World Literature

Argentina

An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter [2000] by César Aira

Australia

Burial Rites [2013] by Hannah Kent

The Dry [2016] by Jane Harper

Austria

Letter from an Unknown Woman [1922] by Stefan Zweig

Belgium

Fear and Trembling [1999] by Amélie Nothomb

Sulphuric Acid [2005] by Amélie Nothomb

Brazil

Hour of the Star, The [1977] by Clarice Lispector

Daytripper [2010] by Fábio Moon & Gabriel Bá

Canada

Beautiful Mystery, The [2012] by Louise Penny

French Exit [2018] by Patrick DeWitt

Washington Black [2018] by Esi Edugyan 

Clyde Fans [2019] by Seth

Colombia

Fruit of the Drunken Tree [2018] by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Chile

Amulet [1999] by Roberto Bolano

China

Half a Lifelong Romance [1950] by Eileen Chang

Croatia

On the Edge of Reason [1938] by Miroslav Krleža

Cuba

Denmark

Havoc [1930] by Tom Kristensen

Employees, The [2018] by Olga Ravn

France

Father Goriot [1835] by Honore de Balzac

Black Sheep, The [1842] by Honore de Balzac

Lost Illusions [1843] by Honore de Balzac

The Toilers of the Sea [1866] by Victor Hugo

Ladies’ Paradise, The [1883] by Emile Zola

Mystery of the Yellow Room, The [1907] by Gaston Leroux

Erasers, The [1953] by Alain Robbe-Grillet

Roots of Heaven, The [1956] by Romain Gary

Bird in a Cage [1961] by Frédéric Dard

Crossing the Mangrove [1989] by Maryse Condé

Texaco [1992] by Patrick Chamoiseau

Germany

The Magic Mountain [1924] by Thomas Mann

India

God of Small Things, The [1997] by Arundhati Roy

Far Field, The [2019] by Madhuri Vijay

Ireland

The Blackwater Lightship [1999] by Colm Tóibín

Italy

Betrothed, The [1827] by Alessandro Manzoni

Tartar Steppe, The [1940] by Dino Buzzati

Moon and The Bonfire, The [1949] by Cesare Pavese

Arturo’s Island [1957] by Elsa Morante

Baron in the Trees, The [1957] by Italo Calvino

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis [1962] by Giorgio Bassati

Catastrophe & Other Stories [1965] by Dino Buzzati

Foucault’s Pendulum [1988] by Umberto Eco

Japan

Three-Cornered World, The [1906] by Soseki Natsume

How Do You Live? [1937] by Genzaburo Yoshino

Schoolgirl [1939] by Osamu Dazai

Fires on the Plain [1951] by Shōhei Ōoka

Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids [1958] by Kenzaburō Ōe

Sea and Poison, The [1958] by Shūsaku Endō

Woman in the Dunes, The [1962] by Kōbō Abe

Face of Another, The [1964] by Kōbō Abe

Dandelions [1964] by Yasunari Kawabata

Silent Cry, The [1967] by Kenzaburō Ōe

Twilight Years, The [1972] by Sawako Ariyoshi

Honjin Murders, The [1973] by Seishi Yokomizo

Shipwrecks [1982] by Akira Yoshimura

Decagon House Murders [1987] by Yukito Ayatsuji

Memory Police, The [1994] by Yōko Ogawa

Opus [1995] by Satoshi Kon

The Solitary Gourmet [1997] by Masayuki Kusumi & Jirō Taniguchi

Strange Tale of Panorama Island [2008] by Suehiro Maruo & Edogawa Ranpo

1Q84 [2010] by Haruki Murakami

The Little House [2010] by Kyōko Nakajima

Sweet Bean Paste [2013] by Durian Sukegawa

Last Children of Tokyo, The [2014] by Yōko Tawada

Netherlands, The

Twin, The [2006] by Gerbrand Bakker

Detour, The [2010] by Gerbrand Bakker

New Zealand

Luminaries, The [2013] by Eleanor Catton

Nigeria

The Fishermen [2015] by Chigozie Obioma

Norway

Hunger [1890] by Knut Hamsun

Mysteries [1892] by Knut Hamsun

Pakistan

Moth Smoke [2000] by Mohsin Hamid

Peru

The Time of the Hero [1963] by Mario Vargas Llosa

Poland

Solaris [1961] by Stanisław Lem

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead [2009] by Olga Tokarczuk

Portugal

Crime of Father Amaro, The [1875] by José Maria de Eça de Queirós

City and the Mountains, The [1901] by José Maria de Eça de Queirós

Russia

King, Queen, Knave [1928] by Vladimir Nabokov

Luzhin Defense, The [1929] by Vladimir Nabokov

Pale Fire [1962] by Vladimir Nabokov

South Africa

When Rain Clouds Gather [1969] by Bessie Head

Waiting for the Barbarians [1980] by J. M. Coetzee

South Korea

I Have the Right to Destroy Myself [1996] by Young-Ha Kim

Violets [2001] by Kyung-Sook Shin

Please Look After Mother [2008] by Kyung-Sook Shin

Pachinko [2017] by Min Jin Lee

Sweden

Faceless Killers [1991] by Henning Mankell

Damascus Nights [1989] by Rafik Schami

Turkey

My Name is Red [1998] by Orhan Pamuk

A Strangeness in My Mind [2014] by Orhan Pamuk

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World [2019] by Elif Shafak

UK, the

Little Dorrit [1857] by Charles Dickens

Daisy Miller [1879] by Henry James

Woodlanders, The [1887] by Thomas Hardy

Turn of the The Screw, The [1898] by Henry James

I Am Jonathan Scrivener [1930] by Claude Houghton

Scapegoat, The [1957] by Daphne du Maurier

Pale View of Hills, A [1982] by Kazuo Ishiguro

Hotel du Lac [1984] by Anita Brookner

Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, The [2010] by David Mitchell

Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau, The [2014] by Graeme Macrae Burnet

Miniaturist, The [2014] by Jessie Burton

Melmoth [2018] by Sarah Perry

Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, The [2018] by Stuart Turton

Bitter Orange [2018] by Claire Fuller

Golden Child [2019] by Claire Adam

Piranesi [2020] by Susanna Clarke

Klara and the Sun [2021] by Kazuo Ishiguro

US, the

Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The [1820] by Washington Irving

Jungle, The [1906/2018] by Upton Sinclair & Kristina Gerhmann

Death Comes for the Archbishop [1927] by Willa Cather

Lottery, The [1948] by Shirley Jackson

News of the World [2016] by Paulette Jiles