The following list contains the books I either have read OR am planning to read. There are some places I am still looking for, so please feel free to reach out if you have any thoughts! I am also open to reading multiple books per country, so please let me know as well is there is anything I really must read.

* = read, review in process

Africa

  • Algeria

  • Angola

  • Benin

  • Botswana

    • Children of the Twilight (Moteane Melamu)

  • Burkina Faso

    • The Parachute Drop (Norbert Zongo)

  • Burundi

  • Cameroon

    • Natives (Inongo-vi-Makomé)

  • Cabo Verde

    • Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva Araujo (Germano Almeida)*

  • Canary Islands

    • Tristana (Benito Pérez Galdós)

  • Central African Republic

    • African Tales: Folklore of the Central African Republic

  • Ceuta

    • Pedro Avilés?

  • Chad

    • Told by Starlight in Chad (Joseph Brahim Seid)

  • Comoros

  • Congo, Democratic Republic of the

  • Congo, Republic of the

  • Côte d'Ivoire

    • Far From my Father (Véronique Tadjo)

  • Djibouti

  • Egypt

  • Equatorial Guinea

    • By Night the Mountain Burns (Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel)

  • Eritrea

    • The Conscript (Gebreyesus Hailu)*

  • Ethiopia

    • Children of the Revolution (Dinaw Mengetsu)

  • Gabon

    • Awu's Story (Justine Mintsa)*

  • Gambia, The

    • Ebou Dibba (Marriage of Anansewa OR Chaff on the Wind)

  • Ghana

  • Guinea

    • Sundiata (Djibril Tamsir Niane)

    • The Oldest Orphan (Tierno Monénembo)

  • Guinea-Bissau

  • Kenya

    • Devil on the Cross (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)

  • Lesotho

    • How We Buried Puso (Morabo Morojele)

  • Liberia

    • Birds are Singing (Wilton Sankawulo Sr.)

  • Libya

  • Madagascar

    • Beyond the Rice (Naivo)

  • Madeira

    • Herberto Hélder

  • Malawi

    • No Easy Task (Aubrey Kachingwe)

  • Mali

    • Bound to Violence (Yambo Ouloguem)

    • The Lieutenant of Kouta (Massa Makan Diabaté)

  • Mauritania

    • Angels of Mauritania and the Curse of the Language (Mohamed Bouya Bamba)

  • Mauritius

    • Flame Tree Lane (Dev Virahsawmy)

    • The Rape of Sita (Lindsey Collen)

  • Mayotte

    • Abdou Salam Baco

  • Melilla

    • Guernica and Other Plays (Fernando Arrabal)

  • Morocco

    • About my Mother (Tahar ben Jelloun)

  • Mozambique

    • The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy (Paulina Chiziane)

    • Confession of the Lioness (Mia Couto)

  • Namibia

    • Born of the Sun (Joseph Diescho)

  • Niger

    • The Epic of Askia Mohammed (recounted by Nouho Malio)

  • Nigeria

    • Americanah (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

    • The Fishermen (Chigozie Obioma)*

    • The Palm-Wine Drunkard & MY Life in the Bush of Ghosts (Amos Tutuola)

  • Reunion Island

    • The Possibility of an Island (Michel Houllebecq)

  • Rwanda

    • Our Lady of the Nile (Scholastique Mukasonga)

  • Sahwari Arab Democratic Republic

    • Bahia Mahmud Awah

  • São Tome and Principe

  • Senegal

  • Seychelles

    • Antoine Abel

  • Sierra Leone

    • Radiance of Tomorrow (Ishmael Beah)*

  • Somalia

    • From a Crooked Rib (Nuruddin Farah)*

  • Somaliland

    • Dove in the Horn (Hamse Abdilahi)

  • South Africa

    • Zoo City (Lauren Beukes)*

    • Waiting for the Barbarians (J.M. Coetzee)*

    • The Book of Happenstance (Ingrid Winterbach)

