Books by Country

Explore the Globally Curious's book reviews by country! Books are listed in alphabetical order by author's last name or family name. 

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Multi-Country 

Ed. Ahmed, Muhammad Aurangzeb. Islamicates: Vol. 1. (English: multiple)
Ed. Nicholson, Hope. Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection Vol. 1. (English: Canada, USA)
Ed. Ou Ning and Austin Woerner. Chutzpah! New Voices from China. (Chinese: China, Malaysia, Taiwan) 

Angola

Agualusa, Jose Eduardo. A General Theory of Oblivion. (Portuguese) 

Australia

Mackenzie, Kenneth. The Young Desire It. (English) 

Bangladesh

Rahman, Rizia. Caged in Paradise. (Bengali)

Bhutan

Kunzang Choden. Tales in Colour and other stories. (English)
 - The Circle of Karma. (English) 

Bulgaria

Popov, Alek. The Black Box. (Bulgarian) 

Canada

Tinsley, Sean A. and Rachel A. Qitsualik. Ajjiit: Dark Dreams of the Ancient Arctic. (English) 

China

Can Xue. The Last Lover. (Chinese)
Cixin Liu. The Three-Body Problem. (Chinese) 
Mo Yan. Frog. (Chinese)
   - The Garlic Ballads. (Chinese)
Su Tong. My Life as Emperor. (Chinese)
Xiaolu Guo. A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers. (English)

Croatia

Ugresic, Dubravka. Baba Yaga Laid an Egg. (Croatian) 

Colombia

González, Tomás. In the Beginning Was the Sea. (Spanish) 
Márquez, Gabriel García. Love in the Time of Cholera. (Spanish) 

Cuba

de Rojas, Agustín. A Legend of the Future. (Spanish) 
Obejas, Achy. Ruins.  (English)
Yoss. A Planet for Rent. (Spanish) 

Equatorial Guinea

Ávila Laurel, Juan Tomás. By Night the Mountain Burns. (Spanish) 

Finland

Sinisalo, Johanna. The Blood of Angels. (Finnish) 

France

de Fombelle, Timothee. Vango: Between Sky and Earth. (French)
 - Vango: A Prince Without a Kingdom. (French)
Enard, Mathias. Zone. (French) 

Germany

de Velasco, Stefanie. Tiger Milk. (German) 
Erpenbeck, Jenny. The End of Days. (German) 
Kehlmann, Daniel. F. (German) 
 - Measuring the World. (German) 
Schalansky, Judith. The Giraffe's Neck. (German) 
Schlink, Bernhard. The Reader. (German) 

Guyana

Jefferson-Miles, Andrew. The Timehrian. (English) 

India

Ao, Temsula. Laburnum For My Head. (English) 
Ashk, Upendra Nath. Sorrow of the Snows. (Hindi) 
Benyamin. Goat Days. (Malayalam) 
Bharati, Dharamvir. Chander and Sudha. (Hindi) 
Bhatia, Anjali. Twice Upon a Time. (English)
Bhattacharya, Krishnarjun. Tantrics of Old. (English)
Bose, Anirban. Mice in Men. (English) 
Chanda, Swati. Switcheroos! Topsy-Turvy Mysteries of Markiposa. (English)
Das, Indra. The Devourers. (English) 
Dasu Krishnamoorty and Tamraparni Dasu, Ed. 1947 Santoshabad Passenger and Other Stories. (Telugu)
de Souza, Eunice. Dangerlok. (English)
Dhar, Mainak. Chronicler of the Undead. (English) 
Ghosh, Amitav. The Calcutta Chromosome. (English) 
Goswami, Indira. The Bronze Sword of Tengphakhri Tehsildar. (Assamese) 
Imayam, Pethavan: The Begetter. (Tamil)
Joshi, Paras. Equilibrium. (English) 
Kanna, Rakesh, Editor. The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction: Volume 1. (Tamil) 
  - Volume II. (Tamil)
Mauzo, Damodar. Teresa's Man and Other Stories from Goa. (Konkani)
Miranda, Johny. Jeevichirikkunnavarkku Vendiyulla Oppees (Requiem for the Living). (Malayalam)
Pattanaik, Devdutt. The Pregnant King. (English)
Prasad, TGC. from the Eye of my Mind. (English) 
Premendra Mitra. Mosquito and Other Stories. (Bengali) 
Reddy, Kesava. Moogavani Pillanagrovi (Ballad of Ontillu). (Telugu) 
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children. (English) 
Shreshta, Chetan Raj. The King's Harvest. (English) 
Singh, Vandana. The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet and other stories. (English) 
Taneja, Shweta. Cult of Chaos: An Anantya Tantrist Mystery. (English) 

Indonesia

Pramoedya Ananta Toer. This Earth of Mankind. (Indonesian)

Italy

Fois, Marcello. Bloodlines. (Italian) 

Jamaica

Forbes, Curdella. Ghosts. (English/Jamaican Creole)

Japan

Kawabata, Yasunari. Snow Country. (Japanese) 

Masako Togawa. The Master Key. (Japanese) 
Murakami, Haruki. Colorless Tsukaru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. (Japanese)
 -1Q84. (Japanese) 
Yoko Ogawa. The Diving Pool: Three Novellas. (Japanese) 

Korea

Hwang Sun-Mi. The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly. (Korean)  

Libya

Bushnaf, Mansour. Chewing Gum. (Arabic)

Malaysia

Cho, Zen, Ed. Cyberpunk: Malaysia. (English) 

Mexico

Esquivel, Laura. Like Water for Chocolate. (Spanish) 

Montenegro

Nikolaidis, Andrej. Till Kingdom Come. (Montenegrin) 

Myanmar

Ma Ma Lay. Not Out of Hate. (Burmese) 

Nigeria

Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. (English) 
Barrett, A. Igoni. Blackass. (English)
Manyika, Sarah Ladipo. Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun. (English) 
Okorafor, Nnedi. What Sunny Saw in the Flames. (English) 
Yakubu, Balaraba Ramat. Sin Is a Puppy That Follows You Home. (Hausa) 

Slovenia

Babnik, Gabriela. Dry Season. (Slovene) 

Spain

Zafón, Carlos Ruiz. The Shadow of the Wind. (Spanish)

Sweden

Bannerhed, Tomas. The Ravens. (Swedish) 

Thailand

Siburapha. Behind the Painting and Other Stories. (Thai)

Trinidad and Tobago

Baldeosingh, Kevin. The Ten Incarnations of Adam Avatar. (English) 

Turkey

Şafak, Elif. The Forty Rules of Love. (English) 

Uzuner, Buket. I Am Istanbul (Istanbullu). (Turkish) 

    - The Adventures of Misfit Defne Kaman: Water. (Turkish) 

United Kingdom

Davies, Howell. Congratulate the Devil. (English)
Llywelyn, Robin. From Empty Harbour to White Ocean. (Welsh) 

United States

Angelo, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. (English) 
Chavez, Denise. The King and Queen of Comezon. (English/Spanish) 
Cordova, Zoraida. Labyrinth Lost. (English)
Gomez, Jewelle. The Gilda Stories. (English) 
Morrison, Toni. Jazz. (English)
Santos-Febres, Mayra. Sirena Selena. (Spanish)

Yemen

Al-Muqri, Ali. Hurma. (Arabic)