As a part of our homeschooling, David and I have been learning a bit about some different countries.For fun, I’ve adult reading about the different countries we’ve studied. Here are my lists of completed books (in order of country studied). Obviously, some of these books are better than others, and by including my lists, I am by no means recommending all of books. Let me know if you have questions or interest in a specific book and I can let you know what I thought of it.

Iran 

Rosewater: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival by Maziar Bahari

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

The Lonely War: One Woman’s Account of the Struggle for Modern Iran by Nazila Fathi

Daughter of Persia: A Woman’s Journey from Her Father’s Harem Through the Islamic Revolution by Sattarah Farman Farmaian

Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran by Roya Hakakian

Until We are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran by Shirin Ebadi

Cambodia

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung

The Road of Lost Innocence by Somaly Mam

Terrify No More by Greg Haugen

A Blessing Over Ashes: The Remarkable Odyssey of My Unlikely Brother by Adam Fifield

Survival in the Killing Fields by Haing Ngor

When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge by Chanrithy Him

Colombia

The Accountant’s Story: Inside the Violent World of the Medellin Cartel by Roberto Escobar

Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle by Marc Gonsalves & Tom Howes

The Girl With No Name: The Incredible Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys by Marina Chapman

A Cup of Water Under My Bed by Daisy Hernandez

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Ethiopia 

Chameleon Days: An American Boyhood in Ethiopia by Tim Bascom

There is No Me Without You: One Woman’s Odyssey to Rescue Africa’s Children by Melissa Fay Greene

Held at a Distance: A Rediscovery of Ethiopia by Rebecca G. Haile

Beneath the Lion’s Gaze by Maaza Mengiste

Saving the Lost Tribe: The Rescue and Redemption of the Ethiopian Jews by Asher Naim

The Hospital by the River: A Story of Hope by Catherine Hamlin

Sweden     

Astrid and Veronika by Linda Olsson

Detective Inspector Huss by Helene Turston

The Fly Trap by Fredrick Sjoberg

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

The Envoy: The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desperate Closing Months of World War II by Alex Kershaw

The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson