Books to Explore New Countries and Cultures

Read your way around the world with these great books. Armchair travel

This is your global reading list.

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Books about Afghanistan

• Khaled Hosseini - And the Mountain Echoed [EN]

• Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns [EN]

• Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner [EN]

Books about Belgium

• Hugo Claus - Het verdriet van Belgie [NL]

• Dimitri Verhulst - De helaasheid der dingen [NL]

• Dimitri Verhulst - Godverdomse dagen op een godverdomse bol [NL]

Books about Brazil

• Paolo Coelho - Eleven Minutes [EN]

Books about China

• Su Tong - The Boat to Redemption [EN]

• Sun Tzu - The Art of War [EN]

• Warren Liu - KFC in China [EN]

• Yu Hua - China in Ten Words [EN]

Books about Czech Republic

• Laurent Binet - HHhH [EN]

Books about Columbia

• Juan Gabriel Vásquez - The Sound of Things Falling [EN]

• Gabriel García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude [EN]

Books about India

• Yann Martel - Life of Pi [EN]

Books about Iran

• Kader Abdolah - Het huis van de moskee [NL]

Books about Ireland

• Sally Rooney - Normal People [EN]

• Sally Rooney - Conversation with Friends [EN]

Books about Italy

• Paolo Cognetti - The Eight Mountains [EN]

• Elana Ferrante - The Neapolitan Novels [EN]

• Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat, Pray, Love [EN]

• Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer - La Superba [NL]

Books about Japan

• Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha [EN]

• Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood [EN]

Books about Monaco

• Peter Terrin - Monte Carlo [NL]

Books about Norway

• Stephen Enter - Grip [NL]

• Willem Frederik Hermans - Nooit meer Slapen [NL]

• Herbjorg Wassmo - Dina's Book [EN]

Books about Portugal

• Paul Mercier - Night Train to Lisbon [EN]

• José Saramago - Blindness [EN]

Books about Russia

• Amor Towles - A gentleman in Moscow [EN]

• Arthur Japin - Kolja [NL]

• Arthur Japin - Vaslav [NL]

• Vladmir Nabokov - Lolita [EN]

• Leo Tolstoj - Anna Karenina [EN]

Books about Turkey

• Orhan Pamuk - The Museum of Innocence [EN]

Books about The United Kingdom

• Alan Bennett - The Uncommon Reader [EN]

• Bill Bryson - The Road to Little Dribbling [EN]

• Bill Bryson - Notes from a Small Island [EN]

• Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie [EN]

Books about The United States

• Emma Cline - The Girls [EN]

• Dave Eggers - The Circle [EN]

• Jon Krakauer - Into the Wild [EN]

• Mary Miller - The Last Days of California [EN]

• Maria Semple - Where'd you Go Bernadette [EN]