World Literature Since 2000 List
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| Country | Author | Title | Call Number | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | Latifa | My forbidden face : growing up under the Taliban | B LATIFA | Women |
| Afghanistan | Zoya | Zoya's story : an Afghan woman's struggles for freedom | B ZOYA | Women/unrest |
| Afghanistan | Hosseini, Khaled | Kite runner | CDA HOSSEINI | Social classes/coming of age/boys friendships |
| Afghanistan | Hosseini, Khaled | Thousand splendid suns | CDA HOSSEINI | Aghan women/abuse |
| Afghanistan | Aslam, Nadeem | Wasted vigil, the | F ASLAM | Life during upheaval, Pakistan |
| Afghanistan | Ellis, Deborah | Parvana's journey | F ELLIS | Taliban + |
| Afghanistan | Hosseini, Khaled | Kite runner | F HOSSEINI | Social classes/coming of age/boys friendship |
| Afghanistan | Hosseini, Khaled | Thousand splendid suns | F HOSSEINI | Afghan women/abuse |
| Afghanistan | Khadra, Yasmina | Swallows of Kabul | F KHADRA | Taliban |
| Afghanistan | Staples, Suzanne Fisher | Under the persimmon tree | F STAPLES | War + |
| Afghanistan | Kite runner | VID 791.4372 KIT | Social classes/coming of age/boys friendship | |
| Africa | McCall Smith, Alexander | Girl who married a lion | 398.0899 MCC | Folk tales |
| Africa | Offodile, Buchi | Orphan girl and other stories | 398.2096 OFF | African folk tales |
| Africa | Naipaul, V. S. | Bend in the river | CAS NAIPAUL | |
| Africa | Dongala, Emmanuel | Johnny mad dog | F DONGALA | Civil war/coming of age |
| Africa | Iweala, Uzodinma | Beasts of no nation : a novel | F IWEALA | War-children |
| Africa-East India | Naipaul, V. S. | Half a life | F NAIPAUL | East Indians, mixed races |
| Algeria | Benaissa, Slimane | Last night of a damned soul | F BENAISSA | Terroism |
| Algeria | Benmalek, Anoura | Lovers of Alergia | F BENMALEK | Violence, homeless |
| Algeria | Khadra, Yasmina | In the name of God | F KHADRA | Revenge |
| Algeria | Marouane, Leila | Abductor | F MAROUANE | Islam women |
| Antigua | Kincaid, Jamaica | A small place | F KINCAID | |
| Arabia | Anchor book of modern Arabic fiction | SC ANCHOR | Collection of stories | |
| Argentina | Gorodischer, Angélica | Kalpa imperial | F GORODISCHER | Science fiction |
| Argentina | Martinez, Tomás Leroy | Tango singer | F MARTINEZ | Violence |
| Argentina | Sagastizabal, Patricia | Secret for Julia | F SAGASTIZABAL | Argentina-politics |
| Argentina | Sguiglia, Eduardo | Fordlandia | F SGUIGLIA | Labor/Amazon |
| Australia | Marshall, James | Walkabout | F MARSHALL | Plane crash |
| Bangladesh | Ali, Monica | Brick lane | F ALI | Arranged marriage |
| Bangladesh | Anam, Tahmima | Golden age | F ANAM | Widows & war |
| Bosnia | Susko, Mario | Life after | 891.82 SUS | Bosnian poetry |
| Bosnia | Drakulic, Slavenka | S.: a novel about the Balkans | F DRAKULIC | Rape/war |
| Chile | Bolaño, Roberto | Savage detectives, the | F BOLAÑO | Literary movement |
| Chile | Bolaño, Roberto | Skating rink, the | F BOLAÑO | Mystery |
| Chile | Donoso, Jose | Obscene bird of night | F DONOSO | Deformity magic realism |
| China | Jin, Ha | Wreckage | 811.54 JIN | Poetry |
| China | Yu, Hua | To live : a novel | 895.1352 YU | Civil War/cultural revolution |
| China | Li, Moying | Snow falling in spring : coming of age in China during the cultural revolution | B LI | Cultural revolution + |
