Books mentioned in this video: Asia Afghanistan: A Thousand Splendid Suns Cambodia: First The Killed My Father China: The Arrival + Sword of Kaigen India: When Breath Becomes Air + Love from A to Z Iran: Kalila and Demna Iraq: استرداد عمر Japan: Convenience Store Woman + Battle Royale + The Travelling Cat Chroniciles Jordan: Squire Kuwait: Bambo Stalk + Mama Hisa's Mice Lebanon: The Prophet North Korea: Nothing to Envy + In Order to Live Pakistan: I Am Malala Palestine: I Saw Ramallah Russia: Crime and Punishment Saudi Arabia: أحدث الليل South Korea: Almond Syria: مغامرة العقل الأولى Taiwan: The Prince and the Dressmaker Turkey: Forty Rules of Love Vietnam: The Best WE Could Do North America Canada: Guy Delisle (author) Jamaica: Everything Everything Mexico: The Four Agreements USA: The Lies of Locke Lamora South America Brazil: The Alchemist Europe Austria: Chess Story Bosnia and Herzegovina: Islam between East and West Cyprus: The Beekeeper of Aleppo France: The Little Prince Germany: All Quite on the Western Front + Diary of Ann Frank Greece: The Iliad + The Odyssey+ The Theban Plays, etc Ireland: The Picture of Dorian Gray Lithuania: Between Shades of Gray Netherlands: The Body Keeps the Score Spain: Shadow of the Wind Sweden: Fredric Backman (author) UK: Harry Potter + War Doctor Africa Egypt: ثلاثية غرناطة Ghana: Homecoming Morocco: Stolen Lives Nigeria: The Girl with the Louding Voice Somalia: Don't Tell Me You're Afraid South Africa: Born a Crime Algeria: الأسود يليق بك Australia and Oceania Australia: the Secret
Hi Rana! I'm Isabella from Colombia 🇨🇴✨ I think you will definitely like our colombian literature and authors! This world reading challenge is awesome and also very interesting :) Hopefully you can read more books and literature in general from South America 🌻 A great video idea is to let your family choose the Syrian authors/books you read next and make a video with that experience!
What a great challenge! I wish you all the best for it and many happy reading experiences with this armchair world travelling 😃🛋️📚! For Switzerland I would recommend a play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Heidi by Johanna Spyri (a classic from the 19th century), one of the travel itineraries by Annemarie Schwarzenbach (All the Roads Are Open (from Geneva to Afghanistan with a Ford automobile) or Death in Persia (from her travels to Persia) all of them in the 1930s) or a contemporary crime/mystery novel by Joël Dicker… 🤗
For Finland, Tove Jansson's The summer book is a beautiful story. She also created the moomins, which are probably easily available. For other options, I would suggest checking out books by Sofi Oksanen, The Egyptian by Mika Waltari & The year of The hare by Arto Paasilinna. Have fun traveling the world via books, I'm also on the same journey 😊
Hi Rana, being a booktuber from Nigeria, I waited patiently for you to talk about your pick from Nigeria and when I saw you had chosen Abi Dare’s The Girl with the Louding Voice, I didn’t know what to expect as you had mentioned in one of your videos that it could take you about three days to read a book written in English and this particular one is written in very “broken English” but you scaled through. Wow!! You did so well. Great video 👏🏽🎉
I’m working on the same goal! Here are some of my favorites that surprised me :) Mexico: Still born Ivory Coast: Allah is Not Obliged Iran: Then the Fish Swallowed Him Sri Lanka: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida Sudan: Season of Migration to the North
Are there any websites where you can read some classic or modern arab novels in English for free? In my country arab authors cannot be found easily. Buying from foreign resources is also problematic, because of the sanctions
Thanks for your advice, but I prefer not use shadow websites. I mean that may be there are some legal resources with public domain literature. By the way, good luck with your challenge. I've also taken the same challenge a few years ago, but it is not easy to find books from most countries in my homeland
Russia - Asia? That's ridiculous, girl. You have to designate a country by where its capital is - as well as by its main characteristics. An Orthodox religion-country cannot be in Asia - this is preposterous. I was certainly NOT born in Asia lol. Dostoyevsky isn't an Asian author lol He is certainly a European author.
I went through this from geographical point. A quick google search will tell you that 75% of Russia is in Asia. The real question is, why are you so offended by me categorising Russia as an Asian country? Are you perhaps racist or something? Because there are actually Orthodox religion countries in Asia other than Russia. Or do you perhaps have a complex issue? You can comment your point without being so aggressive by the way. It's not that serious.
