Hélène - Ongoing Challenge

[Hélène]

AFRICA

Algeria :
Les damnés de la terre (The Wretched of the Earth) by Frantz Fanon
Les pieds-noirs à la mer by F
Meursault, contre-enquete (The Meursault Investigation) by Kamel Daoud
Le Village de l'Allemand (The German Mujahid) by Boualem Sansal
Nos richesses (A Bookshop in Algiers) by Kaouther Adimi

Angola :
Transparent City by Ondjaki

Benin :
Contes et légendes du Bénin

Botswana :
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

Burkina Faso :
American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson

Burundi :
Petit pays (Small Country) by Gaël Faye

Cameroon :
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Les impatientes (The Impatient) by Djaïli Amadou Amal

Cape Verde :
Cesaria Evora, la voix du Cap-Vert by Véronique Mortaigne

Central African Republic :
Nouvelles graphiques d'Afrique by Laurent Bonneau
Photo de groupe au bord du fleuve by Emmanuel Dongala

Chad :
Contes Zaghawa Du Tchad by Marie-José Tubiana

Comoros :
Tropique de la violence (Tropic of Violence) by Nathacha Appanah

Congo :
Lettres à un jeune romancier sénégalais by Alain Mabanckou
Lumières de Pointe-Noire (The Lights of Pointe-Noire) by Alain Mabanckou
Un océan, deux mers, trois continents by Wilfried N'Sondé

Côte d'Ivoire :
Aya de Yopougon, Tome 1 (Aya) by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie
Cocoaïans by Gauz

Democratic Republic of the Congo :
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Titouan Congo Kinshasa by Titouan Lamazou

Djibouti :
La Cargaison Enchantée by Henry de Monfreid
La Force des femmes: Rencontres africaines by Joël Alessandra

Egypt :
Imhotep, l'inventeur de l'éternité: le secret de la pyramide by Christian Jacq
The Republic of False Truths by Alaa Al Aswany
The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany

Equatorial Guinea :
L'Argent fou de la Françafrique: l'affaire des biens mal-acquis by Xavier Harel

Eritrea :
Aux États-Unis d'Afrique: roman (In the United States of Africa) by Abdourahman A. Waberi

Eswatini :
When the Ground Is Hard by Malla Nunn

Gabon :
African Tabloid by Janis Otsiemi
Journeys and Journals: Five Centuries of Travel Writing by Farid Abdelouahab

Gambia :
Reading the Ceiling by Dayo Forster
Travels into the Interior of Africa by Mungo Park

Ghana :
Homegoing by Yaa Guyasi
The Missing American by Kwei Quartey

Guinea :
L'Enfant Noir (The Dark Child) by Camara Laye

Kenya :
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees by Franck Prévot and Aurélia Fronty

Lesotho :
Chaka by Thomas Mofolo

Liberia :
Allah n'est pas obligé (Allah is Not Obliged) by Ahmadou Kourouma
The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Libya :
La dernière nuit du Raïs (The Dictator's Last Night) by Yasmina Khadra

Madagascar :
Menace sur Madagascar by Agnès de Lestrade
Les naufragés de l'île Tromelin by Irène Frain

Malawi :
soft magic. by Upile Chisala

Mali :
L'homme des villes de sable, by Edith de Cornulier-Lucinière and Sara
Le Rhinoceros D'or (The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages) by François-Xavier Fauvelle

Marocco :
Confidences à Allah by Marie Avril and Eddy Simon, after Saphia Azzeddine
Die Stimmen von Marrakesch (The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit) by Elias Canetti
Fille des frontières by Fatema Hal

Mauritania :
Le Naufrage de La Meduse by Charles-Marie Brédif

Mozambique :
A River Called Time by Mia Couto

Namibia :
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Okavango by Caryl Férey
Rouge Himba : Carnet d'amitié avec les éleveurs nomades de Namibie by Solenn Bardet and Simon Hureau

Niger :
La Caravane de sel by Jean-Luc Manaud and Pierre Guicheney

Nigeria :
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Oil on Water by Helon Habila
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
The Visit by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Rwanda :
Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin
Notre-Dame du Nil (Our Lady of the Nile) by Scholastique Mukasonga
Une saison de machettes (Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak) by Jean Hatzfeld

Sao Tome :
Coup de théâtre à Sao Tomé: Carnet d'enquête aux îles du milieu du monde by Jean-Yves Loude

Senegal:
Morts par la France by Patrick Perna
Tamango by Prosper Mérimée
Une si longue lettre (So Long a Letter) by Mariama Bâ

Sierra Leone :
Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill

Somalia:
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems by Warsan Shire
L'équation africaine (The African Equation) by Yasmina Khadra

South Africa :
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

South Sudan :
Le Nil, aux Sources Du Mystère by Chantal Edel

Sudan :
Bakhita (Bakhita: A Novel of the Saint of Sudan) by Véronique Olmi

Tanzania :
Who Is Jane Goodall? by Roberta Edwards

Togo :
L'Africain du Groenland (An African in Greenland) by Tété-Michel Kpomassie
Ainsi parlait mon père by Sami Tchak
Les innombrables histoires du pantalon de Moriba by Jean-Christophe Berche

Tunisia :
Bel abîme by Yamen Manai
L'amas ardent (The Ardent Swarm) by Yamen Manai
La dernière odalisque by Fayçal Bey

Uganda :
Abyssinian Chronicles by Moses Isegawa

Western Sahara :
Saharas : Entre Atlantique et Nil (Sahara: The Atlantic To The Nile) by Alain and Berny Sèbe

Zambia :
Madam 1st Lady by Ellen Banda-Aaku

Zimbabwe :
Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing

[Hélène]

ANTARCTICA

Marcher à Kerguelen by François Garde
Voyage aux îles de la Désolation by Emmanuel Lepage

[Hélène]

ASIA (without Middle East)

Afghanistan :
Le Photographe - Tome 1, Le Photographe, Tome 2 :, Le Photographe - Tome 3 (The Photographer) by Emmanuel Guibert and Didier Lefèvre
Un Afghan à Paris by Mahmud Nasimi

Bhutan : A Field Guide to Happiness: What I Learned in Bhutan about Living, Loving, and Waking Up by Linda Leaming

China :
Comment Wang Fô Fut Sauvé by Marguerite Yourcenar
La Joueuse de go (The Girl Who Played Go) by Shan Sa
Les quatre vies du saule by Shan Sa
Rickshaw Boy by Lao She
My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder by Nie Jun
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
Une rencontre à Pékin by Jean-François Billeter
Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from the Original Epicenter by Fang Fang

Hong-Kong :
Deux brûle-parfums by Eileen Chang
Le Dragon de Hong Kong by Roger Leloup

India :
Daughter of empire by Pamela Hicks
Phoolan Devi : Reine des bandits (Phoolan Devi, Rebel Queen) by Claire Fauvel
Q & A by Vikas Swarup
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
We That Are Young by Preti Taneja

Indonesia :
The Girl from the Coast by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
War with the Newts by Karel Capek

Japan :
All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami
Assassination Classroom, Vol. 01 by Yūsei Matsui
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
Houses with a Story: A Dragon’s Den, a Ghostly Mansion, a Library of Lost Books, and 30 More Amazing Places to Explore by Seiji Yoshida
How Do You Live? by Genzaburo Yoshino
La forêt millénaire by Jirō Taniguchi
Les billes du Pachinko by Elisa Shua Dusapin
Les Délices d'Edo: Histoire illustrée de la gastronomie japonaise by Brigitte Koyama-Richard
Le tigre des neiges 1 by Akiko Higashimura
Le tigre des neiges #2 by Akiko Higashimura
Le tigre des neiges #3 by Akiko Higashimura
Le tigre des neiges #4 by Akiko Higashimura
Le Tigre des Neiges 5 by Akiko Higashimura
Le Tigre des Neiges 6 by Akiko Higashimura
Le tigre des neiges 7 by Akiko Higashimura
Le tigre des neiges 8 by Akiko Higashimura
Le tigre des neiges #9 by Akiko Higashimura
Le vieux Fou de Dessin (The Old Man Mad about Drawing: A Tale of Hokusai) by François Place
Les cinq fantômes by Jérémy Behm
Manabé Shima (Manabeshima Island Japan: One Island, Two Months, One Minicar, Sixty Crabs, Eighty Bites and Fifty Shots of Shochu) by Florent Chavouet
My Brother's Husband by Gengoroh Tagame
Our Summer Holiday by Kaori Ozaki
Shuna's Journey by Hayao Miyazaki
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
The Guest Cat by Takashi Iraide
The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa

Kazakhstan :
Dans la combi de Thomas Pesquet by Marion Montaigne

Malaysia :
The Arrival by Shaun Tan

North Korea:
Pyongyang by Guy Delisle

Pakistan :
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
Malala's Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai
State of Terror by Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny

Philippines : Smaller and Smaller Circles by F. H. Batacan

South Korea :
The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-eun
Hiver à Sokcho (Winter in Sokcho) by Elisa Shua Dusapin
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo
Pachinko by Lee Min-jin
The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way by Amanda Ripley
The Vegetarian by Han Kang

Thailand :
Bangkok Wakes to Rain by Pichaya Sudbanthad

Tibet :
The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama XIV and Howard C. Cutler

Uzbekistan :
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman

Vietnam :
La Tour by Doan Bui
Le temple de la grue écarlate by Tran-Nhut
mãn by Kim Thúy
Ru by Kim Thúy

[Hélène]

CARIBBEAN

Antigua :
Mr Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo

Barbados :
Moi, Tituba sorcière... Noire de Salem(I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem) by Maryse Condé

Cuba :
Le vieil homme et la mer by Thierry Murat (after Hemingway)

Haiti
Gouverneurs de la rosée (Masters of the Dew) by Jacques Roumain
Ne m'appelle pas Capitaine by Lyonel Trouillot

Grenada :
Black Rain Falling by Jacob Ross

Guadalupe :
Tropiques Toxiques by Jessica Oublié

Jamaica :
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Martinique :
Tropiques Toxiques by Jessica Oublié

Puerto Rico :
Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish by. Pablo Cartaya

St Vincent and the Grenadines :
Island in the Clouds by Susan M. Toy

Trinidad and Tobago :
A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie

[Hélène]

EUROPE

Atlas of the European Reformations by Tim Dowley
Jaune : histoire d'une couleur by Michel Pastoureau

Austria :
Alpine Ballad by Vasyl Bykau
L'Ordre du jour (The Order of the Day) by Éric Vuillard
Sophie de Habsbourg by Jean-Paul Bled
...trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen. Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager (Man's Search for Meaning) by Viktor E. Frankl

Belgium :
L'Affaire Arnolfini: Enquête sur un tableau de Van Eyck by Jean-Philippe Postel
Egmont by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Khalil by Yasmina Khadra
Le Dernier Pharaon - Autour de Blake & Mortimer by François Schuiten and Jaco van Dormael
Le Journal d'un Ingénu (Spirou - The Diary of a Naive Young Man) by Émile Bravo
Les Compromis de Maxime Calligaro et Eric Cardère
L'Œuvre au noir (The Abyss) by Marguerite Yourcenar
Margaret of Austria: Governor of the Netherlands and Early 16th-Century Europe's Greatest Diplomat by Rozsa Gaston
Spirou dans la tourmente de la Shoah - Collectif

Bosnia :
A Death in Sarajevo by Ausma Zehanat Khan
Jésus et Tito by Velibor Colic
The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan

Czech Republic :
The Golem by Isaac Bashevis Singer
HHhH by Laurent Binet

Cyprus :
Othello by William Shakespeare

Denmark :
The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well by Louisa Thomsen Brits
Juste avant l'arrivée du bateau by Hans Anthon Lynge
Nuuk by Mo Malo

