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Africa
- Abani, Chris. Song for a Night, 2007 (Nigeria)
- Abouet, Margaret and Oubrerie, Clement (illus.). Aya (Ivory Coast) Graphic Novel NF
- Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart (Nigeria)
- Adichi, Chimamanda. Purple Hibiscus, Americanah (Nigeria)
- Beal, Ishmael. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, NF, Radiance of Tomorrow, 2014 (Sierra Leone)
- Coman, Carolyn. Many Stones (South Africa)
- Cooper, Helene. The House at Sugar Beach (Liberia) NF
- Eggers, Dave. What is What, 2006 (Sudan)
- Habila, Helon. Oil on Water (Nigeria)
- Hall, Shyima. Hidden Girl: the true story of a modern-day child slave (Egypt) NF
- Jansen, Hanna. Over a Thousand Hill I Walk with You (Rwanda)
- Kamkwamba, William. They Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Malawi) NF
- Maathai, Wangari. Unbowed (Kenya) NF
- Matar, Hisham. In the Country of Men, 2008 (Libya)
- Mengestu, Dinaw. The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears (Ehiopia)
- Park, Linda Sue. A Long Walk to Water, 2010 (Sudan)
Middle East
- Al-Windawi, Thura. Thura’s Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq (Iraq) NF
- Amir and Khalil (illus.). Zahra’s Paradise (Iran) Graphic Novel NF
- Hamid, Mohsin. The Reluctant Fundamentalist, 2007, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, 2014 (Pakistan)
- Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner, 2003 A Thousand Splendid Suns, 2007, And the Mountains Echoed, 2013. (Afghanistan)
- Guibert, Emmanual. The Photographer (Afghanistan) Graphic Novel NF
- Latifa. My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban (Afghanistan) NF
- Nafisi, Azar. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Iran) NF
- Pamuk, Orhan. Snow, 2002 (Turkey)
- Sacco, Joe. Palestine (Palestine)
- Satrapi, Marjane. The Complete Persepolis, 2007 (Iran) Graphic Novel NF
- Seierstad, Asne. The Bookseller of Kabul (Afghanistan) NF
- Sharafeddine, Fatima. The Servant, 2010 (Lebanon)
- Vaughan, Brian. Pride of Baghdad (Iraq)
- Yousafzai, Malala. I am Malala (Pakistan) NF
- Zenatti, Valerie. When I Was a Soldier (Israel)
Latin America
- Alvarez, Julia. Before We Were Free (Dominican Republic)
- Allende, Isabel. Maya’s Notebook (Chile)
- Cameron, Anna. Colibri, 2003 (Guatemala)
- Cofer, Judith Ortiz. Meaning of Consuela, (Puerto Rico)
- Danticat, Edwidge. Claire of the Sea Light (Haiti)
- Flores-Galbis, Enrique. 90 Miles to Havana, 2010 (Cuba)
- Garcia, Cristina. Dreaming in Cuban (Cuba)
- Guerra, Wendy. Everyone Leaves (Cuba)
- Guevara, Ernesto Che. Motorcycle Diaries, 2004 (Argentina)
- Henrquez, Cristina. The Book of Unknown Americans, 2014 (Mexico)
- Lake, Nick. In Darkness, 2012 (Haiti)
- Resau, Laura. The Queen of Water (Ecuador)
- Nazario, Sonia. Enrique’s Journey (Honduras)
- Vasquez, Juan Gabriel. The Sound of Things Falling (Colombia)
- Zambra, Alejandro. Ways of Going Home (Chile)
Asia
- Adiga, Aravind. The White Tiger, 2008 (India)
- Hirata, Andrea. The Rainbow Troops (Indonesia)
- Jiang, Ji-li. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution (China)
- Kim, Suki. Without You, There Is No Us (North Korea) NF
- Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Namesake Lowlands (India)
- Li, Moying. Snow Falling in Spring (China) NF
- Lianke, Yan. Dream of Ding Village, 2009 (China)
- Lui, Na and Martinez, Andres Vera (illus.). Little White Duck (China) Graphic Novel
- Mah, Adeline Yed. Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter (China) NF
- McCormick, Patricia. Never Fall Down (Cambodia)
- Minn, Anchi. Pearl of China, 2010 (China)
- Murakami, Haruki. Kafka on the Shore (Japan)
- Perkin, Mitali. Bamboo People, 2010 (Burma)
- Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things, 1998 (India)
- Sijie, Dai. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (China)
- Ung, Loung. First They Killed My Father (Cambodia)
- Venkatraman, Padma. Climbing the Stairs (India)
Native Americans
- Alexie, Sherman. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- Bruchac, Joseph. Code Talker
- Broker, Ignatia. Night Flying Woman: An Ojibway Narrative
- Carlson, Lori Marie (ed.). Moccasin Thunder: American Indian Stories for Today
- Deloria, Ella C. Waterlily
- Erdich, Louise. The Round House
- Kenny, Maurice (ed.) Stories for a Winter’s Night
- King, Thomas. One Good Story, That One
- Nex, Chester. Code Talker: the first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII NF
- Ortiz, Simon J. Men on the Moon: Collected Short Stories
- Tapaphonso, Luci. Blue Horses Rush In: Poems and Stories
- Taylor, Drew Hayden. The Night Wanderer
- Van Camp, Richard. The Lesser Blessed
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