Required reading: The books that students read in 28 countries around the world

Dec 7, 2016 / Daryl Chen + Laura McClure

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