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Knud Rasmussen: Eskimo Folk-Tales (Greenland)

Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐★★
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Over 400 reading recommendations from around the world

A short while ago I decided to post this project on Reddit and see if anyone can recommend additional books from their countries. The amount and quality responses completely shocked me - in a good way! I have got over 400 book recommendations from all over the world, often less known literature or just the books from the countries I haven't covered yet.  I am sharing this list here both for myself and for anyone else to search easily for their next read. While these books cover about a 100 countries, there still are many gaps, mainly for the smaller nations in Africa, Oceania, and the "-stan" countries (eg Kazakhstan, Tajikistan) where I don't have a plan for reading. I'd love to hear any suggestions for any places whether included here or not. In any case I will be adding additional lists based on my own research for most of the countries of the world as soon as I get to reading them. Without further ado, here's the recommendatio

Barbara Demick: Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (North Korea)

Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Mariama Ba - So Long a Letter (Senegal)

Overall rating  (out of 5)  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