| China | Chen, Da | Brothers | F CHEN | Family/love |
| China | Cheng, Francois | River below | F CHENG | Cultural revolution/art |
| China | Dai, Fan | Butterfly lovers : a tale of the Chinese Romeo and Juliet | F DAI | Girls lives as a man |
| China | Dai, Sijie | Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress | CAS DAI | Cultural revolution |
| China | Dai, Sijie | Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress | F DAI | Cultural revolution |
| China | Dai, Sijie | Once on a moonless night | F DAI | Woman translator |
| China | Gang, Wang | English : a novel | F GANG | Cultural revolution |
| China | Gao, Xingjian | Soul Mountain | F GAO | Cultural revolution/im |
| China | Jin, Ha | Crazed | F JIN | Tiananmen/integrity |
| China | Jin, Ha | War trash | F JIN | Korean war and POW |
| China | Ma, Jian | Beijing Coma | F MA | Dreams, coma |
| China | Min, Anchee | Becoming Madame Mao | F MIN | Women |
| China | Min, Anchee | Empress orchid | F MIN | |
| China | Namioka, Lensey | Ties that bind, ties that break | F NAMIOKA | Women + |
| China | Wang, Lulu | Lily Theater, a novel of modern China | F WANG | Cultural revolution |
| China | Xinran | Sky burial | F XINRAN | Death/women |
| China | Zhu, Tianxin | Old capital, the : a novel of Taipei | F ZHU | Cultural and psychological realities |
| China | Gang, Wang | English : a novel | F GHANG | Cultural revolution |
| China | Gao, Xingjian | Buying a fishing rod for my grandfather | SC GAO | |
| China | Jin, Ha | Bridegroom : stories | SC JIN | |
| China | Mo, Yan | Shifu, you'll do anything for a laugh | SC MO | Repression |
| Colombia | Manrique, Jaime | Tarzan ; my body ; Christopher Coloumbus | 861 MAN | Colombia-poetry |
| Colombia | Garcia Marquez, Gabriel | Living to tell the tale | B GARCIA MARQUEZ | Childhood and youth |
| Colombia | Cañón, James | Tales from the town of widows & chronicles from the land of men | F CANON | Widows/law and order |
| Colombia | Franco, Jorge | Rosario Tijeras | F FRANCO | Woman in drug cartel |
| Colombia | Restrepo, Laura | Delirium : a novel | F RESTREPO | War/corruption |
| Colombia | Restrepo, Laura | Tale of the dispossessed | F RESTREPO | Refugees, Bilingual edition. |
| Colombia | Vallejo, Fernando | Our lady of the asssasins | F VALLEJO | Violence |
| Congo | Dongala, Emmanuel | Johnny mad dog | F DONGALA | Civil war/coming of age |
| Cuba | Eire, Carlos | Waiting for snow in Havana : confessions of a cuban boy | B EIRE | |
| Cuba | Benitez-Rojo, Antonio | Sea of lentils | F BENITEZ-ROJO | Conquest of Cuba |
| Cuba | Correa, Arnaldo | Cold Havana ground | F CORREA | Santera/mystery |
| Cuba | Estévez, Abilio | Distant palaces | F ESTEVEZ | Homeless |
| Cuba | Garcia, Cristina | Monkey hunting | F GARCIA | Chinese/slavery |
| Cuba | Cabrera, Infante G. | Guilty of dancing the chachacha | SC CABRERA | Love stories |
| Cuba | Ponte, Antonio Jose | In the Cold of the Malecon and other stories | SC PONTE | Decline/magic realism |
| Dominican Republic | Alvarez, Julia | In the name of Salome | F ALVAREZ | Life of woman poet |
| Dominican Republic | Vargas Llosa, Maria, | Feast of the goat | F VARGAS LLOSA | Trujillo/revolution |
| El Salvador | Argueta, Manlio | Place called Milagro De La Paz | F ARGUETA | Magic realism/women |
| El Salvador | Benitez, Sandra | Weight of all things | F BENITEZ | Assassination |
