On wings of book, around the world (50 countries)


“Every Foreign Country a Homeland, Every Homeland a Foreign Country”, is my life motto. And this article by Gordon W. Lothrop shaped my perspective when I was younger. Every time I travel to new place, learning new things, reading new books, I am asking the question:
“How do we treasure difference and yet find common values?”


Recently, from the book “Morningstar” by Ann Hood. I’ve found new favourite quotes, some of them are:


“These stories opened doors that led me out and ultimately away from home, fueled by the hope of glimpsing golden domes and rose windows of cathedrals; labyrinth streets and fields of wheat; of glimpsing this big, beautiful world that I began to imagine on my father’s knee, and then began to almost grasp with a book in my hands.”


“The sky. Endless and full of possibilities, the door to the past and to the future. Somehow I understood this as I read.”


So below is my list of all the possibilities for my year 2024 reading plan to travel around the world on wings of book. 66 countries.

  • Algeria: What The Day Owes The Night – Yasmina Khadra
  • Afghanistan: In the Sea There are Crocodiles – Fabio Geda
  • Argentina: Fictions – Jorge Luis Borges
  • Australia: The Moon Gate – Amanda Geard
  • Austria: The Morning Gift – Eva Ibbotson
  • Barbados: River Sing Me Home – Eleanor Shearer
  • Bosnia: Black Butterflies – Priscilla Morris
  • Botswana: The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon – Alexander McCall Smith
  • Brazil: Dom Casmurro – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
  • Canada: Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
    Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
    A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
  • Chile: A Long Petal of the Sea – Isabel Allende
  • China: Women in The Late Qing Dynasty And Modern China – Xia Xiaohong
    晚清女性与近代中国 – 夏晓虹
  • Congo: How Dare The Sun Rise – Sandra Uwiringyimana
  • Croatia: Flights – Olga Tokarczuk
  • Cuba: The Book of Lost Saints – Daniel José Older
  • Czech Republic: The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
    Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag – Eduard Mörike
  • Denmark: Fairy Tales – Hans Christian Andersen
  • El Salvador: Solito – Javier Zamola
  • France: Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
  • Germany: The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
    I Only See The Person in Front of Me – Hermann Vinke
    Als ich ein kleiner Junge war – Erich Kästner
  • Ghana: North to Paradise – Ousman Umar
    Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
  • Greece: Gates of Fire – Steven Pressfield
  • Hong Kong: Hong Kong Literary Walks – collection of articles
    香港文学散步- 文集
    Publish year 1991. It is before the transfer to China under “one country, two
    systems” policy in year 1997.
  • Hungary: The Choice – Edith Eger
    Satantango – László Krasznahorkai
    The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
  • Iceland: Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night – Jon Kalman Stefansson
  • India: Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
  • Indonesia: Max Havelaar – Multatuli
  • Iran: Half a Cup of Sand and Sky – Nadine Bjursten
    The Stationery Shop of Tehran – Marjan Kamali
  • Iraq: The Last Pomegranate Tree – Bachtyar Ali
  • Ireland: Paddy Clarke HA HA HA – Roddy Doyle
    Flann O’Brien – At Swim-Two-Birds
  • Israel: The Lemon Tree – Sandy Tolan
  • Italy: The Neapolitan Quartet – Elena Ferrante
    The Thief Lord – Cornelia Funke
  • Jamaica: The Long Song – Andrea Levy
  • Japan: Letters from Iwo Jima – Kumiko Kakehashi
    The Miracles of the Namiya General Store – Keigo Higashino
  • Lithuania: The Just – Jan Brokken
    Boy With a Violin – Yochanan Fein
    Between Shades of Gray – Ruta Sepetys
  • Malaysia: Land Below the Wind by Agnes Newton Keith
  • Mali: Segu – Maryse Conde
  • Mexico: The Murmur of Bees – Sofía Segovia
    Ramifications – Daniel Saldaña París
    The Remains – Margo Glantz
  • Morocco: Night Train to Marrakech – Dinah Jefferies
  • Netherlands: Kees The Boy – Theo Thijssen
    Tulip Fever – Deborah Moggach
    Code Name Kingfisher – Liz Kessler
    The Girl with the Red Hair – Buzzy Jackson
  • New Zealand: The Bookseller at the End of the World – Ruth Shaw
    Secrets of The Land – Kate Mahony
  • Nigeria: Daughters Who Walk This Path – Yejide Kilanko
  • North Korea: A River in Darkness – Masaji Ishikawa
  • Norway: The Unseen – Roy Jacobsen
    Scenes from a Childhood – Jon Fosse
    The Birds – Tarjei Vesaas
  • Palestine: I Shall Not Hate – Izzeldin Abuelaish
  • Poland: The Pianist – Władysław Szpilman
    Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk.
  • Portugal: Night Train to Lisbon – Pascal Mercier
  • Russia: The Brother Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    The Lost Pianos of Siberia – Sophy Roberts
  • Senegal: Beyond The Door of No Return – David Diop
  • Singapore: How We Disappeared – Jing Jing Lee
  • South Korea: My Brilliant Life – Ae Ran Kim
  • Spain: The Shadow of The Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  • Sri Lanka: Chinaman – Shenan Karunatilaka
  • Sudan: River Spirit – Leila Aboulela
    Thirteen Months of Sunrise – Rania Mamoun
  • Sweden: A Man Called Ove – Fredrik Backman
    Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs – Linda Olsson
  • Switzerland: Hotel du Lac – Anita Brookner
    Heidi – Johanna Spyri
  • Syria: The Beekeeper of Aleppo – Christy Lefteri
    As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow – Zoulfa Katouh
  • Taiwan: The Thief of University – Huang Fan
    大学之贼 – 黄凡
  • Tanzania: Gravel Heart – Abdulrazak Gurnah
  • Turkey: The Architects Apprentice – Elif Shafak
    Kantika – Elizabeth Graver
  • UK: The Last Witch of Scotland – Philip Paris
    Coventry – Helen Humphreys
    Devorgilla Days – Kathleen Hart
  • Ukraine: She Came from Mariupol – Natascha Wodin
  • USA: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
  • Venezuela: Motherland – Paula Ramón
  • Vietnam: Inside Out And Back Again by Thanhha Lai
    The Best We Could Do – Thi Bui
  • Zimbabwe: Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga

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