  • South Sudan

    • They Poured Fire on us From the Sky (Benson Deng)

  • Sudan

  • Swaziland

    • Weeding the Flowerbeds (Sarah Mkhonza)

  • Tanzania

    • By the Sea (Abdulrazak Gurnah)

  • Togo

    • An African in Greenland (Tété-Michel Kpomassie)

  • Tunisia

    • Talismano (Abdelwahab Meddeb)

  • Uganda

    • Snakepit (Moses Isegawa)

    • Kintu (Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi)

  • Western Sahara

  • Zambia

  • Zimbabwe

    • We Need New Names (NoViolet Bulawayo)

    • Harvest of Thorns (Shimmer Chinodya)

South America

  • Argentina

  • Bolivia

    • Our Dead World (Liliana Colanzi)

  • Brazil

  • Chile

  • Colombia

    • One Hundred Years of Solitude (Garbriel García Márquez)

    • The Storm (Tomás González)

  • Ecuador

    • Don Goyo (Demetrio Aguilera-Malta)

  • Falkland Islands

    • David Luxton?

  • French Guiana

    • Batouala (René Maran)

  • Guyana

    • Shanti (Arnold Itwaru)

  • Paraguay

    • I the Supreme (Augusto Roa Bastos)

  • Peru

    • Death in the Andes (Mario Vargas Llosa)*

    • Blood of the Dawn (Claudia Salazar Jiménez)

  • Suriname

    • Against the Forgetting (Hans Favery)

  • Uruguay

    • Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone (Eduardo Galeano)

    • The Naked Woman (Armonía Somers)

    • The Truce (Mario Benedetti)

    • Cristina Peri Rossi

  • Venezuela

    • Doña Barbara (Rómulo Gallegos)

Central America

  • Belize

    • John Alexader Watler?

    • Zee Edgell?

    • Evan X Hyde?

    • Belizean Writers Series

  • Costa Rica

    • Years Like Brief Days (Fabián Dobles)

  • El Salvador

  • Guatemala

    • After the Bombs (Arturo Arias)

  • Honduras

    • Return of the River (Roberto Sosa)

  • Nicaragua

    • Halting Steps: Collected and New Poems (Claribel Alegría)

  • Panama

    • The Golden Horse (Juan David Morgan)

Carribean

  • Antigua and Barbuda

  • Anguilla

    • Blue Beans (Patricia J. Adams)

  • Aruba

  • Bahamas, The

  • Barbados

    • The Polished Hoe (Austin Clarke)

  • Bermuda

    • Goree: Point of Departure (Angela Barry)

  • Bonaire

    • Cola (Nicolaas) Debrot

  • Cayman Islands

  • Cuba

    • A Planet for Rent (Yoss)

    • The Last Librarian (Osdany Morales)

    • Three Trapped Tigers (G. Cabrera Infante)

    • Paradiso (Jose Lezama Lima)

  • Curaçao

    • Double Play (Frank Martinus Arion)

  • Dominica

    • Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)

  • Dominican Republic

  • Grenada

    • Angel (Merle Collins)

  • Guadeloupe

    • Segu (Maryse Condé)

    • Gisèle Pineau

  • Haiti

    • Claire of the Sea Light (Edwidge Danticat)

    • Moonbath (Yanick Lahens)

  • Jamaica

    • A Brief History of Seven Killings (Marlon James)

  • Martinique

    • Texaco (Patrick Chamoiseau)

    • Return to my Native Land (Aimé Césaire)

  • Montserrat

    • The Purple Cloud (M.P. Shiel)

  • Puerto Rico

    • Uselessness (Eduardo Lalo)

    • Ed Vega

    • Giannina Braschi

    • Luis López-Nieves

  • Saba

  • Saint Kitts and Nevis

    • Crossing the River (Caryl Phillips)

  • Saint Lucia

    • Shades of Grey (Garth St Omer)

  • Saint Martin and Saint Barthélemy

    • Pelican Heart (Lasana M. Sekou)

  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

    • The Angel Horn (1927-1997): Collected Poems (Shake Keane)

  • Sint Eustatius

    • Something Resides Within (Juliette George)

  • Sint Maarten

    • Golden Voices of S'maatin (Ruby Bute)

  • Trinidad and Tobago

    • A House for Mr. Biswas (V.S. Naipaul)

  • Turks and Caicos Islands

  • Virgin Islands (U.K.)

