Hello! Hola todos! 你好! こんにちは! नमस्ते! مرحبًا!

I am looking to put together a book club from people all around the world where we read famous books from each others cultures! This year my list is below.

Would you like to join my book club?

Language Book Author Date (Approx) Why This Book Matters
1 Dream of the Red Chamber Mandarin Chinese Cao Xueqin
2 Don Quixote Spanish Miguel de Cervantes
3 Middlemarch English George Eliot
4 Godaan Hindi Munshi Premchand
5 Pather Panchali Bengali Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
6 The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas Portuguese Machado de Assis
7 War and Peace Russian Leo Tolstoy
8 The Tale of Genji Japanese Murasaki Shibu
9 Heer Ranjha Western Punjabi Waris Shah
10 Shyamchi Aai Marathi Sane Guruji
11 Veyipadagalu Telugu Viswanatha Satyanarayana
12 Jin Ping Mei Wu Chinese Anonymous
13 The Time Regulation Institute Turkish Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
14 The Cloud Dream of the Nine Korean Kim Man‑jung
15 Les Misérables French Victor Hugo
16 Faust German Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
17 The Tale of Kiều Vietnamese Nguyễn Du
18 Silappatikaram Tamil Ilango Adigal
19 Umrao Jaan Ada Urdu Mirza Hadi Ruswa
20 Shahnameh Persian Ferdowsi

Reading! Plants! Music, working out!

Godaan - Hindi
War and Peace - Russian