Cara paling mudah untuk "mengembara" ke seluruh dunia adalah dengan membaca buku. Tetapi apakah yang patut dibaca untuk mendapat pengalaman mengembara itu? Berikut adalah antara 25 buku yang dicadangkan.
- Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigeria)
- Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories (Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Jepun)
- Voices From Chernobyl (Svetlana Alexievich, Belarus)
- Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (Jorge Amado, Brazil)
- The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov, Rusia)
- Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino, Itali)
- Love in a Fallen City (Eileen Chang, China)
- Life and Times of Michael K (J. M. Coetzee, Afrika Selatan)
- Hopscotch (Julio Cortázar, Argentina)
- My Brilliant Friend (Elena Ferrante, Itali)
- Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone (Eduardo Galeano, Uruguay)
- Too Loud a Solitude (Bohumil Hrabal, Republik Czech)
- The Bone People (Keri Hulme, New Zealand)
- The Summer Book (Tove Jansson, Finland)
- Annie John (Jamaica Kincaid, Antigua)
- Independent People (Halldór Laxness, Iceland)
- Near to the Wild Heart (Clarice Lispector, Brazil)
- A Heart So White (Javier MarÃas, Sepanyol)
- A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry, India)
- Cities of Salt (Abdelrahman Munif, Arab Saudi)
- A Wild Sheep Chase (Haruki Murakami, Jepun)
- Life: A User's Manual (Georges Perec, Perancis)
- Blindness (José Saramago, Portugal)
- The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories (Bruno Schulz, Poland)
- The Rings of Saturn (W. G. Sebald, Jerman)
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Sumber: Powells