    • Pass It On! A Treasury of Virgin Island Tales (Jennis Naomi Wheatley)

    • Dusk to Dawn (Hugo Vanterpool)

  • Virgin Islands (U.S.)

    • Land of Love and Drowning (Tiphanie Yanique)

Asia

  • Abkhazia

    • The Goatibex Constellation (Fazil Iskander)

  • Afghanistan

    • The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)*

  • Armenia

    • Bloody News from My Friend (Siamanto)

  • Azerbaijan

    • Anar Rzayev

  • Bahrain

    • Chronicles of Majnun Layla and Selected Poems (Qassim Haddad)

  • Bangladesh

    • My Kind of Girl (Buddhadeva Bose)

    • Freedom's Mother (Anisul Hoque)

    • Sultana's Dream (Begum Rokeya)

  • Bhutan

    • The Circle of Karma (Kunzang Choden)

  • Brunei

    • Dusun Folktales: A Collection of Eighty-Eight Folktales in the Dusun Language of Brunei

  • Burma

    • On the Road to Mandalay: Tales of Ordinary People (Mya Than Tint)

    • From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey (Pascal Khoo Thwe)

  • Cambodia

    • Music of the Ghosts (Vaddey Ratner)

  • China

    • Beijing Municipality

      • Lao She (a few options)

    • Tianjin Municipality

      • Chinese Cinderella (Adeline Yen Mah)

      • Sunrise (Cao Yu)

    • Hebei Province

      • Cong Weixi

    • Shanxi Province

      • Di An

    • Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

      • Malqinhu

    • Liaoning Province

      • Waiting (Ha Jin)

    • Jilin Province

      • A Higher Kind of Loyalty (Liu Binyan)

      • Voices from Tibet (Wang Lixiong)

    • Heilongjiang Province

      • Chi Zijian

    • Shanghai Municipality

      • Love in a Fallen City (Eileen Chang)

    • Jiangsu Province

      • Madwoman on the Bridge (Su Tong)

    • Zhejiang Province

      • To Live (Yu Hua)

    • Anhui Province

    • Fujian Province

      • Book of Sins (Chen Xiwo)

    • Jiangxi Province

      • One Man's Bible (Gao Xingjian)

    • Shandong Province

      • Red Sorghum (Mo Yan)

    • Henan Province

      • Someone to Talk to (Liu Zhenyun)

      • Serve the People! (Yan Lianke)

    • Hubei Province

      • Stagnant Water & Other Poems (Wen Yiduo)

    • Hunan Province

      • Frontier (Can Xue)

    • Guangdong Province

      • Northern Girls: Life Goes On (Shen Keyi)

    • Guanxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

      • Sun Li

    • Hainan Province

    • Chongqing Municipality

      • Daughter of the River (Hong Ying)

    • Sichuan Province

      • Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Dai Sijie)

    • Guizhou Province

      • Meng Xuexiang/Xiao Meng/Kast

    • Yunnan Province

      • Pan Ling

      • Xiaoxue/Yang Wenhan

      • Luruo Diji

    • Shaanxi Province

      • Ruined City (Jia Pingwa)

    • Gansu Province

    • Qinghai Province

      • Qi Jianqing

    • Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

      • Wang Zhengwei

    • Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

      • Eurasian Chronicles: A History of Xinjiang

  • Christmas Island

  • Cocos (Keeling) Islands

  • Cyprus

    • Census (Panos Ioannides)

  • Georgia

  • Hong Kong

    • Cantonese Love Stories (Dung Kai-Cheung)

  • India

    • Andhra Pradesh

    • Arunachal Pradesh

      • The Black Hill (Mamang Dai)

    • Assam

      • These Hills Called Home (Temsula Ao)

      • The Collector's Wife (Mitra Phukan)

    • Bihar

      • All Passion Spent (Zaheda Hina)?

