World reading progress list for Michele Ardente

1. ALGERIA
2. ANGOLA
3. BENIN
4. BOTSWANA
5. BURKINA FASO
6. BURUNDI
7. CAMEROON
8. CAPE VERDE
9. CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
10. CHAD
11. COMOROS
12. CONGO
13. CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF
14. DJIBOUTI
15. EGYPT
• What Strange Paradise : A novel by Omar El Akkad
16. EQUATORIAL GUINEA
17. ERITREA
18. ETHIOPIA
• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
19. GABON
20. GAMBIA
21. GHANA
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• Briefly Perfectly Human : Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real about the End by Alua Arthur
22. GUINEA
23. GUINEA-BISSAU
24. IVORY COAST
25. KENYA
• We Are The Water People by Troy Onyango

  From critically acclaimed author Troy Onyango comes a dark, suspenseful tale of spirits bearing witness to a crime that rocks an island community, based in the Luo legend of the water people. When fishermen on Nam Lolwe (commonly known as Lake Victoria) return with the body of a young boy found inside the sack, a close-knit island is thrown into mourning, and they all suspect foul play in the death of the child. But who could have committed such a terrible crime, and why? To discover the truth, the islanders must rely on the water spirits beneath the lake’s surface—the only souls who serve as witnesses to the vile act.

• Unbowed: A Memoir by Wangari Maathai
• Dreams in a Time of War : A Childhood Memoir by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
26. LESOTHO
27. LIBERIA
• His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie
28. LIBYA
29. MADAGASCAR
30. MALAWI
31. MALI
32. MAURITANIA
33. MAURITIUS
34. MOROCCO
• In the Country of Others : A Novel by Leila Slimani
35. MOZAMBIQUE
36. NAMIBIA
37. NIGER
38. NIGERIA
• My Sister, the Serial Killer : A Novel by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• The Girl with the Louding Voice : A Novel by Abi Daré
• Butter Honey Pig Bread : A Novel by Francesca Ekwuyasi
• And So I Roar : A Novel by Abi Daré
39. RWANDA
• Consolata by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse

  A moving story of an old woman reckoning with memories - both cherished and heartbreaking - of her past, from French Rwandan author Beata Mareisse-Umubyeyi, winner of the 2020 Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie. In childhood, Consolata was permanently separated from her family by French colonizers in her Rwandan village. Now, nearing the end of her life in an assisted-living facility, she starts losing her French language skills and can only remember her mother tongue, to the confusion of care workers. Oscillating between moments in assisted living and vivid childhood memories with family in Rwanda, Consolota is a poignant story of heritage, memory, and bonds that can never be broken.

40. SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
41. SENEGAL
42. SEYCHELLES
43. SIERRA LEONE
• A Long Way Gone : Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
44. SOMALIA
• The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert by Shugri Said Salh
45. SOUTH AFRICA
• Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
• Hum If You Don't Know the Words by Bianca Marais
46. SOUTH SUDAN
47. SUDAN
• Ghost Season : A Novel by Fatin Abbas
48. ESWATINI
49. TANZANIA
50. TOGO
51. TUNISIA
• The Ardent Swarm by Yamen Manai
52. UGANDA
53. ZAMBIA
54. ZIMBABWE

