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🇦🇫 Afghanistan: My Pen Is The Wing of a Bird by Zainab Akhlaqi, Marie Bamyani, Farangis Elyassi, Freshta Ghani, Naeema Ghani, Batool Haidari, Fatema Haidari, Elahe Hosseini, Masouma Kawsari, Fatema Khavari, Maryam Mahjoba, Atifa Mozaffari, Maliha Naji, and Anahita Gharib Nawaz
🇧🇭 Bahrain: Yummah by Sarah Al Shafei
🇧🇩 Bangladesh: In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman
🇧🇹 Bhutan: Tales in Colour and Other Stories by Kunzang Choden
🇧🇳 Brunei: The Forlorn Adventure by Amir Falique
🇰🇭 Cambodia: Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So
🇨🇳 China: Ninth Building by Zou Jingzhi (translated by Jeremy Tiang)
🇮🇳 India: Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree (translated by Daisy Rockwell)
🇮🇩 Indonesia: Birth Canal by Dias Novita Wuri (translated by the author)
🇮🇷 Iran: Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar
🇮🇶 Iraq: Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
🇯🇵 Japan: Butter by Asako Yuzuki (translated by Polly Barton)
🇯🇴 Jordan: The Bride of Amman (translated by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp)
🇰🇼 Kuwait: Our Man in Kuwait by Louise Burfitt-Dons
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan: The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years by Chingiz Aitmatov
🇱🇦 Laos: How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa
🇱🇧 Lebanon: Voices of the Lost by Hoda Barakat (translated by Marilyn Booth)
🇲🇾 Malaysia: The Weight of Our Sky by Hannah Alkaf
🇳🇵 Nepal: The Tutor of History by Manjushree Thapa
🇰🇵 North Korea: Friend by Paek Nam-nyong (translated by Immanuel Kim)
🇴🇲 Oman: Bitter Orange Tree by Jokha Alharthi (translated by Marilyn Booth)
🇵🇰 Pakistan: An Abundance of Wild Roses by Feryal Ali-Gauhar
🇵🇸 Palestine: Against The Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
🇵🇭 Philippines: La Tercera by Gina Apostol
🇶🇦 Qatar: The Corsair by Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud (translated by Amira Noweira)
🇷🇺 Russia: The Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Ignat Avsey)
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea (translated by Marilyn Booth)
🇸🇬 Singapore: And The Walls Come Crumbling Down by Tania de Rozario
🇰🇷 South Korea: Your Utopia by Bora Chung (translated by Anton Hur)
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka: Blue Skinned Gods by SJ Sindu
🇸🇾 Syria: Death is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa (translated by Leri Price)
🇹🇼 Taiwan: Green Island by Shawna Yang Ryan
🇹🇭 Thailand: Arid Dreams by Duanwad Pimwana (translated by Mui Poopoksakul)
Tibet: We Measure The Earth With Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (UAE): Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan: The Devil’s Dance by Hamid Ismailov
🇻🇳 Vietnam: Banyan Moon by Thao Thai
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@margeriteb 10 дней назад

I'm sorry Jack, but that video was a pure act of sabotage to my good intentions for 2024. I wanted to reduce the number of books on my TBR, and then I watched this video. Mission failed. I will definitely be traveling to Asia through literature in the near future.

@tingtingball 10 дней назад

Got me in beginning 😂

@ciao3475 9 дней назад

2:12 ~Afghanistan - my pen is the wing of a bird 3:32 ~ Bahrain - Yumman 5:52 ~ Bangladesh - in the light of what we know 6:50 ~ Bhutan - tales in colour and other stories 8:07 ~ Brunei - the forlorn adventure 9:07 ~ Cambodia - Non fiction- first they ruled my father / fiction - After-parties 10:32 ~ China - 9th building 11:18 ~ India - Tomb of Sand 12:43 ~ Indonesia - birth canal 13:30 ~ Iran - Martyr 15:00 ~Iraq - Frankenstein in Baghdad 16:01 ~Japan - butter 17:38 ~Jordan - the bride of Amman 18:47 ~Kuwait - our man in Kuwait 19:37 ~Kyrgyzstan - the day lasts more than a hundred years 21:03 ~Laos - how to pronounce knife 21:48 ~Lebanon - voices of the lost 24:00 ~Malaysia - the weight of our sky 25:35 ~Nepal the tutor is history 26:24 ~North Korea- friend 27:03 ~Oman - bitter orange tree 28:32 ~Pakistan - an abundance of wild roses 29:48 ~Palestine - against the loveless world 30:32 ~ Philippines - la tecera 32:02 ~Qatar - the Corsair 33:05 ~ Russia - Devils 34:01 ~Saudi Arabia - girls of Riyadh 35:12 ~Singapore - and the world comes crumbling down 36:30 ~Sri Lanka - blue skinned good 37:31 ~ South Korea - your Utopia 38:50 ~Syria - death is hard work 39:27 ~Taiwan - green Island 40:29 ~Thailand - arid dreams 41:00 ~Tibet - we measure the earth with our bodies 42:42 ~UAE - temporary people 43:37 Uzbekistan - the devil's dance 44:25 Vietnam - Banyan moon

@randomopinion9043 8 дней назад

This is great?? Thank you ?!

