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Reading around the world

Looking for a novel set in a particular country? You’ve come to the right place.
Here’s a list of some of my favourite novels by country of setting.
Over time, I’ll update the list to prioritise novels by authors resident in, or hailing from, that country,
with a preference for those that give a good overview of the culture and/or geography.
I wonder if I’ll manage to pay a literary visit to all 195 countries in the world.

Afghanistan The Pearl That Broke Its Shell
Albania Sworn Virgin
Algeria The Angels Die
Antigua Mr Loverman
Argentina Nothing but Dust
Australia A Long Way from Home
Austria The Tobacconist
Bangladesh The Book of Dhaka
Barbados Washington Black
Belgium The Capital
Belize Butterfly Ranch
Bulgaria The Unbeliever
Burma Miss Burma
Burundi Small Country
Canada Hag-Seed
Chile A Long Petal of the Sea
China Frog
Colombia Shooting Down Heaven
Congo Black Moses
Croatia Ukelele Jam
Cyprus The Spice Box Letters
Czech Republic Spaceman of Bohemia
Denmark Mirror, Shoulder, Signal
Dominican Republic Dominicana
Egypt Zeina
Estonia When the Doves Disappeared
Ethiopia Beneath the Lion’s Gaze
Finland The Winter War
France Paris Mon Amour
Georgia The Pear Field
Germany Dance by the Canal
Ghana Homegoing
Greece The Athenian Women
Guyana Beautiful Revolutionary
Haiti A Untamed State
Hungary Abigail
Iceland And the Wind Sees All
India Ghachar Ghochar
Indonesia Black Water
Iran Disoriental
Ireland Prosperity Drive
Israel Waking Lions
Italy The Eight Mountains
Jamaica Here Comes the Sun
Japan Convenience Store Woman
Kenya Dance of the Jakaranda
Kosovo My Cat Yugoslavia
Latvia Soviet Milk
Lebanon Shatila Stories
Liberia She Would Be King
Lithuania The Song of the Stork
Lybia The Fourth Shore

Madagascar Beyond the Rice Fields
Malaysia The Night Tiger
Paula Saunders The Distance Home
Guadalupe Nettel The Body Where I Was Born
Mexico The Body Where I Was Born
Micronesia The People in the Trees
Morocco The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty
Namibia Enter the Aardvark
The Netherlands School of Velocity
Niger Harmattan
Nigeria Speak No Evil
Northern Ireland Milkman
North Korea The Orphan Master’s Son
Norway The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland
Oman Celestial Bodies
Pakistan The Golden Legend
Palestine The Parisian
Papua New Guinea Euphoria
Philippines America Is Not the Heart
Poland Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead
Portugal The Song of the Sea Maid
Russia The Vanishing Futurist
Saudi Arabia Girls of Riyadh
Sierra Leone The Memory of Love
Singapore Ponti
South Africa Johannesburg
South Korea The Defections
Spain Court of Lions
Switzerland The Gustav Sonata
Syria States of Passion
Tanzania Shame
Thailand The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Turkey Like a Sword Wound
Uganda Kintu
Ukraine Snegurochka
United States of America The Underground Railroad
Vietnam The outside Lands
Zambia The Old Drift
Zimbabwe House of Stone
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