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