@ciao3475 8 дней назад

@@randomopinion9043 welcome??

@dried_cherries 7 дней назад

Thank you, legend!

@ciao3475 7 дней назад

@@dried_cherries 🤍

@shreerupamukherjee5512 18 часов назад

Thankyou so much but the Indian book is called Tomb of Sand not Tomb of stone :))

@youmnas 10 дней назад

As someone pointed out, the Kuwait book isn't written by a Kuwaiti or Arab author, so may I recommend The Bamboo Stalk by Saud Alsanousi! Much love from Lebanon ❤

@hibak8196 10 дней назад

I loove the Bamboo Stalk 💚

@aaaamnaaaa 8 дней назад

OH MY GOD THAT WAS SUCH A GOOD BOOK

@sawadhussain5761 7 дней назад

Also Mama Hissa's Mice by the same author, Saud Al Sanousi, OR The Book Censor's Library by Bothayna Al Essa, also from Kuwait. 😊

@aalaakhaled5159 5 дней назад

I love this book

@amnah444 3 дня назад

@@sawadhussain5761ugh mama hessas mice is sooooooooo goood!!

@dianarivera6336 10 дней назад

Hey Jack! Just echoing another comment saying that the Philippine novel (La Tercera) is a rather challenging read for foreign readers since a lot of it is written in our local languages. If you find it to be too difficult of a read, another book I'd recommend is Smaller and Smaller Circles by F.H. Batacan, which is an excellent thriller and political commentary about Jesuit priests tracking down a serial killer in one of Manila's poorest neighborhoods

@MissAstoria19 10 дней назад

fine i will bump this up my tbr haha

@claire4212 10 дней назад

That sounds interesting. Thanks for the recommendation.

@genericplantlife 10 дней назад

I loved Smaller and Smaller Circles!

@DONTcareAnymore000 9 дней назад

Agreed

@turwinkle 9 дней назад

haven't read it yet, but Some People Need Killing by Patricia Evangelista seems really interesting as well

@sascha1493 10 дней назад

marilyn booth is the real mvp of this video, she translated the books for lebanon, oman and saudi arabia!

@merryrodriguez1172 9 дней назад

As a syrian I hope we are known for something that's more than the war we had There are so many amazing books by so many amazing authors that could represent us better Syria is more than just the war that happened I'm sick of us being known only for political stuff We have a rich literature history Some syrian authors I'd recommend : Hanna Mina Ghada al-Samman Firas al-Sawwah Colette Khoury Salim Barakat Hasan sami yusuf I hope one day the world will remember us in a better way And I hope the world will understand that we're humans who have lives We're more than the war

8 дней назад

Would you recommend any specific books by authors you mentioned that are translated in English?

@Nimoundercover 4 дня назад

Well said!! We definitely are much much more than just the recent war…. As we hold the oldest inhabited city in the world, the civilization in Syria was one of the most ancient on earth, we are full of culture and traditions and history…. Hope we can cast a light on the beauty we Syrians have created threw literature, architecture, and traditions and not just keep being identifying as refugees and people who are suffering from a war

@Nimoundercover 4 дня назад

Identified***

@a.blackwater3076 День назад

❤❤❤

@adhistylarasati1016 10 дней назад

I’m hyped that a book from Indonesia is being included here Jack! I also have another recommendation, ‘The Sea Speaks His Name’ by Leila S. Chudori, which is a historical fiction, that is about an important period of the country’s history when dictatorship existed and eventually ended, the book tells how political activists and their families dealt with that mess. A book that absolutely twisted my heart!

@ssyakillahh 6 дней назад

omg hello! I’m from Singapore and I can definitely support this. I had the opportunity to read this book, aka “Laut Bercerita” a while back and it did not disappoint. It was deeply painful yet the pain felt addictive at every page you turn. Good recommendation! 💯

@aditiprasad2998 4 дня назад

This is a brilliant book❤

@hasti352 10 дней назад

I really appreciate and admire this new idea of yours, all countries need to be recognized by their literature, history and people instead of their politics, as an audience of your videos from Iran taking a part of this video really warms my heart and I’m sure you’ll find even more Iranian/Persian books that you’ll enjoy in the future.

@elzzharu 10 дней назад

ohh myy goodd I‘m so incredibly happy you’ve written this comment, I really hope there will be more people recognizing countries as a whole, countries are more than their political history !

@hasti352 9 дней назад

@@elzzharu I hope so too…

@bloops444 10 дней назад

aaaaaa jack you did so good at picking the book for malaysia!! (maybe a biased opinion since hanna alkaf is my distant relative lmao) but 13th May 1969 is a significant part of malaysian history and understanding how the racial tensions came about and the implications of them are quite central to the cultural and social landscape of malaysia ☺️☺️ happy reading!!

@farhanasafran8124 9 дней назад

I was so so hoping he'd pick the weight of our sky omg I'm so happyyyyyy, she's my fav Malaysian author!!! I have all her books and we once had a playful argument on Twitter about kacang on nasi lemak lmaooo

@hd12930 10 дней назад

2 recommendations from Mongolia!! 1. The Green Eyed Lama - the first Mongolian novel published in the West 2. Suncranes and Other Stories - a collection of some of our best known short stories translated into English

@gabooshi 7 дней назад

ugh i've had the green eyed lama on my tbr for soooo long!

