read:

• UK: jkrowling: harry potter series
• USA: john steinbeck: of mice and men
• france: voltaire - candide
• norway: henrik ibsen: a doll's house (play)
• brazil: paulo coehlo: the alchemist
• russia: leo tolstoy: anna karenina
• japan: Sayaka Murata: convenience store woman
• germany: Patrick Suskind: Perfume

to read:

• italy: elena ferrante: my brilliant friend / Niccolò Machiavelli: the prince
• spain: Miguel de Cervantes: don quixote
• korea:
• china:
• colombia: Gabriel García Márquez: one hundred years of solitude
• czech republic: Milan Kundera: the unbearable lightness of being
• greece: homer: the iliad/odyssey
• netherlands: anne frank: the diary of a young girl
• germany: herman hesse: siddhartha