A list of all the countries, grouped by continent, with some of the books I’ve read, reviewed, and the ones that are on my TBR list.

This list is regularly updated with titles I come across. I try to be more selective of the books I put in here. I’m also adding titles from awards and other lists, here are some that are included:

• WITP: All titles longlisted for The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
• The Canon: All titles listed in the Decolonize Your Bookshelf Canon

I’ll continue to update it with more award winning titles and suggestions I see online, but I’m limiting the list to 5 authors per country at most, or some countries would just get too long. Let me know if you have any recommendations you don’t see here.

Books in blue have been read. Find more suggestions here.
Click on the links to go to the book reviews.

• 🇩🇿 – ALGERIA
  • Assia Djebar – Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War (The Canon)
• 🇦🇴 – ANGOLA
  • José Eduardo Agualusa – A General Theory of Oblivion
• 🇧🇯 – BENIN
• 🇧🇼 – BOTSWANA
  • Bessie Head – A Question of Power (The Canon)
• 🇧🇫 – BURKINA FASO
• 🇧🇮 – BURUNDI
• 🇨🇻 – CABO VERDE
• 🇨🇲 – CAMEROON
  • Imbolo Mbue – Behold the Dreamers
  • Léonora Miano – Season of the Shadow (longlisted WITP)
• 🇨🇫 – CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
• 🇹🇩 – CHAD
• 🇰🇲 – COMOROS
• 🇨🇮 – CÔTE D’IVOIRE
• 🇨🇩 – DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
  • In Koli Jean Bofane – Congo Inc
• 🇩🇯 – DJIBOUTI
• 🇬🇶 – EQUATORIAL GUINEA
• 🇪🇷 – ERITREA
• 🇸🇿 – ESWATINI
• 🇪🇹 – ETHIOPIA
  • Dinaw Mengestu – How to Read the Air (The Canon)
  • Maaza Mengiste – The Shadow King
• 🇬🇦 – GABON
• 🇬🇲 – GAMBIA
• 🇬🇭 – GHANA
  • Peace Adzo Medie – Nightbloom | His Only Wife
  • Ayi Kwei Armah – The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (The Canon)
  • Ama Ata Aidoo – Our Sister Killjoy (The Canon)
• 🇬🇳 – GUINEA
• 🇬🇼 – GUINEA-BISSAU
• 🇰🇪 – KENYA
  • Beryl Markham – West With the Night
  • Okwiri Oduor – Things They Lost
  • Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye – Coming to Birth
  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o – A Grain of Wheat (The Canon)
• 🇱🇸 – LESOTHO
• 🇱🇷 – LIBERIA
  • Wayétu Moore – She Would be King
• 🇲🇬 – MADAGASCAR
  • Naivo – Beyond the Rice Fields
• 🇲🇼 – MALAWI
• 🇲🇱 – MALI
• 🇲🇷 – MAURITANIA
• 🇲🇺 – MAURITIUS
• 🇲🇦 – MOROCCO
• 🇲🇿 – MOZAMBIQUE
  • Mia Couto – Sleepwalking Land
• 🇳🇦 – NAMIBIA
• 🇳🇪 – NIGER
• 🇳🇬 – NIGERIA
  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Americanah | Purple Hibiscus | Half of a Yellow Sun (The Canon)
  • Buchi Emecheta – The Joys of Motherhood (The Canon)
  • Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart (The Canon)
  • Natasha Bowen – Skin of the Sea
• 🇨🇬 – REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
• 🇷🇼 – RWANDA
  • Scholastique Mukasonga – Our Lady of the Nile (longlisted WITP)
• 🇸🇹 – SÃO TOMÉ AND PRÍNCIPE
• 🇸🇳 – SENEGAL
  • Fatou Diome – The Belly of the Atlantic
  • Mariama Bâ – So Long a Letter (The Canon)
  • Mohamed Mbougar Sarr – The Most Secret Memory of Men
• 🇸🇨 – SEYCHELLES
• 🇸🇱 – SIERRA LEONE
• 🇸🇴 – SOMALIA
• 🇿🇦 – SOUTH AFRICA
  • Trevor Noah – Born a Crime
  • Miriam Tlali – Between Two Worlds (The Canon)
• 🇸🇸 – SOUTH SUDAN
  • Stella Gaitano – Edo’s Souls (longlisted WITP)
• 🇸🇩 – SUDAN
  • Rania Mamoun –Thirteen Months of Sunrise (longlisted WITP)
• 🇹🇿 – TANZANIA
  • Abdulrazak Gurnah – Theft
• 🇹🇬 – TOGO
• 🇹🇳 – TUNISIA
• 🇺🇬 – UGANDA
  • Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi – A Girl is a Body of Water | Kintu
• 🇿🇲 – ZAMBIA
• 🇿🇼 – ZIMBABWE
  • NoViolet Bulawayo – Glory
  • Tsitsi Dangarembga – Nervous Conditions (The Canon)

