• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (February 2021)

• My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Various Authors, translated by Various Translators (August 2022)

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (April 2023)

• Andorra Revealed: An Anthology by Clare Allcard, et al. (August 2021)

Andora is a small European country with a population of about 77,000 people. It's no surprise then that there are not many books written or translated into English. Other participants of this challenge have run into the same issue and the only writer that seems to fit my parameters is Albert Salvadó. I thought about reading his books, but they don't seem to take place in Andorra, which is really what I want to learn about.

So, for now, I've read and included an anthology of stories about Andorra. The authors come from all over the world, but they live in Andorra. This doesn't fit nicely into my self-imposed criteria that the author is from the country they are writing about, but it will have to do for now until an Andorran author comes along.

• The General Army of the Dead by Ismail Kadare, translated by Derek Coltman (February 2021)

• Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi (May 2023)

• The Stranger by Albert Camus (April 2021)

• A General Theory of Oblivion by Jose Eduardo Agualusa (June 2021)

• Annie John by Jamaica Kinkaid (August 2021)

• Santa Evita by Tomas Eloy Martinez, translated by Helen Lane (October 2021)

• Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle (August 2022)

• Family of Shadows: A Century of Murder, Memory, and the Armenian American Dream by Garin Hovannisian (November 2021)

It is extremely hard to find translated works by Armenian authors. For that reason, I had to resort to an Armenian-American writer who tells the story of his family after the Armenian genocide in 1915. In the meantime, I have a few hard-to-find translated works that I am on the search for.

• I Am the Messanger by Markus Zusak (2010) 

• Cloudstreet by Tim Winton (November 2021)

• Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust, translated by Kim Thompson (September 2021) This book starts and ends in Austria, but the author spends a lot of time in Italy.

• Ali and Nino by Kurban Said, translated by Jenia Graman (December 2021)

• Facing the Sun by Janice Lynn Mathers (December 2021)

• The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z. Hossain (January 2022)

• Kundo Wakes Up by Saad Z. Hossain (February 2023)

• Yummah by Sarah A Al Sahfei (January 2022)

• How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones (January 2022)

• Paranoia by Victor Martinovich, translated by Diane Nemec Ignashev (May 2022)

• War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans, translated by David McKay (May 2022)

• Beka Lamb by Zee Edgell (February 2022)

• Spirit Rising by Angélique Kidjo (February 2022)

• Treasures of the Thunder Dragon by Ashi Dori Wangmo Wangchuck (July 2022)

• Our Dead World by Liliana Colanzi, translated by Sequeira Jessica (January 2022)

• The Cat I Never Named: A True Story of Love, War, and Survival by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess with Laura Sullivan (March 2022)

• Saturday is for Funerals by Unity Dow and Max Essex (September 2022)

• Dancing With the Devil in the City of God by Juliana Barbassa (October 2021)

• Daytripper by Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon (October 2021)

• The Fisherman King by Kathrina Mohd Daud (March 2022)

• Street without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria by Kapka Kassabova (March 2022)

• Small Country by Gaël Faye, translated by Sarah Ardizzone (April 2022)

• A Long Way from Douala by Max Lobe, translated by Ros Schwartz (June 2022)

• Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

• Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley (June 2022)

• Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein (December 2023)

See Also

• We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib

• When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà, translated by Mara Faye Lethem (September 2023)

• Co-wives, Co-widows by Adrienne Yabouza, translated by Rachael McGill (July 2023)

• The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up by Liao Yiwu (January 2020)

• 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth  by Xiaolu Guo, translated by Rebecca Morris and Pamela Casey (August 2022)

• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (June 2017)

• Black Moses by Alain Mabanckou, translated by Helen Stevenson (October 2021)

• Before Night Falls: A Memoir by Reinaldo Arenas (May 2021)

• Childhood by Tove Ditlevsen, translated by Tiina Nunnally (February 2022)

• Youth by Tove Ditlevsen, translated by Tiina Nunnally (February 2022)

• Dependency Tove Ditlevsen, translated by Tiina Nunnally (February 2022)

• The Faces by Tove Ditlevsen, translated by Tiina Nunnally (August 2022)

• The Trouble with Happiness by Tove Ditlevsen, translated by Michael Favala Goldman (August 2023)

• We Will Not Be Saved by Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson (February 2025)

• Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste (September 2023)

• The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life by Anu Partanen (August 2016)

• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery I've read this a lot through the years. For an excellent companion book, try The Tale of the Rose: The Love Story Behind The Little Prince by Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry.

