#ghana books to read

[novellyyours]

5 Novels: Understanding Ghana Through Literature

Ghana, a lively country on the western coast of Africa, has a long history, many different cultures, and a strong spirit. If you want to really understand Ghana, there’s more to see than what you find in tourist pamphlets. Luckily, books written by Ghanaian authors are a great way to learn about the true essence of the country. Here are five stories that will take you on a journey to the heart of Ghana.

These books are just the beginning! Each story opens a way to learn more about Ghanaian culture, history, and the challenges they face. By reading books written by Ghanaians, you’ll gain a deeper appreciation for this amazing country. You’ll find stories of people overcoming challenges, facing struggles, and finding joy.

These stories will leave you with a lasting connection to the rich and varied life in Ghana.

[allweknewisdead]

La vie sans fards (2012) - Maryse Condé

Moi, je commençais de détester ce mot "intégrer". Toute mon enfance, j'avais été intégrée sans l'avoir choisi, par la seule volonté de mes parents, aux valeurs françaises, aux valeurs occidentales. Il avait fallu ma découverte d'Aimé Césaire et de la Négritude pour au moins connaître mon origine et prendre certaines distances avec mon héritage colonial. A présent, que voulait-on de moi ? Que j'adopte entièrement la culture de l'Afrique ?

[nfinitefreetime]

#REVIEW: Black Shield Maiden, by Willow Smith & Jess Hendel

I waited too long to write this– life, getting sick, and various other dramas intervened– so I admit my ardor has cooled a bit, but my admiration for Willow Smith continues to grow with every project she releases. It’s impossible to really know how much of Black Shield Maiden is her work and how much is Jess Hendel’s, of course, although I do find it interesting that Hendel is more or less given…

[prnanayarquah]

UNESCO to read with Accra at Akra Book Party 2024

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UNESCO to read with Accra at Akra Book Party 2024

Akra Book Party, a special literary product by Read Ghana Read Consult to celebrate the book ecosystem and its relevance in national development, on Unesco World Book day is scheduled to happen at the Mamprobi Gale Community Library on Tuesday, 23 April, 2024 from 10:00 am.

As part part of the event, UNESCO office in Ghana is scheduled to read with participants under a session dubbed “UNESCO reads with Akra”. This segment shall give a platform to a representative from UNESCO office to read a selected book and then climax with a chat session on the theme of the book.

Akra Book Party which is a mini book festival shall also host other interesting activities including dramatic reading in Ga, read and play video games, read and bounce, inter-schools puzzle contest, author-reader connect, read aloud with icons, blast a balloon and read, the reading carnival among others.

There will also be a “Bookdate with Amandzeba”. This session shall host the legendary Ghanaian musician in a read and converse with participants moment, and will also feature some rendition of music from the legend as interlude.

Other activities to be witnessed on the day will be “a book-art experience with Dede Padiki (of GWR Pent-a-thon fame)”, a book reading session with Selma Alhassan (ace Ghanaian broadcast journalist an audio book Conversation with Ama Dadson and author) and books exhibition.

Akra Book Party 2024

The Special Guest of Honour for the event will be the former mayor of Accra and current member of parliament for the Ablekuma South Constituency (which hosts the event), Hon. Alfred Oko Vanderpuije.

Unlike other events, the maiden Akra Book Party prefers a literary conversation as its opening ceremony and shall feature book personalities/stakeholders to lead participants in analyzing the topic “Is the book industry rightly positioned to contribute to the creative economy?”.

Panellists selected for the session are Carl Ampah (National Programme Officer, UNESCO Ghana ), Joseph Baffuour Gyenfi (Executive Director, CopyGhana), Ama Dadson (CEO, AkooBooks Audio Ltd), Emmanuel Nyarko (MD, Town & Country Books) and Obaa Panyin Demay (Nyamedze Onna).

Akra Book Party 2024 is expected to host over 500 participants and is made possible by Read Ghana Read Consult, Osu Children’s Library Fund, Town & Country Books Services, Yumvita Ghana and the Ghana National Association of Private Schools.Participation is free.

