Around the World in 80 Books discussion

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Africa (Country unknown):
Impressions of Africa by Raymond Roussel


Albania:
Broken April, Spring Flowers, Spring Frost, The Successor by Ismail Kadare*


Algeria:
✅The Stranger, The Plague by Albert Camus*


Antarctica:
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft


Antigua:
✅Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid*


Argentina:
Facundo: or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento*
The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene
Ficciones Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges*
Martín Fierro by José Hernández (Mexican author)
The Witness by Juan José Saer*
Kiss of the Spider Woman, Heartbreak Tango by Manuel Puig*
Money to Burn by Ricardo Piglia*
Santa Evita by Tomás Eloy Martínez*


Armenia:
Retreat Without Song by Shahan Shahnour


Australia:
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf*
Inland by Gerald Murnane*
The Commandant by Jessica Anderson*
Elizabeth Costello, Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee (South African/ Australian author)
✅A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute*
Voss, The Tree of Man by Patrick White*
Jack Maggs, Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey*
Rites of Passage by William Golding (English author)


Austria:
The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek*
The Last Days of Mankind by Karl Kraus*
The Third Man by Graham Greene
The Confusions of Young Törless, The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil*
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, The Afternoon of a Writer by Peter Handke*
Wittgenstein's Nephew, Yes,Concrete, Old Masters: A Comedy, Extinction, Correction by Thomas Bernhard*
Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti (Bulgarian author)
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
Lieutenant Gustl by Arthur Schnitzler*
The Radetzsky March by Joseph Roth (Austria-Hungary, now Ukraine)
Indian Summer by Adalbert Stifter*


Basque Region:
Obabakoak by Bernardo Atxaga*


Belgium:
The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst
Villette by Charlotte Brontë
Pallieter by Felix Timmermans*
The Parable Of The Blind by Gert Hofmann (German author)
The Lion of Flanders by Hendrik Conscience*
The Sorrow of Belgium by Hugo Claus*
Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald (German author)
The Deadbeats by Ward Ruyslinck*
Cheese by Willem Elsschot*


Bosnia and Herzegovina:
Bosnian Chronicle, The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić*
Death and the Dervish by Meša Selimović*
S.: A Novel about the Balkans by Slavenka Drakulić (Croatian author)
Nowhere Man by Aleksandar Hemon


Botswana:
A Question of Power by Bessie Head*


Brazil:
The Hour of the Star, The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector* (Brazilian author, born Ukraine)
Dom Casmurro, Epitaph of a Small Winner, Memorias Posthumas de Braz Cubas by Machado de Assis*
Tent of Miracles, Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado*
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by João Guimarães Rosa*
The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa (Peruvian author)
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
*

Bulgaria:
✅Under the Yoke by Ivan Vazov*
A Ballad for Georg Henig by Viktor Paskov*


Burma:
Burmese Days by George Orwell


Canada:
The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose, Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro*
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald*
Arcanum 17: With Apertures by André Breton (French author)
The First Garden by Anne Hébert*Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels*
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
The Stone Diaries, Unless by Carol Shields*
The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy*
Surfacing, The Blind Assassin, Alias Grace, The Robber Bride, Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood*
The Diviners by Margaret Laurence*
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies*
The Wars by Timothy Findley*
Self Condemned by Wyndham Lewis*


Chad:
The Roots of Heaven by Romain Gary
(French Lithuanian author)

Chile:
The House of the Spirits, Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende*
W, or the Memory of Childhood by Georges Perec*


China:
Man's Fate by André Malraux (French author)
A Dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin*
Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard*
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang*
Rickshaw Boy by Lao She*
Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong*
The Water Margin: Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai'an*
Monkey: The Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en*
Leaden Wings by Zhang Jie*
Half of Man Is Woman by Zhang Xianliang*


Colombia:
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by Álvaro Mutis*
Our Lady of the Assassins by Fernando Vallejo*
Love in the Time of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude, No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories, The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez*
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad (Polish author)
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord by Louis de Bernières

Congo:
✅The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
✅Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (Polish author, now Ukraine)
A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul (Trinidadian author)


Croatia:
Port by Antun Šoljan*
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Ugrešić*
On the Edge of Reason, The Return of Philip Latinowicz by Miroslav Krleža*


