The Global Novel
A Working Bibliography
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. 1958. New York: Penguin, 1994. Nigeria
Allende, Isabel. My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile. Trans. Margaret
Sayers Peden. New York: HarperCollins, 2003. Chile
Atwood, Margaret. Oryx and Crake. New York: Anchor, 2004. Canada
Bolaño, Roberto. 2666. Trans. Natasha Wimmer. New York: Picador, 2009. Chile; Spain
Coetzee, J. M. Diary of a Bad Year. New York: Penguin, 2007. South Africa; Australia
Coetzee J. M. Disgrace. New York: Penguin, 2000. South Africa; Australia
Cole, Teju. Open City. New York: Random House, 2012. Nigeria; US
Eco, Umberto. The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana. New York: Harcourt, 2004. Italy
Eggers, Dave. What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng. San Francisco:
McSweeney’s, 2006. US; Sudan
Ferrante, Elena. My Brilliant Friend. Trans. Ann Goldstein. New York: Europa Editions, 2012.
Italy.
Gordimer, Nadine. The Pickup. New York: Penguin, 2001. South Africa
Grames, Juliet. The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna. New York: HarperCollins, 2019.
US; Italy
Halaby, Laila. Once in a Promised Land. Boston: Beacon Press, 2007. Lebanon; US
Hamid, Mohsin. The Reluctant Fundamentalist. New York: Harvest, 2008. Pakistan; UK
Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner. New York: Riverhead Books, 2003. Afghanistan; US
Houellebecq, Michel. The Possibility of an Island. Trans. Gavin Bowd. New York: Vintage,
2007. France
Ishiguro, Kazuo. Never Let Me Go. London: Faber and Faber, 2005. UK
Jin, Ha, Nanjing Requiem. New York: Vintage, 2012. China; US
Jin, Ha. War Trash. New York: Vintage, 2005. China; US
Kirsch, Adam. The Global Novel: Writing the World in the 21st Century. New York: Columbia
UP, 2017. 978-0997722901
Lalami, Laila. Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits. New York: Algonquin Books, 2005.
Morocco
Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Lowland. New York: Random House, 2013. India; US
Lahiri, Jhumpa. Interpreter of Maladies. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. US; India
Luiselli, Valeria. Lost Children Archive. New York: Knopf, 2019. US; Mexico
Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria. The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas. 1881. Brazil
Mahfouz, Naguib. The Cairo Trilogy. 1956-57. Egypt
Martel, Yann. Life of Pi. New York: Random House, 2001. Spanish-Canadian
McCann, Colum. TransAtlantic. New York: Random House, 2014. Ireland
McEwan, Ian. Atonement. New York: Random House, 2001. UK
Mishra, Pankaj. “Beyond the global novel.” Financial Times 27 Sept. 2013.
Mitchell, David. Cloud Atlas. New York: Random House, 2004. UK
Murakami, Haruki. 1Q84. Trans. Jay Rubin. New York: Vintage, 2013. Japan
Murakami, Haruki. Kafka on the Shore. New York: Vintage, 2006. Japan
Murakami, Haruki. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. New York: Vintage, 1998.
Nabokov, Vladimir. Pnin. 1957. New York: Vintage, 1989. Russia; US
Nguyen, Viet Thanh. The Refugees. New York: Grove Press, 2017. Vietnam; US
O’Neill, Joseph. Netherland. New York: Random House, 2008. US; Ireland
Pamuk, Orhan. Snow. Trans. Maureen Freely. New York: Vintage, 2005. Turkey
Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country. New York: Scribner’s, 1948. South Africa
Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. New York: Random House, 1997. India
Sebald, W. G. Austerlitz. Trans. Anthea Bell. New York: Modern Library, 2001. UK; Germany
Siskind, Mariano. “The Globalization of the Novel and the Novelization of the Global. A
Critique of World Literature.” Comparative Literature 62, no. 4 (Fall 2010): 336-60.
Smith, Zadie. NW. New York: Penguin, 2013. UK
Smith, Zadie. White Teeth. London: Hamilton, 1999. UK
Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club. New York: Penguin, 2006. US; China
Thiong’o, Ngugi wa. The River Between. Heinemann, 1965. Kenya
Verne, Jules. Around the World in Eighty Days. 1873. France
Waldman, Amy. The Submission. New York: Picador, 2011. US
Wamariya, Clemantine. The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After.
New York: Broadway Books, 2018. US; Sudan [non-fiction]
Wiesel, Elie. Night. 1956. New York: Hill and Wang, 2006. Romania; US
Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief. New York: Knopf, 2007. Australia
Suggested Titles
Akutagawa, Ryunosuke. The Life of a Stupid Man
Ali, Nujood. I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
Benedetto, Antonio di. Zama
Brennert, Alan. Moloka’i
Bulosan, Carlos. America Is in the Heart
Camus, Albert. The Fall
Goswami, Indira. Pages Stained with Blood, trans. Pradip Acharya
Grossman, Vasily. Everything Flows
Higashida, Naoki. The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old-Boy with Autism
Hosseini, Khaled. A Thousand Splendid Suns
Iqbal, Muhammed Zafar. Kajoler Dinratri, trans. Kajol’s Days and Nights
Ishiguro, Kazuo. An Artist of the Floating World
Kawakami, Hirom. Strange Weather in Tokyo
Keller, Nora Okja. Comfort Woman
Lee, Min Jin. Pachinko
Murakami, Haruki. Sputnik Sweetheart
Murata, Sayaka. Convenience Store Woman
Nović, Sara. Girl at War
Quiñonez, Ernesto. Bodega Dreams
Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front, trans. Im Westen nichts Neues
Yanagihara, Hanya. A Little Life
Yizhar, S. Khirbet Khizeh
Zola, Emile. Germinal