• 🇦🇫 – AFGHANISTAN
  • Homeira Qaderi – Dancing in the Mosque
  • Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner (The Canon)
• 🇦🇲 – ARMENIA
• 🇦🇿 – AZERBAIJAN
• 🇧🇩 – BANGLADESH
  • Zia Haider Rahman – In the Light of What We Know
• 🇧🇹 – BHUTAN
• 🇧🇳 – BRUNEI
• 🇰🇭 – CAMBODIA
  • Loung Un – First They Killed My Father
• 🇨🇳 – CHINA
  • R. F. Kuang – Babel | Yellowface
  • Dorothy Tse – Owlish (longlisted WITP)
  • Eileen Chang – Love in a Fallen City and Other Stories (The Canon)
  • Yan Ge – Strange Beasts of China (longlisted WITP)
  • Zhang Yueran – Cocoon (longlisted WITP)
• 🇬🇪 – GEORGIA
  • Diana Anphimiadi – Why I No Longer Write Poems (longlisted WITP)
  • Nana Ekvtimishvili – The Pear Field (longlisted WITP)
  • Nino Haratischvili – The Eighth Life (longlisted WITP)
• 🇮🇳 – INDIA
  • Salman Rushdie – Haroun and the Sea of Stories | Knife
  • R.K. Narayan – Malgudi Days
  • Aravind Adiga – The White Tiger (The Canon)
  • Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things (The Canon)
  • Geetanjali Shree – Tomb of Sand (winner – WITP)
• 🇮🇩 – INDONESIA
  • Eka Kurniawan – Man Tiger
• 🇯🇵 – JAPAN
  • Yōko Ogawa – The Memory Police
  • Mieko Kanai – Mild Vertigo (longlisted WITP)
  • Yasunari Kawabata – Thousand Cranes (The Canon)
  • Yoko Tawada – Memoirs of a Polar Bear (winner – WITP)
  • Yūko Tsushima – Territory of Light (The Canon)
• 🇰🇿 – KAZAKHSTAN
  • Rollan Seisenbayev – The Dead Wander in the Desert (abandoned)
• 🇰🇬 – KYRGYZSTAN
  • Chingiz Aitmatov – Jamila
• 🇱🇦 – LAOS
• 🇲🇾 – MALAYSIA
  • Tan Twan Eng – The House of Doors | The Garden of Evening Mists
• 🇲🇻 – MALDIVES
• 🇲🇳 – MONGOLIA
• 🇲🇲 – MYANMAR
• 🇳🇵 – NEPAL
• 🇰🇵 – NORTH KOREA
  • Bandi – The Accusation
• 🇵🇰 – PAKISTAN
  • Malala Yousafzai – I Am Malala
  • Kamila Shamsie – Home Fire | Best of Friends
  • Daniyal Mueenuddin – In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (The Canon)
• 🇵🇭 – PHILIPPINES
  • Gina Apostol – La Tercera
• 🇸🇬 – SINGAPORE
  • Balli Kaur Jaswal – Now You See Us
• 🇰🇷 – SOUTH KOREA
  • Min Jin Lee – Free Food for Millionaires | Pachinko
  • Mirinae Lee – 8 Lives of a Century Old Trickster
  • Han Kang – Greek Lessons | The White Book (both longlisted WITP)
• 🇱🇰 – SRI LANKA
  • Anuk Arudpragasam – Passage North
• 🇹🇼 – TAIWAN
• 🇹🇯 – TAJIKISTAN
• 🇹🇭 – THAILAND
  • Duanwad Pimwana – Arid Dreams (longlisted WITP)
• 🇹🇱 – TIMOR-LESTE
• 🇹🇲 – TURKMENISTAN
• 🇺🇿 – UZBEKISTAN
  • Hamid Ismailov – The Devil’s Dance | The Dead Lake
• 🇻🇳 – VIETNAM
  • Thich Nhat Hanh – The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching
  • Thuận – Chinatown (longlisted WITP)