Cuba:
The Old Man and the Sea, To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
Three Trapped Tigers by Guillermo Cabrera Infante*
Dirty Havana Trilogy by Pedro Juan Gutiérrez*
Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas*


Czech Republic:
Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal*
The Trial, The Castle by Franz Kafka*
Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light by Ivan Klíma*
City Sister Silver by Jáchym Topol*
The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Škvorecký*
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Ignorance, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Joke by Milan Kundera*


Denmark:
Quicksand by Nella Larsen (born America to Danish mother & Danish West Indian father)
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg*


Dominica:
✅Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys*


Dominican Republic:
✅The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz*
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa (Peruvian author)


Ecuador:
Queer by William S. Burroughs


Egypt:
The Arabian Nights by Anonymous
Thaïs by Anatole France (French author)
Pharaoh by Bolesław Prus (Polish author)
The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Gustave Flaubert (French author)
Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
Justine by Lawrence Durrell (British Indian author)
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (Sri Lankan author)
Miramar, Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz*
✅Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi*
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson
Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann (German author)


Estonia:
Professor Martens' Departure by Jaan Kross*


Ethiopia:
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson
An Ethiopian Romance by Heliodorus of Emesa (Ancient Greek author)
The New World by Heruy Wolde Selassie*


Finland:
The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna*
✅The Summer Book by Tove Jansson*
The Unknown Soldier by Väinö Linna*
The Manila Rope by Veijo Meri*


France:
✅The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas*
Nadja by André Breton*
Fruits of the Earth, Strait is the Gate, The Counterfeiters by André Gide*
Transit by Anna Seghers (German author)
✅The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Froth on the Daydream by Boris Vian*
Claudine's House by Colette*
Rameau's Nephew / D'Alembert's Dream, Maldoror and Poems by Comte de Lautréamont* (born in Uruguay)

Jacques the Fatalist, The Nun by Denis Diderot*
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings
August Is A Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien (Irish author)
The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen (Irish author)
L'Assommoir, Nana, Thérèse Raquin, Germinal, The Beast Within by Émile Zola*
Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger (German author)
Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Her Privates We by Frederic Manning (Australian author)
Vipers' Tangle by François Mauriac*
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais*
Bonjour tristesse by Françoise Sagan*

France:
L'Abbé C, Story of the Eye, Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille*
Under Satan's Sun by Georges Bernanos*
W, or the Memory of Childhood, Things: A Story of the Sixties and a Man Asleep, A Void, Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec*
The Devil's Pool by George Sand
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
✅Madame Bovary, Bouvard and Pécuchet with The Dictionary of Received Ideas, Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert*

Pierre et Jean - Guy de Maupassant, Une vie, Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant*
Under Fire by Henri Barbusse*
The Ambassadors by Henry James
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Eugénie Grandet, Lost Illusions Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac*
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky (Ukrainian Jewish origin)
Super-Cannes by J.G. Ballard (Chinese English author)
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Les Enfants terribles by Jean Cocteau*
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau 3 by Jean-Jacques Rousseau*
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre*
Quartet by Jean Rhys (Dominican author)
Smiley's People by John le Carré
The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
Against Nature, The Damned by Joris-Karl Huysmans*
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes

The Opposing Shore by Julien Gracq*
Asphodel by Lauren Hammond
A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne (Irish author)
Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
The Bells of Basel by Louis Aragon (Irish author)
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline*
Fantômas by Marcel Allain*
Manon des sources by Marcel Pagnol*
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust*

Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings, The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade*
Death Sentence by Maurice Blanchot*
Whatever by Michel Houellebecq (Réunion)
The Ogre by Michel Tournier*
✅The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (Moroccan author)
The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho (Brazilian author)
Mrs Harris Goes to Paris Mrs Harris Goes to New York by Paul Gallico
The Pigeon, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind (German author)

Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Duncker (Jamaican author)
Story of O by Pauline Réage*
The Book About Blanche and Marie by Per Olov Enquist (Swedish)
Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos*
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke (Austro-Hungarian/ Czech author)
Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau*
The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet*
Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel*
Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary (Lithuanian author)

The Birds Fall Down, The Thinking Reed by Rebecca West
Mercier and Camier by Samuel Beckett (Irish author)
Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War by Sebastian Faulks
Retreat Without Song by Shahan Shahnour (Armenian author)
The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir*
The Red and the Black by Stendhal*
Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works by Thomas Nashe (Austrian author)