Books mentioned in this video:
Asia
Afghanistan: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Cambodia: First The Killed My Father
China: The Arrival + Sword of Kaigen
India: When Breath Becomes Air + Love from A to Z
Iran: Kalila and Demna
Iraq: استرداد عمر
Japan: Convenience Store Woman + Battle Royale + The Travelling Cat Chroniciles
Jordan: Squire
Kuwait: Bambo Stalk + Mama Hisa's Mice
Lebanon: The Prophet
North Korea: Nothing to Envy + In Order to Live
Pakistan: I Am Malala
Palestine: I Saw Ramallah
Russia: Crime and Punishment
Saudi Arabia: أحدث الليل
South Korea: Almond
Syria: مغامرة العقل الأولى
Taiwan: The Prince and the Dressmaker
Turkey: Forty Rules of Love
Vietnam: The Best WE Could Do
North America
Canada: Guy Delisle (author)
Jamaica: Everything Everything
Mexico: The Four Agreements
USA: The Lies of Locke Lamora
South America
Brazil: The Alchemist
Europe
Austria: Chess Story
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Islam between East and West
Cyprus: The Beekeeper of Aleppo
France: The Little Prince
Germany: All Quite on the Western Front + Diary of Ann Frank
Greece: The Iliad + The Odyssey+ The Theban Plays, etc
Ireland: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lithuania: Between Shades of Gray
Netherlands: The Body Keeps the Score
Spain: Shadow of the Wind
Sweden: Fredric Backman (author)
UK: Harry Potter + War Doctor
Africa
Egypt: ثلاثية غرناطة
Ghana: Homecoming
Morocco: Stolen Lives
Nigeria: The Girl with the Louding Voice
Somalia: Don't Tell Me You're Afraid
South Africa: Born a Crime
Algeria: الأسود يليق بك
Australia and Oceania
Australia: the Secret
It's so cool how much you've read for this challenge. Good luck with finishing it!
Hi Rana! I'm Isabella from Colombia 🇨🇴✨ I think you will definitely like our colombian literature and authors! This world reading challenge is awesome and also very interesting :) Hopefully you can read more books and literature in general from South America 🌻 A great video idea is to let your family choose the Syrian authors/books you read next and make a video with that experience!
What a great challenge! I wish you all the best for it and many happy reading experiences with this armchair world travelling 😃🛋️📚! For Switzerland I would recommend a play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Heidi by Johanna Spyri (a classic from the 19th century), one of the travel itineraries by Annemarie Schwarzenbach (All the Roads Are Open (from Geneva to Afghanistan with a Ford automobile) or Death in Persia (from her travels to Persia) all of them in the 1930s) or a contemporary crime/mystery novel by Joël Dicker… 🤗
For Finland, Tove Jansson's The summer book is a beautiful story. She also created the moomins, which are probably easily available. For other options, I would suggest checking out books by Sofi Oksanen, The Egyptian by Mika Waltari & The year of The hare by Arto Paasilinna.
Have fun traveling the world via books, I'm also on the same journey 😊
Thank you so much for the recommendations!
and good luck on your journey ♥
Hi Rana, being a booktuber from Nigeria, I waited patiently for you to talk about your pick from Nigeria and when I saw you had chosen Abi Dare’s The Girl with the Louding Voice, I didn’t know what to expect as you had mentioned in one of your videos that it could take you about three days to read a book written in English and this particular one is written in very “broken English” but you scaled through. Wow!! You did so well. Great video 👏🏽🎉
For Danish authors, I can recommend Tove Ditlevsen, she is very iconic!
thank you for recommending her!
Ooooh I'm doing this too! But mine is more of a long term sort of thing. Best of luck! 💙💙💙
mine too! I'm a slow reader so it'll take a few years ♥
Challanges are fun!
I’m working on the same goal! Here are some of my favorites that surprised me :)
Mexico: Still born
Ivory Coast: Allah is Not Obliged
Iran: Then the Fish Swallowed Him
Sri Lanka: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Sudan: Season of Migration to the North
Thank you so much for the recommendations ♥
Saud Alsanousi's second book is translated into English, its called Mama Hissah's Mice.
yes, thank you
I hated the 40 rules of love too!
Let's unite for our hatred for this book!! 😂
Are there any websites where you can read some classic or modern arab novels in English for free? In my country arab authors cannot be found easily. Buying from foreign resources is also problematic, because of the sanctions
I think shadow libraries can be helpful sometimes. Like Zlibrary and Library Genisis
Thanks for your advice, but I prefer not use shadow websites. I mean that may be there are some legal resources with public domain literature. By the way, good luck with your challenge. I've also taken the same challenge a few years ago, but it is not easy to find books from most countries in my homeland
الأسود يليق بك 32:14
Is Algerian not Tunisian. The author is Algerian.
oh sorry my mistake. You're right
Russia - Asia? That's ridiculous, girl. You have to designate a country by where its capital is - as well as by its main characteristics. An Orthodox religion-country cannot be in Asia - this is preposterous. I was certainly NOT born in Asia lol. Dostoyevsky isn't an Asian author lol He is certainly a European author.
Geographically Russia is eurasian. Shes not Russian give her a break.
@@mahaalajmi-p4p but her followers are. Russia is a European country.
I went through this from geographical point. A quick google search will tell you that 75% of Russia is in Asia.
The real question is, why are you so offended by me categorising Russia as an Asian country? Are you perhaps racist or something? Because there are actually Orthodox religion countries in Asia other than Russia. Or do you perhaps have a complex issue?
You can comment your point without being so aggressive by the way. It's not that serious.