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African
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Abrahams, Peter (South African)
Mine Boy (Novel)
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Achebe, Chinua (Nigerian)
Anthills of the
Savannah
(Novel)
Things Fall Apart (Novel)
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Armah, Ayi Kwei (Ghanaian)
The Beautyful
Ones Are not Yet Born (Novel)
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Ba, Mariama (Senegalese)
So Long a Letter (Novel)
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Ben Jelloun,
Tahar (Moroccan)
The Sand Child (Novel)
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Beti, Mongo (Cameroonian)
Mission to Kala (Novel)`
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Brink, Andre (South African)
A Dry White Season (Novel)
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Coetzee, J. M. (South African)
Age of Iron (Novel)
Waiting for the
Barbarians
(Novel)
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Dangarembga, Tsitsi (Zimbabwean)
Nervous
Conditions
(Novel)
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Dinesen, Isak (Danish, but writes about Africa)
Out of Africa (Novel)
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Emecheta, Buchi (Nigerian)
The Bride Price (Novel)
The Joys of
Motherhood
(Novel)
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Farah, Nuruddin (Somali)
Sweet and Sour
Milk
(Novel)
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Gordimer, Nadine (South African)
Burger’s Daughter (Novel)
The
Conservationist
(Novel)
July’s People (Novel)
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La Guma, Alex (South African)
A Walk in the
Night
(Novel)
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Mahfouz, Naguib (Egyptian)
Midaq Alley (Novel)
Palace Walk (Novel)
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Memmi, Albert (Tunisian)
The Pillar of
Salt
(Novel)
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Mofolo, Thomas (Basotho)
Chaka (Novel)
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Munonye, John (Nigerian)
The Oil Man of
Onange
(Novel)
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o
(Kenyan)
Weep Not, Child (Novel)
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Okri, Ben (Nigerian)
The Famished Road (Novel)
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Oyono, Ferdinand (Cameroonian)
Houseboy (Novel)
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Paton, Alan (South African)
Cry, the Beloved
Country
(Novel)
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Schreiner, Olive (South African)
The Story of an
African Farm
(Novel)
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Sembene, Ousmane (Senegalese)
God’s Bits of
Wood
(Novel)
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Asian
and Middle Eastern
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Bao Ninh (Vietnamese)
The Sorrow of War (Novel)
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Choi, Sook Nyul (Korean)
Year of
Impossible Goodbyes
(Novel)
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Duong Thu Huong (Vietnamese)
Novel without a
Name
(Novel)
Paradise of the
Blind
(Novel)
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Hosseini, Khaled (Afghani)
The Kite Runner (Novel)
A Thousand
Splendid Suns
(Novel)
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Kanafani Ghassan (Palestinian)
Men in the Sun (Novel)
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Mori, Kyoko (Japanese)
Shizuko’s
Daughter
(Novel)
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Munif, Abd
al-Rahman (Jordanian)
Cities of Salt (Novel)
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Pamuk, Orhan (Turkish)
My Name is Red (Novel)
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Roy, Arundhati (Indian)
The God of Small
Things
(Novel)
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Shaykh, Hanan al- (Lebanese)
The Story of
Zahra
(Novel)
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Watkins, Yoko
Kawashima (Japanese)
So Far from the
Bamboo Grove
(Novel)
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Yehoshua, A. B. (Israeli)
Mr. Mani (Novel)
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European
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Camus, Albert (French)
The Plague (Novel)
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Cervantes (Spanish)
Don Quixote (Novel)
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Chekhov, Anton (Russian)
The Cherry
Orchard
(Drama)
Uncle Vanya (Drama)
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Dinesen, Isak (Danish, but writes about Africa)
Out of Africa (Novel)
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Dostoyevsky,
Fyodor (Russian)
The Brothers
Karamozov
(Novel)
Crime and
Punishment
(Novel)
Notes from the
Underground
(Novel)
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Dumas, Alexandre (French)
The Count of
Monte Cristo
(Novel)
The Three
Musketeers
(Novel)
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Eco, Umberto (Italian)
