I'm Reading a Book from EVERY Country in the World 

Books mentioned in this video: Asia Afghanistan: A Thousand Splendid Suns Cambodia: First The Killed My Father China: The Arrival + Sword of Kaigen India: When Breath Becomes Air + Love from A to Z Iran: Kalila and Demna Iraq: استرداد عمر Japan: Convenience Store Woman + Battle Royale + The Travelling Cat Chroniciles Jordan: Squire Kuwait: Bambo Stalk + Mama Hisa's Mice Lebanon: The Prophet North Korea: Nothing to Envy + In Order to Live Pakistan: I Am Malala Palestine: I Saw Ramallah Russia: Crime and Punishment Saudi Arabia: أحدث الليل South Korea: Almond Syria: مغامرة العقل الأولى Taiwan: The Prince and the Dressmaker Turkey: Forty Rules of Love Vietnam: The Best WE Could Do North America Canada: Guy Delisle (author) Jamaica: Everything Everything Mexico: The Four Agreements USA: The Lies of Locke Lamora South America Brazil: The Alchemist Europe Austria: Chess Story Bosnia and Herzegovina: Islam between East and West Cyprus: The Beekeeper of Aleppo France: The Little Prince Germany: All Quite on the Western Front + Diary of Ann Frank Greece: The Iliad + The Odyssey+ The Theban Plays, etc Ireland: The Picture of Dorian Gray Lithuania: Between Shades of Gray Netherlands: The Body Keeps the Score Spain: Shadow of the Wind Sweden: Fredric Backman (author) UK: Harry Potter + War Doctor Africa Egypt: ثلاثية غرناطة Ghana: Homecoming Morocco: Stolen Lives Nigeria: The Girl with the Louding Voice Somalia: Don't Tell Me You're Afraid South Africa: Born a Crime Algeria: الأسود يليق بك Australia and Oceania Australia: the Secret

What a great challenge! I wish you all the best for it and many happy reading experiences with this armchair world travelling 😃🛋️📚! For Switzerland I would recommend a play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Heidi by Johanna Spyri (a classic from the 19th century), one of the travel itineraries by Annemarie Schwarzenbach (All the Roads Are Open (from Geneva to Afghanistan with a Ford automobile) or Death in Persia (from her travels to Persia) all of them in the 1930s) or a contemporary crime/mystery novel by Joël Dicker… 🤗

Hi Rana, being a booktuber from Nigeria, I waited patiently for you to talk about your pick from Nigeria and when I saw you had chosen Abi Dare’s The Girl with the Louding Voice, I didn’t know what to expect as you had mentioned in one of your videos that it could take you about three days to read a book written in English and this particular one is written in very “broken English” but you scaled through. Wow!! You did so well. Great video 👏🏽🎉

It's so cool how much you've read for this challenge. Good luck with finishing it!

Ooooh I'm doing this too! But mine is more of a long term sort of thing. Best of luck! 💙💙💙

I’m working on the same goal! Here are some of my favorites that surprised me :) Mexico: Still born Ivory Coast: Allah is Not Obliged Iran: Then the Fish Swallowed Him Sri Lanka: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida Sudan: Season of Migration to the North

For Danish authors, I can recommend Tove Ditlevsen, she is very iconic!

For Finland, Tove Jansson's The summer book is a beautiful story. She also created the moomins, which are probably easily available. For other options, I would suggest checking out books by Sofi Oksanen, The Egyptian by Mika Waltari & The year of The hare by Arto Paasilinna. Have fun traveling the world via books, I'm also on the same journey 😊

Are there any websites where you can read some classic or modern arab novels in English for free? In my country arab authors cannot be found easily. Buying from foreign resources is also problematic, because of the sanctions

الأسود يليق بك 32:14 Is Algerian not Tunisian. The author is Algerian.

Saud Alsanousi's second book is translated into English, its called Mama Hissah's Mice.

I hated the 40 rules of love too!