Are you participating in the 2026 Reading Challenge? We have 12 challenges to complete throughout the year. Listed below are just a few books that fit the prompt “A Book Set in the Southern Hemisphere”, but there are plenty of other books you can pick up!
Antarctica
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
South America
Falkland Islands
Argentina
Chile
How to order the universe : a novel
Uruguay
Bolivia
Paraguay
Ada’s violin : the story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay
Peru
Galapagos Islands
Ecuador
The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina
Brazil
Colombia
Africa
South Africa
Botswana
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency / #1
Malawi
The boy who harnessed the wind : creating currents of electricity and hope
Namibia
Zimbabwe
Angola
Nzingha, warrior queen of Matamba
Zambia
Tanzania
Gabon
Madagascar
Burundi
Eswatini
When we ruled : the rise and fall of twelve African queens and warriors
Lesotho
Congo
DR Congo
Rwanda
Kenya
Mozambique
Oceania
Indonesia
Papua New Guinea
Australia
New Zealand
Solomon Islands
Vanuatu
Fiji
Pieces of happiness : a novel of friendship, hope and chocolate
New Caledonia
Miss Benson’s beetle : a novel
Timor-Leste
Anonymous male : a life among spies
Polynesia and other islands
Tonga
French Polynesia
Samoa
