

Great Philippine Jungle Energy Café by Alfred A Yuson

Video Nights in Kathmandu by Pico Iyer

PITCAIRN ISLANDS

Fragile Paradise by Glynn Christian

POLAND

The Heart of Europe by Norman Davies

PORTUGAL

Fernando Pessoa & Co by Fernando Pessoa

O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo by Jose Saramago

PUERTO RICO

Sweet Diamond Dust by Rosario Ferre

Foreign in a Domestic Sense by Christina Duffy Burnett

QATAR

Arabian Time Machine by Helga Graham

REUNION

La Reunion by Catherine Lavaux

ROMANIA

The Hooligan’s Return by Norman Manea

RUSSIAN FEDERATION

War and Peace by Tolstoy

Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky

RWANDA

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families by Phillip Gourevich

SAINT KITTS & NEVIS

Historic Basseterre by Sir Probyn Innis

Caribbean Life and Culture by Sir Fred Phillips

SAINT LUCIA

Collected Poems by Derek Walcott

SAINT VINCENT & THE GRENADINES

Wild Majesty by Peter Hulme

SAMOA

Where We Once Belonged by Sia Figiel

SAN MARINO

Secrets of the Seven Smallest States of Europe by Thomas Ecchardt

SAO TOME & PRINCIPE

Former Portuguese Colonies by Herb Boyd

SAUDI ARABIA

Sandstorms by Peter Theroux

SCOTLAND

Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

SENEGAL

God’s Bits of Wood by Sembene Ousmane

SERBIA

The Serbs by Tim Judah

Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric

SEYCHELLES

Aldabra Alone by Tony Beamish

SIERRA LEONE

Blood Diamonds by Greg Campbell

SINGAPORE

Foreign Bodies and Mammon Inc by Hwee Hwee Tan

Fistful of Colours by Suchen Christine Lim

SLOVAKIA

Bozena Slancikova

Ivan Krasko

SLOVENIA

Questions about Slovenia by Matjaz Chvatal

Slovenia by Joco Znidarsic

SOLOMON ISLANDS

Ples Bilong Iumi by Sam Alasia

Lightning Meets the West Wind by Keesing & Corris

SOMALIA & SOMALILAND

Aman: The Story of a Somali Girl by Janice Boddy

SOUTH AFRICA

Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

SPAIN

Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

SRI LANKA

Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje

SUDAN

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih

Emma’s War by Deborah Scroggins

SURINAME

Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice by Mark Plotkin

Suriname by Henk E Chin

SWAZILAND

The Kingdom of Swaziland by D Hugh Gillis

SWEDEN

Culture Shock by Charlotte Rosen Svensson

SWITZERLAND

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner

SYRIA

Come Tell Me How You Live by Agatha Christie

TAHITI & FRENCH POLYNESIA

The Marriage of Loti by Pierre Loti

TAIWAN

Harmony in Conflict by Richard Hartzell

TAJIKISTAN

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Taimur Zulfikarov

TANZANIA

Memoirs of an Arabian Princess by Emily Said-Ruete

THAILAND

Pan Ma Ba by Chart Kobjitti

Thai Food by David Thompson

TIBET

Tears of Blood by Mary Craig

Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer

TOGO

An African in Greenland by Tete-Michel Kpomassie

TONGA

Tonga Islands by Dr John Martin

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

A House for Mr. Biswas by VS Naipaul

TUNISIA

Lion Mountain by Mustapha Tlili

Pillar of Salt by Albert Memmi

TURKEY

Portrait of a Turkish Family by Irfan Orga

TURKMENISTAN

Magtymguly Feraghy

Sacred Horses by Jonathon Maslow

TURKS & CAICOS

A Summer on the Borders of the Caribbean Sea by J Dennis Harris

Water and Light by Stephen Harrigan

TUVALU

The People’s Lawyer by Philip Ells

The Happy Isles of Oceania by Paul Theroux

UGANDA

The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden

The Abyssinian Chronicles by Moses Isegawa

UKRAINE

Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Arabic Short Stories by Denys Johnson-Davies

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Underworld by Don DeLillo

URUGUAY

Tierra de Nadie (No Man’s Land) by Juan Carlos Onetti

UZBEKISTAN

Chasing the Sea by Tom Bissell

The Ruba’iyat of Omar Khayyam

VANUATU

To Kill a Bird with Two Stones by Jeremy McClancy

VATICAN CITY

When in Rome by Robert J Hutchinson

Inside the Vatican by Thomas J Reese

The Sistine Chapel by Fabrizio Mancinelli

VENEZUELA

Dona Barbara by Romulo Gallegos

VIETNAM

The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh

VIRGIN ISLANDS

Travels with Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn

WALES

Journals from the Antheap by Dannie Abse

YEMEN

Yemen by Tim Mackintosh-Smith

ZAMBIA

A Point of No Return by Fawanyanga Mulikita

The Tongue of the Dumb by Dominic Mulaisho

The Smoke that Thunders by Dominic Mulaisho

ZIMBABWE

The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing

    

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