      • The Vigil (Satinah Bhaduri)

    • Chhattisgarh

      • Moonrise from the Green Grass Roof (Vinod Kumar Shukla)

    • Goa

      • Afterlife: Stories from Goa (Jessica Faleiro)

    • Gujarat

      • Fence (Ila Arab Mehta)

      • First There Was Woman: Folktales of the Dungri Garasiya (Marija Sres)

    • Haryana

      • An Evening in Lucknow (Khwaja Ahmad Abbas)

    • Himachal Pradesh

      • One & a Half Wife (Meghna Pant)

    • Jammu and Kashmir

      • The Saga of Satisar (Chandrakanta)

    • Jharkhand

      • The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey (Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar)

    • Karnataka

      • Ghachar Ghochar (Vivek Shanbhag)

      • Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man (U.R. Ananthamurthy)

    • Kerala

      • Chemmeen (Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai)

      • Anita Nair

    • Madhya Pradesh

      • The Tale of the Missing Man (Manzoor Ahtesham)

      • The Walls of Delhi (Uday Prakash)

    • Maharashtra

      • The Moor's Last Sigh (Salman Rushdie)

      • Motherwit (Urmila Pawar)

    • Manipur

      • M. K. Binodini Devi

    • Meghalaya

      • Lunatic in my Head (Anjum Hasam)

    • Mizoram

      • Zorami (Malsawmi Jacob)

    • Nagaland

      • The Power to Forgive (Avinuo Kire)

    • Odisha

      • Astride the Wheel: Tantrarudha (Chandrasekhar Rath)

    • Punjab

      • The Sea of Innocence (Kishwar Desai)

      • Difficult Daughters (Manju Kapur)

    • Rajasthan

    • Sikkim

    • Tamil Nadu

      • The Hours Past Midnight (Rajathi Salma)

    • Telangana

    • Tripura

    • Uttar Pradesh

      • Fireflies in the Mist (Qurratulain Hyder)

    • Uttarakhand

      • Fasting, Feasting (Anita Desai)

    • West Bengal

      • The Mistress of Spices (Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni)

  • Indonesia

    • Home (Leila S. Chudori)

    • The Fugative (Pramoedya Ananta Toer)

  • Iran

    • The Gift (Hafiz)

    • The Blind Owl (Sadegh Hedayat)*

  • Iraq

    • I'jaam: An Iraaqi Rhapsody (Sinan Antoon)*

  • Israel

    • The Girl on the Fridge (Etgar Keret)*

    • Shemi Zarhin

    • A.B. Yehosua

  • Japan

    • Volcano (Shusako Endo)*

    • Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami)*

    • Mandarins (Ryūosuke Akutagawa)

    • Banana Yoshimoto

  • Jordan

    • The Perception of Meaning (Hisham Bustani)

    • Pillars of Salt (Fadia Faqir)

  • Kazakhstan

    • The Nomads (Ilyas Yesenberlin)

    • Book of Words (Abai)

  • Korea, North

    • The Accusation (Bandi)

  • Korea, South

    • A Greater Music (Bae Suah)*

    • The Vegetarian (Han Kang)

  • Kurdistan

    • I Stared at the Night of the City (Bakhtiyar Ali)

  • Kuwait

    • The Hidden Light of Objects (Mai Al Nakib)*

  • Kyrgyzstan

  • Laos

    • Mother's Beloved: Stories from Laos (Outhine Bounyavong)

  • Lebanon

    • The Book of Khalid (Ameen Rihani)

  • Macau

    • The Bewitching Braind (Heinrique de Senna Fernandes)

  • Malaysia

    • Evening is the Whole Day (Preeta Samarasan)

