I'm reading a book from every single country in the world PART 2

It's a long overdue second part to my Reading Around the World Series!
I'm reading a book from every single country in the world, and in this video I go through every single book I've done so far, and let you know the best of the best, and which ones to perhaps avoid.

#readingchallenge #diversebooks #bookrecommendations

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00:00 - Intro & Challenge rules
02:01 - Books from Africa
05:54 - Books from Europe
26:16 - Books from Asia
38:49 - Books from the Americas
45:40 - Books from the Caribbean

Check out the Reading Around the World on Fable!

Here's the link to the challenge I created on Storygraph too!

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[johat]

Hi, Chilean here! The author's name Allende is pronounced like an english "y", like in "yellow" or "yes"... "ayende". And Violeta, you pronounced it right the first time. I´m glad to hear an interest into some of our literature, we have our own Latin-American classics so this novels are known to us but not always outside the region, so this is good because we have great authors too but we usually get overwhelmed by American and English literature because of the social media. This seems like a fun exercise to broader our world through literature. Keep going with this challenge, I'm interested.

[Eleneenie]

I've been doing this challenge for a bit now some internet friends - I don't have rules for myself that are as strict as yours but I would recommend those:

The Yield by Tara June Winch for Australia
Snowblind by Ragnar Jónasson or The Island by Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir for Iceland (Yrsa Sigurðardóttir's books are also good)
Little Family by Ishmael Beah for Sierra Leone

And for Syria I would highly recommend We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria by Wendy Pearlman, even though it technically doesn't count. The "author" isn't from Syria but most of the book is made out of the collected testimonies of Syrians. It's very touching and informative at the same time.

[samuelswapsamuelswap]

Just finished the three body trilogy, you are in for a treat with them. Each succesive book just continues to expand upon the absolutley bonkers world of three body. Every single person shoudl read this trilogy, it is so deeply imaginative

[vcd_reads]

Yaay! Happy to see part 2! Time shelter and As long as the lemon tree grow are in my TBR - will see if I feel any different about them when I read them, but now I have added a few more to my ever growing TBR. Great recommends again...thank you!! ❤

[mitra]

You should read some Astrid Lindgren books for Sweden. They re obviously for children, but a lot of them are really fun/heartfelt reads for adults as well

[candelagoio]

I love to see people from other parts of the world reading books from Argentina, great video!

[cassandrenadler]

Thanks for all these recommendations, especially for Croatia, I hadn't heard of it! Time shelter is next on my list. For Algeria I had hesitated between two books and I finally chose the same one and I was also quite disappointed... however, one of the aspects I like most about this challenge is that I've discovered so many authors per country that I’ve read more than one book per country sometimes! I like this kind of long format but I'll watch anyway! 😊

[geeegaewlwlwll]

i love your videos about this challenge so much, i think they are my favourite kind of video! imo the rules you set for the challenge make the most sense and i myself also follow them, so your videos are a nice way to get recommendations!
'woman at point zero' reminded me of two books at once, actually. the first one is 'shelf life: chronicles of a cairo bookseller' by nadia wassef and its her autobiography dedicated to describing the challenges she faced as a woman owning a bookshop in cairo! i havent read it yet, but it sounds interesting.
the other one is '10 minutes and 38 second in this strange world' by elif shafak. its about a prostituted woman in istanbul and her memories, and about the lives of other marginalized people. i didnt like the writing (it felt a little pretentious in places), but the story was absolutely heartbreaking.
edit: ah i watched the video a little further and reached the bit where you talk about elif shafak already, whoops. i agree, her writing isnt it

[Lorraine-cn]

Great video! Love these updates. They could be more often and I’d be very happy. I loved the Poland recommendation, Drive Your Plow… such a great read, excellent plot twists and such a compassionate protagonist ❤

[Jay-dig]

I’ve been waiting for your part 2! Adding so many of these to my tbr ❤

[MizzInterpreted]

Totally agree with your thoughts about A Man Called Ove. I've since read all but one of Backmans books and he is now a favourite author. So glad I gave him another try after Ove.

[backtoreads]

pink slime is one that i read recently for WIT month and it also let me down, it wasn't my fave and i wish the apocalypse feel to the novel was amplified. i don't think i cared too much about the mc either but in the end i do think it was supposed to be less of a pandemic novel and having to do more about memories, loneliness and grief.

also i wouldn't mind more frequent uploads for this series!!! i think what you're doing is sooo cool with this challenge and i'm eager for more recs <3

[jellomellooo]

I live for these videos of yours!!! So many good ones again whoohoo!!! Would love the updates on tiktok too <3

[marmar_]

For the Dominican Republic, Julia Alvarez is an option. She was born in the DR*, and when she was 10 her family had to flee the country. “In the Time of Butterflies” is one of her more popular books, and it’s a historical fic about the Mirabel sisters. In short, the Mirabel sisters helped fight against the dictator Trujillo. This is a period of time where there was a lot of political unrest, and caused many Dominicans to flee or leave the country, including Alvarez’ family and my family as well.

*EDIT: She was actually born in NYC & her family moved back to the DR a few months later. Where she spent the first 10 years of her life living.

[lyramidsummer]

Wow all my favourite children books, The Moomins, Le Petit Prince and Hans Christian Anderson. For Sweden you missed out on Pippi Longstocking. She lives alone with a monkey and her horse. Her father, a sea captain is always away.

[BookishAdventuresInWellbeing]

I read The Summer Book recently and loved it and also really loved Time Shelter when it came out.

[charlotte]

For anyone doing this challenge: For Bosnia and Herzegovina / for Germany I would recommend "Where you come from" by Saša Stanišić. I guess it is best described as auto-fiction and is about Stanišić's experience fleeing from Yugoslavia at the age of 14. I can't describe it very well but it's great - just trust me ;)

[Tessy]

For Haiti, you may want to look into The Farming of Bones by Edwige Danticat. It's pretty brutal but based on the country's history.

[evam]

Im so glad you liked the book from my country (Croatia)

[lisajuliabakker]

I really want to do this challenge as well, but most books I find are really dark or sad which I don't tend to enjoy often. I'm more of a light reader with the occasional dark or sad book, so this challenge will take me awhile 😂 also love how I have never heard of the Dutch book even though I'm Dutch. But the translation is much cheaper than the original so I guess I'll read it translated as well haha