Book AwardsAround the world in 80 books
Book awards by cover
Works (79)
Titles | Order |
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After Dark by Haruki Murakami — not in English Common Knowledge | Japan |
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read — not in English Common Knowledge | Uruguay |
I Am a Taxi (The Cocalero Novels) by Deborah Ellis — not in English Common Knowledge | Bolivia |
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali — not in English Common Knowledge | Yemen |
Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje — not in English Common Knowledge | Sri Lanka |
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery — not in English Common Knowledge | Canada |
Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq by Riverbend — not in English Common Knowledge | Iraq |
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel by Dai Sijie | China |
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett — not in English Common Knowledge | Peru |
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler — not in English Common Knowledge | USA |
Bliss by Zülfü Livaneli — not in English Common Knowledge | Turkey |
The Bone People by Keri Hulme — not in English Common Knowledge | New Zeland |
The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa — not in English Common Knowledge | Angola |
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak — not in English Common Knowledge | Germany |
The Bridge at Andau by James A. Michener — not in English Common Knowledge | Hungary |
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz — not in English Common Knowledge | Dominican Republic |
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith — not in English Common Knowledge | Great Britain |
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway — not in English Common Knowledge | Bosnia |
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez — not in English Common Knowledge | Columbia |
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton — not in English Common Knowledge | Australia |
The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill — not in English Common Knowledge | Laos |
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton — not in English Common Knowledge | South Africa |
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese — not in English Common Knowledge | Ethiopia |
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller — not in English Common Knowledge | Zimbabwe |
Dracula by Bram Stoker — not in English Common Knowledge | Romania |
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman — not in English Common Knowledge | Switzerland |
Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi — not in English Common Knowledge | Iran |
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer — not in English Common Knowledge | Ukraine |
The Eye of the Leopard by Henning Mankell — not in English Common Knowledge | Zambia |
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung — not in English Common Knowledge | Camboja |
Foreign Bodies by Hwee Hwee Tan — not in English Common Knowledge | Singapore |
From the Land of Green Ghosts : A Burmese Odyssey by Pascal Khoo Thwe — not in English Common Knowledge | Myanmar |
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier — not in English Common Knowledge | Netherlands |
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson — not in English Common Knowledge | Sweden |
Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea — not in English Common Knowledge | Saudi Arabia |
God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembene — not in English Common Knowledge | Senegal |
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer — not in English Common Knowledge | Channel Islands |
Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure by Sarah Macdonald | India |
Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton — not in English Common Knowledge | Argentina |
In the Memory of the Forest by Charles T. Powers — not in English Common Knowledge | Poland |
In the Woods by Tana French — not in English Common Knowledge | Ireland |
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer — not in English Common Knowledge | Nepal |
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester — not in English Common Knowledge | Indonesia |
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel — not in English Common Knowledge | Mexico |
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah — not in English Common Knowledge | Sierra-Leone |
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann — not in English Common Knowledge | Brazil |
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean — not in English Common Knowledge | Russia |
The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif — not in English Common Knowledge | Egypt |
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux — not in English Common Knowledge | Honduras |
Natural Novel by Georgi Gospodinov | Bulgaria |
The No. 1 Ladiesʼ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith — not in English Common Knowledge | Botswana |
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories by Luis Sepúlveda — not in English Common Knowledge | Ecuador |
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson — not in English Common Knowledge | Norway |
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver — not in English Common Knowledge | Congo |
Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende — not in English Common Knowledge | Chile |
The Post Office Girl by Stefan Zweig — not in English Common Knowledge | Austria |
The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka — not in English Common Knowledge | Malasia |
The Sapphire Sea by John B. Robinson — not in English Common Knowledge | Madaghaskar |
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy — not in English Common Knowledge | France |
Secret Son by Laila Lalami — not in English Common Knowledge | Marocco |
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost — not in English Common Knowledge | Kiribati |
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón — not in English Common Knowledge | Spain |
Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap — not in English Common Knowledge | Thailand |
The sorrow of war by Bao Ninh — not in English Common Knowledge | Vietnam |
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismaîl Kadaré — not in English Common Knowledge | Albania |
The Stranger by Albert Camus — not in English Common Knowledge | Algeria |
The Tesseract by Alex Garland — not in English Common Knowledge | Phillipines |
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe — not in English Common Knowledge | Nigeria |
Things in the Night by Mati Unt — not in English Common Knowledge | Estonia |
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini — not in English Common Knowledge | Afghanistan |
A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell — not in English Common Knowledge | Italy |
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson — not in English Common Knowledge | Pakistan |
The Trial by Franz Kafka — not in English Common Knowledge | Czech Republic |
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch — not in English Common Knowledge | Rwanda |
Where We Once Belonged by Sia Figiel — not in English Common Knowledge | Samoa |
Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey — not in English Common Knowledge | Ghana |
A Woman in Jerusalem by A. B. Yehoshua — not in English Common Knowledge | Israel |
Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi — not in English Common Knowledge | Korea |
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis — not in English Common Knowledge | Greece |