• 🇦🇱 – ALBANIA
  • Ismail Kadare – Broken April
• 🇦🇩 – ANDORRA
• 🇦🇹 – AUSTRIA
  • Natascha Kampusch – 3,096 Days
• 🇧🇾 – BELARUS
  • Svetlana Alexievich – Second-hand Time (longlisted WITP)
• 🇧🇪 – BELGIUM
• 🇧🇦 – BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
  • Priscilla Morris – Black Butterflies
• 🇧🇬 – BULGARIA
  • Ilija Trojanow – The Collector of Worlds
• 🇭🇷 – CROATIA
  • Daša Drndić – Belladonna (winner WIT Prize)
  • Dubravka Ugrešić – Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
  • Tea Tulić – Hair Everywhere (longlisted WIT Prize)
• 🇨🇾 – CYPRUS
  • Christy Lefteri – The Beekeper of Alepo
• 🇨🇿 – CZECHIA
  • Milan Kundera – The Unbearable Lightness of Being
  • Bianca Bellová – The Lake (longlisted WIT Prize)
• 🇩🇰 – DENMARK
  • Dorthe Nors – A Line in the World (longlisted WIT Prize)
  • Olga Ravn – The Employees (longlisted WIT Prize)
  • Tove Ditlevsen – Dependency (longlisted WIT Prize)
  • Christina Hesselholdt – Vivian (longlisted WIT Prize)
  • Dorrit Willumsen – Bang (longlisted WIT Prize)
• 🇪🇪 – ESTONIA
• 🇫🇮 – FINLAND
  • Arto Paasilinna – The Year of the Hare
  • Selja Ahava – Things that Fall from the Sky (longlisted WIT Prize)
  • Sofi Oksanen – Purge
• 🇫🇷 – FRANCE
  • Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary
  • Annie Ernaux – The Years (winner WIT Prize) | A Girl’s Story (longlisted WIT Prize)
  • Marguerite Duras – The Easy Life (longlisted WIT Prize)
  • Marie Darrieussecq – Sleepless (longlisted WIT Prize)
  • Violaine Huisman – The Book of Mother (longlisted WIT Prize)
• 🇩🇪 – GERMANY
  • Hermann Hesse – Siddharta
  • Jenny Erpenbeck – Kairos (longlisted WIT Prize)
  • Judith Schalansky – An Inventory of Losses (winner WIT Prize)
  • Katja Oskamp – Marzahn, Mon Amour (longlisted WIT Prize)
  • Nelly Sachs – Revelation Freshly Erupting (winner WIT Prize)
• 🇬🇷 – GREECE
  • Homer – The Iliad
  • Margarita Liberaki – Three Summers (longlisted WIT Prize)
• 🇭🇺 – HUNGARY
  • Krisztina Tóth – Barcode | Pixel (both longlisted WIT Prize)
  • Magda Szabó – The Fawn | Abigail | Katalin Street (all longlisted WIT Prize)
• 🇮🇸 – ICELAND
• 🇮🇪 – IRELAND
  • John Boyne – The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
  • Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh – The Coast Road (longlisted WIT Prize)
• 🇮🇹 – ITALY
  • Italo Calvino – The Baron in the Trees | The Invisible Cities
  • Alba de Céspedes – Forbidden Notebook (longlisted WIT Prize)
  • Grazia Deledda – Marianna Sirca (longlisted WIT Prize)
  • Lalla Romano – A Silence Shared (longlisted WIT Prize)
  • Marosia Castaldi – The Hunger of Women (longlisted WIT Prize)
• 🇽🇰 – KOSOVO
• 🇱🇻 – LATVIA
• 🇱🇮 – LIECHTENSTEIN
• 🇱🇹 – LITHUANIA
  • Dalia Grinkevičiūtė – Shadows on the Tundra (longlisted WIT Prize)