The Wars by Timothy Findley (Canadian)
Les Miserables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo*
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham*
Tarr by Wyndham Lewis (Canadian author)


Gabon:
Jealousy by Alain Robbe-Grillet
(French author)

Georgia:
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov (Russian author)

Germany:
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
The Case of Sergeant Grischa by Arnold Zweig
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Couples, Passersby, The Young Man by Botho Strauß
All Souls' Day by Cees Nooteboom
The Quest for Christa T., Patterns of Childhood by Christa Wolf
Goodbye to Berlin, Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann

Memoirs of My Nervous Illness by Daniel Paul Schreber
Pilgrimage: v. 1 by Dorothy M. Richardson
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by E.T.A. Hoffmann
All Quiet on the Western Front byErich Maria Remarque
Storm of Steel, The Glass Bees by Ernst Jünger
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance from the German of Novalis by Friedrich von Schlegel
Cat and Mouse, The Tin Drum, Dog Years by Günter Grass

Green Henry by Gottfried Keller
The Adventurous Simplicissimus by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, Billiards at Half-Past Nine, Group Portrait with Lady, The Safety Net by Heinrich Böll
Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist
Professor Unrat by Heinrich Mann
The Guiltless by Hermann Broch
Steppenwolf, Rosshalde by Hermann Hesse

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Elective Affinities, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Smiley's People by John le Carré
The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
In Search of Klingsor by Jorge Volpi
Life of a Good-for-nothing by Joseph von Eichendorff
The Blindness of the Heart by Julia Franck
Anton Reiser by Karl Philipp Moritz
Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin

Halbzeit by Martin Walser by Monika Maron
The Left-Handed Woman by Peter Handke
The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
The German Lesson by Siegfried Lenz
The Twins by Tessa de Loo
Effi Briest, The Stechlin by Theodor Fontane
Doctor Faustus, Buddenbrooks, Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann
The Invention of Curried Sausage by Uwe Timm
The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
The Hothouse by Wolfgang Koeppen


Greece:
Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture: A Novel of Mathematical Obsession by Apostolos Doxiadis
The Third Wedding by Costas Taktsis
✅Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
The Golden Ass by Apuleius
The Complete Fables of Aesop by Aesop
The Daughter by Pavlos Matesis
The Late-Night News by Petros Markaris
Hyperion oder Der Eremit in Griechenland by Friedrich Hölderlin
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
Z by Vassilis Vassilikos
Callirhoe by Chariton
Fool's Gold by Maro Douka
Hebdomeros by Giorgio de Chirico
The Magus by John Fowles
The Names by Don DeLillo
Astradeni by Eugenia Fakinou


Greenland:
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg


Guinea:
The Dark Child by Camara Laye


Guyana:
Disappearance by David Dabydeen
(mostly set in England)

Haiti:
The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier


Hungary:
Eclipse of the Crescent Moon by Géza Gárdonyi
Embers by Sándor Márai
Fatelessness by Imre Kertész
The Case Worker by George Konrád
Celestial Harmonies by Péter Esterházy
The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai


Iceland:
Independent People by Halldór Laxness
Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne


India:
An Obedient Father by Akhil Sharma
The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh
Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee
✅A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
All About H. Hatterr by G.V. Desani
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Animal's People by Indra Sinha
The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
✅The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai]
The Vice-Consul by Marguerite Duras
Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra
The Guide by R.K. Narayan
The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
✅A Fine Balance, Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
Kim by Rudyard Kipling

The Moor's Last Sigh, Midnight's Children, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Small Remedies by Shashi Deshpande
The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor
Deep River by Shūsaku Endō
Memories of Rain by Sunetra Gupta
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Indonesia:
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company by Multatuli
Amok and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig
Forever a Stranger and Other Stories by Hella S. Haasse


Iran:
The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat
Alamut by Vladimir Bartol


Iraq:
Vathek by William Beckford
The Arabian Nights by Anonymous


Ireland:
The Gathering by Anne EnrightThe Talk of the Town by Ardal O'Hanlon
Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan
The Heather Blazing by Colm Tóibín
Melmoth the Wanderer, Albigenses by Charles Maturin
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M., The Real Charlotte by Edith Œnone Somerville
Girl with Green Eyes, In the Forest, The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien

A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
The Last September, A World of Love by Elizabeth Bowen
The Bitter Glass by Eilís Dillon
The Third Policeman, At Swim-Two-Birds, The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story about the Hard Life by Flann O'Brien
Troubles by J.G. Farrell
Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Dubliners, Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

In a Glass Darkly by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
The Trusting and the Maimed by James Plunkett
The Charwoman's Daughter by James Stephens
At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill
The Sea, The Newton Letter, The Untouchable, The Book of Evidence by John Banville
Amongst Women, That They May Face The Rising Sun by John McGahern

A Modest Proposal, A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift
Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland
Ormond by Maria Edgeworth ✅The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
Worstward Ho, How It Is, Malone Dies, Molloy, Watt, Mercier and Camier by Samuel Beckett
The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
The Story of Lucy Gault, Fools of Fortune, Felicia's Journey by William Trevor


Israel:
Life of Christ by Giovanni Papini
A Tale of Love and Darkness, Black Box by Amos Oz
Barabbas by Pär Lagerkvist
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace
Operation Shylock: A Confession by Philip Roth
In the Heart of the Seas by S.Y. Agnon
The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis


Italy:
✅A Room with a View, Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
The Story of the Lost Child, Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante
Cause for Alarm by Erica Spindler
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
I'm Not Scared by Niccolò Ammaniti
The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, The Path to the Spiders' Nests, Our Ancestors: The Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees, The Non-Existent Knight, The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Don't Move by Margaret Mazzantini
The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
One, None and a Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello
Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year by Carlo Levi
A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne
The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
The Child Of Pleasure by Gabriele D'Annunzio
The Viceroys by Federico De Roberto
As a Man Grows Older, Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Aaron's Rod by D.H. Lawrence
Conversations in Sicily by Elio Vittorini
Callirhoe by Chariton
The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch
Disobedience, The Time of Indifference, Contempt by Alberto Moravia
La ragazza di Bube by Carlo Cassola
Ovid's Metamorphosis. by Ovid
Shroud by John Banville
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Vertigo by W.G. Sebald
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
Harvesters, The Moon and the Bonfire by Cesare Pavese
I Malavoglia by Giovanni Verga
To Each His Own by Leonardo Sciascia
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati

The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
A Day Off: Two Novels and Some Short Stories by Storm Jameson
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Death in Rome by Wolfgang Koeppen

Jamaica:
Small Island by Andrea Levy
(mostly set in England)


Japan:
After the Quake, 1Q84, Kafka on the Shore, Sputnik Sweetheart, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
✅Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
The Story of the Old Bamboo-hewer in English and Classical Japanese: Also known as The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter or The Tale of Princess Kaguya by Frederick Victor Dickins
The Twilight Years by Sawako Ariyoshi
Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburō Ōe
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Silence, Deep River by Shūsaku Endō
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
An Artist of the Floating World, A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb
Almost Transparent Blue by Ryū Murakami
Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki
Some Prefer Nettles by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
The Sea of Fertility by Yukio Mishima
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Crossfire by Miyuki Miyabe
Silk by Alessandro Baricco


Kazakhstan:
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn


Kenya:
Matigari, The River Between, Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
✅Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker
Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow


Korea:
The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
Land by Pak Kyongni
태백산맥 세트 by Jo Jung-rae


Lebanon:
Mao II by Don DeLillo


Lesotho:
Chaka Zulu by Thomas Mofolo


Libya:
✅The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


Lithuania:
Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen


Macau:
The Forbidden Kingdom by J. Slauerhoff


Malaysia:
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem by Emilio Salgari
✅A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute


Mauritius:
Islands by Dan Sleigh


Malta:
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
V. by Thomas Pynchon


Melanesia:
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker


Mexico:
✅Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela
Queer, Junky by William S. Burroughs
Under the Volcano, Dark As The Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid by Malcolm Lowry
The Plumed Serpent by D.H. Lawrence
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West, All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Vernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre
The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings by Octavio Paz
The Burning Plain and Other Stories by Juan Rulfo
The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
Artemio Cruz'un Ölümü by Carlos Fuentes
2666, The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
Here's to You, Jesusa! by Elena Poniatowska


Monaco:
✅Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (Mostly set in England)