| Ethiopia | Mezlekia, Nega | Notes from the Hyena's belly : an Ethiopian boyhood | B MEZLEKIA | Youth/corruption |
| Ghana | Ali, Mohammed Naseehu | Prophet of Zongo Street | SC ALI | Social life |
| Hungary | Zsolt, Béla | Nine suitcases | B ZSOLT | Holocaust |
| Hungary | Bánk, Zsuzsa | Swimmer | F BANK | Imagination/mental illness |
| Hungary | Márai, Sándor | Rebels | F MARAI | Young men/crimes |
| India | Tagore, Rabindranath | Lover of God | 891.4414 TAG | Poetry |
| India | Martel, Yann | Life of Pi : a novel | CDA MARTEL | |
| India | Bajwa, Rupa | Sari shop | F BAJWA | Social classes |
| India | Balasubramanyam, Raj | In beautiful disguises | F BALASUBRAMANYAM | Women/arranged marriage |
| India | Chaudhuri, Amit | Immortals, the | F CHAUDHURI | Music and culture |
| India | Davidar, David | House of blue mangoes | F DAVIDAR | Family saga |
| India | Desai, Kiran | Inheritance of loss | F DESAI | Relations |
| India | Farooki, Roopa | Bitter sweets | F FAROOKI | Family |
| India | Ghosh, Amitav | Hungry tide | F GHOSH | Nature |
| India | Martel, Yann | Life of Pi : a novel | F MARTEL | |
| India | Sheth, Kasmira | Keeping corner | F SHETH | Women's rights |
| India | Sheth, Kasmira | Koyal dark, mango sweet | F SHETH | Family/tradition/marriage |
| India | Sinha, Indra | Animal's people | F SINHA | Chemical aftermath of Bhopal accident |
| India | Swarup, Vikas | Q & A : a novel | F SWARUP | Quiz show |
| India | Swarup, Vikas | Six suspects | F SWARUP | Crimes against rich people |
| India | Umrigar, Thrity N. | Space between us | F UMRIGAR | Social classes |
| India | Venkatraman, Padma | Climbing the stairs | F VENKATRAMAN | Family life |
| India | Vijayaraghavan, Vine | Motherland | F VIJAYARAGHAVAN | Indic American |
| India-South Africa | Coovadia, Imraan | Wedding | F COOVADIA | Marriage relationship |
| Indonesia | Clercq Zubli, Rita la Fontaine de | Disguised | B CLERCQ ZUBLI | World War II occupation |
| International | Words without borders : the world through the eyes of writers | 808.83 WOR | Anthology | |
| International | Literature from the "Axis of Evil" | SC LITERATURE | International stories | |
| Iran | Nafisi, Azar | Things I've been silent about : memories | B NAFISI | |
| Iran | Satrapi, Marjane | Persepolis | B SATRAPI | |
| Iran | Abdolah, Kader | My father's notebook : a novel | F ABDOLAH | Political dissident |
| Iran | Mandanipour, Shahriar | Censoring an Iranian love story | F MANDANIPOUR | Love story |
| Iran | Noori, Naveed | Dakhmeh | F NOORI | Change; social condition |
| Iraq | Al-Windawi, Thura | Thura's diary | 956.7044 ALW | War/memoir + |
| Iraq | Khadra, Yasmina | Sirens of Baghdad | F KHADRA | Atrocities |
| Iraq | Khedairi, Betool | Sky so close | F KHEDAIRI | Iran/Iraq war-coming of age |
| Israel | Carmi, Daniella | Samir and Yonatan | F CARMI | Palestinians/children |
| Israel | Kass, Pnina | Real time | F KASS | Terrorism + |
| Israel | Megged, Aharon | Foiglman | F MEGGED | Interpersonal relations and culture |
| Israel | Oz, Amos | Same sea | F OZ | Israel-love/religion |
| Israel | Qashu, Sayed | Dancing Arabs | F QASHU | Palestinian Arabs/Jews |
| Israel | Qashu, Sayed | Let it be morning | F QASHU | Arab-Israeli conflict |
| Israel | Yehoshua, Abraham | Liberated bride | F YEHOSHUA | Arab/relations |
| Israel | Yehoshua, Abraham | Woman in Jerusalem | F YEHOSHUA | Suicide bomber victim |