[escapefromthisaccra]

[thebookdragon217]

Daughter In Exile by Bisi Adjapon is one of many 2023 releases I am looking forward to. I enjoy contemporary fiction full of emotion so I'm eager to find out what this one has in store for me. This one published 1/31 and I'm already hearing great things about it. Thank you to @harperviabooks and @bibliolifestyle for the gifted copy. QOTD: What's a book you're looking forward to reading this year? 🇬🇭 SYNOPSIS 🇬🇭 The acclaimed author of The Teller of Secrets returns with a gut-wrenching but heartwarming story about a young Ghanaian woman's struggle to make a life in the U.S., and the challenges she must overcome. Lola is twenty-one, and her life in Senegal couldn't be better. An aspiring writer and university graduate, she has a great job, a vibrant social life, and a future filled with possibility. But fate disrupts her world when she falls for Armand, an American Marine stationed at the U.S. Embassy. Her mother, a high court judge in Ghana, disapproves of her choice, but nothing will stop Lola from boarding a plane for Armand and America. That fateful flight is only the beginning of an extraordinary journey, for she has traded her carefree life for the perilous existence of an undocumented immigrant. Lola encounters adversity that would crush a less determined woman. Her fate hangs on whether she'll grow in courage to forge a life different from the one she'd imagined, whether she'll succeed in putting herself and her family together again. Daughter in Exile is a hope-filled story about mother love and what defines us all. #DaughterInExile #BisiAdjapon #tbr #books #bookstagram #bookphotos #reading #IGreads #bookstagrammer #20booksbyblackwomen #Ghana #literature #fiction #murals #bookish #bookworm #booklover #Africanlit #BIPOCBookstagram #bookstoread #readersofinstagram #explorebooks #booksbooksbooks #bookinfluencer #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackAuthors https://www.instagram.com/p/CogAhq5LREz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[gilbertkingelisa]

It’s Up To Us⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ #africa #africanamazing #booklover #books #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookworm #camp #campfire #camping #ghana #hiking #ig #poetry #reading #safari #tent #tentcamping #travelblogger #traveling #travelling #travelphotography #traveltheworld #wildlife #wildlifephotography #writer #writerscommunity #writersofinstagram #writing #writingcommunity (at East Africa) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnTJI3BjguV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[bug-slappy]

the best thing a teacher has ever taught me about canadian history was in grade 8, during history class. our teacher pulled out a copy of this book and explained that the history in the curriculum we’d been taught previous was a lie, and that he wasnt going to play into it. eventually other teachers found out and the school board tried to make him stop, but luckily he was switching school boards after the year anyways so there wasn’t much they could do.

if youre looking for a good introduction to canadian history thats accurate, the 500 years of resistance by gord hill is a comic series about the invasion and assimilation of colonialists settling in canada, and the aboriginal dispossession as a result

Canada has always played a huge part in colonization and imperialism (ghana, palestine, haiti, sudan, etc) that our government has tried to hide. imperialist canada by todd gordon is also a good read

we must hold canada accountable for its support in genocide and colonialism. knowledge is power.

[nerdsbianhokie]

Reading the World

In 2023, I challenged myself to watch a movie from every country in the world during the year, which I more or less succeeded. At the start of 2024 I decided to read a book from every country in the world (without the time restraint) and got a map to track my progress along with a challenge on Story Graph.

List of countries and books below the cut

Current count: 59

Afghanistan:

Albania:

Algeria:

American Samoa: Where We Once Belonged by Sia Figiel

Andorra: Andorra: a play in twelve scenes by Max Frisch

Angola: The Whistler by Ondjaki

Anguilla:

Antigua and Barbuda:

Argentina: Our Share of the Night by Mariana Enríquez

Armenia:

Aruba:

Australia: Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia edited by Alexis West

Austria:

Azerbaijan:

Bahamas:

Bahrain:

Bangladesh:

Barbados:

Belarus:

Belgium:

Belize:

Benin:

Bermuda:

Bhutan: Folktales of Bhutan by Kunzang Choden

Bolivia:

Bosnia and Herzegovina:

Botswana:

Brazil: The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel

British Virgin Islands:

Brunei:

Bulgaria:

Burkina Faso:

Burundi: Baho! by Roland Rugero

Cambodia: Ma and Me by Putsata Reang

Cameroon: The Impatient by Djaïli Amadou Amal

Canada: The Gift is in the making: Anishinaabeg Stories retold by Amanda Strong and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Canary Islands: Dogs of Summer by Andrea Abreu

Cape Verde:

Cayman Islands:

Central African Republic: Co-wives, Co-widows by Adrienne Yabouza

Chad:

