One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,295 books — 4,465 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSo Long a Letter by Mariama BâNervous Conditions by Tsitsi DangarembgaThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Best by African Authors
407 books — 221 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieLong Walk to Freedom by Nelson MandelaPurple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieCry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Books about AFRICA or by AFRICAN AUTHORS
820 books — 285 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
Books About Colonialism
658 books — 236 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradCry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,746 books — 1,617 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichiePurple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSo Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ
African Fiction
600 books — 427 voters

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crash Course in Slavic Literature
443 books — 231 voters
The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo AndrićDeath and the Dervish by Meša SelimovićProkleta avlija by Ivo AndrićJeževa kućica by Branko ĆopićThe Fortress by Meša Selimović
Best South Slavic Literature
363 books — 303 voters

The Neverending Story by Michael EndeLe Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Last Wish by Andrzej SapkowskiTintenherz by Cornelia FunkeThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Fantasy - Beyond the English Language
395 books — 141 voters
The Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Birth of Venus by Sarah DunantBrunelleschi's Dome by Ross KingThe House of Medici by Christopher HibbertThe Tigress of Forlì by Elizabeth Lev
The Italian Renaissance
281 books — 170 voters

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenThe Summer Book by Tove JanssonThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankBonjour tristesse by Françoise SaganMemoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Europe Minus Men and English
853 books — 217 voters
The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoOne Hot Italian Summer by Karina HalleThe Birth of Venus by Sarah DunantA Room with a View by E.M. ForsterThe Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Reading Italy
443 books — 235 voters