England :
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
A Share in Death by Deborah Crombie
A Wicked Kind of Husband by Mia Vincy
All Shall Be Well by Deborah Crombie
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Assembly by Natasha Brown
Babel by R.F. Kuang
Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
The Country by Martin Crimp
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie
The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
The Emperor's Babe by Bernardine Evaristo
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
The Great White Bard: Shakespeare, Race and the Future by Farah Karim-Cooper
Groosham Grange by Anthony Horowitz
Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling
Heartstopper: Volume One by Alice Oseman
Heartstopper: Volume Two by Alice Oseman
The Heiress: The Revelations of Anne de Bourgh by Molly Greeley
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
How to Be a Creative Thinker by Roya A Azadi
The It Girl by Ruth Ware
Lady Susan by Jane Austen
Les Tudors by Bernard Cottret
The Late Mrs. Willoughby by Claudia Gray
Longbourn by Jo Baker
The Long Call by Ann Cleeves
Lord of the Flies by Aimée de Jongh after William Golding
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer by David Leavitt
Matilda by Roald Dahl
The Meyersons of Meryton by Mirta Ines Trupp
The Mitford Secret by Jessica Fellowes
The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Le musée imaginaire de Jane Austen by Nathalie Novi
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Rebecca by Daphné du Maurier
Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters by Mallory Ortberg
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing and Light by Nikita Gill
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Finland :
A Boy Called Christmas by Matt Haig
Christmas Comes to Moominvalley by Tove Jansson
Le Fils du dieu de l'Orage by Arto Paasilinna
Le Reich de la Lune by Johanna Sinisalo
Palm Beach, Finland by Antti Tuomainen
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
Trekways of the Wind by Nils-Aslak Valkepää
White Hunger by Aki Ollikainen

France :
Infantisme by Laelia Benoît
King Kong théorie by Virginie Despentes
La grande métamorphose de Théo by Marzena Sowa
La mode est politique by Melody Thomas
Le Barbier de seville by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
Les Fourberies de Scapin by Molière
Lettres aux jeunes poétesses ed. by Aurélie Olivier
L'obsolescence programmée de nos sentiments by Aimée de Jongh and Zidrou
Marianne et le garçon noir by Léonora Miano
Mehdi met du rouge à lèvres by David Dumortier
Panorama by Lilia Hassaine
Résistantes: 1940-1944 by Dominique Missika
Triste tigre by Neige Sinno
Alsace :
Le Voyage de Marcel Grob by Sébastien Goethals
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes :
Die Schuld der Anderen by Gila Lustiger
Les montagnards de la nuit by Roger Frison-Roche
Les Sauvages tome 1 (Savages: The Wedding) by Sabri Louatah
Monument national by Julia Deck
Voltaire. Le culte de l'ironie
Brittany :
À contre-marée - À la rencontre de Scarlette Le Corre, marin by Manon Selli and Lauriane Miara
Algues vertes, l'histoire interdite by Inès Léraud and Théo van Hove
Ar-Men. L’Enfer des enfers by Emmanuel Lepage
La grande panne by Hadrien Klent
L'ete des confidences et des confitures by Yves Pinguilly
L'Iris blanc (Asterix and the White Iris) by Fabcaro
Magdalène by Georges Peignard
Un homme est mort by Etienne Davodeau
Burgundy-Franche Comté :
Les grands cerfs by Gaétan Nocq
Centre-Val de Loire (Loire Valley) :
La Demande (The Maid's Request) by Michèle Desbordes
Corsica :
À son image by Jérôme Ferrari
Mazzeru by Jules Stromboni
Grand Est :Lorraine Connection by Dominique Manotti
Hauts de France :
Camille Claudel, la sculpture jusqu'à la folie by Rolande Causse
Madame le Maire by Marie Cau
Ile de France / Paris :
All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny
Anatomie de l'Affiche rouge by Annette Wieviorka
Art by Yasmina Reza
Chéri by Colette
Contes 1, 2, 3, 4 pour Enfants De Moins De 3 Ans (Stories 1,2,3,4) by Eugène Ionesco and Etienne Delessert
Dans les coulisses de la Comédie-Française by Laetitia Cénac and Damien Rondeau
Exercices de style (Exercises in Style) by Raymond Queneau
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Impunité by Hélène Devynck
Journal d’un rescapé du Bataclan: Être historien et victime d’attentat by Christophe Naudin
La daronne (The Godmother) by Hannelore Cayre
La Carte postale by Anne Berest
La Distinction by Tiphaine Rivière
La Propagandiste by Cécile Desprairies
La Septième fonction du langage (The Seventh Function of Language) by Laurent Binet
La Tour by Doan Bui
Le Boulevard périphérique by Henry Bauchau
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Les Gardiens du Louvre (Guardians of the Louvre) by Jiro Taniguchi
Les gratitudes by Delphine de Vigan
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Les Yeux de Mona by Thomas Schlesser
L'île Louvre by Florent Chavouet
Monument national by Julia Deck
Non à la discrimination des femmes by Elsa Solal
Over the Rainbow by Constance Joly
Patients by Grand Corps Malade
S'engager en historienne by Michelle Perrot
Simone Veil, l'Immortelle by Pascal Bresson
Sous le Street Art, le Louvre. Quand l'art classique inspire l'art urbain by Cyrille Gouyette
Un chemin de tables (The Cook) by Maylis de Kerangal
Un taxi nommé Nadir by Romain Multier
VIP: roman by Laurent Chalumeau
V13: Chronique judiciaire by Emmanuel Carrère
Normandy:
Le Quai de Ouistreham by Florence Aubenas
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Réparer les vivants (The Heart) by Maylis de Kerangal
Occitanie :
Mattéo, première époque (1914-1915) (Mattéo, Book One: 1914-1915) by Jean-Pierre Gibrat
Mattéo, troisième époque (août 1936) by Jean-Pierre Gibrat
Mattéo, sixième époque (2 septembre 1939 - 3 juin 1940) by Jean-Pierre Gibrat
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur :
Boccanera by Michèle Pedinielli
Sans collier by Michèle Pedinielli