Mongolia:
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino


Montserrat:
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano


Morocco:
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud

Netherlands:
The Twins by Tessa de Loo
All Souls' Day, Rituals by Cees Nooteboom
The Laws
The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch
The Garden Where the Brass Band Played by Simon Vestdijk
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Eline Vere by Louis Couperus
De kleine Johannes by Frederik van Eeden
Geur der droefenis by Alfred Kossmann
Margot en de engelen by Kristien Hemmerechts
Gimmick! by Joost Zwagerman
Terug naar Oegstgeest by Jan Wolkers
Camera Obscura by Hildebrand


New Zealand:
The Colour by Rose Tremain
Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
Erewhon by Samuel Butler
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell


Nigeria:
✅Half of a Yellow Sun, Americana by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano


Norway:
Hunger, Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas
The House with the Blind Glass Windows by Herbjørg Wassmo
Alberta and Jacob by Cora Sandel
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset


Oman:
The Arabian Nights by Anonymous


Pakistan:
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Shame by Salman Rushdie


Peru:
The Cubs and Other Stories, The Time of the Hero, The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa
Deep Rivers by José María Arguedas
A World for Julius by Alfredo Bryce Echenique
Broad and Alien is the World by Ciro Alegría


Poland:
The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Andrzej Szczypiorski
Ashes and Diamonds by Jerzy Andrzejewski
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Survival in Auschwitz, If Not Now, When?, The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
Jakob the Liar by Jurek Becker
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski
Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz
The Manor, The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, Dog Years by Günter Grass
Insatiability by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz


Portugal:
The Double, Baltasar and Blimunda, The History of the Siege of Lisbon, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by José Saramago
Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi
The Forbidden Kingdom by J. Slauerhoff
The Crime of Father Amaro by Eça de Queirós
Fado Alexandrino by António Lobo Antunes
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa


Romania:
On the Heights of Despair by Emil M. Cioran
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Forest Of The Hanged by Liviu Rebreanu


Russia:
✅Anna Karenina, War and Peace, The Kreutzer Sonata, The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
Dead Souls, The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
WE, Yevgeny Zamyatin And A modern Utopia, H. G. Wells by Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Artamanovs, Mother by Maxim Gorky
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The House of the Dead, Demons, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Moscow to the End of the Line by Venedikt Erofeev
Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Fathers and Sons, On the Eve, Spring Torrents, A Lear of the Steppes, Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
The Enchanted Wanderer: Selected Tales by Nikolai Leskov
The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge
Buddha's Little Finger, The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
The Master of Petersburg by J.M. Coetzee
A Romance with Cocaine by M. Ageyev


Scotland:
✅To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The 39 Steps by John Buchan
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
✅Kidnapped, The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale by Robert Louis Stevenson
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollett
A Scots Quair: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe, Grey Granite by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
The Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway
Complicity, The Crow Road, The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

Kieron Smith, Boy, How Late It Was, How Late, The Busconductor Hines, A Disaffection by James Kelman
✅Rob Roy, The Monastery by Walter Scott
Lanark by Alasdair Gray
Looking for the Possible Dance by A.L. Kennedy
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
Wild Harbour by Ian Macpherson
Regeneration, The Ghost Road by Pat Barker


Senegal:
So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ
God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembène


Serbia:
Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić
Garden, Ashes by Danilo Kiš


Sierra Leone:
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs


Singapore:
The Singapore Grip by J.G. Farrell


Slovakia:
Embers by Sándor Márai


Slovenia:
Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
A Day in Spring by Ciril Kosmač


South Africa:
Foe, Disgrace, Life and Times of Michael K, Waiting for the Barbarians, Dusklands, In the Heart of the Country, Youth by J.M. Coetzee
✅Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
July's People, Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing
Down Second Avenue: Growing Up in a South African Ghetto by Ezekiel Mphahlele
A Dry White Season by André Brink
The Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda
Ancestral Voices by Etienne van Heerden
Islands by Dan Sleigh


South America: (Country unknown)
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf


South Korea:
Land by Pak Kyongni
Jo Jung-rae
태백산맥 세트

Spain:
Nada by Carmen Laforet
The Heretic: A Novel of the Inquisition by Miguel Delibes
The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Don Quixote, The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda: A Northern Story by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes by Unknown
The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Platero and I by Juan Ramón Jiménez
Obabakoak by Bernardo Atxaga
The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
Memoirs of a Peasant Boy by Xosé Neira Vilas
Journey to the Alcarria: Travels through the Spanish Countryside, The Hive by Camilo José Cela
Bartleby & Co. by Enrique Vila-Matas
After the Death of Don Juan by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Cocaine Nights by J.G. Ballard
Marks of Identity by Juan Goytisolo
Southern Seas by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
El cuarto de atrás by Carmen Martín Gaite
Pepita Jiménez by Juan Valera
Solitude by Víctor Català
The House of Ulloa by Emilia Pardo Bazán
Misericordia, Fortunata and Jacinta by Benito Pérez Galdós
Amadis of Gaul by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo
Tirant lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell
Time of Silence by Luis Martín-Santos
La Regenta by Leopoldo Alas
A Light Comedy by Eduardo Mendoza
Fever and Spear, A Heart So White by Javier Marías
La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas
Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas
La dama número trece by José Carlos Somoza


St. Kitts and Nevis
Indigo by Marina Warner


Sudan:
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih


Suriname:
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn


Sweden:
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Gösta Berling's Saga by Selma Lagerlöf
By the Open Sea, The Red Room, The People of Hemso by August Strindberg
The Christmas Oratorio by Göran Tunström
Simon and the Oaks by Marianne Fredriksson
England Made Me by Graham Greene


Switzerland:
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Smiley's People by John le Carré
The Judge and His Hangman by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Homo faber, I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch
Confessions, Emile, Julie, or the New Heloise, Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Green Henry by Gottfried Keller
Her Lover by Albert Cohen
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann


Syria:
The Arabian Nights by Anonymous


Thailand:
Platform by Michel Houellebecq
The Shadow-Line by Joseph Conrad


Trinidad & Tobago:
The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections by V.S. Naipaul
✅Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Foe by J.M. Coetzee
Foe

Tunisia:
The Immoralist by André Gide
Things: A Story of the Sixties; A Man Asleep by Georges Perec


Turkey:
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Life Is a Caravanserai by Emine Sevgi Özdamar


Uganda:
In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul


Ukraine:
✅A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Cataract by Mykhaylo Osadchy
The Cathedral by Oles Honchar
In the Heart of the Seas by S.Y. Agnon


Uruguay:
The Shipyard by Juan Carlos Onetti
Memory of Fire by Eduardo Galeano


Uzbekistan:
Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Vatican City:
Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe


Venezuela:
The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier


Vietnam:
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
Dispatches by Michael Herr
Paradise of the Blind by Dương Thu Hương
Dusklands by J.M. Coetzee


Wales:
On The Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
Monica by Saunders Lewis
Everything You Need by A.L. Kennedy
The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis


Zimbabwe:
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
✅King Solomon's Mines, She by H. Rider Haggard
The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing

England:
The Children's Book, The Virgin in the Garden, Possession by A.S. Byatt
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Thursbitch by Alan Garner
The Swimming-Pool Library, The Line of Beauty, The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
Brave New World, Chrome Yellow, Antic Hay, Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus by Alexander Pope
The Accidental, Winter by Ali Smith
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Wise Children, Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
No Laughing Matter by Angus Wilson
✅The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
A Clockwork Orange, Inside Mr. Enderby by Anthony Burgess
A Dance to the Music of Time, Volume 1: Spring by Anthony Powell
The Last Chronicle of Barset, Castle Richmond, He Knew He Was Right, Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope
The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
✅The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, ✅The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Excellent Women, Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Albert Angelo, House Mother Normal: A Geriatric Comedy, Trawl by B.S.Johnson
✅A Tale of Two Cities, ✅Oliver Twist, ✅Great Expectations, ✅David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Martin Chuzzlewit Volume II,, Hard Times, Bleak House, Nicholas Nickleby, Our mutual friend by Charles Dickens
✅The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
✅Jane Eyre, Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes
✅Women in LoveLady Chatterley's Lover, Sons and Lovers, The Fox, Aaron's Rod, The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
Moll Flanders, Roxana by Daniel Defoe
✅Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Disappearance by David Dabydeen
In Parenthesis by David Jones
Nineteen Seventy Seven by David Peace
The Golden Notebook, The Diaries of Jane Somers: The Diary of a Good Neighbor and If The Old Could by Doris Lessing
Pilgrimage: v. 1 by Dorothy M. Richardson
The Nine Tailors, Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
✅The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
Mother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn
Eva Trout, To the North by Elizabeth Bowen
Love in Excess by Eliza Fowler Haywood
✅North and South, ✅Wives and Daughters, ✅Cranford, Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor
✅Howards End by E.M. Forster
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Brideshead Revisited, Vile Bodies, A Handful of Dust, Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
✅Evelina, Camilla, Cecilia by Frances Burney
✅Middlemarch, Silas Mariner, Adam Bede, Daniel Deronda, The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
New Grub Street, Born in Exile, by George Gissing
The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
1984, Animal Farm, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life by Gillian Rose
The End of the Affair, Brighton Rock, England Made Me by Graham Greene
Waterland, The Light of Day by Graham Swift
Asphodel by H.D.
The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, Tono-Bungay by H.G. Wells
The Buddha of Suburbia, Intimacy, Gabriel's Gift by Hanif Kureishi
Schooling by Heather McGowan
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
✅The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingJoseph Andrews, Amelia by Henry Fielding
Back, Blindness, Caught, Living, Loving, Party Going by Henry Green
✅The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove, The Turn of the Screw, The Golden Bowl, What Maisie Knew by Henry James
The Man of Feeling by Henry MacKenzie
✅Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson
Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
Amsterdam, The Cement Garden, The Child in Time, Enduring Love, Saturday, Atonement by Ian McEwan
London Orbital, Downriver, Dining on Stones by Iain Sinclair

Under the Net, The Black Prince, The Bell, The Sea, The Sea, A Severed Head, The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch
The Drowned World, Crash by J.G. Ballard
✅The Lord of the Rings, ✅The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
✅Pride and Prejudice, ✅Persuasion, ✅Mansfield Park, ✅Emma, ✅Sense and Sensibility, ✅Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
All Souls by Javier Marías
Arcadia by Jim Crace
Written on the Body, Sexing the Cherry, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe
Fanny Hill by John Cleland
✅The French Lieutenant's Woman, A Maggot, The Collector by John Fowles
The Forsyth Saga by John Galsworthy
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Smiley's People by John le Carré
Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit by John Lyly
Chocky, The Day of the Triffids, The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
The Shadow-Line, The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad
Larva: A Midsummer Night's Babel by Julián Ríos
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
The Green Man by Kingsley Amis
Tristam Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
✅Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ✅Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
London Fields, Money, Dead Babies, The Information by Martin Amis
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
The Girls of Slender Means, Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
H(A)PPY by Nicola Barker
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Another World, The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton
Hawksmoor, The House of Doctor Dee, The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd
The Well of Loneliness of Radclyffe Hall
The Return of the Soldier, Harriet Hume, The Birds Fall Down by Rebecca West
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
Clarissa, Pamela by Samuel Richardson
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
A Day Off: Two Novels and Some Short Stories by Storm Jameson
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
Thomas Of Reading by Thomas Deloney
✅Far From the Madding Crowd, ✅Tess of the D'Urbervilles, ✅The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Woodlanders, Jude the Obscure, The Hand of Ethelberta, The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works by Thomas Nashe
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
The Years, The Waves, Between the Acts, Orlando, Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
Cakes and Ale, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
The Woman in White, The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
✅Lord of the Flies (set on unnamed pacific island) Caleb Williams by William Godwin
Rites of Passage by William Golding
✅Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
News from Nowhere by William Morris
Great Apes, How the Dead Live by Will Self
✅Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
The Childermass, The Revenge for Love, The Apes of God by Wyndham Lewis
✅White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Alabama:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Quicksand by Nella Larsen
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison


Alaska:
✅The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Drop City by T. Coraghessan Boyle


Arizona:
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace


Arkansas:
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou


California:
Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton EllisThe Graduate by Charles Webb
The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
The Circle by Dave Eggers
Get Shorty by Elmore LeonardMyra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal
Martin Eden by Jack London
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
Blonde by Joyce Carol OatesCannery Row, Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Cutter and Bone by Newton Thornburg
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Farewell, My Lovely, The Long Goodbye, The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
In Watermelon Sugar, Willard and His Bowling Trophies by Richard Brautigan
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
The Crying of Lot 49, Vineland by Thomas Pynchon


Colorado:
The Shining by Stephen King


Delaware:
Beloved by Toni Morrison


Florida:
Get Shorty, La Brava by Elmore Leonard
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
The Day of the Dolphin by Robert Merle
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
La Brava

Georgia:
✅The Color Purple, Possessing the Secret of Joy, The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker
A House in the Uplands by Erskine Caldwell
The Violent Bear It Away, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Cane by Jean Toomer
✅Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell


Hawaii:
Democracy by Joan Didion


Indiana:
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Breakfast of Champions, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.


