WorldBookProject

I’m reconstructing 🙂

This is a list of books I read from countries and dependent territories from around the globe, which has been growing for many years. Also, when I started this project back in 2016 I wasn’t really aware of the importance of translators. My apologies!

A

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan)
• Chronicles in Stone by Ismail Kadare (Albania)
• Fantasia by Assia Djebar (Algeria, audiobook, translated by Inge M. Artl)
• My Samoan Journey by A.P. Lutali (American Samoa)
• Die Blaumerle by Michèle Gazier (Andorra, translated by Karla Sitzwohl-Blandin)
• Eine allgemeine Theorie des Vergessens by José Eduardo Agualusa (Angola, translated by Michael Kegler)
• The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910 – 1913 by Apsley Cherry-Garrard (Antarctica/England)
• The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid (Antigua and Barbuda, audiobook)
• Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina, translated by Andrew Hurley)
• The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas (Australia)
• Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann (Austria)
• Steinträume by Akram Aylisli (Azerbaidschan, translated by Annelore Nitschke)

B

• Chasing Light by Patricia Glinton-Meicholas (Bahamas)
• Yummah by Sarah A. Al Shafei (Bahrain)
• A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam (Bangladesh)
• Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord (Barbados)
• Obabakoak by Bernardo Atxaga (Basque Country, translated by Margaret Jull Costa)
• Ich zähmte die Wölfin: Erinnerungen des Kaisers Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar (Belgium, translated by Fritz Jaffé)
• Der Krieg hat kein weibliches Gesicht by Swetlana Alexijewitsch (Belorus)
• Autobiography of the Lower Eastside by Rashidah Ismaili (Benin)
• Escapades Awakenings by Doji Dhratyul (Bhutan)
• (Bolivia)
• A Grue of Ice by Geoffrey Jenkins (Bouvet Island)
• The Head of the Saint by Socorro Acioli (Brazil, translated by Daniel Hahn)
• B.I.S.A. Eventually by Amir Falique (Brunei Darussalam)
• Stork Mountain by Miroslav Penkov (Bulgaria)
• Of Water and Spirit: Ritual Magic and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman by Malidoma Patrice Somé (Burkina Faso, audiobook)
• Smile as they Bow by Nu Nu Yi (Burma, translated by Alfred Birnbaum and Thi Thi Aye)
• Prinzessin der  Waisen by Esther Kamatari (Burundi, translated by Anja Lazarowicz)

C

• Das Testament des Herrn Napumoceno by Germano Almeida (Cabo Verde, translated by Maralde Meyer-Minnemann)
• Children of Cambodia’s Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors by Dith Pran (compiler) (Cambodia)
• Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue (Cameroon)
• Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood (Canada)
• (Catalonia)
• Founded upon the Seas: A History of the Cayman Islands and their People by Michael Craton and the New History Committee (Cayman Islands)
• Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia by David Vine (British Indian Ocean Territory / Chagos / USA)
• Das Geisterhaus by Isabel Allende (Chile, translated by Anneliese Botond)
• The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (China)
• We were the Christmas Islanders by Margaret Neale (Territory of Christmas Island)
• The Coconut Revolution by Pat Linford (Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands)
• The General in his Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia, translated by Edith Grossmann)
• (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
• Memoirs of a Porcupine by Alain Mabanckou (Rep. of the Congo)
• History and Traditions of Rarotonga by Te Ariki Tara ‘Are (Cook Islands, translated by S. Percy Smith, S. Savage and Major J.T. Large)
• Solitude & Solecisms: A Willis Island Notebook by Frank Exon (Coral Sea Islands, Australia)
• The Death of the Little Match Girl by Zoran Ferić (Croatia, translated by Tomislav Kuzmanovic)
• Barockkonzert by Alejo Carpentier (Cuba, translated by Anneliese Botond)
• Doppeltes Spiel by Frank Martinus Arion (Curaçao, translated by Tos Meuer)
• Forbidden Zones by Aydin Mehmet Ali (Cyprus North)
• Arena by Lily Michaelidou (Cyprus South, translated by David Connolly)
• Chodische Freiheitskämpfer by Alois Jirásek (Czech Republic)

D

• Borderliners by Peter Høeg (Denmark)
• In the United States of Africa by Abdourahman Waberi (Djibouti, translated by David and Nicole Ball)
• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (Dominica)
• Die Zeit der Schmetterlinge by Julia Alvarez (Dominican Republic, translated by Carina von Enzensberg and Hartmut Zahn)