@that_trans_dude942 10 дней назад

I look forward to the Africa edition of this list!

@hadisaafzaly9029 10 дней назад

Omg, thanks for choosing My Pen is the wing of the bird. I really appreciate it as for now it’s so important for people to read about what people in Afghanistan go through currently.

@iriddle8223 8 дней назад

Hey from Kuwait 🇰🇼👋 the book you’ve picked isn’t by a Kuwaiti author at all Some books by Kuwaiti authors The old woman and the river by ismail Fahd ismail All that I want to forget by Bothayna Al-essa The Bamboo Stalk by Saud Alsanousi Mama Hessa’s Mice by Alsanousi Lost in Mecca by Bothayna Alessa The mariner by Taleb Al-Refai Head above water by shahad alshammari (it’s a memoir)

@sawadhussain5761 7 дней назад

Also, THE BOOK CENSOR'S LIBRARY by Bothayna Al Essa and Mama Hissa's Mice by Saud Al Sanousi.

@MaelysCha 7 дней назад

Also « An Unlasting Home », even if the author has lived in different countries, I think that she was born in Kuwait, went to school partially in Kuwait and now lives in Kuwait. I wish that Jack had done the bare minimum research for each author!!

@anify100 10 дней назад

5:53 🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩 Thank you for including us! Love your videos! Also, you might wanna try books by Tahmina Anam.

@dollybose2315 8 дней назад

Read her book The Golden Days

@pretentiousnerd 10 дней назад

for qazaqstan 🇰🇿 i would recommend The Nomads by Iliyas Yessenberlin if you can find it! it’s an epic historical fiction & a classic (but it is quite long and dense in content). or Blood and Sweat by Abdizhamil Nurpeisov (also a classic and *i think* it is available on kindle) 🙌 btw i love that you chose chingiz aitmatov for kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬! he is a very popular author in all of central asia, so it’s cool to see people from other places get excited over his work :)

@Mariam999x 10 дней назад

I like the idea of this video ❤ For book from Saudi Arabia I don’t recommend Girls of Riyadh, but instead I recommend the quintet book (Cities of Salt) by Abdelrahman Munif. For book from Kuwait I recommend two books for a Kuwaiti author (Mama Hissa’s Mice) and (Bamboo Stalk) by Saud Al-Sanousi and I think you missed some countries in Asia like Yemen

@HeII0-_-w0rlld 7 дней назад

agreeeee + Girls of Riyadh is so outdated regarding Saudis society

@adrian_dk 8 дней назад

"Everything the Light Touches" by Janice Pariat from Northeast India. it's available internationally.

@enas7547 10 дней назад

Girls of Riyadh is not the book I’d go to unless you’re looking for something modern. If you’re looking for a classic read then Cities of Salt is a must.

@shaimael-sayeed5771 10 дней назад

I agree.

@dhohasaud111 10 дней назад

I was just about to comment the exact same thing

@norarjona 10 дней назад

That's the only book I've already read from this list, and I agree: not the most outstanding choice to represent the country 👉👈

@RachelBrennerReal 8 дней назад

there's a book called Hidden Manifestation by Oliver Mercer, and it talks about how using some secret techniques you can attract almost everything in life it's not some bullshit law of attraction, it's the real deal

@SsLA2313 10 дней назад

thank you for including Nepal. i however would like to make a suggestion, a book called A flower in the midst of thorns in English, original title is Jeevan kada ki phool which translates to is life a flower or thorns...its an autobiography of Jhamak kumari Ghimire who was born with cerebral palsy. and its a story of her struggles with her disability and finding a meaning to her life.

@laskaavelya4490 10 дней назад

12:46 Indonesia represent here! 👋👋 Thank you so much for your sweet review for the novel and maybe for another suggestion I want to recommend two of my favorite novels, 'The Outcast' (Original title: Maryam) by Okky Madasari and 'The Sea Speaks His Name' (Original title: Laut Bercerita) by Leila S. Chudori. The first one tells a story about a girl named Maryam who was born as Ahmadiyah moslem, one of branches in Indonesia's Islam which unfortunately experience many discrimination within Islam people themselve. Whlist the later one tells about 1998 tragedy in Indonesia from perspective of Laut, a college student. Not sure if both novels suit your taste, but I hope you can give a chance to them. And hope you will enjoy your time in Bali! 🩵🩵

@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk День назад

Food for thought. So many books and so little time. The ever expanding tbr! Happy reading to you from Lancashire, England.

@amytheorangutan 10 дней назад

Really cool that you are doing this ❤️ I want to recommend a book from China that is not related to Cultural Revolution called Bad Kids. I hope you will give it a go. I think people tend to always read books from China related to Cultural Revolution and missed out on all other genre of books but also it perpetuates misconception that China has not changed since the 1950s and 60s. Also another book from Taiwan I would recommend is Fang Si Chi’s First Love Paradise.

@quain5063 10 дней назад

Reading FSC was a surreal and painful experience - I'm not sure if it's for everyone but it should be, if you know what I mean. I'm Chinese so I've read the original and the beauty of her writing definitely magnified the pain of reading. It's such a prominent case of misuse of literature and how it can actually kill, figuratively and literally.