| Israel | Kerrett, Etgar | Bus driver who wanted to be God and other stories | SC KERRETT | Middle East conflict |
| Israel | Tel, Jonathan | Arafat's elephant | SC TEL | |
| Israel (Arab author) | Khadra, Yasmina | Attack | F KHADRA | Arab-Israeli/terrorists |
| Jamaica | Levy, Andrea | Fruit of the lemon | F LEVY | |
| Japan | Murakami, Haruki | After dark | F MURAKAMI | College student/unusual encounters: sleep |
| Japan | Murakami, Haruki | Norwegian wood | F MURAKAMI | |
| Japan | Oe, Kenzaburo | Rouse up o young men of the new age! | F OE | Family/handicap |
| Japan | Yoshimoto, Banana | Asleep | F YOSHIMOTO | Women/novellas: sleep |
| Japan | Yumoto, Kazumi | Letters | F YUMOTO | Living/dead + |
| Japan | Endo, Shusaku | Five by Endo : stories | SC ENDO | |
| Japan | Inside and other short fiction : Japenese women by Japenses women | SC INSIDE | Women | |
| Japan | Murakami, Haruki | After the quake | SC MURAKAMI | Earthquake |
| Japan | Straight to darkness : lairs of the hidden gods | SC STRAIGHT | Mythos tales | |
| Japan | Takahashi, Takako | Lonely woman | SC TAKAHASHI | Women |
| Japan | Tanizaki, Junichiro | Gourmet club : a sextet | SC TANIZAKI | |
| Japan | Tanizaki, Junichiro | Makioka sisters | F TANIZAKI | Family life/life of women/pre WW II |
| Kenya | Hirsi Ali, Ayaan | Infidel | B HIRSI ALI | |
| Kenya | Maathai, Wangari | Unbowed | B MAATHAI | Politics and the environment |
| Kenya | Hirsi Ali, Ayaan | Infidel | CDA B HIRSI ALI | |
| Kenya | Akpan, Uwem | Say you're one of them | F AKPAN | Family life |
| Kenya | Naidoo, Beverley | Burn my heart | F NAIDOO | Friends affected by race + |
| Kenya | Ngugi, wa Thiong'o | Wizard of the crow | F NGUGI | Country/humor |
| Kenya | Vassanji, M. G. | In-between world of Vikram Lall | F VASSANJI | Colonial Africa |
| Korea | Ko, Un | Three way tavern : selected poems | 895.714 KO | Poetry |
| Korea | Yi, Munyol | Our twisted hero | F YI | Children/corruption |
| Latin America | These are not sweet girls | 861 THE | Women poets | |
| Latin America | Vintage book of Latin American stories | SC VINTAGE | ||
| Lebanon | Hage, Rawi | De Niro's game | F HAGE | Civil war |
| Liberia | Cooper, Helene | House at Sugar Beach | B COOPER | Coup d'êtat |
| Libya | Koni, Ibrahim | Bleeding of the stone | F KONI | Magical realism, Bedouin |
| Libya | Matar, Hisham | In the country of men | F MATAR | Childhood/repression |
| Malaysia | Samarasan, Preeta | Evening is the whole day | F SAMARASAN | Upper class families |
| Mexico | Bordering fires : the vintage book of contemporary Mexican and Chicana literature | 860.8097 BOR | Mexican and Chicana/o literature | |
| Mexico | Azuela, Mariano | Underdogs | F AZUELA | Mexican revolution |
| Mexico | Bolaño, Roberto | Savage detectives, the | F BOLAÑO | Literary movement |
| Mexico | Boullosa, Carmen | Leaving tabasco | F BOULLOSA | Magical realism/women |
| Mexico | Esquivel, Laura | Swift as desire : a novel | F ESQUIVEL | Relationships |
| Mexico | Fuentes, Carlos | Eagle's throne | F FUENTES | Politial satire |
| Mexico | Fuentes, Carlos | Inez | F FUENTES | Magical realism |
| Mexico | Poniatowska, Elena | Skin of the sky | F PONIATOWSKA | Astronomy/education |
| Mexico | Taibo, Paco Ignacio | Just passing through | F TAIBO | Heroes/revolution |
| Mexico | Taibo, Paco Ignacio | Returning as shadows | F TAIBO | WW II/Hemingway |