E

• The Fall of the Imam by Nawal El Saadawi (Egypt)
• One Day of Life by Manlio Argueta (El Salvador, translated by Bill Brow)
• Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron (England, audiobook)
• La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono (Equatorial Guinea, translated by Lawrence Schimel)
• Song of the Nightingale: One woman’s dramatic story of faith and persecution in Eritrea by Helen Berhane with Emma Newrick (Eritrea)
• Apothecary Melchior and the Mystery of St Olaf’s Church by Indrek Hargla (Estonia, translated by Adam Cullen)
•  The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu (Ethiopia, audiobook)

F

• Fighters over the Falklands: Defending the Islanders’ Way of Life by David Gledhill (Falkland Islands)
• Ketil und die Wale by Heðin Brú (Faroe Islands, translated by Ernst Walter)
• The Lives of Coat Hangers by Sudesh Mishra (Fiji)
• The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi (Finnland)
• The Fat and the Thin by Émile Zola (France)
• Breadfruit by Célestine Vaite (French Polynesia)

G

• The Sun Will Soon Shine by Sally Sadie Singhateh (The Gambia)
• (Gabon)
• Der Terraner (Perry Rhodan Nr. 1000) by William Voltz (Germany)
• Mein sanfter Zwilling by Nino Haratischwili (Georgia)
• Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi (Ghana, audiobook)
• Death in Paradise Ramp: Bresciano and the Unburied Angel by Sam Benady & Mary Chiappe (Gibraltar)
• Why I Killed My Best Friend by Amanda Michalopoulou (Greece, translated by Karen Emmerich)
• Nuuk #ohneFilter by Niviaq Korneliussen (Greenland, translated by Giannina Spinty-Mossin and Katja Langmaier)
• Angel by Merle Collins (Grenada)
• I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe, translated by Richard Philcox)
• Guam’s hidden gem: archaeological and historical studies at Ritidian by Mike T. Carson (ed.) (Territory of Guam)
• Geschichten aus Guatemala by Eduardo Halfon, Maurice Echeverría, Denise Phé-Funchal, Javier Payeras (Guatemala, translated by Stephanie von Harrach, Lutz Kliche, Timo Berger, Willi Zurbrüggen)
• A Sound like Thunder by Diana Bachmann (Bailiwick of Guernsey)
• The Bush Toads by Tierno Monénembo (Guinea, translated by James Kirkup)
• Buxton Spice by Oonya Kempadoo (Guyana)

H

• Love, Anger, Madness by Marie Vieux-Chauvet (Haiti, translated by Val Vinokur and Rose-Myriam Rejouis)
• The Sea And The Snow: How we reached and climbed a volcano at the ends of the Earth by Philip Temple (Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands)
• Access by Xu Xi (Hongkong)
• Roman eines Schicksallosen by Imre Kertézs  (Hungary)

I

• The Greenhouse by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir (Iceland)
• In an Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh (India)
• Paper Boats by Dee Lestari (Indonesia, translated by Tiffany Tsao, audiobook)
• Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour (Iran, translated by Sara Khalili)
• Mothballs by Alia Mamdouh (Iraq, translated by Peter Theroux)
• Ulysses by James Joyce (Ireland, audiobook, reread)
• Weeping Susannah by Alona Kimhi (Israel, translated by Dalya Bilu)
• The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri (Italy)
• (Ivory Coast)

J

• Jane and Louisa will soon come home by Erna Brodber (Jamaica)
• The flora of Jan Mayen by Johannes Lid and Dagny Tande Lid (Jan Mayen)
• Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata (Japan, translated by Edward G Seidensticker, reread)
• Birds, Beasts and Relatives by Gerald Durrell (Bailiwick of Jersey, audiobook)
• T.E. Lawrence: An Arab View by Suleiman Mousa (Jordan, translated by Albert Butros)

K

• Über Jahr und Tag by Muchtar Auesow (Kazakhstan, translated by Ruprecht Willnow and Wilhelm Tkaczyk)
• Devil on the Cross by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (Kenya, translated by the author)
• Shadow Behind The Sun (non-fiction) by Remzija Sherifi (Kosova)
• Die Sommer by Ronya Othmann (Kurdistan & Germany)

