We asked, you answered
Yesterday to mark #WorldBookDay, we asked our followers on social media to suggest their favourite books by non-western authors and the response was fantastic! We received 100s of nominations but we thought that 50 was quite enough to keep you going for the next month, year or decade, depending on your voraciousness…
So without any further ado, here’s our list (in no particular order). How many have you read?
- A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
- Brothers, Yu Hua
- Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga
- The Quiet Violence of Dreams, K.Sello Duiker
- The Cockroach Dance, Meja Mwangi
- Rainbow Troops, Andrea Hirata
- The Corpse Walker, Liao Yiwu
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Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Small Island, Angela Levy
- 1Q84 Trilogy, Haruki Murakami
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, William Kamkwamba
- Call me Woman, Ellen Kuzwayo
- The Sea of Fertility, Yukio Mishima
- House of Glass (Buru Quartet), Pramoedya Ananta Toer
- Twilight in Jakarta, Mochtar Lubis
- A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Husseini
- South Of The Border, West Of The Sun, Haruki Murakami
- Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
- The Bastard of Istanbul, Elif Shafak
- My Bird, Fariba Vafi
- Dogeaters, Jessica Hagedorn
- This Earth of Mankind, Pramodya Ananta Toer
- Dust, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
- Under the Udala Trees, Chinelo Okparanta
- The Baghdad Eucharist (Ya Mariam), Sinan Antoon
- Palace Walk, Naguib Mahfouz
- Season of Crimson Blossoms, Abubakar Ibrahim
- Samarkand, Amin Maalouf
- Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
- The Prophet, Khalil Gibran
- Woman at Point Zero, Nawal El-Saadawi
- So Long a Letter, Mariama Bâ
- Dream of the Red Chamber, Cao Xueqin
- A Home in Tibet, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
- Island Beneath the Sea, Isabel Allende
- Narcopolis, Jeet Thayil
- Memed, my Hawk, Yasar Kemal
- Si Parasit Lajang, Ayu Utami
- After the Banquet, Yukio Mishima
- Chinese Whispers, Hsiao-hung Pai
- The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
- Half of Man is Woman, Zhang Xianlang
- Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
- Train to Pakistan, Khushwant Singh
- The Devotion of Suspect X, Keigo Higashino
- A Golden Age, Tahmima Anam
- The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng
- We Need New Names, NoViolet Bulawayo
- The Glass Palace, Amitav Ghosh
Any glaring omissions? Let us know in the comments below.