THE LIST

All the books I've read that are part of either the Read the World or the 26 Classics goal. Enjoy, and please read widely!

Read the World
Lebanon: One Thousand and One Nights by Hanan Al-Shaykh
Nigeria: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Romania: Night by Elie Wiesel
Spain: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Colombia: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Japan: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Sweden: The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
France: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Jamaica: A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
China: The Four Books by Yan Lianke
Afghanistan: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
India: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 
Iran: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Ghana: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
South Korea: Please Look After Mom by Shin Kyung-Sook
Chile: The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende 
Zimbabwe: Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Croatia: Trieste by Dasa Drndic
Italy: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante 
Turkey: Snow by Orhan Pamuk 
Chile: The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Brazil: Diary of the Fall by Michael Laub
Kuwait: A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar
Swaziland: Blessed Are the Dead by Malla Nunn
Mexico: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
North Korea: Without You, There is No Us by Suki Kim 
Pakistan: The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
New Zealand: The Bone People by Keri Hulme
Palestine: Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa
Classics
1. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
3. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
4. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
5. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
6. Metamorphosis, The by Franz Kafka
7. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
8. Tale of Two Cities, A by Charles Dickens
9. A Separate Peace by John Knowles 
10. Emma by Jane Austen
11. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
12. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 
13. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 
14. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
15. Go Tell it On the Mountain by James Baldwin 
16. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
17. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 
18. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
19. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
20. The Crucible by Arthur Miller 
21. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
22. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
23. Native Son by Richard Wright
24. The Color Purple by Alice Walker 
25. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
26. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
27. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
28. Catcher in the Rye, The by J.D. Salinger
29. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
30. 1984 by George Orwell 
31; Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
32. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
33. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
34. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
35. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
36. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
37. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
38. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
39. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
40. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
41. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
42. The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
43. L'etranger par Albert Camus
44. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
45. Black Boy by Richard Wright
46. Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
47. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
48. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway



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