L

• Mother’s Beloved by Outhine Bounyavong (Laos, translated by Bounheng Inersin, Daniel Duffy, Roger Rumpf, Jacqui Chagnon, Thipason Phimviengkham and William Galloway)
• The Horses of Atgazene Station by Inga Ābele (Latvia, translated by Inara Cedrins)
• Beirut Blues by Hanan al-Shayk (Lebanon, translated by Catherine Cobham)
• Singing Away the Hunger – Stories of a life in Lesotho by Mpho ‘M’atsepo Nthunya (Lesotho)
• The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper (Liberia)
• The Return: a father’s disappearence, a journey home by Hisham Matar (Libya, audiobook)
• Placebo by Jurga Ivanauskaitė (Lithuania, translated by Markus Roduner)
• Nachttage by Margret Steckel (Luxembourg)

M

• The Bewitching Braid by Henrique de Senna Fernandes (Macao, translated by David Brookshaw)
• Do Not Awaken Them With Hammers by Lidija Dimkovska (Macedonia, translated by Ljubica Arsovska and Peggy Reid)
• Dadabé by Michèle Rakotoson (Madagascar, translated by Nys Barbara Eggert and Sigrid Groß)
• Smouldering Charcoal by Tiyambe Zeleza (Malawi)
• Bogenschütze by Modibo Sounkalo Keita (Mali, translated by Carola Gerlach)
• The Great Siege: Knights vs Turks MDLXV Anatomy of a Hospitaller Victory by Stephen C. Spiteri (Malta)
• The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo (Malaysia)
• Mylecharane: The popular and most ancient Manx National Song by Elizabeth Cookson (Isle of Man)
• (Marshall Islands)
• Tales from Mauritius by Ramesh Ramdoyal (Mauritius, School Version)
• They’re Cows, We’re Pigs by Carmen Boullosa (Mexico, audiobook, translated by Leland H. Chambers)
• My Urohs by Emelihter Kihleng (Micronesia)
• (Mocambique)
• Das imaginäre Leben des Straßenkehrers Auguste G. & Die Schlacht der Sieben Tage und der Sieben Nächte by Armand Gatti (Monaco, translated by Eugen Helmlé & Gerda and Helmut Scheffel)
• Mongol by Uuganaa Ramsay (Mongolia)
• Der Sohn by Andrej Nikolaidis (Montenegro, translated by Margit Jugo)
• Against the Graine: A 1956 Memoir by E.A. Markham (Montserrat)
• The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami (Morocco)

N

• The Navassa Island Riot by The National Grand Tabernacle, Order of Gallilean Fisherman (Navassa, USA)
• Lingo – A language spotters’ guide to Europe by Gaston Dorren (with contributions by Jenny Audring, Frauke Watson and Alison Edwards (translation)) (The Netherlands)
• The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (New Zealand)
• The Country under my Skin: A memoir of love and war by Gioconda Belli (Nicaragua, translated by Kristina Cordero with the author)
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria)
• Hiapo: Past and present in Niuean barkcloth by John Pule and Nicolas Thomas (Niue)
• the family of crow by Joanne Arnott (First Nations People North America)
• All the Beggars Riding by Lucy Caldwell (Northern Ireland, audiobook)
• The Aquariums of Pyongyang by Kang Chol-hwan and Pierre Rigoulot (North Korea)
• Chamorros and Carolinians of Saipan: Personality Studies by Alice Joseph and Veronica F. Murray (Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands)
• We Shall Inherit the Wind: Varg Veum by Gunnar Staalesen (Norway)

O

• (Oman)

P

• Granta 112: Pakistan by various (Pakistan, selection of short stories, poems and nonfiction stories)
• Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales by Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana (Palestine)
• Die Nacht der treibenden Feuer by Augusto Roa Bastos (Paraguay, translated by Ulla de Herrera)
• Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: A Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
• Manila Noir by Jessica Hagedorn (ed) (Philippines, audiobook)
• Another Day of Life by Ryszard Kapuściński (Poland)
• The Stone Raft by José Saramango (Portugal, translated by Giovanni Pontiero)
• The House on the Lagoon: A Novel by Rosario Ferré (Puerto Rico, audiobook)

Q

• Fresh Hell by Sophia Al-Maria (ed.) (Qatar)

R

• (Romania)
• The Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Victor Pelevin (Russia, translated by Andrew Bromfield)

