Because basically all I do these days is read and cook, I figured I should start another reading challenge! Mostly, I'm starting the "fact-finding" phase of the challenge while I finish up my Pulitzer Prize Winner Challenge, but I think what I'd like to do next is try and read a book from every country in the world!! I've started compiling a list of countries and possible books, and I figured this would be a great place to crowd-source book recs!

Below the cut you'll see the list of countries, along with some books for the countries where a book on my TBR list seemed to easily slot into place. I'd LOVE to hear if any of you have recs for any of the countries below! Especially the empty ones (of which there are a lot!) but even if I have a book jotted down for a country, I'd love to hear alternate suggestions. If I put notes in parentheses after the book, it's probably more firm as opposed to the many possibilities that I stumbled across on various lists and don't (yet) have the same burning desire to read!

Requirements:
-Written by an author that was born/lived the majority of their life in the country in question
-Preferably majority set in that specific country
-Written in English or English translation easily available
-Prioritizing BIPOC, queer, and female-identifying writers, but if your fav was written by an cis straight white dude that doesn't disqualify it, so still rec it!
-Prioritizing books that somebody recced to me or that have been on my list for ages (which I'll make a note of) so even if you see a book listed for a specific country, go ahead and rec your fav!
-This will probably be majority novels, but I am open to non-fiction, poetry, graphic novels, etc. if they fit the criteria!

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