The world through books (Book Club Project)

The project consists of monthly meetings between intermediate and advanced level students to discuss the book of the month.

• In-person meeting at a coffee shop or park.
• Online version for participants from other locations.
• Books from various countries around the world will be selected.
• The main idea is that by the end of the project, the students will have read a book from every country in the world.
• The country and the book will be voted on by the students the previous month, from among 5 options provided by the school.
• Throughout the month, the teachers in charge of the project will post information about the chosen country in the WhatsApp group.

A - C

• Afghanistan: The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
• Albania: The Broken April (Ismail Kadare)
• Algeria: The Stranger (Albert Camus)
• Andorra: The Teacher of Cheops (Albert Salvadó)
• Angola: Mayombe (Pepetela)
• Antigua and Barbuda: Annie John (Jamaica Kincaid)
• Argentina: Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges)
• Armenia: The Fool (Raffi)
• Australia: The Patrick White Collection (Patrick White)
• Austria: The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil)
• Azerbaijan: Ali and Nino (Kurban Said)
• Bahamas: God's Trombones (James Weldon Johnson)
• Bahrain: Quixotiya (Ali Al-Saeed)
• Bangladesh: Pather Panchali (Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay)
• Barbados: In the Castle of My Skin (George Lamming)
• Belarus: Voices from Chernobyl (Svetlana Alexievich)
• Belgium: The Sorrow of Belgium (Hugo Claus)
• Belize: Beka Lamb (Zee Edgell)
• Benin: The Viceroy of Ouidah (Bruce Chatwin)
• Bhutan: The Circle of Karma (Kunzang Choden)
• Bolivia: Raza de Bronce (Alcides Arguedas)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Bridge on the Drina (Ivo Andrić)
• Botswana: When Rain Clouds Gather (Bessie Head)
• Brazil: Dom Casmurro (Machado de Assis)
• Brunei: Some Girls: My Life in a Harem (Jillian Lauren)
• Bulgaria: Under the Yoke (Ivan Vazov)
• Burkina Faso: The Suns of Independence (Ahmadou Kourouma )
• Burundi: Small Country (Gaël Faye)
• Cabo Verde: Chiquinho (Baltasar Lopes)
• Cambodia: First They Killed My Father (Loung Ung)
• Cameroon: The Old Man and the Medal (Ferdinand Oyono)
• Canada: Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery)
• Central African Republic: Batouala (René Maran)
• Chad: The Soul of Mbaba (Joseph Brahim Seid)
• Chile: The House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende)
• China: Dream of the Red Chamber (Cao Xueqin)
• Colombia: One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez)
• Comoros: The Kaffir of Carthage (Mohammed Toihiri)
• Congo (Brazzaville): Broken Glass (Alain Mabanckou)
• Costa Rica: The Lonely Men's Island (José León Sánchez)
• Croatia: The Return of Philip Latinowicz (Miroslav Krleža)
• Cuba: The Kingdom of This World (Alejo Carpentier)
• Cyprus: Ledra Street (Nora Nadjarian)
• Czechia: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)

