Around the World in 80 Books

1
Paradise
by Abdulrazak Gurnah
846 members
37 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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2
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
89,622 members
1,556 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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3
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
57,890 members
1,372 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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4
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
23,884 members
513 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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5
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
23,275 members
459 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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6
The Garden of Evening Mists
by Tan Twan Eng
1,850 members
117 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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7
The President
by Miguel Ángel Asturias
1,220 members
22 reviews
4
2 Members
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8
The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
30,841 members
1,104 reviews
4.1
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The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
17,745 members
392 reviews
3.9
Member
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10
White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
14,966 members
267 reviews
½ 3.7
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11
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
13,999 members
289 reviews
½ 3.6
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12
Like Water for Chocolate
by Laura Esquivel
13,215 members
270 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
7,955 members
291 reviews
4.1
Member
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14
My Name Is Red
by Orhan Pamuk
7,783 members
184 reviews
3.8
Member
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15
The Dinner
by Herman Koch
5,587 members
393 reviews
½ 3.4
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16
The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
5,094 members
180 reviews
3.9
Member
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17
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
by William Kamkwamba
3,168 members
147 reviews
4.1
Member
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18
House of Day, House of Night
by Olga Tokarczuk
621 members
16 reviews
3.9
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19
Sleepwalking Land
by Mia Couto
515 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
49,563 members
779 reviews
4.2
22
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
21,711 members
334 reviews
4.2
23
Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
10,558 members
565 reviews
½ 4.3
24
The Thorn Birds
by Colleen McCullough
8,353 members
160 reviews
4
25
Palace Walk
by Naguib Mahfouz
3,082 members
65 reviews
4
26
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by Loung Ung
2,529 members
64 reviews
4.1
27
Empress Orchid
by Anchee Min
2,343 members
58 reviews
½ 3.7
28
Season of Migration to the North
by Tayeb Salih
1,989 members
56 reviews
3.8
29
So Long a Letter
by Mariama Bâ
1,520 members
49 reviews
3.8
30
Conversation in the Cathedral
by Mario Vargas Llosa
1,458 members
27 reviews
4.2
31
Girls of Riyadh
by Rajaa Alsanea
1,312 members
78 reviews
½ 3.3
32
The Palace of Illusions
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
1,297 members
45 reviews
4
33
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
by Yeonmi Park
1,281 members
46 reviews
½ 4.3
34
The Land of Green Plums
by Herta Müller
1,210 members
45 reviews
½ 3.6
35
The Conservationist
by Nadine Gordimer
899 members
28 reviews
½ 3.3
36
Claire of the Sea Light
by Edwidge Danticat
857 members
44 reviews
3.8
37
The Dark Child
by Camara Laye
792 members
23 reviews
½ 3.4
38
A Golden Age
by Tahmima Anam
758 members
44 reviews
½ 3.7
39
The Quest for Christa T.
by Christa Wolf
664 members
11 reviews
½ 3.6
40
Doña Barbara
by Rómulo Gallegos
565 members
16 reviews
½ 3.7
41
Abyssinian Chronicles
by Moses Isegawa
556 members
10 reviews
½ 3.3
42
Ten Women
by Marcela Serrano
471 members
19 reviews
½ 3.4
43
Allah Is Not Obliged
by Ahmadou Kourouma
442 members
20 reviews
½ 3.6
44
Houseboy
by Ferdinand Oyono
392 members
9 reviews
½ 3.5
45
Our Lady of the Nile
by Scholastique Mukasonga
391 members
24 reviews
3.9
46
Changes: A Love Story
by Ama Ata Aidoo
338 members
11 reviews
½ 3.4
47
Secret Son
by Laila Lalami
286 members
29 reviews
½ 3.3
48
Links
by Nuruddin Farah
285 members
11 reviews
½ 3.3
49
God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir
by John Bul Dau
265 members
5 reviews
4.1
50
Chinaman
by Shehan Karunatilaka
264 members
10 reviews
4
51
Wonder
by Hugo Claus
247 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
52
Arresting God in Kathmandu
by Samrat Upadhyay
185 members
6 reviews
3.1
53
Gigi [novella]
by Colette
183 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
54
Once Again, the Sea
by Reinaldo Arenas
181 members
2 reviews
3.8
55
Good Morning Comrades
by Ondjaki
139 members
6 reviews
4.1
56
Woman on the Other Shore
by Mitsuyo Kakuta
122 members
5 reviews
½ 3.3
57
Saman
by Ayu Utami
112 members
1 review
½ 3.5
58
The Fortunes of Wangrin
by Amadou Hampâté Bâ
111 members
4 reviews
3.8
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
90 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
78 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
62 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
Told by Starlight in Chad
by Joseph Brahim Seid
39 members
5 reviews
½ 2.6
70
The Epic of Askia Mohammed (African Epic)
by Thomas A. Hale
38 members
1 review
3.2
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
33 members
5
73
The Future of Silence: Fiction by Korean Women
by Ju-Chan Fulton
26 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
21 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