Chile: The Twilight Zone by Nona Fernández

China: The Secret Talker by Geling Yan

Christmas Islands:

Cocos Islands:

Colombia:

Comoros:

Cook Islands:

Costa Rica:

Croatia:

Cuba: I Was Never the First Lady by Wendy Guerra

Curacao:

Cyprus:

Czech Republic:

Dem. Rep. of Congo:

Denmark: The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living by Meik Wiking

Djibouti:

Dominica:

Dominican Republic:

Ecuador:

Egypt:

El Salvador:

Equatorial Guinea:

Eritrea:

Estonia:

Eswatini:

Ethiopia:

Falkland Islands:

Faroe Islands:

Fiji:

Finland:

France: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

French Guiana:

French Polynesia:

Gabon:

Gambia:

Georgia:

Germany: At the Edge of the Night by Friedo Lampe

Ghana: Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey

Gibraltar:

Greece:

Greenland:

Grenada:

Guam:

Guatemala:

Guernsey:

Guinea:

Guinea-Bissau:

Guyana:

Haiti:

Honduras:

Hong Kong:

Hungary:

Iceland: The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir

India: Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir Of Surviving India's Caste System by Yashica Dutt

Indonesia: Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan

Iran: Darius the Great is Not Okay by Abid Khorram

Iraq: Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi

Ireland:

Isle of Man:

Israel:

Italy:

Ivory Coast:

Jamaica: When Life Gives You Mangos by Kereen Getten

Japan: The Lantern of Lost Memories by Sanaka Hiiragi

Jordan:

Kazakhstan:

Kenya:

Kiribati:

Kosovo:

Kuwait:

Kyrgyzstan:

Laos:

Latvia:

Lebanon: Beirut Hellfire Society by Rawi Hage

Lesotho:

Liberia:

Libya: Zodiac of Echoes by Khaled Mattawa

Liechtenstein:

Lithuania:

Luxembourg:

Macedonia:

Madagascar:

Malawi:

Malaysia:

Maldives:

Mali:

Malta:

Marshall Islands:

Mauritania:

Mauritius: The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah

Mexico: Silver Nitrate by Silvia Morena-Garcia

Micronesia:

Moldova:

Monaco:

Mongolia:

Montenegro:

Montserrat:

Morocco:

Mozambique:

Myanmar: Smile as They Bow by Nu Nu Yi

Namibia:

Nauru:

Nepal:

Netherlands: We Had to Remove this Post by Hanna Bervoets

New Caledonia:

New Zealand: Tahuri by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku

Nicaragua:

Niger:

Nigeria: Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

Niue:

Norfolk Island:

North Korea: A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea by Eunsun Kim

Northern Mariana Islands:

Norway: Blind Goddess by Anne Holt

Oman:

Pakistan: Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H

Palau:

Palestine: The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher

Panama:

Papua New Guinea:

Paraguay:

Peru:

Philippines:

Pitcairn Islands:

Poland: Return from the Stars by Stanisław Lem

Portugal: Pardalita by Joana Estrela

Puerto Rico: Velorio by Xavier Navarro Aquino

Qatar:

Rep. of the Congo:

Romania:

Russia:

Rwanda: Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin

Saint Barthelemy:

Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha:

Saint Kitts and Nevis:

Saint Lucia:

Saint Martin:

Saint Pierre and Miquelon:

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines:

Samoa: Where We Once Belonged by Sia Figiel

San Marino:

Sao Tome and Principe:

Saudi Arabia: Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea

Senegal:

Serbia:

Seychelles:

Sierra Leone:

Singapore:

Sint Maarten:

Slovakia:

Slovenia:

Solomon Islands:

Somalia: Under the Shade of a Tree: Somali Women Speak edited by Rissa Mohabir

South Africa:

South Korea: The Old Woman with the Knife by Gu Byeong -Mo

South Sudan:

Spain: Mammoth by Eva Baltasar

Sri Lanka: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

Sudan: The Translator: A Memoir by Daoud Hari

Suriname:

Sweden: Fire from the Sky by Moa Backe Åstot

Switzerland:

Syria: The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War by Delphine Minoui

Taiwan:

Tajikistan: The Sandalwood Box: Folk Tales from Tadzhikistan by Hans Baltzer

Tanzania:

Thailand:

Togo:

Tokelau:

Tonga:

Trinidad and Tobago:

Tunisia:

Turkey:

Turkmenistan:

