Around the World in 80 Books discussion

I am recreating this list with regions in separate posts as I was running out of room!

I am using this list to keep track of literature that I have read and want to read from around the world with the following criteria: The author must have lived in (and ideally be a native of) the country or other location in which the book takes place.

AFRICA

Algeria The Stranger, Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade, The Bridges of Constantine
Angola Transparent City
Benin Snares Without End
Botswana Maru✔️
Burkina-Faso Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman
Burundi The Running Man
Cabo Verde The Last Will & Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo
Cameroon Houseboy
Central African Republic Daba's Travels from Ouadda to Bangui
Chad Told by Starlight in Chad
Comoros A Girl Called Eel
Congo-Brazzaville Black Moses, The Fire of Origins
Congo-Kinshasa (DRC) Tram 83, How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child
Côte d’Ivoire Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote, Aya✔️
Equatorial Guinea By Night the Mountain Burns, La Bastarda: A Novel✔️
Egypt Palace Walk✔️, Woman at Point Zero✔️
Eswatini A Beautiful Place to Die
Ethiopia Cutting for Stone, Beneath the Lion's Gaze
Gabon The Fury and Cries of Women
The Gambia Reading the Ceiling
Ghana The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, His Only Wife✔️
Guinea The Dark Child
Kenya Dreams in a Time of War, Dust
Lesotho Traveller to the East, Chaka, Singing Away the Hunger: The Autobiography of an African Woman
Liberia Murder in the Cassava Patch, She Would Be King
Libya The Bleeding of the Stone
Madagascar Beyond the Rice Fields
Malawi The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: A Memoir
Mali The Epic of Son-Jara, The Fortunes of Wangrin
Mauritania Silent Terror: A Journey into Contemporary African Slavery
Mauritius Eve out of Her Ruins, The Last Brother
Morocco Secret Son, This Blinding Absence of Light
Mozambique Neighbours: The Story of a Murder, The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy
Namibia The Purple Violet of Oshaantu
Nigeria Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga, Things Fall Apart, Efuru, Purple Hibiscus✔️, The Fishermen✔️, The Death of Vivek Oji✔️
Rwanda The Barefoot Woman✔️
São Tomé and Príncipe
Senegal God's Bits of Wood, The Beggars' Strike, So Long a Letter✔️
Seychelles Voices: Short stories from the Seychelles Islands
Sierra Leone A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Somalia Maps, Desert Flower, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth✔️
South Africa Long Walk to Freedom, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood✔️
South Sudan There Is a Country: New Fiction from the New Nation of South Sudan
Sudan Season of Migration to the North✔️, Lyrics Alley
Tanzania Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar, Paradise
Togo Do They Hear You When You Cry
Tunisia Behind Closed Doors: Women's Oral Narratives in Tunis
Uganda Kintu, Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe
Western Sahara
Zambia Patchwork, Men of the South, The Old Drift
Zimbabwe The House of Hunger, Nervous Conditions, The Book of Memory

ASIA

Asia (South, East and South East)
Bangladesh I Remember Abbu
Bhutan Treasures of the Thunder Dragon: A Portrait of Bhutan
Cambodia In the Shadow of the Banyan
China Three Kingdoms: Classic Novel in Four Volumes, Outlaws of the Marsh, Journey to the West, The Golden Days✔️, Six Records of a Floating Life✔️, Half a Lifelong Romance, Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth✔️
India Ramayana, The Recognition of Śakuntalā, The God of Small Things, Midnight's Children
Indonesia The Dancer
Japan The Tale of Genji, The Pillow Book, Snow Country✔️, The Waiting Years✔️, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle✔️, Convenience Store Woman✔️
Laos Mother's Beloved: Stories from Laos
Malaysia The Gift of Rain
Maldives Dhon Hiyala aai Alifulhu
Mongolia The Blue Sky
Myanmar Not Out of Hate: A Novel of Burma, Smile As They Bow
Nepal
North Korea Friend: A Novel from North Korea, The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea
Philippines Noli Me Tángere
Singapore If We Dream Too Long
South Korea The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea✔️, The Vegetarian✔️, Human Acts✔️
Sri Lanka Island of a Thousand Mirrors
Taiwan Notes of a Crocodile✔️
Thailand Four Reigns, Sightseeing, Arid Dreams, Bangkok Wakes to Rain
Vietnam Novel Without a Name✔️, The Mountains Sing

Middle-East and Central Asia
Afghanistan A Thousand Splendid Suns
Armenia Three Apples Fell from the Sky
Azerbaijan Days in the Caucasus
Bahrain Moments
Georgia The Knight in the Panther's Skin, Kvachi, The Eighth Life
Iran Vis and Ramin, The Blind Owl✔️, Savushun: A Novel About Modern Iran, Censoring an Iranian Love Story, The Complete Persepolis
Iraq The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Tobacco Keeper
Israel One Night, Markovitch
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan Jamilia
Kuwait A Map of Home
Lebanon Women of Sand and Myrrh, The Hakawati
Pakistan Basti, Moth Smoke, Kartography, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Palestine Mornings in Jenin
Oman Celestial Bodies
Qatar
Saudi Arabia Cities of Salt, Hend and the Soldiers
Syria The Frightened Ones
Tajikistan Hurramabad
Turkey My Name is Red, Memed, My Hawk
Turkmenistan The Tale of Aypi
United Arab Emirates The Diesel, The Sand Fish: A Novel from Dubai
Uzbekistan
Yemen I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced

EUROPE

Albania Chronicle in Stone
Austria The Confusions of Young Törless, The Wall
Belarus King Stakh's Wild Hunt, Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Belgium La Femme De Gilles, War and Turpentine, On Black Sisters Street
Bosnia and Herzegovina The Bridge on the Drina, Death and the Dervish, Sarajevo Marlboro
Bulgaria Under the Yoke, A Ballad for Georg Henig, Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
Croatia The Museum of Unconditional Surrender, Trieste
Cyprus
Czech Republic Closely Watched Trains, Innocence; or, Murder on Steep Street
Denmark The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency
Estonia The Man Who Spoke Snakish, Purge
Finland The Kalevala, Under the North Star, The Summer Book
France The Three Musketeers✔️, Free Day✔️
Germany Gilgi, The Quest for Christa T.
Greece Lysistrata
Hungary They Were Counted, Embers, The Door✔️
Iceland Independent People
Ireland Dubliners, Ulysses
Italy The Decameron, The Name of the Rose, My Brilliant Friend
Kosovo
Latvia Soviet Milk
Lithuania Shadows on the Tundra
Luxembourg
Moldova Bessarabian Nights
Montenegro Catherine the Great and the Small
Netherlands Eline Vere, Amsterdam Stories
North Macedonia
Norway Hunger, Kristin Lavransdatter, Out Stealing Horses
Poland The Street of Crocodiles✔️, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Portugal The Book of Disquiet
Romania The Land of Green Plums, Blinding
Russia Dead Souls✔️, Anna Karenina✔️
Serbia Garden, Ashes
Slovakia Rivers of Babylon
Spain The House of Ulloa, Fortunata and Jacinta, Nada, The Time of the Doves
Sweden Gösta Berling's Saga
Switzerland Sweet Days of Discipline
Ukraine Sweet Darusya, The Museum of Abandoned Secrets, The Orphanage
United Kingdom Pride and Prejudice✔️, Oliver Twist, Middlemarch, To the Lighthouse✔️, Girl, Woman, Other

OCEANIA

Australia Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines, Stradbroke Dreamtime✔️, Cloudstreet
Fiji
French Polynesia (France) Island of Shattered Dreams, Frangipani
Guam (US) My Urohs
Hawaii (US) Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Nauru
New Zealand The Bone People, Te Kaihau: The Windeater✔️
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Samoa Leaves of the Banyan Tree
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu

ANTARCTICA
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, Ice Diaries: An Antarctic Memoir, Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

NORTH AMERICA

Belize Beka Lamb
Canada Sanaaq: An Inuit Novel, Three Day Road, The Blind Assassin
Costa Rica
El Salvador One Day of Life
Greenland (Denmark) The First Crossing Of Greenland, An African in Greenland
Guatemala
Honduras
Mexico Pedro Páramo✔️, Mexican Gothic✔️
Nicaragua The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War
Panama
United States The Age of Innocence, The Great Gatsby✔️, The Bell Jar✔️, Beloved✔️, The Round House

Caribbean
Anguilla (UK)
Antigua and Barbuda A Small Place✔️
Aruba (Netherlands)
The Bahamas An Evening in Guanima: A Treasury of Folktales from The Bahamas
Barbados No Man in the House
British Virgin Islands (UK)
Cayman Islands (UK)
Cuba Three Trapped Tigers, Before Night Falls
Curaçao
Dominica Wide Sargasso Sea✔️
Dominican Republic In the Time of the Butterflies
Grenada The Bone Readers
Guadeloupe (France) Crossing the Mangrove
Haiti Krik? Krak!, Aunt Résia and the Spirits and Other Stories
Jamaica The Book of Night Women
Martinique (France) Texaco
Montserrat (UK)
Puerto Rico (US) The House on the Lagoon
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia Omeros
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago A House for Mr Biswas, Crick Crack, Monkey
Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)
US Virgin Islands (US)


SOUTH AMERICA

Argentina The Gaucho Martín Fierro, The Tunnel, Things We Lost in the Fire
Bolivia Biting Silence
Brazil Epitaph of a Small Winner, The Devil to Pay in the Backlands, The Hour of the Star
Chile The House of the Spirits, By Night in Chile
Columbia One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Sound of Things Falling, Delirium
Ecuador The Villagers
French Guiana (France)
Guyana My Bones And My Flute
Paraguay I, the Supreme, Saved by a Poem: Fecha Feliz
Peru An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru, The Time of the Hero, A World for Julius
Suriname
Uruguay Tabaré: An Indian Legend of Uruguay, Cantoras

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