Creating a World Literature Course for My High Schoolers....Can you help?

I am creating a World Lit course for a sophomore and senior......it is in place of British Literature....because they have read way too much British Lit to need a course.  :)



Below, you will find the definitions that I have found regarding World Lit......and then countries listed with some of the famous literature from that country.



I am looking for help in several ways:



Could you please tell me if they should NOT read any of these books, for whatever reason, for their age?



Could you please tell me what books I am missing?



Could you please help me fill in the missing countries?


You will find ancient literature missing because we cover it when we study ancient history.



Thanks so much! And then, with your help, this will be sitting here waiting for anyone else who needs it. :)

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Definition of WORLD LITERATURE: Literature originally written in a language other than English or a book written in English about another culture outside of America or Britain.






While it would be generally assumed that America and Britain were part of the world, per se, there are already courses specifically geared to cover American and British literature.

THE LIST:

RUSSIA
Animal Farm by George Orwell


War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy


Father and Sons by Ivan Turgenev


One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn


FRANCE
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo


Joan of Arc by Mark Twain


The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness D ‘Orczy


The Song of Roland by ?


The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas


Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne


The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery


A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens


Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand


Doctor Zhivago by Boris Paternak


GERMAN
Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank


All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque


The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass


Night by Elie Weisel


ITALY


The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni


The Divine Comedy by Dante


Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi


BRITIAN & IRELAND


Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott


Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter


The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


The Black Arrow Robert Louis Stevenson


Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathon Swift


Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Tolkien


The Fairie Queen by Spenser


The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

(These are added because they have not read these British Literature choices yet.)

SPAIN
El Cid by Racine


Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes


Works of Saint John of the Cross


Works of Saint Teresa of Avila


CHINA

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck


MIDDLE EASTERN

The Thousand and One Nights by (young version?)

I need to choose a version.
AUSTRALIA






SOUTH AMERICA






AFRICA


Poetry of Africa


My House by Nikki Giovanni
JAPAN
Rashomon by Akutagawa Ryunosuke
(Hoping a cousin might chime in on this book or any other recommendation?)
INDIA
Kim by Rudyard Kipling


JEWISH
The Chosen by Chaim Potok


Exodus by Leon Uris



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Blessings!

Chari