This year, I'm looking to expand my reading horizons and read more books from Asia, Africa or South America (with good English translations!). I'm looking mainly for fiction, and I'm not too fussy about the genre – I'll read anything!
Thanks!
by TheOldHornhead
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One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
M. Puig, The kiss of the spider woman
C. Fuentes, The old gringo
You will find everything you need on the [Read Around the World Challenge website](https://readaroundtheworldchallenge.com/). The site has books from all countries in the world grouped by [genre](https://readaroundtheworldchallenge.com/challenge_genres), authors’ countries of birth, story setting, [authors’ genders](https://readaroundtheworldchallenge.com/books/tag/female-author), etc. You can also [find books by clicking on countries on a world map](https://readaroundtheworldchallenge.com/map). There are also world-reading progress tracking tools that are automatically updated as you mark books as read, if you register for the challenge.
Here are some lists of books from all countries around the world, based on your request:
* [Read Around Africa Challenge](https://readaroundtheworldchallenge.com/challenge/africa)
* [Read Around Asia Challenge](https://readaroundtheworldchallenge.com/challenge/asia)
* [Read Around Oceania Challenge](https://readaroundtheworldchallenge.com/challenge/oceania)
* [Read Around South America Challenge](https://readaroundtheworldchallenge.com/challenge/south-america)
Happy reading.
Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
The House of the Mosque by Kader Abdolah
Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf
Taxi by Khaled al Khamisi
Zenzele by J. Novio Maraire
The Chinese Man’s Party by Vargas Llosa
Enlightenment by Alejo Carpentier
The Aleph by J. L. Borges
“The Century of Lights” by Alejo Carpentier, the translation is awful.
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.
Some of my favourites:
The Truce by Mario Benedetti (Uruguay)
By Night the Mountain Burns by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel (Equatorial Guinea)
Allah is Not Obliged by Ahmedou Kourouma (Ivory Coast)
Alphabet of the Night by Jean-Euphèle Milcé (Haiti)
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories by Luis Sepúlveda (Chile)
Some Prefer Nettles by Junichiro Tanizaki (Japan)
To the End of the Land by David Grossman (Israel)
In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut (South Africa)
Beyond Illusions by Duong Thu Huong (Vietnam)