@ritodey 4 дня назад

So happy you chose "In The Light of What We Know" from Bangladesh. Hopefully, this book will encourage you to read more Bengali books. Bengali literature is so diverse and the writers are phenomenal. I am going to recommend you to read "Tree Without Roots". It's the translated version of the novel "Lalsalu" by Syed Waliullah

@beatriz0387 10 дней назад

I'm so excited for South America! Brazil has a huge variety of amazing novels everyone around the world should read.

@murlough3533 10 дней назад

any brazilian suggestions?

@beatriz0387 9 дней назад

@@murlough3533 yes!! Itamar Viera Junior, Clarisse Lispector, Raphael Montes, Socorro Acioli, Jeferson Tenório, Stênio Gardel, Jorge Amado, Conceição Evaristo and Martha Batalha are some authors that I believe have some of their novels translated to English at least.

@mary_nyan 9 дней назад

hora de fazer ele ler Machado de Assis q nem aquela moça do tiktok kkkk

@beatriz0387 9 дней назад

@@mary_nyan SIMkkkkkk

@wheatieee47 7 дней назад

Me too!! I'm intrigued to see how many I know of

@snovid3306 10 дней назад

Add a book from Hong Kong! I know it's not a country in a political sense, but is in every other way! An autonomous region is what they call it, and it needs representation. Same for Uighur and Macau

@murlough3533 10 дней назад

do you have any suggestions for uighur and macau reads? id love to read some!

@marcochen9117 10 дней назад

I don't think there is a city/"special region" in another country that had such an independent culture. But it isn't popular to talk about what happened to Hong Kong because people were probably too young to even know

@asdfghjkl-gh8wz 9 дней назад

Hong Kong and Macau are not autonomous regions. There are five autonomous regions in China (Ningxia, Xinjiang, Guangxi, Tibet, and Inner Mongolia). Hong Kong and Macau are special administrative regions. Also, there are 56 ethnicities native to China, Uyghur is just one of them.

@tonya-earlgrey 9 дней назад

After reading a book about Rebije Kadir "dragon fighter: one woman's epic struggle for peace with china" I become really interested in Uighur history and culture, but the author is german. I would love to read something written by an uighur author.

@theknittingritual 7 дней назад

I loved The Borrowed by Chan Ho Kei - a detective fiction set over the lifetime of one policeman in Hong Kong. I agree- China (and India) are such large and culturally diverse nations it’s really hard to just choose a single book to represent that nation.

@adry6986 10 дней назад

24:01 so happy you chose the weight of our sky. It's such a good book♡♡

@alix2863 5 дней назад

I’d also recommend ‘The Stolen Bicycle’ by Wu Ming-Yi from Taiwan! It’s a great historical fiction with a magical realism tone. The author is well-regarded and actively supports independent bookstores here in Taiwan. This video is such a great idea! can’t wait to add those other books to my reading list~

@ahmedtanvir346 9 дней назад

hey jack i am from Bangladesh and i wish you had chosen a writer born and Brought up in Bangladesh for example the best choice would definitely be Humayun ahmed never the less i am still glad that you will get to know a bit about our land... happy reading 😇

@MaelysCha 7 дней назад

I totally agree with you!!! For so many countries he has chosen authors that were either half American or literally not from the country at all! That is so disappointing that he either doesn’t care that much or couldn’t be bothered to do a bit of easy research :/

@blabbinglobster 10 дней назад

Hi Jack. "How to Pronounce Knife" is very much considered a Canadian book, at least in Canada. The author won the (Scotiabank) Giller Prize for it in 2020.

@murlough3533 10 дней назад

yeah i just looked it up and its tagged as canadian lit- i hope he picks another

@In_silent_screams 10 дней назад

I love books about the Vietnamese immigrant experience, but if you also want to read literature translated from Vietnamese and set in Vietnam, I would recommend Dumb Luck (Vũ Trọng Phụng) or Ticket to Childhood (Nguyễn Nhật Ánh) if you can find them. There’s so much more that hasn’t been translated though

@nhuvo355 8 дней назад

Yess! Was about to comment the same :) Dumb Luck is such a classic, I read the Vietnamese version which is brilliant but apparently the translated version is good too!

@unigirl123 7 дней назад

Agreed. The book here is by a Vietnamese American so the voice is much influenced by their experience as an immigrant or another word, is Americanized. There is so much great Vietnamese literature that I wish can be translated and introduced.

@sonesonh396 5 дней назад

Same for literature from Laos. The Lao diaspora is important, but we hear even less from voices in Laos. I think a lot of the Southeast Asian literatures face this unfortunately

@In_silent_screams 5 дней назад

@@sonesonh396 I feel that! Do you have any recommendation for Laos? I currently have the Mother's Beloved collection.

@berlin-sy3ww 10 дней назад

omfg i am so happy to see how to pronounce knife on this list!! i had to read it for a writing class once and it always stuck with me as an all-time favorite

@Dolphingurl74 5 дней назад

Days late! But Jack! I know this little series is based on the world and continents, countries etc around the world but do you think one day you could do a video listing novels from Indigenous cultures? 🫶🏻 Love from Canada

@rodsitamara 10 дней назад

countries he missed if anyone wants to comment recommendations - armenia, azerbaijan, cyprus, georgia, kazakhstan, maldives, mongolia, myanmar, tajikistan, timor-leste, turkmenistan, yemen. also loved the edition of tibet so maybe some kurdish authors and authors from hong kong?

