Keeping in with tradition here’s the list of books read the Bookhad admins this year. It was a conscious effort to read books by various countries because there’s so much more to literature than the Western canon. Therefore, this year’s Bookhad book list is arranged by country. We’ve also thrown in a couple of short stories we read.
Country | Book | Author | Rating | Genre |
Albania | Broken April | Ismail Kadare | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
Algeria | The Rabbi’s Cat | Joann Sfar | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Graphic Novel |
Canada/Japan | A Tale for the Time Being | Ruth Ozeki | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
Chile | Daughter of Fortune | Isabel Allende | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
Cyprus | The Spice Box Letters | Eve Makis | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
Egypt/India | In an Antique Land | Amitav Ghosh | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Non-Fiction/Travel |
France | Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules Verne | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
France | The Little Prince | Antoine Saint De Exupery | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
France/Italy | The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexander Dumas | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
Germany | Castle | Franz Kafka | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
Germany | Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
Iceland | Stone Tree | Gyrdir Eliasson | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Short Stories |
India | The Dark Night | Krishna Jha & Dhirendra Jha | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Non-Fiction/History |
India | Bombay Stories | Saadat Hassan Manto | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Short Stories |
India | The Post Office | Rabindranath Tagore | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Play |
India | Twilight in Delhi | Ahmed Ali | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
Iran | Persepolis | Marjane Satrapi | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Graphic Novel |
Iran | Women Without Men | Shahrnush Parsipur | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Short Stories |
Israel | Falling Out of Time | David Grossman | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction/Poetry |
Japan | Dragonball (Manga) | Akira Toriyama | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Graphic Novel |
Kashmir | Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir | Malik Sajad | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Graphic Novel |
Malta | Ironfire (The Sword and the Scimitar) | David Ball | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Historical Fiction |
Mesopotamia | The Epic of Gilgamesh | Anonymous | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Poetry |
Middle East | From the Holy Mountain | William Dalrymple | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Non-Fiction/Travel |
Middle East | The Red Tent | Anita Diamant | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Historical Fiction |
Morocco | The Last Friend | Tahar Ben Jelloun | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
Nepal/India | Slow Startle | Rohan Chhetri | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Poetry |
Pakistan | Kartography | Kamila Shamsie | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
Pakistan | Trespassing | Uzma Aslam Khan | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
Romania | The Appointment | Herta Muller | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
Russia | Diary of a Madman | Nikolai Gogol | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Short Stories |
Russia | Fathers and Sons | Ivan Turgenev | ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
South Africa | Things I Don’t Want to Know | Deborah Levy | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Non-Fiction/Memoir |
Spain | Cathedral of the Sea | Ildefonso Falcones | ♥ ♥ | Historical Fiction |
Sudan | The Wedding of Zein | Tayeb Salih | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
Sweden | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Stieg Larsson | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
Sweden | The Girl who Played with Fire | Stieg Larsson | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
Sweden | The 100-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared | Jonas Jonasson | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
Sweden | My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry | Fredrik Backman | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
U.K. | The Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
U.K. | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Dystopian Fiction |
U.K. | The Lazarus Vault | Tom Harper | ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
U.K. | Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
U.K. | Mightier Than the Sword (The Clifton Chronicles #5) | Jeffrey Archer | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
U.K. | Cometh the Hour (The Clifton Chronicles #6) | Jeffrey Archer | ♥ | Fiction |
U.K. | Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – Script Edition | John Tiffany, Jack Thorne, J.K.Rowling | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Play |
U.K. | Me Before You | Jojo Moyes | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
U.K. | Say You’re Sorry | Michael Robotham | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
U.K. | The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro | ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
U.K. based WI/African | Bone | Yrsa Daley-Ward | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Poetry |
U.K./U.S.A | 84 Charing Cross | Helene Hanff | ♥ ♥ | Non-Fiction/Memoir |
U.S. based African | Nejma | Nayyirah Waheed | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Poetry |
U.S. based African | Salt | Nayyirah Waheed | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Poetry |
U.S.A | The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
U.S.A | Misery | Stephen King | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
U.S.A | Mr. Mercedes | Stephen King | ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
U.S.A | On Writing | Stephen King | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Non-Fiction |
U.S.A | Call of Cthulhu | H.P Lovecraft | ♥ ♥ | Fantasy Fiction |
U.S.A | Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
U.S.A | Desperation | Stephen King | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
U.S.A | Big Magic | Elizabeth Gilbert | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Non-Fiction |
U.S.A | Chasers of the Light | Tyler Knott Gregson | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Poetry |
U.S.A | Dept. of Speculation | Jenny Offill | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
U.S.A | Grief is a Thing with Feathers | Max Porter | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Prose Poetry |
U.S.A | Help, Thanks, Wow | Anne Lamott | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Non-Fiction |
U.S.A | Now Go Out There | Mary Karr | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Non-Fiction |
U.S.A | The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry | Gabrielle Zevin | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
U.S.A | What I Know for Sure | Oprah Winfrey | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Non-Fiction |
U.S.A | Where’d You go, Bernadette | Maria Semple | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
U.S.A | An Abundance of Katherines | John Green | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
U.S.A | Bird by Bird | Anne Lamott | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Non-Fiction |
U.S.A | Brave Enough | Cheryl Strayed | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Non-Fiction |
U.S.A/Israel | Acts of Faith | Erich Segal | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
U.S.A/Middle East | Habibi | Craig Thompson | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Graphic Novel |
Ukraine | Death and the Penguin | Andrey Kurkov | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Fiction |
U.S.A/Vietnam | The Things They Carried | Tim O’Brien | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Non-Fiction |
Short Stories | ||||
Country | Title | Author | Rating | Genre |
Canada | Happy Endings | Margaret Atwood | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Short Story |
Iran | Two Stories | Mahsa Mohebali | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Short Story |
Qatar | The Jealous Wife | Um Khalaf | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Short Story |
U.K. | Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies | J.K.Rowling | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Short Story |
U.K. | Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists | J.K.Rowling | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Short Story |
U.K. | Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide | J.K.Rowling | ♥ ♥ ♥ | Short Story |
U.K./Nigeria | Who Will Greet You At Home? | Lesley Nneka Arimah | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Short Story |
U.S.A | Hills Like White Elephants | Ernest Hemingway | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Short Story |
U.S.A | Last Chapter on Hotel Stationery | Ursula Villarreal-Moura | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Short Story |
U.S.A | The Yellow Wallpaper | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ | Short Story |
We hope you had a great year reading, too. (Otherwise, there’s little to 2016’s credit, you know?) Do let us know in the comments if you have read any of these books or have any recommendations for books from countries across the world.
Have a magical 2017!
Bookhad
(28.12.2016)
Wow!
Thank you, Niranjan! 🙂