D - I

• DR Congo: The Antipeople (Sony Labou Tansi)
• Denmark: Fear and Trembling (Søren Kierkegaard)
• Djibouti: In the United States of Africa (Abdourahman Waberi)
• Dominica: Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)
• Dominican Republic: The Feast of the Goat (Mario Vargas Llosa)
• Ecuador: Huasipungo (Jorge Icaza)
• Egypt: The Cairo Trilogy (Naguib Mahfouz)
• El Salvador: Bitter Grounds (Sandra Benítez)
• Equatorial Guinea: Shadows of Your Black Memory (Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo)
• Eritrea: Consequences of Love (Sulaiman Addonia)
• Estonia: Truth and Justice (A. H. Tammsaare)
• Eswatini: When the Ground is Hard (Malla Nunn)
• Ethiopia: The Shadow King (Maaza Mengiste)
• Fiji: Tales of the Tikongs (Epeli Hau'ofa)
• Finland: The Kalevala (Elias Lönnrot)
• France: Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
• Gabon: The Mutes (Jean-Baptiste Abessolo)
• Gambia: Chaff on the Wind (Ebou Dibba)
• Georgia: The Knight in the Panther's Skin (Shota Rustaveli)
• Germany: Faust (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
• Ghana: The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (Ayi Kwei Armah)
• Greece: The Odyssey (Homer)
• Grenada: Padi and the Old Man (Sacha S.A. Simmons)
• Guatemala: Men of Maize (Miguel Ángel Asturias)
• Guinea: The Radiance of the King (Camara Laye)
• Guinea-Bissau: The Ultimate Tragedy (Abdulai Sila)
• Guyana: Palace of the Peacock (Wilson Harris)
• Haiti: The Farming of Bones (Edwidge Danticat)
• Holy See: The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
• Honduras: Prisión Verde (Ramón Amaya Amador)
• Hungary: Eclipse of the Crescent Moon (Géza Gárdonyi)
• Iceland: Independent People (Halldór Laxness)
• India: The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
• Indonesia: This Earth of Mankind (Pramoedya Ananta Toer)
• Iran: The Blind Owl (Sadegh Hedayat)
• Iraq: The Baghdad Clock (Shahad Al Rawi)
• Ireland: Ulysses (James Joyce)
• Israel: A Tale of Love and Darkness (Amos Oz)
• Italy: The Betrothed (Alessandro Manzoni)
• Ivory Coast: The Suns of Independence (Ahmadou Kourouma)

J - N

• Jamaica: A Brief History of Seven Killings (Marlon James)
• Japan: The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)
• Jordan: Cities of Salt (Abdelrahman Munif)
• Kazakhstan: The Path of Abai (Mukhtar Auezov)
• Kenya: Petals of Blood (Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o)
• Kiribati: The Sex Lives of Cannibals (J. Maarten Troost )
• Kuwait: The Bamboo Stalk (Saud Alsanousi)
• Kyrgyzstan: Jamilia (Chingiz Aitmatov)
• Laos: Mother's Beloved (Outhine Bounyavong)
• Latvia: The Cage (Alberts Bels)
• Lebanon: The Prophet (Kahlil Gibran)
• Lesotho: Chaka (Thomas Mofolo)
• Liberia: The House at Sugar Beach (Helene Cooper)
• Libya: In the Country of Men (Hisham Matar)
• Liechtenstein: Stille Tage in Clichy
• Lithuania: White Shroud (Antanas Škėma)
• Luxembourg: The Perjury of General de Ley (Norbert Jacques)
• Madagascar: Beyond the Rice Fields (Naivo)
• Malawi: The Jingala Saga (Legson Kayira)
• Malaysia: The Garden of Evening Mists (Tan Twan Eng)
• Maldives: Dhon Hiyala and Ali Fulhu (Abdullah Sadiq)
• Mali: Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali (D. T. Niane)
• Malta: In the Name of the Father (and of the Son) (Immanuel Mifsud)
• Marshall Islands: The Island of Shattered Dreams (Chantal Spitz)
• Mauritania: The Desert and the Drum (Mbarek Ould Beyrouk)
• Mauritius: The Last Brother (Nathacha Appanah)
• Mexico: Pedro Páramo (Juan Rulfo)
• Micronesia: Island of Angels (Reed Jolley)
• Moldova: The Forbidden Forest (Mircea Eliade)
• Monaco: Los de Monaco (Louis Canis)
• Mongolia: The Secret History of the Mongols (Anônimo)
• Montenegro: The Mountain Wreath (Petar II Petrović-Njegoš)
• Morocco: The Sand Child (Tahar Ben Jelloun)
• Mozambique: Terra Sonâmbula (Mia Couto)
• Myanmar: Smile as they Bow (Nu Nu Yi)
• Namibia: The Purple Violet of Oshaantu (Neshani Andreas)
• Nauru: Stories from Nauru (Ben Bam Solomon)
• Nepal: Palpasa Café (Narayan Wagle)
• Netherlands: The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
• New Zealand: The Bone People (Keri Hulme)
• Nicaragua: Azul... (Rubén Darío)
• Niger: The Epic of Askia Mohammed (Thomas Hale)
• Nigeria: Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
• North Korea: The Guest (Hwang Sok-yong )
• North Macedonia: The Great Water (Živko Čingo)
• Norway: Hunger (Knut Hamsun)

