Buzz·Posted on 6 Apr 201831 Underrated Foreign Novels You Should ReadTime to expand your preferences.by AmbiliBuzzFeed StaffLinkFacebookPinterestTwitterMail 1. Afghanistan – The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon 2. Algeria – The Stranger by Albert Camus 3. Australia — The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood 4. Bangladesh – A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam 5. Brazil — The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector 6. Cambodia — First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung 7. Canada — Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson 8. China — Shanghai Girls by Lisa See 9. Denmark — The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen 10. Egypt — Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz 11. France — The End of Eddie by Eduord Louis 12. Germany — Perfume by Patrick Süskind 13. Guatemala — I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchú 14. Haiti — Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat 15. India — Babyji by Abha Dawesar 16. Iran — My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad 17. Italy — I'm Not Scared by Niccolò Ammaniti 18. Japan — The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino 19. Kenya — A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 20. Korea — Pachinko by Min Jin Lee 21. Malaysia — The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng 22. Nigeria — Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 23. Pakistan — The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid 24. Russia — Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 25. South Africa — The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer 26. Spain — The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón 27. Sri Lanka — Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai 28. Turkey — Memed, My Hawk by Yaşar Kemal 29. Uzbekistan — The Railway by Hamid Ismailov 30. Vietnam — The Best We Could Do by Thi Biu 31. Zimbabwe — Butterfly Burning by Yvonne Vera