Turks and Caicos Islands:

Tuvalu:

Uganda:

Ukraine:

United Arab Emirates:

United Kingdom: Poyums by Len Pennie

United States of America: Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America by Gregory D. Smithers

United States Virgin Islands: No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull

Uruguay:

Uzbekistan:

Vanuatu: Sista, Stanap Strong : A Vanuatu Women's Anthology edited by Mikaela Nyman and Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen

Venezuela: Doña Barbara by Rómulo Gallegos

Vietnam:

Wallis and Futuna:

Western Sahara:

Yemen:

Zambia:

Zimbabwe: We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo

[newhologram]

RIP Hologram Kuroneko aka Robert On Thanksgiving day, I woke up from a nap to learn that my friend Robert passed away on November 9th from a heart attack. He was 32 years old. Robert and I worked a retail job together about 8 years ago. It was an instant friendship. He had so many interesting experiences to share about life in Ghana. We'd get through our shifts bonding over our love for JLU, Batman Beyond, Static Shock, DBZ, and more. He was so kind and patient, always listened with compassion when I was struggling with my health. For a while he supported me on Patreon and bought a tarot reading from me when I was too sick to work my day job. He even offered to help me edit back before I had my floor desk, when I was stuck in bed with terrible flare ups. After my surgery in August, he was incredibly upset at what I went through and urged me to write a formal complaint. 6 years earlier, he'd fought for his mother's care at the hospital, and she couldn't be saved. He'd wanted to file a grievance, but he knew the process was designed to be draining. That loss hit him hard, but he stayed so kind and loving and determined to do good. He always, always offered to help in some way. Whether it was to help my dad get a good deal on rental cars for family emergencies or offering to stop by my house with ibuprofen if I'd run out. It's so hard to wrap my head around the fact that I'll never see his updates again. He'll never send me memes to cheer me up again. We'll never again catch up over webcam, I'll never again pull tarot cards for him. I'll never again see his little icon on my story. To process that someone's "book" is officially closed is always painful and strange. I can't stop wondering about my friend's final moments; was it painful, was he scared? I'm so sorry, Robert. Thank you for your friendship and all the support over the years.

[allweknewisdead]

The hundred wells of Salaga (2018) - Ayesha Harruna Attah

It was when the world lost all colour, taste and smell, and one realised the heaviness of one’s body, the uselessness of one’s life.

[kemetic-dreams]

Onesimus (late 1600s–1700s) was an African man who was instrumental in the mitigation of the impact of a smallpox outbreak in Boston, Massachusetts. His birth name is unknown. He was enslaved and, in 1706, was given to the New England Puritan minister Cotton Mather, who renamed him. Onesimus introduced Mather to the principle and procedure of the variolation method of inoculation to prevent the disease, which laid the foundation for the development of vaccines. After a smallpox outbreak began in Boston in 1721, Mather used this knowledge to advocate for inoculation in the population. This practice eventually spread to other colonies. In a 2016 Boston magazine survey, Onesimus was declared one of the "Best Bostonians of All Time"

Onesimus's name at birth and place of birth are unknown with certainty. He was first documented as living in the colonies in 1706, having been brought to North America as an enslaved person. In December of that year, he was given as a gift by a church congregation to Cotton Mather, their Puritan minister of North Church, as well as a prominent figure in the Salem Witch Trials. Mather renamed him after a first-century AD enslaved person mentioned in the Bible.The name, "Onesimus" means "useful, helpful, or profitable".

Mather referred to the ethnicity of Onesimus as "Guaramantee", which may refer to the Coromantee (also known as Akan people of modern Ghana). 

Mather saw Onesimus as highly intelligent and educated him in reading and writing with the Mather family (for context, according to biographer Kathryn Koo, at that time, literacy was primarily associated with religious instruction, and writing as means of note-taking and conducting business)

In 1716 or shortly before, Onesimus had described to Mather the process of inoculation that had been performed on him and others in his society in Africa (as Mather reported in a letter): "People take Juice of Small-Pox; and Cut the Skin, and put in a drop." In the book, African Medical Knowledge, the Plain Style, and Satire in the 1721 Boston Inoculation Controversy, Kelly Wisecup wrote that Onesimus is believed to have been inoculated at some point before being sold into slavery or during the slave trade, as he most likely traveled from the West Indies to Boston.

The variolation method of inoculation was long practiced in Africa among African people.