• I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere by Anna Gavalda, translated by Karen L. Marker (October 2012)

• The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby,  translated by Jeremy Leggatt (August 2011)

• The Girl Who Reads on the Métro by Christine Féret-Fleury, translated by Ros Schwartz (August 2021)

• Gigi and The Cat by Colette, translated by Roger Senhouse and Antonia White (August 2022)

• The Pear Field by Nana Ekvtimishvili, translated by Elizabeth Heighway (March 2024)

• The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku (January 2024)

• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (January 2021)

• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi (April 2024)

• A Martian's Guide to Budapest by Antal Szerb, translated by Len Rix (September 2019)

• Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, translated by Philip Roughton (June 2022)

• Baumgartner's Bombay by Anita Desai (2011)

See Also

• Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo (December 2016)

• My Past is a Foreign Country by Zeba Talkhani (February 2023)

• The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, Mattias Ripa (Translator, Part 1), Blake Ferris (Translator, Part 2), Anjali Singh (Translator, Parts 3 and 4) (June 2014)

• Until We Are Free by Shirn Ebadi (May 2022)

• The Wonder by Emma Donoghue (August 2021)

• Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (December 2023)

• Foster by Claire Keegan (December 2023)

• Antarctica by Claire Keegan (December 2023)

• Grown Ups by Marian Keyes (December 2023)

• Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes, translated by Ann Goldstein (May 2023)

• How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair (December 2023)

• The Forest of Wool and Steel by Natsu Miyashita, translated by Philip Gabriel (August 2021)

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel (March 2023)

• What You Are Looking For is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama, translated by Alison Watts (August 2023)

• Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, translated by Geoffrey Trousselot (November 2023)

• Singing Away the Hunger by Mpho M’Atsepo Nthunya, edited by  K. Limakatso Kendall (February 2023)

• We, The Survivors by Tash Aw (January 2025)

• A Death in Malta by Paul Caruana Galizia (November 2023)

• Eve Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman (January 2024)

•  You’ve Changed by Pyae Moe Thet War (February 2024)

• What I’d Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma, translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey (September 2024)

See Also

• The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters by Benjamin Moser (November 2024)

• A Spell of Good Things by Ayòbámi Adébáyò (September 2023)

• Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh (January 2025)

• In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park, With Maryanne Vollers (September 2021)

See Also:

• Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick (January 2014)

• Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden (May 2014)

• Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? by Séamas O'Reilly (March 2023)

• Trespasses by Louise Kennedy (September 2023)

See Also

• Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe (September 2024)

• The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (February 2017)

• We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib (August 2020) 

• No Funeral for Nazia by Taha Kehar (September 2023)

• Minor Detail by Adania Shibli, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette (October 2023)

• Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener, translated by Julia Sanches (April 2024)

• Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country by Patricia Evangelista (January 2024)

• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (December 2024)

• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (2012)

• A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah (April 2010)

• Call Me American by Abdi Nor Iftin (September 2023)

• Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah (January 2017)

• Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw by Eddie Ndopu (November 2023)

• Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo,  translated by Jamie Chang (December 2021)

• Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park, translated by Anton Hur (March 2022)

• I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki: A Memoir by Baek Sehee , translated by Anton Hur (August 2022)

• The Specters of Algeria by Hwang Yeo Jung, translated by Yewon Jung (May 2023)

See Also

• White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht (June 2023)

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, translated by Lucia Graves (2008)

• The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, translated by Lucia Graves (2009)

• All That Followed by Gabriel Urza (June 2015)

• Her Mother's Hands by Karmele Jaio, translated by Kristin Addis (August 2022)

• Of Saints and Miracles by Manuel Astur, translated by Claire Wadie (November 2022)

• When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà, translated by Mara Faye Lethem (September 2023)

See Also

• Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir by Vidyan Ravinthiran (January 2025)

• Ghost Season by Fatin Abba (February 2024)

• Benny and Shrimp by Katarina Mazetti, translated by Sarah Death (October 2021)

• Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius, translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles (August 2023)

• Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah (April 2023)

• Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud (July 2023)

• Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Alma Lapinskienė (January 2016)

A large majority of what I read comes from the United Kingdom. I have included a small list of books I found especially relevant to UK history and culture. 

• A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World, 3500 BC-AD 1603 by Simon Schama (October 2020)

• Brit-ish: On Race, Identity, and Belonging by Afua Hirsch (March 2022)

As an American, a large majority of what I read comes from the United States. I have included a small number of books that I thought would be of interest to readers outside of the U.S. The American experience is wide-ranging and this in no way reflects every aspect of American life, just as one or two books from each country does not wholly depict each country.

• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson (July 2020)

• Nomadland by Jessica Bruder (April 2021)

• The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA by Doug Mack (June 2017)

• The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff  (May 2021)

• What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism by Dan Rather (May 2018)

• The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui (February 2018) This graphic novel starts in Vietnam and concludes in the United States.

• We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo (July 2021)

I love books that take me all over the world. Usually, there is some reason the author is undertaking a global adventure - whether for work or personal enlightenment. These are some of my favorites.

• The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner (October 2017)

• Islands of Abandonment by Cal Flynn (April 2021)

• It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario (May 2021)

• Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu (February 2022)

• The Catch Me if You Can: One Woman's Journey to Every Country in the World by Jessica Nabongo (November 2022)