Illinois:
Nowhere Man by Aleksandar Hemon
The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
Native Son by Richard Wright
The Adventures of Augie March, Dangling Man, Humbolt's Gift by Saul Bellow by Saul Bellow
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair


Iowa:
Home by Marilynne Robinson


Kansas:
Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote


Kentucky:
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe


Louisiana:
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Junky by William S. Burroughs


Maine:
Schooling by Heather McGowanThe Cider House Rules by John Irving
Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates
✅The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Cost by Roxana Robinson


Maryland:
Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
The Floating Opera, The End of the Road, Giles Goat-Boy by John BarthTimbuktu by Paul Auster
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon


Massachusetts:
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Ethan Frome, Summer by Edith Wharton
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville
✅Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
✅The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Scarlett Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
On Beauty by Zadie Smith


Michigan:
The Beautiful Room Is Empty by Edmund White
City Primeval by Elmore Leonard
Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Them by Joyce Carol Oates
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison


Minnesota:
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis


Mississippi:
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora WeltyAbsalom, Absalom!, Go Down, Moses, The Sound and the Fury, The Hamlet by William Faulkner


Missouri:
✅The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Mr. VertigoPaul Auster

Montana:
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett


Nevada:
The Goldfinch by Donna TarttPlay It As It Lays by Joan Didion
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson


New Hampshire:
A Prayer for Owen Meany, The World According to Garp by John Irving
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov


New Jersey:
A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
In Search of Klingsor by Jorge Volpi (Mexican author)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (Dominican Republic author)
Nemesis, The Breast, American Pastoral, The Plot Against America by Philip Roth


New Mexico:
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
The Professor's House by Willa Cather

New York:
Invisible, Moon Palace, The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Seize the Day, Herzog, The Victim by Saul Bellow
World's End by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Junky, Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The Public Burning by Robert Coover
A Home at the End of the World, The Hours by Michael Cunningham


The Body Artist, Falling Man by Don DeLillo
Billy BathgateThe Book of DanielCity of God, Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
The 42nd Parallel, Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
American Psycho, Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides


✅The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Blind Man with a Pistol by Chester Himes
What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
Jahrestage 1 by Uwe Johnson
Fear of Flying by Erica JongAmerika by Franz Kafka
Fata Morgana by William Kotzwinkle
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The Flame Throwers by Rachel Kushner


Passing, Quicksand by Nella Larsen
The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt
10 : 04 by Ben Lerner
Cigarettes by Harry Mathews
Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
Watchmen by Alan MooreAnagrams by Lorrie MooreJazz by Toni Morrison
Marya: A Life by Joyce Carol OatesThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Godfather by Mario Puzo


Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
Fury by Salman Rushdie
Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.
✅The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
✅The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton
The Beautiful Room Is Empty by Edmund White
I Thought of Daisy by Edmund Wilson
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe


North Carolina:
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe


North Dakota:
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich


Ohio:
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Beloved, The Bluest EyeSula by Toni Morrison
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.


Oklahoma:
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck


Oregon:
✅One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey


Pennsylvania:
The Music of Chance by Paul Auster
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
American Rust by Philipp Meyer
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
✅The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike


Rhode Island
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.


South Carolina:
Typical: Stories by Padgett Powell


South Dakota:
Inland by Gerald Murnane


Tennessee:
Quicksand by Nella Larsen
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor


Texas:
The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard
Come Back, Dr. Caligari by Donald Barthelme
Libra by Don DeLillo
All the Pretty Horses, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
Vernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson


Vermont:
The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
The Secret History by Donna Tartt


Virginia:
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison


Washington
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk


Washington, DC
The Public Burning by Robert Coover


Wisconsin
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Like Life by Lorrie Moore


Wyoming
Contact by Carl Sagan