Around the World in 80 Books

1
Paradise
by Abdulrazak Gurnah
857 members
37 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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2
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
90,393 members
1,561 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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3
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
58,250 members
1,376 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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4
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
23,981 members
514 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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5
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
23,480 members
464 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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6
The Garden of Evening Mists
by Tan Twan Eng
1,859 members
116 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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7
The President
by Miguel Ángel Asturias
1,245 members
22 reviews
4
2 Members
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8
The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
30,955 members
1,110 reviews
4.1
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9
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
17,813 members
392 reviews
3.9
Member
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10
White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
15,071 members
268 reviews
½ 3.7
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11
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
14,073 members
290 reviews
½ 3.6
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12
Like Water for Chocolate
by Laura Esquivel
13,300 members
272 reviews
3.8
Member
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13
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
by Malala Yousafzai
8,002 members
291 reviews
4.1
Member
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14
My Name Is Red
by Orhan Pamuk
7,789 members
186 reviews
3.8
Member
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15
The Dinner
by Herman Koch
5,625 members
396 reviews
½ 3.4
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16
The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
5,183 members
182 reviews
3.9
Member
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17
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
by William Kamkwamba
3,193 members
147 reviews
4.1
Member
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18
House of Day, House of Night
by Olga Tokarczuk
646 members
17 reviews
3.9
Member
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19
Sleepwalking Land
by Mia Couto
524 members
13 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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20
Four Reigns
by Kukrit Pramoj
108 members
1 review
4
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21
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
50,369 members
784 reviews
4.2
22
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
21,828 members
336 reviews
4.2
23
Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
10,615 members
567 reviews
½ 4.3
24
The Thorn Birds
by Colleen McCullough
8,419 members
163 reviews
4
25
Palace Walk
by Naguib Mahfouz
3,087 members
65 reviews
4
26
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by Loung Ung
2,564 members
64 reviews
4.1
27
Empress Orchid
by Anchee Min
2,339 members
57 reviews
½ 3.7
28
Season of Migration to the North
by Tayeb Salih
2,006 members
56 reviews
3.8
29
So Long a Letter
by Mariama Bâ
1,526 members
50 reviews
3.8
30
Conversation in the Cathedral
by Mario Vargas Llosa
1,476 members
27 reviews
4.2
31
Girls of Riyadh
by Rajaa Alsanea
1,318 members
78 reviews
½ 3.3
32
The Palace of Illusions
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
1,314 members
47 reviews
4
33
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
by Yeonmi Park
1,313 members
46 reviews
½ 4.3
34
The Land of Green Plums
by Herta Müller
1,210 members
46 reviews
½ 3.6
35
The Conservationist
by Nadine Gordimer
903 members
28 reviews
½ 3.3
36
Claire of the Sea Light
by Edwidge Danticat
862 members
44 reviews
3.8
37
The Dark Child
by Camara Laye
799 members
23 reviews
½ 3.4
38
A Golden Age
by Tahmima Anam
761 members
44 reviews
½ 3.7
39
The Quest for Christa T.
by Christa Wolf
667 members
11 reviews
½ 3.6
40
Doña Barbara
by Rómulo Gallegos
572 members
16 reviews
½ 3.7
41
Abyssinian Chronicles
by Moses Isegawa
557 members
10 reviews
½ 3.3
42
Ten Women
by Marcela Serrano
478 members
19 reviews
½ 3.4
43
Allah Is Not Obliged
by Ahmadou Kourouma
447 members
20 reviews
½ 3.6
44
Our Lady of the Nile
by Scholastique Mukasonga
399 members
24 reviews
3.9
45
Houseboy
by Ferdinand Oyono
396 members
9 reviews
½ 3.5
46
Changes: A Love Story
by Ama Ata Aidoo
338 members
11 reviews
½ 3.4
47
Secret Son
by Laila Lalami
286 members
30 reviews
½ 3.3
48
Links
by Nuruddin Farah
286 members
11 reviews
½ 3.3
49
Chinaman
by Shehan Karunatilaka
269 members
10 reviews
3.9
50
God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir
by John Bul Dau
265 members
5 reviews
4.1
51
Wonder
by Hugo Claus
248 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
52
Arresting God in Kathmandu
by Samrat Upadhyay
186 members
6 reviews
3.1
53
Once Again, the Sea
by Reinaldo Arenas
185 members
2 reviews
3.8
54
Gigi [novella]
by Colette
184 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
55
Good Morning Comrades
by Ondjaki
141 members
6 reviews
4.1
56
Woman on the Other Shore
by Mitsuyo Kakuta
122 members
5 reviews
½ 3.3
57
The Fortunes of Wangrin
by Amadou Hampâté Bâ
112 members
4 reviews
3.8
58
Saman
by Ayu Utami
112 members
1 review
½ 3.5
59
Notes of a Desolate Man
by T'ien-wen Chu
97 members
1 review
3.2
60
Wave of Terror
by Theodore Odrach
91 members
12 reviews
½ 4.3
61
State of War
by Ninotchka Rosca
89 members
½ 4.6
62
Smile as they Bow
by Nu Nu Yi
83 members
6 reviews
2.8
63
Algerian White
by Assia Djebar
77 members
3 reviews
3.2
64
He Who Searches
by Luisa Valenzuela
75 members
½ 3.5
65
Sabriya: Damascus Bitter Sweet
by Ulfat Idilbi
67 members
1 review
4.2
66
The River and the Source
by Margaret A. Ogola
63 members
3 reviews
4.2
67
Symphony in White (THE AMERICAS)
by Adriana Lisboa
57 members
3 reviews
3.8
68
Cumandá
by Juan León Mera
52 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
69
The Epic of Askia Mohammed (African Epic)
by Thomas A. Hale
39 members
1 review
3.2
70
Told by Starlight in Chad
by Joseph Brahim Seid
39 members
5 reviews
½ 2.6
71
The Parachute Drop
by Norbert Zongo
34 members
4 reviews
½ 3.3
72
Without a Name and Under the Tongue
by Yvonne Vera
32 members
5
73
The Future of Silence: Fiction by Korean Women
by Ju-Chan Fulton
25 members
1 review
½ 3.6
74
Dreaming of Baghdad (Women Writing the Middle East)
by Haifa Zangana
24 members
2
75
Bitterness (An African Novel from Zambia)
by Malama Katulwende
19 members
1 review
76
Full Circle
by Frederick Yamusangie
15 members
2 reviews
3
78
A Collection of Uzbek Short Stories
by Mahmuda Saydumarova
11 members
½ 3.5
79
A Kazakh Teacher's Story: Surviving the Silent Steppe
by Mukhamet Shayakhmetov
3 members
1 review
3