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If you want to read books from different cultural perspectives, it would make sense to seek out foreign authors. In case you need somewhere to get started, here are what I suggest:

1. The White Tiger (Aravind Adiga - 2008). Aravind Adiga is an Indian author and The White Tiger is his debut novel. The premise of the book focuses around a man named Balram Halwai who manages to escape a life of poverty in India. As a very successful businessman he explains how he went from being a servant as a young boy to the "entrepreneur" that he as become. If you have ever been curious about the social castes in India, then this critical analysis by Adiga will be an eye-opener.

2. Mornings In Jenin (Susan Abulhawa - 2006) Mornings in Jenin is something that you don't see very often, a book about Palestine that is set after 1948. Fear and poverty play large roles in this book, not surprising considering the setting, but the author also manages to weave a captivating tale throughout. This story is set in a world that I think very few of us can truly imagine and while it can be hard to read depending on your political stance, I think it is a very powerful and very thought provoking story that deserves to be read.

3. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ( Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1963) This is an old book, but a very good one. What makes it unique is that the entire novel takes place in just a single day and the protagonist is just an ordinary person. So far that doesn't sound all that interesting, but it is the setting that makes all the difference. You see, the book takes place in the 1950s and the protagonist, Ivan, is a prisoner in a Soviet labor camp. The conditions are harrowing and the primary focus of all the prisoners is simply that of survival. Chillingly, the author had firsthand experience in the Gulag system after criticizing Stalin.




