Non-Western Literature
52 books
Must-Read 1991
Almanac of the Dead
Leslie Marmon Silko
Must-Read 1977
Ceremony
Leslie Marmon Silko
Must-Read 2024
Epic of Gilgamesh
Oral Epic
Must-Read 1968
House Made of Dawn
N. Scott Momaday
Must-Read
Kebra Nagast
Various (Ethiopian)
Must-Read 2006
Malgudi Days
R.K. Narayan
Must-Read 1851
Masnavi
Rumi
Must-Read 1981
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
Must-Read 2016
One Thousand and One Nights
The Arabian Nights
Must-Read
Popol Vuh
Anonymous (Mayan)
Must-Read 1993
Shahnameh
Firdausi
Must-Read 1998
Shalimar the Clown
Salman Rushdie
Must-Read 2005
Swami and Friends
R.K. Narayan
Must-Read 1990
The Guide
R.K. Narayan
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Must-Read
The Mahabharata (including the Bhagavad Gita)
Vyasa (attributed)
Must-Read
The Ramayana
Valmiki (attributed)
Must-Read 1988
The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie
Must-Read
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
Anonymous (Japanese)
Recommended 1972
A Question of Power
Bessie Head
Recommended 2009
Border Town
Shen Congwen
Recommended 2009
Brothers
Yu Hua
Recommended 1900
Coolie
Mulk Raj Anand
Recommended 1993
Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade
Assia Djebar
Recommended 1991
Folktales from India
A.K. Ramanujan
Recommended 2017
Frontier
Can Xue
Recommended 1999
Godaan
Premchand
Recommended 1994
Imaginary Maps
Mahasweta Devi
Recommended 1998
Kiss of the Fur Queen
Tomson Highway
Recommended 2006
Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto
Recommended 1979
Layla and Majnun
Nizami Ganjavi
Recommended 1998
Leo Africanus
Amin Maalouf
Recommended 1989
Love Medicine
Louise Erdrich
Recommended 1998
Mother of 1084
Mahasweta Devi
Recommended 2020
Pather Panchali
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Recommended 2012
Samarkand
Amin Maalouf
Recommended 2005
Sea of Poppies
Amitav Ghosh
Recommended 1973
Speaking of Siva
A.K. Ramanujan
Recommended 1975
The Box Man
Kobo Abe
Recommended 1928
The Bustan
Saadi
Recommended 1968
The Gift of a Cow
Premchand
Recommended 2000
The Glass Palace
Amitav Ghosh
Recommended 1997
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
Recommended 1636
The Gulistan
Saadi
Recommended 2017
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Arundhati Roy
Recommended 2012
The Round House
Louise Erdrich
Recommended 1980
The Salt Eaters
Toni Cade Bambara
Recommended 1988
The Shadow Lines
Amitav Ghosh
Recommended 1966
The Woman in the Dunes
Kobo Abe
Recommended 2003
To Live
Yu Hua
Recommended 1988
Tracks
Louise Erdrich
Recommended 1933
Untouchable
Mulk Raj Anand
Supplementary 2013
Strange Weather in Tokyo
Hiromi Kawakami