A lot of the recommendations often include a majority of books written about the US or by by American authors. Would like to know your favourite books that are from around the world that could help me understand things through different lens and angles. Thanks.
by cindyzyk
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Momo by Michael Ende (Germany)
The Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman (UK)
Siddartha by Herman Hesse (Germany)
* Butter by Asako Yuzuki
* Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
* Normal People by Sally Rooney
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im sure youd have fun trying the challenge of reading books from every country in the world.
anyway, i really enjoy japanese literature. books by Dazai and Murakami and the like
_Our Share of Night_ by Mariana Enriquez
_Earthlings_ by Sayaka Murata
_Minor Angels_ by Antoine Volodine
The hundred year old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared – Jonas Jonasson (Sweden)
The eight mountains – Paolo Cognetti (Italy)
Invisible women: Data bias in a world designed by men – Caroline Criado Perez (UK)
Anything by Tim Winton, Richard Flanagan, Jock Serong or Hannah Kent. A whole world awaits you if you check out any of the winners for the Miles Franklin Literary Award
The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann (Germany)
My Struggle Series, Karl Ove Knausgaard (Norway)
A Perfect Spy, John Le Carre (UK)
Blindness – José Saramago (Portugal)
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami (Japan)
My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante (Italy)
-1984 – george orwell (UK)
-The Costas Haritos series – Petros Markaris (Greece) this is a series of detective novels with the same policeman that shed a light onthe everyday problems and issues of athenians always reflecting the period, the series was written in a span of a few decades, really showing you the life in athens.
-The count of monte cristo – Alexander Dumas (France) just a very fun book