Dave's BooksIn 1989, New Internationalist magazine published a list of their favourite novels from countries that were then considered part of the "Third World." I read them then, and probably should re-read some of them, because most of them were outstanding. That stands to reason, I suppose - if you pick out the ten best novels of all time from countries that represent well over half the world's population, you're bound to get some winners. These are in no particular order.
| Author | Works | Country | |
| Sembene Ousmane | God's Bits of Wood | Senegal | |
| Chinua Achebe | Things Fall Apart | Nigeria | |
| Ngugi Wa Thiong'o | Petals of Blood | Kenya | |
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Colombia | |
| Salman Rushdie | Midnight's Children | India | |
| Nawal el Saadawi | Woman at Point Zero | Egypt | |
| Earl Lovelace |
The Wine of Astonishment |
Trinidad | |
| Mario Vargas Llosa | The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta | Peru | |
| V S Naipaul | A House for Mr Biswas | Trinidad | |
| Isabel Allende | Of Love and Shadows | Chile | |
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