Book List 2016

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)