• 🇱🇺 – LUXEMBOURG
• 🇲🇹 – MALTA
• 🇲🇩 – MOLDOVA
• 🇲🇨 – MONACO
• 🇲🇪 – MONTENEGRO
• 🇳🇱 – NETHERLANDS
  • Anne Frank – The Diary of a Young Girl
  • Marente de Moor – The Dutch Maiden (longlisted WIT Prize)
  • Tonke Dragt – The Song of Seven (longlisted WIT Prize)
• 🇲🇰 – NORTH MACEDONIA
• 🇳🇴 – NORWAY
  • Jostein Gaarder – The Solitaire Mystery
  • Hanne Ørstavik – ti amo (longlisted WIT Prize)
  • Long Litt Woon – The Way Through the Woods (longlisted WIT Prize)
• 🇵🇱 – POLAND
  • Krystyna Boglar – Clementine Loves Red (longlisted WIT Prize)
  • Małgorzata Szejnert Ellis Island: A People’s History (longlisted WIT Prize)
  • Olga Tokarczuk – Flights | The Books of Jacob | Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (all longlisted WIT Prize)
  • Urszula Honek – White Nights (longlisted WIT Prize)
  • Żanna Słoniowska – The House with the Stained-Glass Window (longlisted WIT Prize)
• 🇵🇹 – PORTUGAL
  • José Saramago – Blindness | Death with Interruptions
  • Ana Luísa Amaral –The Art of Being a Tiger (longlisted WIT Prize)
• 🇷🇴 – ROMANIA
  • Herta Müller – The Fox Was Ever the Hunter (longlisted WIT Prize)
  • Ioana Pârvulescu – Life Begins on Friday (longlisted WIT Prize)
• 🇷🇺 – RUSSIA
  • Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita
  • Maria Stepanova – Holy Winter 20/21 | In Memory of Memory | War of the Beasts and the Animals (all longlisted WIT Prize)
  • Yulia Yakovleva – Death of the Red Rider (longlisted WIT Prize)
  • Guzel Yakhina – Zuleikha (longlisted WIT Prize)
• 🇸🇲 – SAN MARINO
• 🇷🇸 – SERBIA
  • Téa Obreht – The Tiger’s Wife
• 🇸🇰 SLOVAKIA
• 🇸🇮 SLOVENIA
  • Goran Vojnović – Yugoslavia, My Fatherland
• 🇪🇸 – SPAIN
  • Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quijote
  • Alicia Kopf – Brother In Ice (longlisted WIT Prize)
  • Irene Solà – When I Sing, Mountains Dance (longlisted WIT Prize)
• 🇸🇪 – SWEDEN
  • Stieg Larsson – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  • Amanda Svensson – A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding (longlisted WIT Prize)
  • Linnea Axelsson – Ædnan: An Epic (longlisted WIT Prize)
  • Marit Kapla – Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village (winner WIT Prize)
  • Selma Lagerlöf – The Emperor of Portugallia | Mårbacka (both longlisted WIT Prize)
• 🇨🇭 – SWITZERLAND
  • Erich von Däniken – Chariots of the Gods
• 🇹🇷 – TURKEY
  • Elif Shafak – The Island of Missing Trees | There Are Rivers in the Sky
• 🇺🇦 – UKRAINE
  • Katja Petrowskaja – Maybe Esther (longlisted WIT Prize)
• 🇬🇧 – UNITED KINGDOM
  • Agatha Christie – The Mysterious Affair at Styles
  • Natalie Haynes – Stone Blind
  • Sophie Hannah – The Mystery of Three Quarters
  • Suzanna Clarke – Piranesi
  • Bernardine Evaristo (Jamaica/UK) – The Emperor’s Babe (The Canon)