The Name of the
Rose
(Novel)
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Flaubert, Gustave
(French)
Madame Bovary (Novel)
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Garcia Lorca,
Federico (Spanish)
Blood Wedding (Drama)
The House of
Bernarda Alba
(Drama)
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Grass, Gunter (German)
The Tin Drum (Novel)
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Hesse, Hermann (German)
Steppenwolf (Novel)
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Hugo, Victor (French)
The Hunchback of
Notre Dame
(Novel)
Les Miserables (Novel)
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Ibsen, Henrik (Norwegian)
A Doll’s House (Drama)
Hedda Gabler (Drama)
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Koestler, Arthur (Hungarian)
Darkness at Noon (Novel)
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Kosinski, Jerzy (Polish)
The Painted Bird (Novel)
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Kundera, Milan (Czech)
The Unbearable
Lightness of Being
(Novel)
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Moravia, Alberto (Italian)
The Conformist (Novel)
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Pasternak, Boris (Russian)
Doctor Zhivago (Novel)
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Remarque, Erich
Maria (German)
All Quiet on the
Western Front
(Novel)
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Solzhenitsyn,
Aleksandr (Russian)
One Day in the
Life of Ivan Denisovich (Novel)
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Sophocles (Greek)
Oedipus Rex (Drama)
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Strindberg,
August (Swedish)
Miss Julie (Drama)
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Tolstoy, Leo (Russian)
Anna Karenina (Novel)
War and Peace (Novel)
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Tomasi di
Lampedusa, Giuseppe (Italian)
The Leopard (Novel)
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Turgenev, Ivan (Russian)
Fathers and Sons (Novel)
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Verne, Jules (French)
Around the World
in Eighty Days
(Novel)
Twenty Thousand
Leagues under the Sea (Novel)
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Voltaire (French)
Candide (Novel)
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Latin American
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Allende, Isabel (Chilean)
The House of the
Spirits
(Novel)
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Arguedas, Jose
Maria (Peruvian)
Deep Rivers (Novel)
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Asturias, Miguel
Angel (Guatemalan)
Men of Maize (Novel)
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Bridal, Tessa (Uruguayan)
The tree of Red
Stars
(Novel)
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Carpentier, Alejo
(Cuban)
The Kingdom of
This World
(Novel)
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Coelho, Paulo (Brazilian)
The Alchemist (Novel)
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Danticat, Edwidge
(Haitian)
The Farming of
Bones
(Novel)
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Dorfman, Ariel (Chilean)
Death and the
Maiden
(Drama)
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Esquivel, Laura (Mexican)
Like Water for
Chocolate
(Novel)
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Fuentes, Carlos (Mexican)
The Death of
Artemio Cruz
(Novel)
The Old Gringo (Novel)
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Garcia Marquez,
Gabriel (Colombian)
Chronicle of a
Death Foretold
(Novel)
Love in the Time
of Cholera
(Novel)
One Hundred Years
of Solitude
(Novel)
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Kincaid, Jamaica (West Indian)
Annie John (Novel)
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Menchu, Rigoberto (Guatemalan)
I, Rigoberto
Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (Autobiography)
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Naipaul, V. S. (Trinidadian)
A House for Mr.
Biswas
(Novel)
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Rulfo, Juan (Mexican)
Pedro Paramo (Novel)
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Sanchez, Luis
Rafael (Puerto Rican)
Macha Camacho’s
Beat
(Novel)
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Vargas Llosa,
Mario (Peruvian)
The Time of the
Hero
(Novel)
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Native American
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Dorris, Michael (Native American)
A Yellow Raft in
Blue Water (Novel)
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Erdrich, Louise (Native American)
Love Medicine (Novel)
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Momaday, N. Scott (Native American)
House Made of
Dawn
(Novel)
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Silko, Leslie
Marmon (Native American)
Ceremony (Novel)
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Welch, James (Native American)
Fools Crow (Novel)
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