
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

Cuba
Lost Steps, The [1953] by Alejo Carpentier

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
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
Trap for Cinderella [1963] by Sébastien Japrisot
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
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
Silent Cry, The [1967] by Kenzaburō Ōe
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
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
Luzhin Defense, The [1929] 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
Please Look After Mother [2008] by Kyung-sook Shin
Pachinko [2017] by Min Jin Lee

Sweden
Faceless Killers [1991] by Henning Mankell

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
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell [2004] by Susanna Clarke
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
Yellow Wallpaper, The [1892] by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
House of Mirth, The [1905] by Edith Wharton
Jungle, The [1906/2018] by Upton Sinclair & Kristina Gerhmann
Lost Lady, A [1923] by Willa Cather
Death Comes for the Archbishop [1927] by Willa Cather
Laura [1943] by Vera Caspary
Lottery, The [1948] by Shirley Jackson
Night of the Hunter, The [1953] by David Grubb
Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, The [1964] by Philip K. Dick
Dr Bloodmoney [1965] by Philip K. Dick
Power of the Dog, The [1967] by Thomas Savage
Tremor of Forgery, The [1969] by Patricia Highsmith
Maze of Death, A [1970] by Philip K. Dick
Edith’s Diary [1977] by Patricia Highsmith
Scanner Darkly, A [1977] by Philip K. Dick
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café [1987] by Fannie Flagg
Property [2003] by Valerie Martin
Serena [2008] by Ron Rash
Night Circus, The [2011] by Erin Morgenstern
Interestings, The [2013] by Meg Wolitzer
People in The Trees, The [2013] by Hanya Yanagihara
Blazing World, The [2014] by Siri Hustvedt
Little Life, A [2015] by Hanya Yanagihara
News of the World [2016] by Paulette Jiles
House Without Windows, A [2016] by Nadia Hashimi
Tuesday Nights in 1980 [2016] by Molly Prentiss
Idaho [2017] by Emily Ruskovich
There There [2018] by Tommy Orange
Tangerine [2018] by Christine Mangan
Editor, The [2019] by Steven Rowley
Miracle Creek [2019] by Angie Kim
Nickel Boys, The [2019] by Colson Whitehead