1. North America
Canada
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliot
Mexico
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
The Years with Laura Diaz by Carlos Fuentes
Central America - Multiple Countries
The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw by Bruce Barcott - Belize
The Adventurer's Son: a memoir by Roman Dial - Costa Rica
Solito by Javier Zamora - El Salvador
The President by Miguel Angel Asturias - Guatemala
The World in Half by Cristina Henriquez - Panama
2. Caribbean
Cuba
Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García
Dominican Republic
The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
Other Countries or Regions
The Golden Hour by Beatriz Williams - Bahamas
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay - Haiti
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James - Jamaica
Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud - Trinidad & Tobago
The Night of the Rambler by Montague Kobbe (e-book only) - St. Kitts & Nevis and Anguilla
3. South America
Brazil
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado
Other Countries or Regions
A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez - Argentina
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann - Argentina & Chile
Into the Jungle by Erica Ferencik - Bolivia
Cowboy Graves by Roberto Bolano - Chile
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez - Columbia
The Queen of Water by Laura Resau and Maria Virginia Farinango - Ecuador
Little Black Lies by Sharon Bolton - Falkland Islands
The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich - Peru
It Would Be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo - Venezuela
4. South Africa
South Africa
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Other Countries or Regions
By the Order of the President by W.E.B. Griffin - Angola
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith - Botswana
Embassy Wife by Katie Crouch - Namibia
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell - Zambia
Secrets of the Savanna by Delia & Mark Owens - Zambia & Mozambique
House of Stone by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma - Zimbabwe
5. North Africa
Ghana
Morocco
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir
Other Countries or Regions
The Stranger by Albert Camus - Algeria
Death of an Eye by Dana Stabenow - Egypt
The Bitter Side of Sweet by Tara Sullivan - Ivory Coast
Secrets from the Past by Barbara Taylor Bradford - Libya
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite - Nigeria
A House in the Sky: a memoir by Amanda Lindhout - Somalia
Lost Boy Lost Girl by John Bul Dau - Sudan
6. South Europe
Greece
Stars of Fortune by Nora Roberts
Portugal
A Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson
The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin
Other Countries or Regions
Cafe Europa by Slavenka Drakulic - Croatia
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak - Cyprus
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco - Italy
The Jukebox Queen of Malta by Nicholas Rinaldi - Malta
Forbidden Bread: a Memoir by Erica Johnson-Debeljak - Slovenia
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon - Spain
7. West Europe
Ireland
Other Countries or Regions
Airs Above the Ground by Mary Stewart - Austria
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier - England
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain - France
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque - Germany
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg - Greenland
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy - Iceland
The Dinner by Herman Koch - Netherlands
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann - Switzerland
8. East Europe
Bulgaria
The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Russia
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Other Countries or Regions
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera - Czechoslovakia
The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff - Poland
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht - Serbia & the Balkan Peninsula
One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn - Soviet Union
The Last Green Valley by Mark Sullivan - Ukraine
9. Middle East
Afghanistan
The Pearl that Broke its Shell by Nadia Hashimi
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Other Countries or Regions
The Peacock and the Sparrow by I.S. Berry - Bahrain
Persepolis by Marjan Satrapi - Iran
The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks - Israel
Fencing with the King by Diana Abu-Jaber - Jordan
Princess: a True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia by Jean Sasson - Saudi Arabia
Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini - Syria
I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced: A Memoir by Nujood Ali - Yemen
Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson - Middle Eastern inspired Fantasy setting
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid - Unnamed Middle Eastern City
10. East Asia
Mongolia
When I'm Gone Look for Me in the East by Quan Barry
The Last Wild Horses by Maja Lunde
North Korea
The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea by Hyeonseo Lee
In Order to Live: a North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park
South Korea
Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim
Other Countries or Regions
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See - China
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi - Japan
The Man with the Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-yi - Tawian
Mott Street: a Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming by Ava Chin - USA, Chinese-American Immigrant experience
Not Your China Doll: the Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong by Katie Gee Salisbury - USA, Chinese-American Immigrant experience
11. South Asia
India
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
Six Day in Bombay by Alka Joshi
Other Countries or Regions
Brick Lane by Monica Ali - Bangladesh
Bad Tourists by Caro Carver - Maldives
Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Conor Grennan - Nepal
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid - Pakistan
Some People Need Killing: a Memoir of Murder in my Country by Patricia Evangelista - Philippines
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje - Sri Lanka
Sister Snake by Amanda Lee Koe - Singapore
The Mountains Sing by Phan Que Mai Nguyen - Vietnam
12. Oceania & Pacific Islands
Australia
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Lady Joan Weigall Lindsay
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarity
New Zealand
The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
A Madness of Sunshine by Nalini Singh
Other Countries or Regions
A Disappearance in Fiji by Nilima Rao - Fiji
The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks - Micronesia
Euphoria by Lily King - New Guinea
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones - Papua New Guinea
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson - Polynesia