@maika0395 10 дней назад

Pretty sure that Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Cyprus were in the Europe video. It kind of makes sense to balance the videos with the number of countries to cover per video. I agree, however, that geographically and politically, they rather belong to Asia.

@sarahx6948 10 дней назад

Daughters of smoke and fire is a great kurdish book!

@wheatieee47 7 дней назад

@@sarahx6948I agree!

@sawadhussain5761 7 дней назад

For Yemen, WHAT HAVE YOU LEFT BEHIND by Bushra Al Maqtari.

@freepalestine75years День назад

And he didn’t include turkey! A geographically, politically, historically and ethnically asian country

@madametamtam 10 дней назад

Such a lovely idea! As half-Yemeni I was so sad there was no book featured. You can try: A Land Without Jasmine by Wajdī Ahdal or They Die Strangers by Mohammad Abdul-Wali 🤍

@MaelysCha 9 дней назад

I was actually looking for a book from Yemen and literally couldn’t find a single one! Thank you ❤️

@sawadhussain5761 7 дней назад

Also, WHAT HAVE YOU LEFT BEHIND by Bushra Al Maqtari.

@chrisofoz1170 9 дней назад

I’m sorry Jack but your Sri Lankan book pick is nothing to do with Sri Lanka. It’s an Indian book set in Tamil Nadu India.

@waadyk 9 дней назад

For Arabic literature, I would recommend “Lost in Mecca” by Bothayna Al-Essa and “The Bamboo Stalk” by Saud Alsanousi

@rae2549 9 дней назад

even as a Pakistani, the book you chose from my country was one i hadnt heard of myself. your videos are truly treasure.

@DONTcareAnymore000 10 дней назад

Hi Jack! The Philippine novel (La Tercera) that you got can be quite a challenging read for foreign readers. It is a great story, but prepare your translating device as this has tons of sentences and phrases in the local language.

@Goldlucky13 9 дней назад

thanks for the heads up, that was the book that intrugued me the most!

@AsuraSantosha 9 дней назад

That kind of makes me want to read it more! But also, my partner is Filipino, and he's not vocal about teaching our kids about that heritage; hes fully embraced Americana. Our daughter just did a school report on the Philippines (which he did help her with, particularly the pronunciation). I would love to have a more detailed and nuanced understanding of the culture, regions, languages, etc so I can better encourage our kids to learn about some of those things too. Particularly since my husband is from a few different parts of the country. (Born in one area but primarily lived in two others.)

@letmarie 8 дней назад

He can Google lens it to translate lt (though it won't always be accurate)

@bunnytojupiter 9 дней назад

deepak was one of my uni professors- his classes are unforgettable and he leaves a lasting impression on all his students, seriously wish i could go back and take more classes with him, i hope you enjoy reading temporary people! (he also did not assign or force us to read his book but he's such an amazing prof that we all end up buying it and reading it anyway)

@newbooksmell9221 9 дней назад

Against The Loveless World is such a beautiful novel that doesn't get talked about enough and is only mentioned as **important** - which it is, of course, but in my opinion it's so much more than that.

@ah_darling 10 дней назад

For Kazakhstan I'd recommend "Blood and Sweat" by Abdizhamil Nurpeisov

@aidaandhrhh 9 дней назад

OMG JACK!! Thank you for picking up my suggestion for Malaysia in your last video!!! ILY ❤

@zaram1492 10 дней назад

Thank you Jack for picking my suggestion!!! Can’t wait for you to read Frankenstein in Baghdad!!

@murlough3533 10 дней назад

omg its on my TBR as well! I cant wait to read it

@xz3801 9 дней назад

For saudi salt cities is a must but I recommend ghazi algosaibi books you like sally roony so you won’t have a problem with his writing style (tbh idk how it is in the English translation) I think an apartment called freedom is translated you can check life in administration for non fiction

@Cherimoyummy 10 дней назад

So so grateful that you didn’t choose Khaled Hosseini to rep Afghanistan !

@berryjoon 10 дней назад

why? just curious! :)

@sebaspinner7866 10 дней назад

Yes thank god

@russelhundchen8000 10 дней назад

Why ? (I really don't know I don't mean to offend)

@skzstaybtsbulletprooftoget3693 10 дней назад

why? what's wrong with him (his books are quite popular)

@Cherimoyummy 10 дней назад

@@russelhundchen8000 there are multiple reasons. The most egregious ones for me are: he writes about the ethnic tensions in a very simple black-and-white way, imploring often racist stereotypes. He has been supportive of the Bush administration. Also, he writes Afghanistan in a very orientalistic/unauthentic view (makes sense since he grew up in the diaspora and wealthy family. writes about life in afghanistan from a outsider perspective) . Also I don’t really like the way he writes lol

@chahnaz 9 дней назад

i was sure the book for lebanon was going to be by gibran khalil but i’m pleasantly surprised that you chose hoda barakat instead. love both writers work.

