Books of the World

This week I read Black Water Sister by Zen Cho. Cho is a lawyer and science-fiction writer who grew up in Malaysia and currently resides...

This week I read Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata. Murata lives in Japan and is considered one of their most exciting...

This week I read A Burning by Megha Majumdar. Majumdar was born and grew up in Kolkata, India. She left for the United States for college...

This week I read Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by South Korean screen-writer and author, Cho Nam-Joo. South Korea is located in Asia and borders...

This week I read Daughter of Persia: A Woman’s Journey from Her Father’s Harem Through the Islamic Revolution by Sattareh Farman...

This week I read First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung. Ung was born in Cambodia in 1970 in the country capital of Phnom Penh....

This week I read Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang. Qian was born in China, but her family left for the United States when she was...

This week I read Above Us the Milky Way by Fowzia Karimi. Karimi along with her family fled Afghanistan in 1980 at age seven, during the...

For my first book of February I read em by Kim Thúy. Thúy was born in Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh city, and fled Vietnam along with her...

The first book in my journey to read the word is the short story collection, Mad Country, by Nepali author Samrat Upadhyay. Nepal is a...