[Hélène]

Georgia :
The Knight in the Panther's Skin by Shota Rustaveli
L'Autre Joseph by Kéthévane Davrichewy

Germany :
Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children by Sara Zaske
Amon. Mein Großvater hätte mich erschossen
(My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past) by Jennifer Teege
Angela Merkel: Une Allemande (presque) comme les autres by Florence Autret
The Book Thief by Markus Suzak
Briefe an einen jungen Dichter (Letters to a Young Poet) by Rainer Maria Rilke
Das geheime Leben der Bäume: Was sie fühlen, wie sie kommunizieren - die Entdeckung einer verborgenen Welt by Peter Wohlleben
Daughters of the Winter Queen: Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots by Nancy Goldstone
Der Fall Collini by Ferdinand von Schirach
Der Fall Hildegard von Bingen by Edgar Noske
Der nasse Fisch (Babylon Berlin) by Volker Kutscher
Die Insel (The Island) by Armin Greder
Die Lebenden und die Toten (I Am Your Judge) by Nele Neuhaus
Drawn To Berlin: Comic Workshops In Refugee Shelters And Other Stories From A New Europe by Alison Fitzgerald
Eine unbeliebte Frau by Nele Neuhaus
Emil und die Detektive (Emil and the Detectives) by Erich Kästner
Gehen, ging, gegangen (Go, Went, Gone) by Jenny Erpenbeck
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
Grenzfall by Thomas Henseler
Heimat: Ein deutsches Familienalbum (Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home) by Nora Krug
Hirtennovelle by Ernst Wiechert
Im Wald by Nele Neuhaus
Leben, schreiben, atmen: Eine Einladung zum Schreiben by Doris Dörrie
Les maîtres de Bayreuth by Charlie Roquin
The Magician by Colm Toíbín
Meines Vaters Land: Geschichte einer deutschen Familie (My Father's Country: Story of a German Family) by Wibke Bruns
Moabiter Sonette (Moabit Sonnets) by Albrecht Haushofer
Mordsfreunde by Nele Neuhaus
Muttertag by Nele Neuhaus
Narziß und Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
Nicht Chicago. Nicht hier. by Kirsten Boie
Nous voulions tuer Hitler : Le dernier survivant du complot du 20 juillet 1944 by Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager
Reunion by Fred Uhlman
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Sneaker Wars: The Enemy Brothers Who Founded Adidas and Puma and the Family Feud That Forever Changed the Business of Sport by Barbara Smit
The Solitary Summer by Elizabeth von Arnim
Sophie Scholl : "Non à la lâcheté" by Jean-Claude Mourlevat
The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung
The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck

Greece :
Au temps de la Grèce ancienne : La Vie Privée des Hommes by Pierre Miquel
Circe by Madeline Miller
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Iphigeneia at Aulisby Euripides
Le feuilleton de Thésée by Murielle Szac
Les voyages d'Ulysse by Emmanuel Lepage, Sophie Michel and René Follet
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

Hungary :
The Door by Magza Szabó
Embers by Sándor Márai
Waltharii Poesis, Vol. 1: Das Waltharilied Ekkehards I. Von St. Gallen Nach Den Geraldushandschriften Herausgegeben Und Erl�utert by Hermann Althof

Iceland
Le clan Snæberg by Eva Björg Ægisdottir
The Good Shepherd by Gunnar Gunnarsson
The Greenhouse by Audur Ava Olafsdottir
Reykjavík: A Crime Story by Ragnar Jónasson and Katrín Jakóbsdottir

Ireland :
A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
In the Woods by Tana French
The Likeness by Tana French
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
The Storm Keeper's Island by Catherine Doyle
The Trespasser by Tana French

Italy :
Album de famille: La grande histoire de nos ancêtres by Guido Barbujani
Des vies possibles by Charif Majdalani
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Equal Danger by Leonardo Sciascia
Falling in Love by Donna Leon
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
Le parfum des fleurs la nuit by Leïla Slimani
Lorenzaccio by Alfred de Musset
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
The Pope's Daughter by Dario Fo
Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Swimming to Elba by Silvia Avallone
Tante Poldi und die sizilianischen Löwen (Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions) by Mario Giordano
Tante Poldi und die Früchte des Herrn (Auntie Poldi and the Vineyards of Etna) by Mario Giordano
Tintenherz (Inkheart) by Cornelia Funke
Transient Desires by Donna Leon
Unto Us a Son Is Given by Donna Leon
We Can't Pay? We Won't Pay! by Dario Fo
The Wild Boy: A Memoir by Paolo Cognetti

Malta :
The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

Moldova :
Fake news, l'info qui ne tourne pas rond by Doan Bui and Leslie Plée
Jossel Wassermanns Heimkehr by Edgar Hilsenrath
The Power by Naomi Alderman

Monaco :
Vierundzwanzig Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau (Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman) by Stefan Zweig

Netherlands :
Daughters of the Winter Queen: Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots by Nancy Goldstone
Judas by Astrid Holleeder

North Macedonia :
Fake news, l'info qui ne tourne pas rond by Doan Bui and Leslie Plée
The Life of Alexander the Great by Plutarch

Norway :
Die Schrecken des Eises und der Finsternis (The Terrors of Ice and Darkness) by Christoph Ransmayr
Lebensborn by Isabelle Maroger
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
The Snowman by Jo Nesbø

Poland :
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
Die fremde Stadt: Breslau nach 1945 by Gregor Thum
MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus by Art Spiegelman
Michelle doit-on t'en vouloir d'avoir fait un selfie à Auschwitz ? by Sylvain Levey

Portugal :
The Maias by Eça de Queiros

Russia :
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Big Green Tent by Lyudmila Ulitskaya
Ce n'était que la peste by Lyudmila Ulitskaya
La soupe d'orge perlé et autres nouvelles by Lyudmila Ulitskaya
Le Mage du Kremlin (The Wizard of the Kremlin) by Giuliano da Empoli
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Mattéo: deuxième époque (1917-1918) (Mattéo, Book Two: 1917-1918) by Jean-Pierre Gibrat
The Night Before Christmas by Nilolai Gogol

Scotland :
Maria Stuart by Stefan Zweig
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher

Serbia :
Fatherland by Nina Bunjevac

Slovakia :
The Luck of the Weissensteiners by Christoph Fischer

Spain :
Mattéo, quatrième époque by Jean-Pierre Gibrat
Mattéo. Cinquième époque by Jean-Pierre Gibrat
Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Sweden :
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Comment écrire un polar suédois sans se fatiguer by Henrik Lange
The Girl In The Woods by Camilla Läckberg
Greta : La voix d'une génération by Viviana Mazza
In the Name of Truth by Viveca Sten
Invisible Links by Selma Lagerlöf
Le Livre de Noël by Selma Lagerlöf
Mårbacka by Selma Lagerlöf
The Saga of Gösta Berling by Selma Lagerlöf
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf

Switzerland :
Allmen und Herr Weynfeldt by Martin Suter
Brume Rouge by Nicolas Feuz
Ein perfekter Kellner(A Perfect Waiter) by Alain Claude Sulzer
Heidi by Johanna Spyri

Ukraine :
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
Deux fois dans le même fleuve: La guerre de Poutine contre les femmes by Sofi Oksanen
Donbass by Benoît Vitkine
Hommage à l'Ukraine by Iryna Dmytrychyn and Emmanuel Ruben
Un printemps à Tchernobyl by Emmanuel Lepage

Vatican :
My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor

Wales :
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl

[Hélène]

[Hélène]

[Hélène]

MIDDLE EAST

Iran :
Among the Ruins by Ausma Zehanat Khan
Broderies (Embroideries) by Marjane Satrapi
The Conference of the Birds by Peter Sis, after Attar of Nishapur
Désorientale (Disoriental) by Négar Djavadi
Lettres persanes by Montesquieu
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
Samarcande (Samarkand) by Amin Maalouf
State of Terror by Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny

Iraq :
Escape from Baghdad! by Saad Z. Hossain
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
The Calligrapher's Garden by Hassan Massoudy
The Witch of Babylon by D. J. McIntosh
They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie

Israël :
Chroniques de Jérusalem (Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City) by Guy Delisle
Literary Murder by Batya Gur
Si je t'oublie Jérusalem by Monika Schrobbsdorf
To the End of the Land by David Grossman
Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
We Were The Future: A Memoir of the Kibbutz by Yael Neeman
When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant

Jordan :
Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie

Lebanon :
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
Des ailes au loin by Jadd Hilal
Histoire de la Grande Maison by Charif Majdalani
L'Empereur à pied by Charif Majdalani
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

Palestine :
Le Bien des absents by Elias Sanbar
Le conflit israélo-palestinien. Deux peuples condamnés à cohabiter by Vladimir Grigorieff and Abdel de Bruxelles
The Stranger's Bed / سرير الغريبة by Mahmoud Darwish

Saudi Arabia :
Le Messager by Kader Abdolah

Syria :
Les passeurs de livres de Daraya by Delphine Minoui

Turkey :
The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d'éléphants (Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants) by Mathias Énard

UAE :
Ougarit by Camille Ammoun

Yemen :
L'épouse Yéménite by Laura Silvia Battaglia and Paola Cannatrella

[Hélène]

NORTH AMERICA (without USA)

Canada :
A Better Man by Louise Penny
A Deadly Divide by Ausma Zehanat Khan
A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny
A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede
Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper
Glass Houses by Louise Penny
How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny
Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny
The Language of Secrets by Ausma Zehanat Khan
The Long Way Home by Louise Penny
L'Univers expliqué à mes petits-enfants
(The Universe Explained to My Grandchildren) by Hubert Reeves
The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro
The Murder Stone by Louise Penny
The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny
Paul a un travail d'été by Michel Rabagliati
Ru by Kim Thúy

Mexico :
The Maya: Life, Myth And Art by Timothy Laughton
The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow

[Hélène]

USA

Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala
Between the World and Me by Ta-nehisi Coates
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
One Two Three by Laurie Frankel

Alabama :
La Rose dans le Bus jaune by Eugène Ebodé
March: Book Two by John Lewis
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Alaska :
City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita
Le grand marin (Woman at Sea) by Catherine Poulain
The Quality of Silence by Rosamund Lupton

Arkansas : They Called Us Enemy by George Takei and Harmony Becker

California :
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
Into the Forest by Jean Hegland
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