    • Shih-Li Kow

    • Tash Aw

  • Maldives

    • Dhon Hiyala and Ali Fulhu (Abdullah Sadiq)

  • Mongolia

    • The Blue Sky (Galsan Tschinag)

  • Nagorno-Karabakh Republic

  • Nepal

    • Mad Country (Samrat Upadhyay)

    • Echoes of the Himalayas (D.G. Gurung)

  • Oman

    • Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs (Abdulaziz Al Farsi)

  • Pakistan

    • The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Mohsin Hamid)*

    • Basti (Intizar Husain)

  • Palestine

    • A Lake Beyond the Wind (Yahya Yakhlif)

    • Mahmoud Darwish

  • Philippines

    • The Woman Who Had Two Navels & Tales of the Tropical Gothic (Nick Joaquin)

  • Qatar

    • The Holy Sail (Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud)

  • Russia

    • Republic of Adygea

      • Iskhak Mashbash

      • Tembot Kerashev

    • Republic of Bashkortostan

      • The Big Green Tent (Lyudmila Ulitskaya)

      • Sergei Dovlatov

    • Republic of Buryatia

    • Altai Republic

    • Republic of Dagestan

    • Republic of Ingushetia

    • Kabardino-Balkar Republic

    • Republic of Kalmykia

    • Karachay-Cherkess Republic

    • Republic of Karelia

    • Komi Republic

    • Mari El Republic

    • Republic of Mordovia

    • Sakha (Yakutia) Republic

      • Gennady Dyachkov (in Anthology)

    • Republic of North Ossetia-Alania

    • Republic of Tatarstan

      • Generations of Winter (Vasily Aksyonov)

    • Tuva Republic

    • Udmurt Republic

    • Republic of Khakassia

    • Chechen Republic

      • I am a Chechen! (German Sadulaev)

    • Chuvash Republic

    • Altai Krai

      • Psalms (Genrikh Sapgir)

    • Zabaykalsky Krai

    • Kamchatka Krai

    • Krasnodar Krai

      • Alexander Karasyov

    • Krasnoyarsk Krai

      • Kangaroo (Yuz Aleshkovsky)

      • Viktor Astafyev

    • Perm Krai

      • Turgenev, the son of Akhmatova (Nina Gorlanova)

    • Primorsky Krai

      • Eugene Kozlovsky

    • Stavropol Krai

      • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

    • Khabrovsk Krai

    • Amur Oblast

    • Arkhangelsk Oblast

      • Two Winters and Three Summers (Fyodor Abramov)

    • Astrakhan Oblast

    • Belgorod Oblast

    • Bryansk Oblast

    • Vladimir Oblast

      • NINE of Russia’s Foremost Women Writers (Maria Arbatova)

    • Volgograd Oblast

    • Vologda Oblast

      • Kolyma Tales (Varlam Shalamov)

    • Voronezh Oblast

      • Dark Avenues (Ivan Bunin)

    • Ivanovo Oblast

    • Irkutsk Oblast

      • The Year of Miracle and Grief (Leonid Borodin)

    • Kaliningrad Oblast

      • Fardwor, Russia! (Oleg Kashin)

    • Kaluga Oblast

      • Folk Tales of Napoleon: The Napoleon of the People and Napoleonder (Alexander Amfiteatrov)

    • Kemerovo Oblast

    • Kirov Oblast

      • Selected Short Stories (Alexander Grin // Aleksandr Grinevsky)

    • Kostroma Oblast

      • One Thousand Souls (Aleksey Pisemsky)

    • Kurgan Oblast

    • Kursk Oblast

      • Timur and his Gang (Arkady Gaidar (Golikov))

    • Leningrad Oblast

      • Sofia Soboleva (Pros and Cons in An Anthology of Russian Women’s Writing)

    • Lipetsk Oblast

      • We (Yevgeny Zamyatin)

    • Magadan Oblast

      • Snow in May (Kseniya Melnik)