1. AFGHANISTAN
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
2. ARMENIA
3. AZERBAIJAN
4. BAHRAIN
5. BANGLADESH
6. BHUTAN
7. BRUNEI
8. CAMBODIA
• First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
9. CHINA
• Skyhunter by Marie Lu
• Steelstriker by Marie Lu
• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
10. CHRISTMAS ISLAND
11. COCOS ISLANDS
12. GEORGIA
13. INDIA
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
• A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
14. INDONESIA
• Dial a for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto
15. IRAN
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
16. IRAQ
17. ISRAEL
18. JAPAN
• Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
• Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
• Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa
• The Goodbye Cat by Hiro Arikawa
19. JORDAN
20. KAZAKHSTAN
21. KUWAIT
22. KYRGYZSTAN
23. LAOS
24. LEBANON
• I Remember Beirut by Zeina Abirached
25. MALAYSIA
• What My Bones Know : A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo
26. MALDIVES
27. MONGOLIA
28. MYANMAR
29. NEPAL
30. NORTH KOREA
• The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee
31. OMAN
32. PAKISTAN
• I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
33. PALESTINE
• Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
34. PHILIPPINES
• The Night Tiger : A Novel by Yangsze Choo
35. QATAR
36. SAUDI ARABIA
37. SINGAPORE
• Now You See Us by Balli Kaur Jaswal
38. SOUTH KOREA
• Pachinko : The New York Times Bestseller by Min Jin Lee
39. SRI LANKA
• The seven moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
• Funny Boy : A Novel by Shyam Selvadurai
40. SYRIA
• The Proof of the Honey by Salwa Al Neimi
41. TAJIKISTAN
42. THAILAND
43. TURKEY
• The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
• The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
44. TURKMENISTAN
45. VIETNAM
• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous : A Novel by Ocean Vuong
46. UZBEKISTAN
47. YEMEN
48. TIMOR-LESTE
49. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
50. TAIWAN

1. CYPRUS
• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
• The Fury by Alex Michaelides
2. ALBANIA
• A Girl in Exile : Requiem for Linda B. by Ismail Kadare
3. ANDORRA
4. AUSTRIA
• The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria A. Trapp
5. BELARUS
6. BELGIUM
• I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
7. BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
8. BULGARIA
9. CROATIA
• The Hotel Tito : A Novel by Ivana Bodrožić
10. CZECH REPUBLIC
• My Heart Is At Ease by Gerta Solan

  Deported with her parents and grandparents from Prague to the Theresienstadt model camp in June 1942, Gerta Solan describes the Nazi campaign to mislead the Red Cross about their treatment of Jewish prisoners. Then comes Auschwitz, where she has to cope on her own with the corruption, brutality and desperation around her. The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs, 30

11. DENMARK
• The Little Book of Hygge : Danish Secrets to Happy Living by Meik Wiking
12. ESTONIA
13. FINLAND
• Memory of Water : A Novel by Emmi Itäranta
14. FRANCE
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint−Exupery
• The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
• Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
• Eastbound by Maylis De Kerangal
15. GERMANY
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
• The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
• The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku
• The Door-To-Door Bookstore by Carsten Henn
16. GREECE
• The Iliad by Homer
17. HUNGARY
18. ICELAND
• The Atom Station by Halldór Laxness
19. IRELAND
• The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
• Normal People : A Novel by Sally Rooney
• When All Is Said : A Novel by Anne Griffin
• Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
20. ITALY
• My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
• The Seamstress of Sardinia by Bianca Pitzorno
21. KOSOVO
22. LATVIA
23. LIECHTENSTEIN
24. LITHUANIA
25. LUXEMBOURG
• Ralph 124C 41+ : A Romance of the Year 2660 by Hugo Gernsback
26. NORTH MACEDONIA
27. MALTA
28. MOLDOVA
29. MONACO
30. MONTENEGRO
31. NETHERLANDS
• Mother Dear : A Thriller by Nova Lee Maier
• The Sex Lives of Cannibals : Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost
32. NORWAY
• A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
33. POLAND
• The Last Jew of Treblinka by Chil Rajchman
• The Boy on the Wooden Box : How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler's List by Leon Leyson
34. PORTUGAL
35. ROMANIA
36. RUSSIA
• Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich : (50th Anniversary Edition) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
37. SAN MARINO
38. SERBIA
39. SLOVAKIA
40. SLOVENIA
41. SPAIN
• American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
• Ikigai: The Japanese Secret To A Long And Happy Life by Héctor García and Francesc Miralles
42. SWEDEN
• Anxious People by Frederik Backman
• An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• Beartown by Fredrik Backman
43. SWITZERLAND
• Heidi by Johanna Spyri
44. UKRAINE
• You Don't Know What War Is : The Diary of a Young Girl from Ukraine by Yeva Skalietska
45. UNITED KINGDOM
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• The Midnight Library : A Novel by Matt Haig
• Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine : A Novel by Gail Honeyman
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
46. VATICAN CITY