Colorado :
Black Klansman: A Memoir by Ron Stallworth
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker

Florida :
Camino Island by John Grisham
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Georgia :
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
One Summer in Savannah by Terah Shelton Harris
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Idaho :
All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki
Educated by Tara Westover
Indian Creek by Pete Fromm

Illinois :
Becoming by Michelle Obama
The Davenports by Krystal Marquis
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks

Indiana :
The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

Iowa : A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

Louisiana :
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Cutting Season by Attica Locke

Maine : To Night Owl from Dogfish by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer

Maryland :
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

Massachussets :
Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Michigan :
Beach Read by Emily Henry
Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley

Minnesota :
Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser

Mississipi :
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File by John Edgar Wideman

Nebraska :
My Ántonia by Willa Cather
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus

New Hampshire : Affliction by Russell Banks

New Jersey : Radium Girls by Cy.

New York :
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
The Force by Don Winslow
Le Reich de la Lune by Johanna Sinisalo
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Passing by Nella Larsen
Pride by Ibi Zoboi
Recitatif by Toni Morrison
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
The Reserve by Russell Banks
Trust by Hernan Diaz
When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Ohio : Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance

Oklahoma :
Jours de sable by Aimée de Jongh
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Pennsylvania :
L'énigme amish : Vivre au XXIe siècle comme au XVIIe by Jacques Légeret
Fuzzy Mud by Louis Sachar

South Carolina : The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

Tennessee :
March: Book One by John Lewis
The Cove by Ron Rash

Virginia :
An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole
The Dying of the Light by Robert Goolrick
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang

Washington :
Flight by Sherman Alexie
This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

Washington DC :
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Remember the Ladies by Gina L. Mulligan
State of Terror by Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny

Wyoming : Open Season by C. J. Box

[Hélène]

SOUTH AMERICA

A Luminous Republic by Andrés Barba

Argentina :
A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
Conversations à Buenos Aires by Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Sabato and Orlando Barone
Dreamtigers by Jorge Luis Borges
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Le Ghetto intérieur (The Ghetto Within: A Novel) by Santiago H. Amigorena
Pinocchio & Robinson : pour une éthique de la lecture by Alberto Manguel
With Borges by Alberto Manguel

Belize :
Belize by Alain Dugrand

Bolivia :
Sœurs de miséricorde by Colombe Schneck

Brazil :
Cauchemar brésilien by Bruno Meyerfeld
Chronicle of the Murdered House by Lucio Cardoso
Humboldt : Savant-citoyen du monde by Jean-Paul Duviols
Les derniers jours de Stefan Zweig (The Last Days of Stefan Zweig) by Laurent Seksik and Guillaume Sorel
Un château à Ipanema by Martha Batalha

Chile :
Au pied des étoiles by Edmond Baudoin and Emmanuel Lepage
Je Me Souviens Des Hommes: Du Cap Horn À Valparaiso by Gildas Flahault
Moi, Christian Clot, explorateur by Christian Clot
The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

Colombia :
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf

El Salvador :
Bitter Grounds by Sandra Benitez

Guatemala :
Mayas: Guatemala. Les Oubliés de l'histoire by Stéphane Ragot

Paraguay :
All Roads Lead to Austen: A Yearlong Journey with Jane by Amy Elizabeth Smith
La Disparition de Josef Mengele (The Disappearance of Josef Mengele) by Olivier Guez
Nietzsche au Paraguay by Christophe and Nathalie Prince

Peru :
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Suriname :
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn

Venezuela :
Les enfants du Large by Cécile de La Rochefoucauld

[Hélène]

OCEANIA

Australia :
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
The Dry by Jane Harper
Exiles by Jane Harper
Force of Nature by Jane Harper
The Killer Koala by Kenneth Cook
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
Only Daughter by Anna Snoekstra
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time by Doris Pilkington
Ruby Moonlight by Ali Cobby Eckermann
The Survivors by Jane Harper

New Zealand :
An Important Family by Dorothy Eden
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

Samoa :
Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan

Tahiti :
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

[Hélène]

Reserved