    • Moscow Oblast

      • The Queue (Vladimir Sorokin)

    • Murmansk Oblast

      • Moscow Stations (Venedikt Vasilyevich Yerofeyev)

    • Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

      • My Childhood (Maxim Gorky)

    • Novgorod Oblast

      • The Zurbins (Vsevolod Kochetov)

    • Novosibirsk Oblast

    • Omsk Oblast

    • Orenburg Oblast

      • The Shore (Yuri Bondarev)

    • Oryol Oblast

      • Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)

      • The Seven Who Were Hanged (Leonid Andreyev)

    • Penza Oblast

      • Cement (Fyodor Vasilievich Gladkov)

    • Pskov Oblast

      • Two Captains (Veniamin Kaverin)

    • Rostov Oblast

      • Five Plays (Anton Chekhov)

    • Ryazan Oblast

      • City Folk and Country Folk (Sofia Khvoshchinskaya)

    • Samara Oblast

      • The Salt Pit: Stories (Nikolai Karonin-Petropavlovsky (S. Karonin))

    • Sakhalin Oblast

      • Vladimir Sangi (in Anthology)

    • Saratov Oblast

      • And Not to Die (Alexander Bek)

    • Sverdlovsk Oblast

      • Malachite Casket: Tales from the Urals (Pavel Bazhov)

    • Smolensk Oblast

      • Ariel (Alexander Belyaev)

    • Tambov Oblast

      • Brusilov’s Break-Through: a Novel of the First World War (Sergei Sergeyev-Tsensky)

    • Tver Oblast

      • The Rout (Alexander Fadeyev)

    • Tomsk Oblast

      • The Captain (Vadim Kozhevnikov)

    • Tula Oblast

      • Leo Tolstoy

    • Tyumen Oblast

      • Vladilen Mashkovtsev

    • Ulyanovsk Oblast

      • Oblomov (Ivan Goncharov)

    • Chelyabinsk Oblast

    • Yaroslavl Oblast

      • Selected Prose & Poetry (Mikhail Kuzmin)

    • Moscow

      • Alexander Pushkin

      • Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

      • Petersburg (Andrei Bely)

    • Saint Petersburg

    • Jewish Autonomous Oblast

    • Nenets Autonomous Okrug

    • Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – Yugra

      • Yuri Vella (Way of Kinship: Anthology of Native Siberian Literature)

      • Nadezda Taligina (“)

    • Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

      • A Dream in Polar Fog (Yuri Rytkheu)

    • Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

      • Anna Nerkagi (in Anthology)

      • Republic of Crimea

      • Sevastopol

        • Arkady Averchenko

  • Saudi Arabia

  • Singapore

    • A Dance of Limbs (Goh Poh Seng)

    • The Serpent's Tooth (Catherine Lim)

  • South Ossetia

  • Sri Lanka

    • The Story of a Brief Marriage (Anuk Arudpragasam)

  • Syria

    • Sarmada (Fadi Azzam)

    • Just Like a River (Muhammad Kamil al-Khatib)

  • Taiwan

  • Tajikstan

    • The Sands of Oxus: Boyhood Reminiscences (Sadriddin Ayni)

  • Thailand

    • Time: A Thai Novel (Chart Korbjitti)

    • Love in the Fish Market (Pensri Kiengsiri)

    • The Happiness of Kati (Jane Vejjajiva)

  • Tibet

    • Old Demonds, New Deities: 21 Short Stories from Tibet

    • Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

  • Timor-Leste

    • The Crossing (Luís Cardoso)

  • Turkey

  • Turkmenistan

    • The Tale of Aypi (Ak Welsapar)

  • United Arab Emirates

    • Life Through the Third Eye (Adel Khozam)

  • Uzbekistan

    • The Underground (Hamid Ismailov)

  • Vietnam

    • The Sorrow of War (Bao Ninh)

    • Dumb Luck (Vũ Trọng Phụng)

    • Fish in Exile (Vi Khi Nao)

