Non-Western Literature
29 books
Must-Read1977
Ceremony
Leslie Marmon Silko
Must-Read-2100
Epic of Gilgamesh
Oral Epic
Must-Read1968
House Made of Dawn
N. Scott Momaday
Must-Read
Kebra Nagast
Various (Ethiopian)
Must-Read1981
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
Must-Read2016
One Thousand and One Nights
The Arabian Nights
Must-Read
Popol Vuh
Anonymous (Mayan)
Must-Read1993
Shahnameh
Firdausi
Must-Read1998
Shalimar the Clown
Salman Rushdie
Must-Read2005
Swami and Friends
R.K. Narayan
Must-Read1990
The Guide
R.K. Narayan
Must-Read
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
Anonymous (Japanese)
Recommended1972
A Question of Power
Bessie Head
Recommended1991
Folktales from India
A.K. Ramanujan
Recommended1999
Godaan
Premchand
Recommended1998
Kiss of the Fur Queen
Tomson Highway
Recommended2006
Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto
Recommended1979
Layla and Majnun
Nizami Ganjavi
Recommended1998
Leo Africanus
Amin Maalouf
Recommended1998
Mother of 1084
Mahasweta Devi
Recommended2020
Pather Panchali
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Recommended1928
The Bustan
Saadi
Recommended1936
The Gift of a Cow
Premchand
Recommended1997
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
Recommended1636
The Gulistan
Saadi
Recommended2012
The Round House
Louise Erdrich
Recommended1993
To Live
Yu Hua
Recommended1933
Untouchable
Mulk Raj Anand
Supplementary2013
Strange Weather in Tokyo
Hiromi Kawakami