• 🇦🇬 – ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
  • Jamaica Kincaid – Annie John (The Canon)
• 🇦🇷 – ARGENTINA
  • Jorge Luis Borges – Fictions
  • Julio Cortázar – Hopscotch
  • Selva Almada – Brickmakers (longlisted – WITP)
  • Diana Bellessi – To Love A Woman (longlisted – WITP)
  • Gabriela Cabezón Cámara – The Adventures of China Iron (longlisted – WITP)
• 🇧🇸 – BAHAMAS
  • Patricia Glinton-Meicholas – An evening in Guanima
• 🇧🇧 – BARBADOS
  • Cherie Jones – How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
• 🇧🇿 – BELIZE
  • Zee Edgell – Beka Lamb
• 🇧🇴 – BOLIVIA
  • Rodrigo Hasbún – Affections
  • Alcides Arguedas – Raza de Bronce
• 🇧🇷 – BRAZIL
  • Itamar Vieira Jr.– Crooked Plow | Doramar
  • Carolina Maria de Jesus – Child of the Dark
  • Machado de Assis – The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
  • Clarice Lispector – Too Much of Life: The Complete Chronicles | The Chandelier (both longlisted – WITP)
• 🇨🇱 – CHILE
  • Isabel Allende – A Long Petal of the Sea | Island Beneath the Sea
• 🇨🇴 – COLOMBIA
  • Gabriel García Márquez – 100 Years of Solitude
• 🇨🇷 – COSTA RICA
  • John Manuel Arias – Where There Was Fire
• 🇨🇺 – CUBA
  • Carlos Moore – Pichon: Race and Revolution in Castro’s Cuba
  • Alejo Carpentier – The Lost Steps (The Canon)
• 🇩🇲 – DOMINICA
  • Jean Rhys – Wide Sargasso Sea (The Canon)
• 🇩🇴 – DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
  • Angie Cruz – Dominicana
• 🇪🇨 – ECUADOR
  • Jorge Icaza – Huasipungo
  • Nemonte Nenquimo – We Will Not Be Saved
• 🇸🇻 – EL SALVADOR
  • Salarrué – Cuentos de Barro
• 🇬🇩 – GRENADA
• 🇬🇹 – GUATEMALA
  • Rodrigo Rey Rosa – Severina
• 🇬🇾 – GUYANA
  • Sharon Maas – Of Marriageable Age | The Far Away Girl
• 🇭🇹 – HAITI
  • Edwidge Danticat – Breath, Eyes, Memory (The Canon)
• 🇭🇳 – HONDURAS
  • Lucila Gamero de Medina – Blanca Olmedo
• 🇯🇲 – JAMAICA
  • Marlon James – A Brief History of Seven Killings (The Canon)
  • Olive Senior – Discerner of Hearts (The Canon)
  • Safiya Sinclair – How to Say Babylon
• 🇲🇽 – MEXICO
  • Sofía Segovia – The Murmur of Bees
  • Laura Esquivel – Like Water for Chocolate
  • Margo Glantz – The Remains (longlisted – WITP)
• 🇳🇮 – NICARAGUA
  • Rubén Darío – Azul
• 🇵🇦 – PANAMA
  • Carlos Fuentes – The Years with Laura Días (The Canon)
  • Cristina Henríquez – The World in Half
  • Tristan Solarte – El Ahogado
• 🇵🇾 – PARAGUAY
  • Augusto Roa Bastos – I the Supreme
• 🇵🇪 – PERU
  • Mario Vargas Llosa – Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
• 🇰🇳 – SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS
  • Caryl Phillips – Dancing in the Dark (The Canon)
• 🇱🇨 – SAINT LUCIA
• 🇻🇨 – SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES
• 🇸🇷 – SURINAME
  • Cynthia McLeod – The Cost of Sugar
• 🇹🇹 – TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
  • Earl Lovelace – Salt (The Canon)
  • Monique Roffey – The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
  • Sam Selvon –The Lonely Londoners (The Canon)
• 🇺🇾 – URUGUAY
  • Eduardo Galeano – The Open Veins of Latin America
• 🇻🇪 – VENEZUELA
  • Rodrigo Blanco Calderón – Simpatía