  • Yemen

    • A Land Without Jasmine (Wajdi al-Ahdal)

Europe

  • Albania

  • Andorra

    • The Teacher of Cheops (Albert Salvadó)

  • Austria

  • Azores

    • Home is an Island (Alfred Lewis)

  • Basque Country

    • Martutene (Ramon Zaizarbitoria)

  • Belarus

    • Alpine Ballad (Vasil Bykaŭ)

    • Secondhand Time (Svetlana Alexievich)

  • Belgium

  • Bosnia and Herzegovina

    • The Second Book (Muharem Bazdulj)

    • Moment (Nura Bazdulj-Hubujar)

  • Bulgaria

  • Corsica

    • Michel Ferracci-Porri

  • Croatia

    • Adios Cowboy (Olja Savičević)

    • Josip Novakovich

    • How to Tie Your Shoes (Nikola Petković)

  • Czech Republic

    • The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)

    • The Guinea Pigs (Ludvík Vaculík)

  • Denmark

  • England

    • Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons)

    • Lesley Castle (Jane Austen)*

    • The Blue Flower (Penelope Fitzgerald)*

    • Lionel Asbo: State of England (Martin Amis)*

  • Estonia

    • The Man Who Spoke Snakish (Andrus Kivirähk)

  • Faroe Islands

    • The Old Man and His Sons (Heðin Brú)

    • Barbara (Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen)

  • Finland

  • France

    • Journey to the End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)*

    • Eat Him if you Like (Jean Teulé)*

    • Missing Person (Patrick Modiano)*

    • Antoine Volodine

    • Laurence Cossé

    • Julien Gracq

  • Germany

    • The Safety Net (Heinrich Böll)*

    • Darkness Spoken (Ingeborg Bachmann)

    • The Tin Drum (Günter Grass)

    • The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)

  • Gibraltar

    • The Grapes of Warmth (Mary Chiappe)

  • Greece

    • Zorba the Greek (Nikos Kazantzakis)

    • Vanishing Point (Aristotelis Nikoladis)

    • Thracian Tales (Georgios Vizyenos)*

  • Greenland

    • Eden of the North (Signe Rink)

  • Guernsey

    • Donkey's Tails (George Torode)

  • Hungary

    • Satantango (László Krasznahorkai)

    • The Dispossessed (Szilárd Borbély)

    • The Sinistra Zone (Ádám Bodor)*

  • Iceland

    • Butterflies in November (Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir)*

    • The Pets (Bragi Ólafsson)

    • Independent People (Halldór Laxness)

    • From the Mouth of the Whale (Sjón)

  • Ireland

  • Isle of Man

    • Manannan's Cloak: An Anthology of Manx Literature

  • Italy

    • My Brilliant Friend (Elena Ferrante)*

    • Hermit in Paris (Italy Calvino)

    • The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (Umberto Eco)

    • History (Elsa Morante)

    • The Pope's Daughter (Dario Fo)

    • The Tartar Steppe (Dino Buzzati)

  • Jersey

    • Roman de Brut (Wace)

  • Kosovo

    • My Cat Yugoslavia (Pajtim Statovci) ?

  • Latvia

    • The Betrayers (David Bezmozgis)

    • High Tide (Inga Ābele)

  • Liechtenstein

    • Dust in 2011’s Best European Fiction (Dalkey) (Stefan Sprenger)

  • Lithuania

  • Luxembourg

    • Point/Erasing (Jean Portante)

  • Macedonia

    • A Spare Life (Lidija Dimkovska)

  • Malta

    • The Maltese Baron...and I Lucian (Francis Ebejer)

    • Immanuel Mifsud

  • Moldova

    • Moldavian Autumn (Ion Drutse)

  • Monaco

    • Two Plays (Armand Gatti)

  • Montenegro

    • Houses (Borislav Pekić)

  • Netherlands, The

    • The Evenings (Gerard Reve)*

    • Tirza (Arnon Grunberg)