O - S

• Oman: Celestial Bodies (Jokha Alharthi)
• Pakistan: Mottled Dawn (Saadat Hasan Manto)
• Palau: The Sacred Remains (Susan Kloulechad)
• Palestine: Men in the Sun (Ghassan Kanafani)
• Panama: The Golden Horse (Juan David Morgan)
• Papua New Guinea: The Crocodile (Vincent Eri)
• Paraguay: I, the Supreme (Augusto Roa Bastos)
• Peru: The Time of the Hero (Mario Vargas Llosa)
• Philippines: Noli Me Tángere (José Rizal)
• Poland: The Doll (Bolesław Prus)
• Portugal: Os Lusíadas (Luís de Camões)
• Qatar: The Corsair (Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud)
• Romania: The Last Night of Love, the First Night of War (Camil Petrescu)
• Russia: War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
• Rwanda: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families (Philip Gourevitch)
• Saint Kitts and Nevis: Crossing the River (Caryl Phillips)
• Saint Lucia: Omeros (Derek Walcott)
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: The Spirits of the Caribbean (V. S. Naipaul )
• Samoa: Leaves of the Banyan Tree (Albert Wendt)
• San Marino: History of the Republic of San Marino (Marino Fattori)
• Sao Tome and Principe: Equator (Miguel Sousa Tavares)
• Saudi Arabia: Girls of Riyadh (Rajaa Alsanea)
• Senegal: So Long a Letter (Mariama Bâ)
• Serbia: Dictionary of the Khazars (Milorad Pavić)
• Seychelles: Voices (Glynn Burridge)
• Sierra Leone: A Long Way Gone (Ishmael Beah)
• Singapore: The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (Sonny Liew)
• Slovakia: The Rivers of Babylon (Peter Pišťanek)
• Slovenia: Alamut (Vladimir Bartol)
• Solomon Islands: The Alternative (John Saunana)
• Somalia: The Orchard of Lost Souls (Nadifa Mohamed)
• South Africa: Long Walk to Freedom (Nelson Mandela)
• South Korea: The Vegetarian (Han Kang)
• South Sudan: They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky (Alephonsion Deng)
• Spain: Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes)
• Sri Lanka: Anil's Ghost (Michael Ondaatje)
• Sudan: Season of Migration to the North (Tayeb Salih)
• Suriname: The Cost of Sugar (Cynthia McLeod)
• Sweden: The Red Room (August Strindberg)
• Switzerland: Heidi (Johanna Spyri)
• Syria: The Dark Side of Love (Rafik Schami)

T - Z

• Taiwan: The Man with the Compound Eyes (Wu Ming-yi)
• Tajikistan: Hurramabad (Andrei Volos)
• Tanzania: Desertion (Abdulrazak Gurnah)
• Thailand: The Four Reigns (Kukrit Pramoj)
• Timor-Leste: The Crossing (Luís Cardoso)
• Togo: The African Sphinx (Pyabelo Chaold Kouly)
• Tonga: Tales of the Tikongs (Epeli Hau'ofa)
• Trinidad and Tobago: A House for Mr Biswas (V. S. Naipaul)
• Tunisia: The Pillar of Salt (Albert Memmi)
• Turkey: My Name Is Red (Orhan Pamuk)
• Turkmenistan: The Tale of Aypi (Ak Welsapar)
• Tuvalu: Tuvalu: A History (Hugh Laracy)
• Uganda: Abyssinian Chronicles (Moses Isegawa)
• Ukraine: Taras Bulba (Nikolai Gogol)
• United Arab Emirates: The Sand Fish (Maha Gargash)
• United Kingdom: Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
• United States: The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
• Uruguay: The Open Veins of Latin America (Eduardo Galeano)
• Uzbekistan: The Railway (Hamid Ismailov)
• Vanuatu: The Girl Who Fell from the Sky (Heidi W. Durrow )
• Venezuela: Doña Bárbara (Rómulo Gallegos)
• Vietnam: The Tale of Kieu (Nguyen Du)
• Yemen: The Hostage (Zayd Mutee' Dammaj)
• Zambia: The Old Drift (Namwali Serpell)
• Zimbabwe: Nervous Conditions (Tsitsi Dangarembga)

Students gained exposure to world literature, intermediate learners advanced to fluid discussions, and advanced members deepened analytical skills. Testimonials praise the blend of fun, education, and community.​