Afghanistan - The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini; A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini

Albania - Broken April, Ismail Kadare

Algeria

Andorra

Angola

Antigua and Barbuda

Argentina

Armenia

Australia - Cloud Street, Tim Winton

Austria - Radetzky March, Joseph Roth

Azerbaijan - Ali and Nino, Kurban Said

Bahamas

Bahrain

Bangladesh

Barbados

Belarus

Belgium

Belize

Benin

Bhutan

Bolivia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Botswana

Brazil - The Slum, Aluísio Azevedo; Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon, Jorge Amado

Brunei

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cabo Verde

Cambodia

Cameroon - A Long Way from Douala, Max Lobe

Canada - Indian Horse, Richard Wagamese; Birdie, Tracey Lindberg

Central African Republic

Chad

Chile - The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende

China - The Noodle Maker, Ma Jian; Red Sorghum, Mo Yan; Love in a Fallen City, Eileen Chang; The Bonesetter’s Daughter, Amy Tan; Shanghai Baby, Wei Hui

Colombia - The Sound of Things Falling, Juan Gabriel Vasquez; One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Comoros

Congo, Democratic Republic of the - The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver

Congo, Republic of the

Costa Rica

Côte d'Ivoire

Croatia

Cuba - Havana Fever, Leonardo Padura; Before Nightfall, Reinaldo Arenas; Three Trapped Tigers, Cabrera Infante; Dirty Havana Trilogy, Pedro Juan Gutiérrez; Our Man in Havana, Graham Greene

Cyprus

Czechia - Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

Denmark

Djibouti

Dominica

Dominican Republic

Ecuador

Egypt - The Yacoubian Building, Alaa Al-Aswany; Palace Walk, Naguib Mahfouz; Distant View of a Minaret, Alifa Rifaat

El Salvador

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Estonia

Eswatini (Formerly Swaziland)

Ethiopia

Fiji

Finland

France - Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky; The Outside, Albert Camus; The Age of Reason, Jean Paul Sartre; The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas; Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan.

Gabon

Gambia

Georgia

Germany - Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

Ghana- Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi; The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Ayi Kwei Armah

Greece - The Odyssey, Homer; The Magus, John Fowles; Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis; The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller

Grenada

Guatemala

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Guyana

Haiti

Honduras

Hungary - Iza’s Ballad, Magda Szabó

Iceland - Independent People, Halldór Laxness; Fish Can Sing, Halldór Laxness

India - The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga; The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy; Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie; Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts; A Passage to India, E M Forster

Indonesia

Iran - Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi

Iraq

Ireland - Dubliners, James Joyce; Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney

Israel

Italy - My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante; The Name of the Leopard, Lampedusa; The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco; Death in Venice, Thomas Mann; If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, Italo Calvino; The Moon and the Bonfires, Cesare Pavese

Jamaica

Japan - Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami; The Makioka Sisters, Junichiro Tanizaki; Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata; Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto; Tokyo Vice, Jake Adelstein; Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata; The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Yukio Mishima; Breasts and Eggs, Mirko Kawasaki; The Nakano Thrift Shop, Hiromi Kawakami; The Tale of Genji, Murasaki; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami; The Thousand Splendid Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell; The Master of Go, Kawabata; Kokoro, Natsume Soseki

Jordan - Pillars of Salt, Fadia Faqir; Married to a Bedouin, Marguerite van Geldermalsen

Kazakhstan

Kenya - The Perfect Nine, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

Kiribati

Kosovo

Kuwait

Kyrgyzstan

Laos

Latvia

Lebanon

Lesotho

Liberia

Libya

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Madagascar

Malawi

Malaysia - The Gift of Rain, Tan Tawn Eng; KL Noir;

Maldives

Mali

Malta

Marshall Islands

Mauritania

Mauritius

Mexico - Umami, Laia Jufresa; The Death of Artemio Cruz, Carlos Fuentes; Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel; Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo

Micronesia

Moldova

Monaco

Mongolia

Montenegro

Morocco - The Spider’s House, Paul Bowles; About My Mother, Tahar Ben Jelloun; For Bread Alone, Mohamed Choukri; The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles; The Sand Child, Tahar Ben Jelloun

Mozambique

Myanmar - Burmese Days, George Orwell

Namibia

Nauru

Nepal

Netherlands

New Zealand - The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton

Nicaragua

Niger

Nigeria - Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe; Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adhichie; My Sister the Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite; Love in Colour, Bolu Babalola

North Korea

North Macedonia

Norway - The Ice Palace, Tarjei Vesaas; Will and Testament, Vigdis Hjorth; Naive. Super., Erlend Loe

Oman

Pakistan

Palau

Palestine

Panama

Papua New Guinea

Paraguay

Peru - The Time of the Hero, Mario Vargas Llosa

Philippines

Poland

Portugal - The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, José Saramago

Qatar

Romania

Russia - The Karamazov Brothers, Dostoevsky; Anna Karenina, Tolstoy; The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov; Fathers and Sons, Turgenev; One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Rwanda

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Samoa

San Marino

Sao Tome and Principe

Saudi Arabia

Senegal

Serbia

Seychelles

Sierra Leone

Singapore

Slovakia

Slovenia

Solomon Islands

Somalia

South Africa - Disgrace, J M Coetzee; Bitter Fruit, Achmat Dangor; The Life and Times of Michael K, J M Coetzee

South Korea - The Vegetarian, han Kang

South Sudan

Spain - The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon; Tales of the Alhambra, Washington Irving

Sri Lanka

Sudan - What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng, Dave Eggers

Suriname

Sweden - Hanna’s Daughters, Marianne Fredriksson

Switzerland

Syria

Taiwan - Wild Kids, Chang Ta-Chun

Tajikistan

Tanzania

Thailand - Sightseeing, Rattawut Lapcharoensap

Timor-Leste

Togo

Tonga

Trinidad and Tobago

Turkey - Museum of Innocence, Orhan Pamuk; The Bastard of Istanbul, Elif Shafak; Memed My Hawk, Yashar Kemal; Snow, Orhan Pamuk

Turkmenistan

Tuvalu

Uganda

Ukraine

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom - White Teeth, Zadie Smith; The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks; Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh; Brighton Rock, Graham Greene; To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf

United States of America - American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis; On the Road, Jack Keroauc; Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S Thompson; A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara; Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer; The Secret History, Donna Tartt; The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton; Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller; To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee; The Color Purple, Alice Walker; The Beautiful and the Damned, F Scott Fitzgerald; Beloved, Toni Morrisson

Uruguay

Uzbekistan - Samarkand, Amin Maalouf

Vanuatu

Vatican City

Venezuela

Vietnam - On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong; The Sorrow of War, Bao Ninh; The Quiet American, Graham Greene

Yemen

Zambia

Zimbabwe