My new years resolution is to read at least one book from every country! I have a few chosen out so far but need help finding a good, ideally light-hearted, book.
I already have books picked out from the following countries: USA, Mexico, Colombia, Tanzania, England, South Africa, China, North Korea, Nigeria, Japan, Australia, Pakistan, Iran, Haiti.
Thanks in advance!! 🙂
by sloths-or-die
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Oops! I have iceland already too!!
Join the world tour bookclub on Fable
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman would cover you for Sweden. I really enjoyed Love Forms by Claire Adam, which is Trinidadian.
for india:
– the god of small things by arundhati roy
– the midnight’s children by salman rushdie
– malgudi days by r.k. narayan
Anna Karenina–Russia
Anne of Green Gables–Canada
House of Paper–Argentina
Kristin Lavransdatter–Norway
Edit:
Whoops, I totally spaced the “lighthearted” part. Anna and Kristin are definitely not lighthearted books. They’re amazing, but heavy.
But you can add the Moomin books to your list for Finland!
My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite would fit the bill for Nigeria (it’s really funny, albeit dark humour).
Papillion by Henri Charrière, – French Guiana
also a few books reccomended to me by my sri
lankan friend:
– what lies between us by nayomi munaweera
– song of the sun god by shankari chandra
– the seven moons of maali almeida by shehan karunatilaka
Precious Cargo by Canadian Craig Davidson. It’s a memoir of his year as a school bus driver in Calgary, driving 5 special needs kids. Light-hearted and thought-provoking, not to mention pretty funny too.