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Other States:

• Guadeloupe (French Department): Segu (Maryse Condé), The Bridge of Beyond (Simone Schwarz-Bart) (The Canon)
• Martinique (French Department): Texaco (Patrick Chamoiseau) (The Canon)

• 🇧🇭 – BAHRAIN
• 🇪🇬 – EGYPT
  • Naguib Mahfouz – Palace Walk
  • Deena Mohamed – Your Wish Is My Command (winner – WITP)
  • Nawal El Saadawi – Woman at Point Zero (The Canon)
• 🇮🇷 – IRAN
  • Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis
  • Négar Djavadi – Disoriental (longlisted – WITP)
  • Azita Ghahreman – Negative of a Group Photograph (longlisted – WITP)
• 🇮🇶 – IRAQ
  • Dunya Mikhail – The Bird Tattoo
• 🇮🇱 – ISRAEL
  • Yuval Noah Harari – Sapiens | Homo Deus | Nexus,
• 🇯🇴 – JORDAN
  • Fadi Zaghmout – The Bride of Amman
• 🇰🇼 – KUWAIT
• 🇱🇧 – LEBANON
  • Lena Merhej – Yoghurt and Jam (or How My Mother Became Lebanese) (longlisted – WITP)
  • Hanan Al-Shaykh – One Thousand and One Nights
• 🇱🇾 – LIBYA
• 🇴🇲 – OMAN
• 🇵🇸 – PALESTINE
  • Hala Alyan – Salt Houses | The Arsonists’ City
  • Adania Shibli – Minor Detail (longlisted – WITP)
• 🇶🇦 – QATAR
• 🇸🇦 – SAUDI ARABIA
  • Rajaa Alsanea – Girls of Riyadh
• 🇸🇾 – SYRIA
  • Samar Yazbek – Planet of Clay (longlisted – WITP)
• 🇦🇪 – UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
  • Deepak Unnikrishnan – Temporary People
• 🇾🇪 – YEMEN
  • Bushra al-Maqtari – What Have You Left Behind (longlisted – WITP)

• 🇨🇦 – CANADA
  • Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale | The Testaments
  • Claudia Dey – Daughter
  • Alice Munro – Dear Life
  • Michelle Porter – A Grandmother Begins the Story
• 🇺🇸 – UNITED STATES
  • Brené Brown – Braving the Wilderness
  • Clarissa P. Estés – Women Who Run With the Wolves
  • Madeline Miller – Circe | Galatea
  • Tim Urban – What’s Our Problem?

• 🇦🇺 – AUSTRALIA
  • Markus Zusak –The Book Thief
  • Mikki Brammer – The Collected Regrets of Clover
  • Alexis Wright – The Swan Book (The Canon)
  • Tony Birch – The White Girl (The Canon)
• 🇫🇯 – FIJI
• 🇰🇮 – KIRIBATI
• 🇲🇭 – MARSHALL ISLANDS
• 🇫🇲 – MICRONESIA
• 🇳🇷 – NAURU
• 🇳🇿 – NEW ZEALAND
  • Several Authors – Purakau
  • Patricia Grace – Dogside Story (The Canon)
• 🇵🇼 – PALAU
• 🇵🇬 – PAPUA NEW GUINEA
• 🇼🇸 – SAMOA
  • Albert Wendt – Sons for the Return Home (The Canon)
• 🇸🇧 – SOLOMON ISLANDS
• 🇹🇴 – TONGA
• 🇹🇻 – TUVALU
• 🇻🇺 – VANUATU