
Argentina
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter [2000] by CΓ©sar Aira

Australia
Burial Rites [2013] by Hannah Kent
The Dry [2016] by Jane Harper

Austria
Burning Secret [1911] by StefanΒ Zweig
Letter from an Unknown Woman [1922] by StefanΒ Zweig
Grand Hotel [1929] by Vicki Baum
The Lime Works [1970] by Thomas Bernhard
Woodcutters [1984] by Thomas Bernhard

Belgium
Fear and TremblingΒ [1999] by AmΓ©lieΒ Nothomb
Sulphuric Acid [2005] by AmΓ©lieΒ Nothomb

Brazil
Hour of the Star, The [1977] by Clarice Lispector
Daytripper [2010] by FΓ‘bio Moon & GabrielΒ BΓ‘

Canada
Beautiful Mystery, The [2012] by Louise Penny
French Exit [2018] by PatrickΒ DeWitt
Washington Black [2018] by Esi EdugyanΒ
Clyde Fans [2019] by Seth

Colombia
Fruit of the Drunken TreeΒ [2018] by Ingrid RojasΒ 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 KrleΕΎa

Cuba
Kingdom of This World, The [1949] by Alejo Carpentier
Lost Steps, The [1953] by Alejo Carpentier

Denmark
Havoc [1930] by Tom Kristensen
Liar, The [1950] by Martin A. Hansen
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
Alien Hearts [1890] by Guy de Maupassant
Mystery of the Yellow Room, The [1907] by GastonΒ Leroux
Fear [1930] by Gabriel Chevallier
Erasers, The [1953] by AlainΒ Robbe-Grillet
Roots of Heaven, The [1956] by Romain Gary
Bird in a CageΒ [1961] by FrΓ©dΓ©ricΒ Dard
Trap for Cinderella [1963] by SΓ©bastienΒ Japrisot
Crossing the Mangrove [1989] by Maryse CondΓ©
Texaco [1992] by Patrick Chamoiseau
Gourmet Rhapsody [2000] by Muriel Barbery

Germany
The Magic Mountain [1924] by Thomas Mann

India
God of Small Things, The [1997] by ArundhatiΒ Roy
Far Field, TheΒ [2019] by MadhuriΒ Vijay

Ireland
The Blackwater LightshipΒ [1999]Β by ColmΒ TΓ³ibΓn

Italy
Betrothed, TheΒ [1827] by AlessandroΒ Manzoni
Tartar Steppe, The [1940] by Dino Buzzati
Lies and Sorcery [1948] by Elsa Morante
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 ShΕheiΒ Εoka
The Rainbow [1951] byΒ Yasunari Kawabata
Nip the Buds, Shoot the KidsΒ [1958] by KenzaburΕΒ Εe
Sea and Poison, The [1958] by ShΕ«saku EndΕ
Woman in the Dunes, The [1962] by KΕbΕΒ Abe
Face of Another, The [1964] by KΕbΕΒ Abe
Dandelions [1964] by Yasunari Kawabata
Silent Cry, The [1967] by KenzaburΕΒ Εe
Twilight Years, The [1972] by Sawako Ariyoshi
Honjin Murders, TheΒ [1973] by SeishiΒ Yokomizo
Shipwrecks [1982] by Akira Yoshimura
Decagon House Murders [1987] by Yukito Ayatsuji
Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths [1991] by Shigeru Mizuki
Memory Police, The [1994] by YΕkoΒ Ogawa
The Man Who Died Seven TimesΒ [1995] by YasuhikoΒ Nishizawa
Opus [1995] by Satoshi Kon
The Solitary Gourmet [1997] by Masayuki Kusumi & JirΕ Taniguchi
Strange Tale of Panorama Island [2008] byΒ Suehiro MaruoΒ & Edogawa Ranpo
1Q84Β [2010] by Haruki Murakami
The Little House [2010] by KyΕko Nakajima
Sweet Bean Paste [2013] by Durian Sukegawa
Last Children of Tokyo, The [2014] by YΕkoΒ Tawada

Netherlands, The
Rituals [1980] by CeesΒ Nooteboom
Twin, The [2006] by GerbrandΒ Bakker
Detour, The [2010] by GerbrandΒ Bakker

New Zealand
Luminaries, The [2013] by Eleanor Catton

Nigeria
The FishermenΒ [2015] by ChigozieΒ 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 StanisΕawΒ Lem
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the DeadΒ [2009] by OlgaΒ Tokarczuk

Portugal
Crime of Father Amaro, The [1875] by JosΓ© Maria de EΓ§a deΒ QueirΓ³s
City and the Mountains, The [1901] by JosΓ© Maria de EΓ§a deΒ QueirΓ³s

Russia
King, Queen, KnaveΒ [1928] by Vladimir Nabokov
Luzhin Defense, The [1929] by Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire [1962]Β by Vladimir Nabokov
Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel, The [1970] by Boris & Arkady Strugatsky
The Yellow Arrow [1993] by Victor Pelevin

South Africa
When Rain Clouds Gather [1969] by Bessie Head
Waiting for the Barbarians [1980] by J. M. Coetzee
Life and Times of Michael K [1983] by J. M. Coetzee

South Korea
I Have the Right to Destroy MyselfΒ [1996]Β by Young-HaΒ Kim
Violets [2001] by Kyung-SookΒ Shin
The CabinetΒ [2006] by Un-Su KimΒ
Please Look After MotherΒ [2008] by Kyung-SookΒ Shin
Pachinko [2017] by Min JinΒ Lee

Sweden
Faceless KillersΒ [1991] by HenningΒ Mankell

Switzerland
Suspicion [1952] by FriedrichΒ DΓΌrrenmatt

Syria
Damascus NightsΒ [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, TheΒ [1887] by Thomas Hardy
Fiddler of the Reels, TheΒ [1893] by Thomas Hardy
Turn of the The Screw, The [1898] by Henry James
I Am Jonathan Scrivener [1930] by ClaudeΒ Houghton
Antidote to Venom [1938] by Freeman WillsΒ Crofts
Scapegoat, TheΒ [1957] by Daphne du Maurier
House on the Strand, The [1969] by Daphne du Maurier
Pale View of Hills, A [1982] by Kazuo Ishiguro
Hotel du Lac [1984] by Anita Brookner
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell [2004] by Susanna Clarke
Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, TheΒ [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
Yellow Wallpaper, The [1892]Β by Charlotte PerkinsΒ Gilman
To Build a FireΒ [1902/2007] by Jack London & Christophe ChaboutΓ©Β
House of Mirth, TheΒ [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
To a God Unknown [1933] by John Steinbeck
Lottery, The [1948] by Shirley Jackson
Laura [1943] by Vera Caspary
Night of the Hunter, The [1953] by David Grubb
Cassandra at the WeddingΒ [1962] by DorothyΒ Baker
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
Trashed [2015] by John Backderf
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
