Non-Western Literature

29 books

Ceremony

Leslie Marmon Silko

Must-Read -2100

Epic of Gilgamesh

Oral Epic

House Made of Dawn

N. Scott Momaday

Kebra Nagast

Various (Ethiopian)

Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie

One Thousand and One Nights

The Arabian Nights

Popol Vuh

Anonymous (Mayan)

Shahnameh

Firdausi

Shalimar the Clown

Salman Rushdie

Swami and Friends

R.K. Narayan

The Guide

R.K. Narayan

The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter

Anonymous (Japanese)

Recommended 1972

A Question of Power

Bessie Head

Recommended 1991

Folktales from India

A.K. Ramanujan

Recommended 1999

Godaan

Premchand

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 1998

Mother of 1084

Mahasweta Devi

Recommended 2020

Pather Panchali

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

Recommended 1928

The Bustan

Saadi

Recommended 1936

The Gift of a Cow

Premchand

Recommended 1997

The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy

Recommended 1636

The Gulistan

Saadi

Recommended 2012

The Round House

Louise Erdrich

Recommended 1993

To Live

Yu Hua

Recommended 1933

Untouchable

Mulk Raj Anand

Supplementary 2013

Strange Weather in Tokyo

Hiromi Kawakami