Around the World in 80 Books

1
Paradise
by Abdulrazak Gurnah
855 members
37 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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2
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
89,979 members
1,559 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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3
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
58,061 members
1,375 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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4
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
23,842 members
514 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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5
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
23,340 members
460 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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6
The Garden of Evening Mists
by Tan Twan Eng
1,852 members
116 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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7
The President
by Miguel Ángel Asturias
1,233 members
22 reviews
4
2 Members
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8
The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
30,953 members
1,107 reviews
4.1
Member
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9
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
17,767 members
391 reviews
3.9
Member
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10
White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
15,004 members
267 reviews
½ 3.7
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11
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
14,031 members
290 reviews
½ 3.6
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12
Like Water for Chocolate
by Laura Esquivel
13,256 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
7,936 members
290 reviews
4.1
Member
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14
My Name Is Red
by Orhan Pamuk
7,742 members
185 reviews
3.8
Member
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15
The Dinner
by Herman Koch
5,609 members
396 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
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16
The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
5,128 members
179 reviews
3.9
Member
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17
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
by William Kamkwamba
3,180 members
148 reviews
4.1
Member
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18
House of Day, House of Night
by Olga Tokarczuk
627 members
16 reviews
3.9
Member
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19
Sleepwalking Land
by Mia Couto
520 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
49,688 members
780 reviews
4.2
22
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
21,763 members
335 reviews
4.2
23
Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
10,594 members
566 reviews
½ 4.3
24
The Thorn Birds
by Colleen McCullough
8,380 members
162 reviews
4
25
Palace Walk
by Naguib Mahfouz
3,072 members
65 reviews
4
26
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by Loung Ung
2,546 members
64 reviews
4.1
27
Empress Orchid
by Anchee Min
2,336 members
58 reviews
½ 3.7
28
Season of Migration to the North
by Tayeb Salih
1,995 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
1,467 members
28 reviews
4.2
31
Girls of Riyadh
by Rajaa Alsanea
1,315 members
78 reviews
½ 3.3
32
The Palace of Illusions
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
1,298 members
46 reviews
4
33
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
by Yeonmi Park
1,294 members
46 reviews
½ 4.3
34
The Land of Green Plums
by Herta Müller
1,212 members
46 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
859 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
568 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
472 members
19 reviews
½ 3.4
43
Allah Is Not Obliged
by Ahmadou Kourouma
444 members
20 reviews
½ 3.6
44
Our Lady of the Nile
by Scholastique Mukasonga
395 members
24 reviews
3.9
45
Houseboy
by Ferdinand Oyono
392 members
9 reviews
½ 3.5
46
Changes: A Love Story
by Ama Ata Aidoo
337 members
11 reviews
½ 3.4
47
Secret Son
by Laila Lalami
288 members
30 reviews
½ 3.3
48
Links
by Nuruddin Farah
287 members
11 reviews
½ 3.3
49
Chinaman
by Shehan Karunatilaka
267 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
183 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
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
76 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
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