@medhinareads 10 дней назад

Hi Jack. I have been following you for a while, I really love all your content. I am from Nepal and it would mean the world for all of us if you could please read Karnali Blues from Nepal❤❤❤.

@PokhrajRoy. 10 дней назад

Every country in ASIA? OPEC, SAARC and ASEAN found shaking and crying. UNION JACK IS BACK!

@marisan5557 10 дней назад

Please do South America next (if you add a Guyanese book you’ll be my fav RU-vid person) (even though you already were)!

@黃-w4p 10 дней назад

🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼 Thank you so so so much!! 🥺🥺😻😻😻

@dohabeshir9405 10 дней назад

jack these videos are amazing i'm so glad you are making this series and i hope there is like an update later on your opinion about these books. i love reading books from diffrent countries and cultures but you encouraged me to try reading from EVERY country that would be great ! also i recommend from kuwat i recommend The Book Censor's Library by bothaina al essa. also from palestin try books by ghassan kanafani

@cindydechief5680 9 дней назад

The Book Censor’s Library looks amazing, thank you for the suggestion! I have ordered it.

@dohabeshir9405 9 дней назад

@@cindydechief5680 I hope you like it !

@LynnT2280 10 дней назад

I am so happy you made this video. I am trying to read a book written by an author in every country. Hope I get through them all in my life time!!

@murlough3533 10 дней назад

same here T_T

@xavierfzq 2 дня назад

I’m super happy Jack included Malaysia!! As a Malaysian, I’m such a big fan!!! Like I’m internally screaming so hard right now!🫨🫨

@panizp3164 9 дней назад

Persian girl here 👋 I recommend this books :: three drops of blood.. missing soluch..the blind owl..her eyes..i will turn off the lights.. madame Ahou's husband.. symphony of the dead ❤❤

@aamnahere6250 9 дней назад

Love to see a different book from the usual ones for Pakistan. I've not read 'An Abundance of Wild Roses' yet but it's good to see it instead of the same few famous books being repeated (a lot of them not even good, in my opinion). I'll definitely recommend 'All My Rage' by Sabaa Tahir for Pakistan. Although it is mostly set in the US, the characters are Pakistani Americans and the way the author has interwoven Pakistan and its culture in the book is absolutely wonderful and heartwarming. This is the first English book I read about my own country that I felt actually does justice to an extremely misrepresented place and people.

@genericplantlife 10 дней назад

For the Philippines, I suggest a book that every high school student in the country has been required to read: Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not) by Jose Rizal. It's a great read that I only appreciated when I read it again way after high school. It's a detailed look into a significant era in Philippine history and how it shaped where we are now. The english translation is pretty good. For something more modern, I suggest Smaller and Smaller Circles, or Killing Time in a Warm Place.

@heathernependa 10 дней назад

Obsessed with series! Can't wait for Africa 📚

@MsBlulucky 10 дней назад

There's a "read the world" challenge on The Storygraph (several actually). I had a look at the missing countries and these are books other people read for those countries (don't know if they're good though) Maldives: The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by S. A. Chakroborty, Folk Tales of the Maldives by Xavier Romero-Frias Mongolia: When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the EAst by Quan Barry, The Blue Sky by Galsan Tschinag Myanmar: Letters from Burma by Aung San Suu Kyi, Smile As They Bow by Nu Nu Yi

@MaelysCha 9 дней назад

For Myanmar, I highly recommend « From the Land of Green Ghosts » 💚 a book that really stayed with me and is easily found on Amazon.

@LinnieCat 10 дней назад

I have the Afghani, Iraqi and Indonesian books! All are on my tbr list, so excited

@fadipick 8 дней назад

Thank you for recommending my book The Bride of Amman! Appreciate it ❤️

@amanini11 3 дня назад

can't wait to have you in Malaysia ! In the meantime, hopefully the book will serve you a glimpse of Malaysia and do you justice for all the cancelled trips before :))

@sortasamm 10 дней назад

I really love these around the world videos you're doing! A couple months ago I started a project on Google Earth to map all the books I've read so far. It's made me realize that my reading isn't very diverse (mostly from Europe/the US) and I'm also pursuing the goal of reading a book from every country.

@emilyyy41 9 дней назад

This is such a good idea!

@norarjona 10 дней назад

I'll have to rewatch this video a couple of time to choose which books will increase my already endless TBR list. You make all of them sound quite attractive .

@alyssayurisays 4 дня назад

I'm 10 mins into the video and i thought of just turning on the subtitles. And i just want to thank you for putting the books' information on top of your video instead of the usual at the bottom like any other video out there. I just really appreciate that tiny thing for subtitle readers 😊

@sammiesomething8403 10 дней назад

Thank you for not dismissing Taiwan as a non-country! And the book you pick also reflects on a history that we need to always remember as Taiwanese people are now on this journey to slowly reclaim our identity from the former nationalist government and eventually become a truly free self-determined country 💙

@Diyashill7359 9 дней назад

amazing brother lots of love from India take care of your health and keep spreading your knowledge

@eyez4yuh 10 дней назад

28:31 LET'S GO PAKISTAN‼‼‼‼‼🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰

@MyeshaFatima505 10 дней назад

YESSS 🔥🔥

@fae7yy 10 дней назад

grapeeee🍇🍇🍇

@DK-gc8od 10 дней назад

I hope he likes it

@afiaimtiaz8477 3 дня назад

Yaaaassss

@rinroyd7134 10 дней назад

Try Forough Farokhzaad from Persian literature ❤

@sausana2501 10 дней назад

Any particular books and translations you recommend?