    • La Superba (Ilja Lenard Pfeijfer)

  • Norway

    • Sophie's World (Jostein Gaarder)*

    • The Dream We Carry (Olav H. Hauge)

    • Growth of the Soil (Knut Hamsun)

    • Four Plays (Henrik Ibsen)

  • Poland

    • Dukla (Andrzej Stasiuk)

    • The Faithful River (Stefon Żeromski)

  • Portugal

    • The Double (José Saramago)

    • The Book of Disquiet (Fernando Pessoa)

    • Jerusalem (Gonçalo M. Tavares)

  • Romania

    • Poems of Paul Celan

    • Blinding (Mircea Cărtărescu)

    • Hotel Europa (Dumitru Țepeneag)

  • San Marino

  • Scotland

  • Serbia

  • Slovakia

    • The Ugly (Alexander Boldizar)

  • Slovenia

  • Spain

  • Sweden

    • Assisted Living (Nikanor Tetrologen)

    • The True Deceiver (Tove Jansson)

  • Switzerland

  • Transnistria

    • Vladimir Beşleagă

  • Ukraine

    • Taras Bulba (Nikolai Gogol)*

    • Voroshilovgrad (Serhiy Zhadan)

    • Stempenyu: A Jewish Romance (Sholem Aleichem)

  • Vatican City

    • Shroud of Secrecy: The Story of Corruption Within the Vatican

  • Wales

Oceania

  • American Samoa

    • Plays (John Kneubuhl)

  • Australia

    • New South Wales

      • The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)

    • Norfolk Island

    • Northern Territory

      • Daughter of the Territory (Jacqueline Hammar)

    • Queensland

      • David Malouf

    • South Australia

      • Nancy Cato

    • Tasmania

      • Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish (Richard Flanagan)

    • Victoria

      • Gerald Murnane

      • Joan Lindsey

      • George Johnston

    • Western Australia

      • Soldier's Women (Xavier Herbert)

  • Cook Islands

    • Island Boy: An Autobiography (Thomas Davis)

    • Legends from the Atolls (Kauraka Kauraka)

  • Federated States of Micronesia

  • Fiji

    • The Wounded Sea (Satendra Nandan)

  • French Polynesia

    • Tahiti

      • Frangipani (Célestine Vaite)

  • Guam

    • Sirena (Tanya Taimanglo)

  • Kiribati

    • Waa in Storms (Teweiariki Teaero)

  • Marshall Islands

    • Marshall Islands: Legends and Stories

    • Melal: A Novel of the Pacific

  • Niue

    • John Pule

  • Nauru

    • Legends, Traditions, and Tales of Nauru (Timothy Detudamo)

  • New Caledonia

    • The Wreck (Déwé Gorodey)

  • New Zealand

    • The Luminaries (Eleanor Catton)

    • Catherine Chidgey

    • Janet Frame

  • Northern Mariana Islands

    • Chamoru Childhood

  • Palau

  • Papua New Guinea

    • My Mother Calls Me Yaltep (Ignatius Kilage)

  • Pitcairn Islands

  • Samoa

    • Pouliuli (Albert Wendt)

    • Where We Once Belonged (Sia Figiel)

  • Solomon Islands

    • Suremada: Faces from a Solomon Island Village (Rexford Orotaloa)

  • Tokelau

    • Nuanua of Tokelau

    • Songs and Stories of Tokelau

  • Tonga

    • Mepa Taufa-Vuni (Making Waves: An Anthology of Transpacific Writing

  • Tuvalu

    • Tuvalu: A History

  • Vanuatu

  • Wallis and Futuna Islands

    • Futuna: The Two Kingdoms

North America

  • Canada

    • Atmospheric Disturbances (Rivka Galchen)*

    • Runaway (Alice Munro)*

  • Mexico

    • Like Water for Chocolate (Laura Esquivel)

    • Nietzsche on his Balcony (Carlos Fuentes)

    • The Labyrinth of Solitude (Octavio Paz)