^Ditto
West with the Night by Beryl Markham

For India, anything by Jhumoa Lahiri

Africa-related books:
King Leopolds Ghost
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
Born a Crime
Americanah
Roots

Australia:
A Town Called Alice
Tim Winton books, especially Cloudstreet or Dirt Music
Oscar and Lucinda

If you liked Covenant of Water, you should definitely pick up Cutting for Stone.

Lion Women of Teharan
The Makioka Sisters

The history of burning about Indians in Uganda (mostly). I loved it. She’s a beautiful writer.

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (India)

Also “The Sun Walked Down” is about colonial Australia. It was published recently but has a classic feel to it. Very interesting.

Anything by JM Coetzee or Nadine Gordimer if you want to learn about South Africa. Also, the recently published novel “Scatterlings” is about a family at the start of apartheid. I lived in South Africa and learned so much from it.

“Out of Africa,” a memoir about the waning days of British colonial Kenya, is also a classic. Beautiful, poetic writing, and each chapter is really more like a short story.

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (Indian)

I did a year where I focused on Indigenous authors recently. These were my favorite novels.

The Seedkeeper by Diane Wilson
Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
Ceremony by Leslie Silko
Moon on the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
and anything by Louise Erdrich

Half of a Yellow Sun by Adichie about Nigerian civil war

The Lion Women of Teheran

House of the spirits

Anonymous wrote:The examples that come to my mind are Pachinko and The Covenant of Water. I would like to read books set in South American countries, African countries, Australia or even Native American stories. Long books preferred.
Do you have any recommendations for me?

The classics. For South America, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. For India, Salmon Rushdie's Midnight's Children.

Snow flower and the Secret Fan

Good Earth

The examples that come to my mind are Pachinko and The Covenant of Water. I would like to read books set in South American countries, African countries, Australia or even Native American stories. Long books preferred.
Do you have any recommendations for me?