Oct
2019
required books
Required reading: The books that students read in 28 countries around the world
Required reading: The books that students read in 28 countries around the world
Afghanistan
Quran
Albania
Kronikë në gur (1971) by Ismail Kadare
Chronicle in Stone
Australia
Tomorrow, When the War Began (1993) by John Marsden
Austria
Faust (1787) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Bosnia; Serbia
Na drini ćuprija (1945) by Ivo Andrić
The Bridge on the Drina
Brazil
Morte e vida Severina (1955) by João Cabral de Melo Neto
The Death of a Severino
Bulgaria
Under the Yoke (1894) by Ivan Vazov
Canada
The Wars (1977) by Timothy Findley
Chile
Sub Terra (1904) by Baldomero Lillo
China
Analects by Confucius
Colombia
Cien años de Soledad (1967) by Gabriel García Márquez
100 Years of Solitude
Cyprus
The Murderess (1903) by Alexandros Papadiamantis
Egypt
The Days (1935) by Taha Hussein
Finland
Seitsemän veljestä (1870) by Aleksis Kivi
Seven Brothers
Germany
Tagebuch der Anne Frank (1947)
The Diary of Anne Frank
Ghana; Nigeria
Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe
Indonesia
Laskar Pelangi (2005) by Andrea Hirata
Rainbow Troop
India
Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth (1927-1929) by Mohandas K. Gandhi
Iran
Poems by writers such as Hafiz, Sa’Addi, Ferdowsi, Rumi and Khayyam
Ireland
Ice Man: the Adventures of an Irish Antarctic Hero (2010) by Michael Smith
Italy
I Promessi Sposi (1827) by Alessandro Manzoni
The Betrothed
Pakistan
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) by Mohsin Hamid
Philippines
Noli Me Tangere (1887) by Jose Rizal
Touch Me Not
Russia
War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy
US
To Kill A Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee
Vietnam
Truyện Kiều (1820) by Nguyễn Du
The Tale of Kiều, the poem