@lunaticpetunia616 10 дней назад

@@sausana2501 I highly recommend her book "Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season".

@georgiah8162 День назад

Malaysia is a beautiful country!! Visited in June and went to George Town, Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur and Melaka and recommend them all. So rich in culture. And most importantly, the food is the best!! ❤❤❤ definitely adding the book you mentioned to my TBR. 😊

@vanshikabisht4738 10 дней назад

Finally part 2!!! Love this series.

@matthewtrearty2082 10 дней назад

How to Pronounce Knife is amazing and the author is from Laos, she was at the Bangkok literary festival last year, she is amazing. But the book is set in the States, Canada mainly. For Bhutan I also loved Beyond the Earth and the Sky. It is a Canadian who moved there to teach English Girls of Riyadh was awful, Sex and the City but in Riyadh. I hated this book😊 Having lived in Thailand 🇹🇭 for 9 years I would say that there are better, but glad that you are promoting world literature.

@juliaraftery623 8 дней назад

Agree re: How To Pronounce Knife- Thammavongsa is a great writer and we love her stuff here in Canada- but mate…pls don’t equate Canada with the States lol

@noniesrose 10 дней назад

I love these kind of videos about translated literature!! I have a master's in world lit and I loved loved it!! For those who can read persian or french, I highly highly recommend Le cri des femmes afghanes, an anthology of persian poetry written by Afghan women!! My favourite book I read this year

@visheshsharma1365 10 дней назад

11:17 🇮🇳 represent!!!

@impalanotaming 10 дней назад

I have found Peeps of Jack in India!!!! Omg

@bhanuprakash2004 10 дней назад

lot of us actually follow him

@drifter639 10 дней назад

thanks bro !

@impalanotaming 10 дней назад

@@visheshsharma1365 we should create a group

@harshgogia2715 10 дней назад

Me too

@ihaverabies 23 часа назад

jack, i'm not sure if you'll see this comment but on the off chance you do, can you do a video about books that make you cry, not because they're sad but because they're over? i've just finished reading the secret history by donna tartt and there's an indescribable feeling of emptiness that im dealing with and i crave more😭

@JJTheJuggernaut 9 дней назад

I love this series and since I'm also working my way through reading from every country as well, it's fun to see that we've chosen some of the same books!

@viola1221 9 дней назад

I'd like to mention "Prison N°5" by Zehra Doğan. It's a graphic novel by a Kurdish author who was a political prisoner and had to draw with whatever she could find inside the prison, it's really an amazing book and highlights a lot of struggles Kurdish women have to face

@peebee8119 9 дней назад

I can't seem to find an English edition?

@margauxschreurs5314 7 дней назад

Me neither, let me know if you find it somewhere?

@viola1221 7 дней назад

@@peebee8119 oh nooo I was having some trouble finding it :( I read it in Italian, maybe if enough people request it they will make an English version?

@elisabethkula5370 3 дня назад

Hey Jack, you surely need to review something of tan twan eng. I was mesmerized by 'Garden of the Evening Mists', I learned so much about Malaysian history, zen gardens and japanese colonialism. Stunning Book!

@muryunn 3 дня назад

two female author recs from the Philippines 1. Lualhati Bautista 2. Merlinda Bobis beautiful writers, so poetic, so critical, so profound and beautiful!! and great for beginners too. they share a lot of culture without it being too complex and/or intimidating. highly recommend!!!

@samspam1788 9 дней назад

Im kind of confused about the reading around the world challenge... is it that the author should be born in the country, the author sets the book in the country or what? I wouldnt put Martyr for Iran because its set in the us but maybe im wrong??

@babygirl608 8 дней назад

I love your openness to learn and shine light on authors from various backgrounds. Your efforts to be inclusive while remaining incredibly respectful is not lost on me. ❤️

@safar36 10 дней назад

For Armenia most of the great books I’ve read unfortunately aren’t translated, but I’d lovee to recommend Meline Toumanis “There was and there was not” it is a nonfiction memoir and focuses on the Armenian genocide that happened in 1915 and both of the Turkish and Armenian communitys stances on the topic. Hope to see pt2 soon & hope you have a good read:D

@aykakatibli7249 10 дней назад

It’s an interesting rec, and as an Azeri, I’d like to see both sides of the story of the crime that is pushed onto us as well. If you have any fiction recs that are translated into Russian or English, I’d like to check them out as well. It’s hard to find anything but Манюня and Дом, в котором… online.

