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