The practice was widespread among enslaved colonial people from many regions of Africa and, throughout the slave trade in the Americas, slave communities continued the practice of inoculation despite regional origin.

Mather followed Onesimus's medicinal advice because, as Margot Minardi writes, "inferiority had not yet been indelibly written onto the bodies of Africans."

[lemonlyman-dotcom]

Last book I…

Thank you for the tag @guardian-angle22 🥰

BOUGHT:

The Fraud by Zadie Smith - Zadie is one of my absolute favorite authors I’ve read almost all of her books. I highly recommend White Teeth and On Beauty especially.

BORROWED:

Violeta by Isabel Allende - Isabel Allende, the absolute GOAT. I’ve read almost all her books, she pretty much never misses. Chilean author, her uncle was the socialist president of Chile in the early 70s before the military coup d’état (backed by the US 🙄). He was executed and her family fled the country, and so she does a lot of exploring of the politics and the effects of that event and era in a lot of her novels. Most of her books take place in real or imagined South American countries and span generations. Known to feature magical realism.

WAS GIFTED:

The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende - See above about Allende. I highly recommend the House of the Spirits, Eva Luna & A Long Petal of the Sea.

GAVE/LENT TO SOMEONE:

Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet - GOD THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD!!!!!!!! Follows two light-skinned twin sisters, one runs away and starts a new life passing in the white world. Their daughters eventually meet decades later and don’t know they’re related.

STARTED:

Tropicália by Harold Rogers - I started this one back in January lmao. Set in Copacabana, another generational familial novel!

FINISHED:

We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry - A SHOWSTOPPER! This one was so fun and weird and funny I couldn’t put it down. Set in the town that was home of the original 1690s witch trials, this one follows a high school girl’s field hockey team in the 80s. They pledge their souls to evil (in a Emilio Estevez notebook OBVIOUSLY) in exchange for a winning season.

GAVE 5 STARS:

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi - Both of Gyasi’s books are INCREDIBLE but this is my favorite!!! Follows the lives and paths of two half sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast of Ghana to the plantations of Mississippi, from the American Civil War to Jazz Age Harlem. One sister is royalty and stays in Ghana and the other is sold into slavery in America. Follow their stories and their descendants until their great-great granddaughters find each other.

GAVE 2 STARS:

Wahala by Nikki May - it was fine!! Hehe. It was a little too mean girls for my taste, but it had its fun moments. I think this would be a good beach read!!

DIDN’T FINISH:

Wintering by Katherine May - I was inspired to read this after hearing the author interviewed by Lauren Laverne on BBC6 but I didn’t finish because it was boring LOL

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[allthegeopolitics]

As the fate of Ghana’s draconian anti-LGBTQ+ bill hangs in the balance pending a court ruling, an activist is helping “scared” queer people confront a terrible choice: face persecution at home or try to find safety elsewhere. In February, Ghana’s parliament passed the bill to increase existing criminal penalties for queer people living in the country. Although not yet law, it seeks to impose prison sentences for those identifying as part of the queer community as well as those who “support” LGBTQ+ activities.  Prominent activist groups have urged president Nana Akufo-Addo to refuse to sign it into law. A memo from Ghana’s finance ministry warned that it would have disastrous economic consequences if it were to make its way on to the statute books. [...]

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[ptseti]

The book that will change everything you know about African history:

When We Ruled by Robin Walker.

In 700 pages of groundbreaking research, Walker uncovers the hidden story of Africa's past.

If you don't have a couple of months to read it yourself, here are 10 important things I learned:

The Nubian Kingdom of Ta-Seti is the oldest kingdom on Earth

Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt.

The libraries of Timbuktu housed more books than any European collection during the Middle Ages.

In 951 AD, a cheque was written in Aoudaghost (Ancient Ghana) worth 42,000 dinars.

Ile-Ife (Nigeria) had streets paved with maize cobs in 1000 AD - But maize comes from America and Columbus didn't get there for another 400 years 🤯

Malian voyagers set sail for America in 1311 AD, 181 years before Columbus.

The Malian Emperor, Mansa Musa, is the richest man in recorded history. On his journey to Mecca, he stopped in Cairo and spent so much of his gold that Cairo's economy crashed due to inflation, and didn't recover for 12 years.

In the 14th Century, Timbuktu was 5 times larger than London.