S

• Saint Pierre and Miquelon by William F. Rannie (Overseas Collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon)
• Die Republik von San Marino by Giuseppe Rossi (San Marino, von der Regierungseinrichtung für Tourismus, Sport und Vorstellungen der Republik von S. Marino besorgt)
• Daring to Drive: My Life as an Accidental Activist in a Kingdom of Men by Manal Al-Sharif (Saudi-Arabia)
• A User’s Guide to Make-Believe by Jane Alexander (Scotland)
• Ein so langer Brief: Ein afrikanisches Frauenschicksal by Mariama Bâ (Senegal, translated by Irmgard Rathke)
• (Serbia)
• The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (Sierra Leone, audiobook)
• Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal (Singapore, audiobook)
• The Rivers of Babylon by Peter Pišťanek (Slovakia)
• Cruising Through the Reverie by John Selwyn Saunana (Solomon Islands)
• Knots by Nuruddin Farah (Somalia, audiobook)
• The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes (South Africa)
• Royal Anglian South Georgia Expedition by Royal Anglian South Georgia Expedition 1991 (South Georgia)
• Mischief among the penguins by H.W. Tilman (French Southern and Antarctic Lands)
• The Vegetarian by Han Kang (South Korea, translated by Deborah Smith)
• (South Sudan)
• Marina by Carlos Ruis Zafon (Spain, audiobook)
• The Sandglass by Romesh Gunesekera (Sri Lanka)
• A State of Independence by Caryl Phillips (St Kitts & Nevis)
• Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (Sudan, translated by Denys Johnson-Davies)
• Surinam by Cynthia McLeod (Suriname, translated by Martina den Hertog-Vogt)
• The hush at the end of the world: a pilgrimage to the Arctic wilderness by Ajahn Amaro (Svalbard)
• What the Future Holds by Sarah Mkhonza (Swaziland)
• The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas  Jonasson (Sweden)
• Die lustigen Zipfel-Zwerge by Hedy Sutter (Switzerland)
• Gottes blutiger Himmel by Fawwaz Haddad (Syria)

T

• Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin (Taiwan, translated by Bonnie Huie, audiobook)
• The Last Gift by Abdulrazak Gurnah (Tanzania, audiobook)
• Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-body of a Nation by Thongchai Winichakul (Thailand)
• Fire under the Snow by Palden Gyatso (Tibet, translated by Tsering Shakya)
• An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie (Togo, translated by James Kirkup)
• Matagi Tokelau: history and traditions of Tokelau by different people or by groups of people for whom one person acted as a scribe (Tokelau, translated by Anthony Hooper and Judith Huntsman)
• Rückkehr durch die Hintertür by Epeli Hau’ofa (Tonga, translated by Ina Boesch, Renate von Gizycki, Irene Knauf and Johano Strasser)
• The Writer and the World: Essays by V.S. Naipaul (Trinidad and Tobago)
• Rock of Exile: A Narrative of Tristan da Cunha by D.M. Booy (Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha)
• The Blue Manuscript by Sabiha al Khemir (Tunisia)
• Der letzte Zug nach Istanbul by Ayşe Kulin (Turkey)
• The Turks and Caicos Islands: lands of discovery by Amelia Smithers (Turks and Caicos)

U

• Tropical Fish by Doreen Baingana (Uganda)
• Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov (Ukraine)
• Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano (Uruguay, translated by Cedric Belfrage, audiobook)
• The 23 Greatest Solo Piano Works by Robert Greenberg (USA, audiobook)
• The Devil’s Dance by Hamid Ismailov (Uzbekistan, translated by Donald Rayfield and John Farndon)

V

• ENCYCLICAL LETTER ‘LAUDATO SI’ OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS ON CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME by Pope Francis (Vatican City State, translated by unknown)
• Tagebuch einer jungen Dame, die sich langweilt by Teresa de la Parra (Venezuela, translated by Petra Strien-Bourmer)
• Ru by Kim Thúy (Vietnam, translated by Sheila Fischman)
• Johnny-cake Country by Verna Penn Moll (British Virgin Islands)
• Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique (US Virgin Islands)

W

• Conrad’s Fate by Diana Wynne Jones (Wales)
• Futuna: Mo Ona Puleaga Sau (Aux deus royaumes / The two kingdoms) by Elise Huffer and Petelo Leleivai (ed.) (Wallis and Futuna, translated by Cyrille Sanchez)
• where we once belonged by Sia Figiel (Western Samoa)

X

Y

• The Hostage by Zayd Mutee’ Dammaj (Yemen, translated by Ma Jayyusi and Christopher Tingley)

Z

•  The Hairdresser of Harare by Tendai Huchu (Zimbabwe)