| Mexico | Toscana, David | Tula Station | F TOSCANA | |
| Mexico | Rojas Gonzalez, Fran | Medicine man | SC ROJAS GONZALEZ | Nature |
| Middle East | Middle East | 956 MID | ||
| Mongolia | Tschinag, Galsan | Blue sky : a novel | F TSCHINAG | Traditions/modernity |
| Morocco | Abouzeid, Leila | Last chapter | F ABOUZEID | Women/culture clash |
| Mozambique | Couto, Mia | Sleepwalking land | F COUTO | Refugees |
| Nepal | McCormick, Patricia | Sold | F MCCORMICK | Slavery/prostitution + |
| Nepal | Upadhyay, Samrat | Arresting god in Kathmandu | SC UPADHYAY | Life in Kathmandu |
| Nepal | Upadhyay, Samrat | Royal ghosts | SC UPADHYAY | |
| Nigeria | Achebe, Chinua | Collected Poems | 896 ACH | |
| Nigeria | Abani, Chris | Becoming Abigail | F ABANI | Women and abuse |
| Nigeria | Abani, Chris | Graceland | F ABANI | Coming of age |
| Nigeria | Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi | Half of a yellow sun | F ADICHIE | Civil war |
| Nigeria | Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi | Purple hibiscus : a novel | F ADICHIE | Coming of age/religion/tradition |
| Nigeria | Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi | Thing around your neck, the | F ADICHIE | Ties with America |
| Nigeria | Atta, Sefi | Everything good will come : a novel | F ATTA | Women/tradition |
| Nigeria | Habila, Helon | Waiting for an angel | F HABILA | Political violence |
| Pakistan | Hamid, Mohsin | Moth smoke | F HAMID | Politics/personal corruption |
| Pakistan | Hamid, Mohsin | Reluctant fundamentalist | F HAMID | Race discrimination |
| Pakistan | Shamsie, Kamila | Salt and saffron | F SHAMSIE | Family |
| Palestine | Qasim, Samih | Sadder than water | 892.71 QAS | Palestinian/Arabic poetry |
| Palestine | Barakat, Ibtisam | Tasting the sky : a Palestinian childhood | B BARAKAT | Child refugee/1960's |
| Palestine | Habibi, Imil | Secret life of Saeed the pessoptimist | F HABIBI | Spy for Israelis |
| Paraquay | Roa Bastos, Augusto | I, the supreme | F ROA BASTOS | Politics/history |
| Peru | Berenson, Rhoda | Lori : my daughter, wrongfully imprisoned in Peru | B BERENSON | Political prisoners |
| Peru | Alarcón, Daniel | Lost city radio : a novel | F ALARCON | Political atrocities |
| Puerto Rico | Ferre, Rosario | Flight of the swan | F FERRE | Ballet and love story |
| Russia | Konstantin, Anatole | Red boyhood : Growing up under Stalin | B KONSTANTIN | Chilhood/holocaust |
| Russia | Pelevin, Viktor | Buddha's little finger | F PELEVIN | Reality/fantasy; past/present |
| Russia | Ulitskaia, Ludmila | Funeral party | F ULITSKAIA | Russia/New York |
| Russia | Zivkovic, Zoran | Seven touches of music : a mosaic novel | F ZIVKOVIC | |
| Rwanda | Ilibagiza, Immaculée | Left to tell : discovering God admist the Rwandan holocaust | B ILIBAGIZA | |
| Rwanda | Rucyahana, John | Bishop of Rwanda | B RUCYAHANA | |
| Rwanda | Diop, Boubacar Boris | Murambi : the book of bones | F DIOP | Genocide |
| Rwanda | Jansen, Hanna | Over a thousand hills I walk with you | F JANSEN | Genocide |
| Rwanda | Stassen, Jean-Philippe | Deogratias, a tale of Rwanda | F STASSEN | Genocide/graphic novel |
| Saudi Arabia | Abodehman, Ahmed | Belt | B ABODEHMAN | Memoir, coming of age |
| Saudi Arabia | Hirsi Ali, Ayaan | Infidel | B HIRSI ALI | |
| Saudi Arabia | Hirsi Ali, Ayaan | Infidel | CDA B HIRSI ALI | |
| Saudi Arabia | Sani, Raja | Girls of Riyadh | F SANI | Life of upper class |
