Project Filling in the Gaps: World Literature

• ✔ Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart (Nigeria)
• ✔ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun (Nigeria)
• Yvonne Vera - Butterfly Burning (Zimbabwe)
• Margaret Ogola - The River and the Source (Kenya)
• Sarah Ladipo Manyika - In Dependence (Nigeria)
• Bessie Head - When Rain Clouds Gather (Botswana)
• ✔ Ben Okri - The Famished Road (Nigeria)
• ✔ J. M. Coetzee - Disgrace (South Africa)
• M. G. Vassanji - The Book of Secrets (Kenya)
• Zakes Mda - Ways of Dying (South Africa)
• Hwang Sok-Yong - The Guest (Korea)
• Murasaki Shikibu - The Tale of Genji (Japan)
• ✔ Murakami Haruki - Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Japan)
• ✔ Yoshimoto Banana - Kitchen (Japan)
• Louis Cha – The Deer and the Cauldron (China)
• Eileen Chang – Love in a Fallen City (China)
• Luo Guanzhong - Romance of the Three Kingdoms (China)
• ✔ Qiu Xiaolong - Death of a Red Heroine (China)
• Jose Rizal - Touch Me Not (Philippines)
• Wilfrido D. Nolledo - But for the Lovers (Philippines)
• Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss (India)
• ✔ Arvind Adiga - The White Tiger (India)
• Amitav Ghosh – The Calcutta Chromosome (India)
• Anuja Chauhan – The Zoya Factor (India)
• S. L. Bhyrappa – Sartha: The Caravan (India)
• Mohsin Hamid – Moth Smoke (Pakistan)
• Altaf Fatima - The One Who Did Not Ask (Pakistan)
• Jean Arasanayagam - All is Burning (Sri Lanka)
• Carl Muller - The Jam Fruit Tree (Sri Lanka)
• Rajiva Wijesinha - Acts of Faith (Sri Lanka)
• Salim Matar - The Woman of the Flask (Iraq)
• Orhan Pamuk – My Name is Red (Turkey)
• Alaa Al Aswany - The Yacoubian Building (Egypt)
• Bahaa Taher - Love in Exile (Egypt)
• Emile Habiby - The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist (Palestine)
• Hanan al-Shaykh - Women of Sand and Myrrh (Lebanon)
• Meir Shalev - The Blue Mountain (Israel)
• Iraj Pezeshkzad - My Uncle Napoleon (Iran)
• Simin Daneshvar - Savushun (Iran)
• Hoda Barakat - The Stone of Laughter (Lebanon)
• Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita (Russia)
• Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Czechoslovakia)
• Carlos Ruiz Zafón - The Angel's Game (Spain)
• James Joyce - Ulysses (Ireland)
• Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote (Spain)
• Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Britain)
• Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre (Britain)
• Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time (France)
• Julia Kristeva - The Old Man and the Wolves (France)
• Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose (Italy)
• ✔ Kate Grenville - The Secret River (Australia)
• ✔ Mudrooroo - Wild Cat Falling (Australia)
• Thomas Keneally - Schindler's List (Australia)
• Pramoedya Ananta Toer - This Earth of Mankind (Indonesia)
• ✔ Elizabeth Knox - The Vintner's Luck (New Zealand)
• V S Naipul – A House for Mr Biswas (Trinidad and Tobago)
• Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea (Dominica)
• Shani Mootoo - Cereus Blooms at Night (Trinidad)
• Geoffrey Philp - Benjamin, My Son (Jamaica)
• Marcia Douglas - Madam Fate (Jamaica)
• David Foster Wallace - Infine Jest (USA)
• Leonard Cohen - Beautiful Losers (Canada)
• ✔ Jhumpa Lahiri - Unaccustomed Earth (USA)
• ✔ Shyam Selvadurai - Funny Boy (Canada)
• Maya Angelou – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (USA)
• ✔ Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye (USA)
• Alice Walker - The Colour Purple (USA)
• Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird (USA)
• William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury (USA)
• Eden Robinson - Blood Sports (Canada)
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude (Colombia)
• ✔ Laura Esquivel - Like Water for Chocolate (Mexico)
• Isabel Allende - House of Spirits (Chile)
• ✔ Paul Coelho - The Alchemist (Brazil)
• Luisa Valenzuela - He Who Searches (Argentina)
• Carlos Fuentes - Terra Nostra (Mexico)
• Jorge Luis Borges - Collected Stories (Argentina)
• ✔ Julia Alvarez - In the Time of the Butterflies (Dominican Republic)
• Reinaldo Arenas - The Palace of the White Skunks (Cuba)
• Juan José Saer - The Event (Argentina)
• bell hooks - Feminist Theory: From Margin to Centre
• Simone DeBeauvoir - The Second Sex
• Luce Irigaray – This Sex Which Is Not One
• Helene Cixous – The Laugh of the Medusa
• Homi Bhabha – The Location of Culture
• Michel Foucault – History of Sexulity
• Sherene Razack - Looking White People in the Eye
• Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum - Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
• Anne Bishop – Becoming an Ally: Breaking the Cycle of Oppression
• Paul Kivel - Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
• Hsien-Yung Pai - Wandering in the Garden, Waking from a Dream: Tales of Taipei Characters (Taipei)
• Ye Zhaoyan - Nanjing 1937: A Love Story (China)
• Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children (Britain)
• Michael Winter - This All Happened (Canada)
• Nalo Hopkinson - Brown Girl in the Ring (Canada)
• Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay - Devas (Bangladesh)
• Octavia E. Butler - Fledgling (USA)
• ✔ Romesh Gunesekera - Reef (Sri Lanka)
• ed. Makeda Silvera - Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Colour Anthology
• Thomas Bernhard - The Loser (Germany)

Edits:

• Replaced 2666 (I was never going to read it anyway) with In the Time of the Butterflies
• Replaced one Funny Boy, which was listed twice, with Devdas (in the And also... section)