@booksontherun 10 дней назад

🇲🇾🫶🏻 Malaysia!!! 24:01

@mhazelim 10 дней назад

this segment has the best comments section! 🙌🙌🙌

@dysbiosis 10 дней назад

Sending hellos from iraq 🇮🇶

@user-wr5jt5ol3t 10 дней назад

I'd recommend The Blind wl for persian literature

@omidfazeli2334 9 дней назад

The Blind Owl, by Sadegh Hedayat

@1OooBUBBLEooO1 9 дней назад

I'm a Pakistani-American and although I live in America, my Pathan family still live a very traditional life that is similar to the political climate of Pakistan in the 90's. Wanting to learn more about Pakistani women and their roles in society, I came across an anthology, "No Shame for The Sun: Lives of Professional Pakistani Women" collected by Shahla Haeri. This book is non-fiction, and honestly more of a textbook, but it helped me understand what women went through during the formation of Pakistan. It is especially important to me to read books about Pakistani women who were more than just housewives from a village but made something of themselves, despite the backlash.

@rachelleostroff4824 10 дней назад

I'm not hating but is there a reason u only included some middle eastern countries but not all of them? will the rest be included in the africa video?

@CatianaKeys 9 дней назад

For Europe he had said that sometimes he couldn't find translated versions of books from some countries, maybe that's the case here as well.

@CatianaKeys 9 дней назад

PS: Hadn't started watching yet. He mentions his reason at 1:10 - not finding some books in general or not purchasable atm ...

@aamnahere6250 9 дней назад

People have the right to not want to read books from certain countries. Certainly those countries that Americans have even criminalised boycotting for their crimes (which is a democratic right) This is not hate.

@siphona_will_eat_you 7 дней назад

Note that he said that he couldn’t find English translations or inprint versions of some books, he literally said that.

@gr02mc 6 дней назад

I think a few were included in his Europe video. He also mentioned doing a video at the end of the series covering everything he missed🤷‍♀️

@books5113 9 дней назад

I can’t wait till you do a book from every country in Africa!!!

@evewithwonder 7 дней назад

I LOVE long book titles too! The more poetic the better 🥰 Also, many of these books sound incredible, and you're not helping my very long TBR 🤣

@christinemaamarbashi2529 10 дней назад

Armenia is missing! Here are 2 great books by Armenian authors that have been translated into English: Retreat without Song by Shahan Shahnour; In the Ruins by Zabel Yesayan. Hope you can find them☺

@aspartame13 10 дней назад

pretty sure armenia was in his europe video

@varnikaaraizada1808 10 дней назад

Really appreciate these kinds of videos Jack!

@missnann2596 10 дней назад

For Myanmar, there is one called Smile as they bow by Nu Nu Yi (Genre: LGBT, Contemporary fiction). It is translated from Burmese language and the author herself is a renowned writer in the country. That’s the only fiction by a Myanmar author I would like to recommend. Poetry collections translated by Ko Ko Thett capture original voices of Myanmar poets. There could be some other fictions by Myanmar authors too, but sadly even among books in Burmese language, it is very difficult to filter out the authors who are not on the side of oppressive regimes😢 Plenty of non fiction books are about Myanmar’s unstable political history.

@Mannasoban 9 дней назад

Hey, are you from Myanmar? Can you tell me what's actually going on there? Some local news channels are saying rakhain state is separating from Myanmar, is that true? I haven't seen any international news on it so I'm skeptical.

@MaelysCha 9 дней назад

Have you read « From the Land of Green Ghosts »? It is an incredible memoir from a Burmese author. Highly recommend!

@xuanzhang447 8 дней назад

OMG, i waited and watched every second for you to pick out a Vietnam' book and there it is in the very last of the video.Anw,thank you so so much for coming up with this beautiful content, now i have lots of recommendations to read.If you want to find more books about Viet Nam ,i suggest you check out "The Sympathizer" by Viet Thanh Nguyen (named on a New York Times Editor's Choice) , "The Sorrow of War" by Bao Ninh" or "Last night I dreamed of piece"- a diary of Dang Thuy Tram(a doctor in the American War), all of them are masterpiece .And for Afganistan ,i think you will be interested in novels by Khaled Hosseini such as "A thousand splendid sun","The Kite runner",...Much love from VIET NAM!

@MaelysCha 7 дней назад

The book he picked for Viêt Nam is from a Vietnamese-American author though who was born and lives in the USA… which I find very disappointing as indeed there are so many great Vietnamese books from Vietnamese authors!

@orcinusorca23 10 дней назад

Hi from the Philippines! 🇵🇭🫶

@zebra.babes123 10 дней назад

Yes!! 30:33

@Idk-vs4gh 9 дней назад

If you make more videos about Arab or specifically Saudi Arabia books it would make my year

@notaraventoolate 10 дней назад

For your Africa edition, for Rwanda, I recommend Scholastique Mukasonga. I really enjoyed her memoirs Cockroaches and Barefoot Woman.

@aamnahere6250 9 дней назад

YES!!! I just read 'Cockroaches' by her and it's a very short memoir but it packs a really heavy punch.

@welcometomyisland7 10 дней назад

Taiwan❤❤❤ Thank you for featuring the book!!

@bonnielloyd6296 18 часов назад

Ok so if you do this type of video for North America, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE read “The Murmur of the Bees” by Sofía Segovia. It takes place in Mexico by a Mexican author. This is my all time favorite book and was my intro to magical realism. I have never felt so much love, hatred, and grief for characters. It’s a love letter to Mexico and explores the holiness of the land we grow up in. While I read a translated version, her prose feel like a warm blanket.