| Sierra Leone | Beath, Ishmael | Long way gone : memoirs of a boy solder | B BEAH | Civil War/child soldier bio |
| Sierra Leone | Kamara, Mariatu | Bite of the mango | B KAMARA | Children as victims of war + |
| Sierra Leone | Beath, Ishmael | Long way gone : memoirs of a boy solder | CDA B BEAH | Civil War/child soldier bio |
| Somalia | Hirsi Ali, Ayaan | Infidel | B HIRSI ALI | |
| Somalia | Hirsi Ali, Ayaan | Infidel | CDA B HIRSI ALI | |
| Somalia | Farah, Nuruddin | Links | F FARAH | War/return |
| South Africa | Fugard, Athol | Skinner's drift : a novel | F FUGARD | Post apartheid |
| South Africa | Fugard, Athol | Tstosi : a novel | F FUGARD | Criminals |
| South Africa | Glass, Linzi | Year the gypsies came : a novel | F GLASS | Apartheid |
| South Africa | Gordimer, Nadine | Pickup | F GORDIMER | Arab immigrant |
| South Africa | Mda, Zakes | Madonna of Excelsior | F MDA | Interracial relationships |
| South Africa | Naidoo, Beverley | Out of bounds : seven stories of conflict and hope | SC NAIDOO | Apartheid |
| Sri Lanka | Selvadurai, Shyam | Swimming in the monsoon sea | F SELVADURAI | Love |
| Sudan | Dau, John | God grew tired of us | B DAU | |
| Sudan | Hari, Daoud | Translator : a tribesman's memoir of Darfur | B HARI | Refugees |
| Sudan | Aboulela, Leila | Minaret | F ABOULELA | Muslim women/London exile |
| Sudan | Eggers, Dave | What is the what : autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng | F EGGERS | Lost Boys (American author) |
| Taiwan | Chang, S. K. | City trilogy | 895.1352 CHA | Modern Chinese literature |
| Taiwan | Zhu, Tianxin | Old capital, the : a novel of Taipei | F ZHU | Cultural and psychological realities |
| Tibet | Benson, Sandra | Tales of the golden corpse : Tibetan folk tales | 398.20951 BEN | Folk tales |
| Tibet | Alai | Red poppies | F ALAI | Pre-occupation |
| Tibet | Norbu, Jamyang | Mandala of Sherlock Holmes | F NORBU | Sherlock Holmes |
| Tibet | Xinran | Sky burial | F XINRAN | Widow/survival |
| Trinidad/Tobago | Maharaj, Rabindranath | Perfect pledge | F MAHARAJ | Change/cultural differences |
| Trinidad/Tobago | Smyth, Amanda | Lime tree can't bear orange | F SMYTH | Racially mixed children |
| Turkey | Livaneli, O.Z. | Bliss | F LIVANELI | |
| Turkey | Pamuk, Orhan | Snow | F PAMUK | Islam, love |
| Turkey | Shafak, Elif | Bastard of Istanbul | F SHAFAK | Armenian massacre |
| Uganda | Isegawa, Moses | Snakepit | F ISEGAWA | Political corruption |
| Uganda | Go | VID 967.6 GO | Children and war | |
| United Arab Emirates | Gargash, Maha | Sand fish | F GARGASH | Women/social life |
| Vietnam | Duong, Thu Huong | Beyond illusions | F DUONG | Communism corruption |
| Vietnam | Duong, Thu Huong | Memories of a pure spring | F DUONG | Post war |
| Vietnam | Nguyen, Khai | Past continuous | F NGUYEN | |
| Vietnam | Thai, Ho Anh | Women on the island | F THAI | Vietnam-women/postwar |
| Wales | Azzopardi, Trezza | Hiding place | F AZZOPARDI | |
| Zimbabwe | Fuller, Alexandra | Don't let's go to the dogs tonight | B FULLER | African childhood |
| Zimbabwe | Fuller, Alexandra | Don't let's go to the dogs tonight | CDA B FULLER | African childhood |
| Zimbabwe | Vera, Yvonne | Butterfly burning | F VERA | Women |
| Zimbabwe | Vera, Yvonne | Stone virgins | F VERA | Protest/dichotomy |
| Zimbabwe | Vera, Yvonne | Without a name : and under the tongue | F VERA | Women |