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Afghanistan - "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
Albania - "The General of the Dead Army" by Ismail Kadare
Algeria - "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
Argentina - "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Australia - "Cloudstreet" by Tim Winton
Austria - "The Man Without Qualities" by Robert Musil
Bangladesh - "A Golden Age" by Tahmima Anam
Belgium - "The Sorrow of Belgium" by Hugo Claus
Brazil - "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
Canada - "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
Chile - "The House of the Spirits" by Isabel Allende
China - "Red Sorghum" by Mo Yan
Colombia - "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Costa Rica - "The Ticos: Culture and Social Change in Costa Rica" by Mavis Hiltunen Biesanz, Richard Biesanz, and Karen Zubris Biesanz
Croatia - "Girl at War" by Sara Nović
Cuba - "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
Czech Republic - "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera
Denmark - "Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow" by Peter Høeg
Egypt - "The Cairo Trilogy" by Naguib Mahfouz
Finland - "The Unknown Soldier" by Väinö Linna
France - "Les Misérables" by Victor Hugo
Germany - "The Tin Drum" by Günter Grass
Ghana - "Homegoing" by Yaa Gyasi
Greece - "Zorba the Greek" by Nikos Kazantzakis
Haiti - "Breath, Eyes, Memory" by Edwidge Danticat
Hungary - "The Door" by Magda Szabó
Iceland - "Independent People" by Halldór Laxness
India - "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie
Indonesia - "This Earth of Mankind" by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Iran - "The Blind Owl" by Sadegh Hedayat
Iraq - "The Corpse Exhibition" by Hassan Blasim
Ireland - "Ulysses" by James Joyce
Israel - "A Tale of Love and Darkness" by Amos Oz
Italy - "The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco
Jamaica - "The Harder They Come" by Michael Thelwell
Japan - "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu
Kenya - "Petals of Blood" by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
South Korea - "The Vegetarian" by Han Kang
Lebanon - "The Hakawati" by Rabih Alameddine
Liberia - "Blue Clay People" by William Henry Seward
Libya - "In the Country of Men" by Hisham Matar
Malaysia - "The Garden of Evening Mists" by Tan Twan Eng
Mexico - "Like Water for Chocolate" by Laura Esquivel
Morocco - "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
Nepal - "The Palpasa Cafe" by Narayan Wagle
Netherlands - "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
New Zealand - "The Bone People" by Keri Hulme
Nigeria - "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe
Norway - "Hunger" by Knut Hamsun
Pakistan - "Train to Pakistan" by Khushwant Singh
Palestine - "Mornings in Jenin" by Susan Abulhawa
Peru - "The Feast of the Goat" by Mario Vargas Llosa
Philippines - "Noli Me Tangere" by Jose Rizal
Poland - "The Tin Drum" by Günter Grass
Portugal - "Baltasar and Blimunda" by José Saramago
Romania - "The Hatchet" by Mihail Sadoveanu
Russia - "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy
Saudi Arabia - "Girls of Riyadh" by Rajaa Alsanea
Senegal - "So Long a Letter" by Mariama Bâ
Serbia - "Dictionary of the Khazars" by Milorad Pavić
Singapore - "Crazy Rich Asians" by Kevin Kwan
Somalia - "From a Crooked Rib" by Nuruddin Farah
South Africa - "Disgrace" by J.M. Coetzee
Spain - "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes
Sri Lanka - "Reef" by Romesh Gunesekera
Sudan - "Season of Migration to the North" by Tayeb Salih
Sweden - "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson
Switzerland - "The Magic Mountain" by Thomas Mann
Syria - "The Shell" by Mustafa Khalifa
Taiwan - "The Three-Body Problem" by Liu Cixin
Tanzania - "Paradise" by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Thailand - "Sightseeing" by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
Turkey - "My Name is Red" by Orhan Pamuk
Uganda - "Kintu" by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Ukraine - "The Death of Artemio Cruz" by Carlos Fuentes
United Kingdom - "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
United States - "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
Uruguay - "The Invisible Mountain" by Carolina De Robertis
Uzbekistan - "The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years" by Chingiz Aitmatov
Venezuela - "Doña Bárbara" by Rómulo Gallegos
Vietnam - "The Sorrow of War" by Bảo Ninh
Yemen - "The Hostage" by Zaid M. Al-Khawlani
Zimbabwe - "Nervous Conditions" by Tsitsi Dangarembga
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