15th-century manuscripts from Timbuktu show the planets revolving around the sun. They were written over 150 years before Nicolaus Copernicus discovered this in 1543

The longest earthworks in the world carried out before the mechanical era are the Ancient Walls of Benin and Ishan, located in Edo State in present-day Nigeria.

[toastedcinnamonflakes]

Books around the world

A while ago, I made a post that I want to make a list of books from every country of the earth. The qualifications are rather simple: The author needs to be from that country and the novel needs to take place in that country. The books themselves don't need to be the best from that country, just something I've read. They need to exist in a language that I can understand (which, for me, are German, English, Norwegian and Swedish).

If you have any suggestions, please send them to me 😊 So, without further ado, here is the list! (Books that I've already read are bold, books I have picked out for the country but haven't read yet are not)

Abkhazia:

Afghanistan:

Albania

Algeria

Andorra

Angola

Antigua and Barbuda

Argentina

Armenia: The Gray House, Marjam Petrosyan

Austria: Liebelei, Arthur Schnitzler

Australia: Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay

Azerbaijan

Bahamas

Bahrain

Bangladesh

Barbados

Belarus

Belgium

Belize

Benin

Bhutan

Bolivia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Botswana

Brazil

Brunei

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cambodia

Cameroon

Canada

Cape Verde

Central African Republic

Chad

Chile: The House of Spirits, Isabella Allende

China: Beijng Comrades, Bei Tong

Colombia

Congo

Costa Rica

Croatia: Marble Skin, Slavenka Draculic

Cuba

Cyprus

Czech Republic: Valerie and her world of wonders, Vitêzslav Nezval

Denmark: Vintereventyr, Karen Blixen

Djibouti

Dominica

Dominican Republic

East Timor

Ecuador

Egypt

El Salvador

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Estonia

Eswatini

Ethiopia

Fiji

Finland

France: The End of Eddy, Eduard Louis

Gabon

Gambia

Georgia

Germany: Krabbat, Otfried Preußler

Ghana

Greece: Medea, Euripides (I would love to read a contemporary greek novel tbh, please recommend me one!)

Grenada

Guatemala

Guinea

Guyana

Haiti

Honduras

Hungary

Iceland: Moonstone - The Boy Who Never Was, Sjón

India: The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga

Indonesia

Iran: Reading Lolita in Teheran, Azar Nafisi

Iraq

Ireland: Skulduggery Pleasent, Derek Landy

Israel

Italy: Swimming to Elba, Silvia Avallone

Ivory Coast

Jamaica

Japan: Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata

Jordan

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Kiribati

Kuwait

Kyrgyzstan

Laos

Latvia

Lebanon

Lesotho

Liberia

Libya

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Madagascar

Malawi

Malaysia

Maldives

Mali

Malta

Marshall Islands

Mauritania

Mauritius

Mexico

Moldova

Monaco

Mongolia

Montenegro

Morocco

Mozambique

Myanmar

Namibia

Nauru

Nepal

Netherlands

New Zealand

Nicaragua

Niger

Nigeria

North Korea

North Macedonia

Norway: Vildskudd, Gudmund Vindland

Oman

Pakistan

Palestina

Panama

Papua New Guinea

Paraguay

Peru

Philippines

Poland:

Portugal

Quatar

Romania

Russia: Demons, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Rwanda

Saudi Arabia

Senegal

Serbia

Seychelles

Sierra Leone

Singapore

Slovakia

Slovenia

Somalia

South Africa

South Korea: The Vegetarian, Han Kang

South Sudan

Spain

Sri Lanka: Die sieben Monde des Maali Almeida, Sheban Karunatilaka

Sudan

Suriname

Sweden: Herrn Arnes Penningar, Selma Lagerlöf

Switzerland: Homo Faber, Max Frisch

Syria

Tajikistan

Tanzania

Thailand

Togo

Tonga

Trinidad and Tobago

Tunisia

Turkey

Turkmenistan

Tuvalu

Uganda

Ukraine: Kult, Ljubko Deresch

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom: Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

USA: The little Friend, Donna Tartt

Uruguay

Uzbekistan

Vanuatu

Venezuela

Vietnam

Yemen

Zambia

Zimbabwe

I am also including some parts of the world that are not independent countries, but that I want to have in this list:

Faroese Islands

Greenland: Blomsterdalen, Niviaq Korneliussen

Scotland: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, James Hogg

Wales: Fire and Hemlock, Dianna Wynne Jones