One of the things that make books so powerful is that they can let you sample other cultures and experiences you’ll never get to have in your own life.
With that in mind, do you want to expand your reading world a bit?
Well, here is an utterly brilliant literature map of the world
Courtesy: Backforward24
The Americas
S.No | Country Name | Book Name | Author | Genre | Language | Translated into English |
1 | Canada | Anne of Green Gables | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Novel | English | |
2 | U.S.A | To Kill a Mocking Bird | Harper Lee | Novel | English | |
3 | Mexico | Pedro Paramo | Juan Rulfo | Novel | Spanish | Margaret Sayers Peden |
4 | Guatemala | Men of Maize | Miguel Ángel Asturias | Novel | Spanish | |
5 | Belize | Beka Lamb | Zee Edgell | Historical novel | English | |
6 | Honduras | Cipotes | Ramón Amaya Amador | Novel | Spanish | |
7 | El Salvador | Bitter Grounds | Sandra Benitez | Novel | English | |
8 | Nicaragua | The Country Under my Skin | Gioconda Belli | Memoir | English | |
9 | Costa Rica | La Isla de los hombres solos | Jose Leon Sanchez | Novel | Spanish | |
10 | Panama | Plenilunio | Antonio Muñoz Molina | Fiction | Spanish | |
11 | Colombia | 100 Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | Novel | Spanish | Gregory Rabassa |
12 | Venezuela | Dona Barbara | Rómulo Gallegos | Novel | Spanish | |
13 | Guyana | Palace of the Peacock | Wilson Harris | Novel | English | |
14 | Suriname | The Price of Sugar | Cynthia McLeod | Novel | Spanish | Gerald R Mettam |
15 | French Guiana | Papillon | Henri Charrière | Autobiographical novel | French | Patrick O’Brian |
16 | Ecuador | The Villager | Professor Jorge Icaza Ph.D. | Novel | Spanish | Bernard Dulsey |
17 | Brazil | Dom Casmurro | Machado de Assis | Novel realism | Portuguese | Helen Caldwell |
18 | Peru | Death in the Andes | Mario Vargas Llosa | Novel | Spanish | Edith Grossman |
19 | Bolivia | I Am a Taxi | Deborah Ellis | Juvenile Fiction | English | |
20 | Paraguay | I the Supreme | Augusto Roa Bastos | Historical novel | Spanish | Helen Lane |
21 | Argentina | Ficciones | Jorge Luis Borges | Short Stories | Spanish | Emece Editories |
22 | Chile | The House of the Spirits | Isabel Allende | Autobiographical novel | Spanish | Magda Bogin |
23 | Uruguay | Soccer in the Sun and Shadow | Eduardo Galeano | Sports & Recreation | English | |
24 | Cuba | Havana Bay | Martin Cruz Smith | Crime novel | English | |
25 | Haiti | Breath, Eyes, Memory | Edwidge Danticat | Realistic Fiction | English | |
26 | Dominican Republic | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Díaz | Novel | English | |
27 | Bahamas | The Measure of a Man | Sidney Poitier | Autobiography | English | |
28 | Jamaica | A brief history of Seven Killings | Marlon James | Fiction | English | |
29 | Puerto Rico | When I was Puerto Rican | Esmeralda Santiago | Autobiography | English | |
30 | Lesser Antilles | Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys | Postmodern novel | English | |
31 | Greenland | Islands, the Universe, Home | Gretel Ehrlich | Non fiction | English |
Europe
S.No | Country Name | Book Name | Author | Genre | Language | Translated into English |
1 | Norway | Hunger | Knut Hamsun | Psychological novel | Norwegian | George Egerton, Robert Bly, Sverre Lyngstad |
2 | Iceland | Jar City | Arnaldur Indriðason | Mystery novel | Icelandic | Bernard Scudder |
3 | Sweden | Gosta Berling’s Saga | Selma Lagerlöf | Speculative fiction | Swedish | LILLIE TUDEER |
4 | Finland | The Unknown Soldier | Väinö Linna | War novel | Finnish | Collins (UK), Putnam (US) |
5 | Denmark | Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow | Peter Høeg | Mystery novel | Danish | Tiina Nunnally |
6 | Latvia | Nāves ēnā | Rūdolfs Blaumanis | Novel | Latvian | |
7 | Estonia | Truth and Justice | Anton Hansen Tammsaare | Novel | Estonian | |
8 | Lithuania | White Field, Black Sheep | Daiva Markelis | Memoir | English | |
9 | Belarus | Voices from Chernobyl | Svetlana Alexievich | Non-fiction | Russian | Keith Gessen |
10 | Ukraine | Death and the Penguin | Andrey Kurkov | Satire, Surrealism | Russian | George Bird |
11 | Moldova | A Siberian Education | Nicolai Lilin | Memoir | Russian | Jonathan Hunt |
12 | Romania | Forest of the Hanged | Liviu Rebreanu | Novel | Romanian | A.V. Wise |
13 | Bulgaria | Under the Yoke | Ivan Minchov Vazov | Novel | English | |
14 | Poland | Pan Tadeusz | Adam Mickiewicz | Epic poetry | Polish | |
15 | Germany | Buddenbrooks | Thomas Mann | Family saga | German | John E. Woods |
16 | Netherlands | The Discovery of Heaven | Harry Mulisch | Novel | Dutch | Paul Vincent |
17 | Belgium | The Sorrow of Belgium | Hugo Claus | Novel | Dutch | Arnold J. Pomerans |
18 | Luxembourg | In Reality: Selected Poems | Jean Portante | Selected Poems | English | |
19 | United Kingdom | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | Novel | English | |
20 | Ireland | Ulysses | James Joyce | Novel | English | |
21 | Czechia | The Good Soldier | Jaroslav Hašek | Satire, black comedy | Czech | Paul Selver, Cecil Parrott, Zenny Sadlon |
22 | Slovakia | Rivers of Babylon | Peter Pišťanek | Thriller novel | Czech | Peter Petro |
23 | France | The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | Historical novel | French | Robin Buss |
24 | Spain | Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | Novel | Spanish | John Ormsby |
25 | Portugal | Baltasar and Blimunda | José Saramago | Novel | Portuguese | Giovanni Pontiero |
26 | Austria | The Man Without Qualities | Robert Musil | Novel | German | Burton Pike |
27 | Switzerland | Heidi | Johanna Spyri | Children’s fiction | German | Deidre S. Laiken |
28 | Italy | The Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri | Narrative Poem | Italian | Allen Mandelbaum |
29 | Slovenia | Alamut | Vladimir Bartol | Novel | Slovene | Michael Biggins |
30 | Croatia | Cafe Europa | Slavenka Drakulić | Essays | English | |
31 | Hungary | Eclipse of the Crescent Moon | Géza Gárdonyi | Historical novel | Hungarian | George F. Cushing |
32 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Zlata’s diary | Zlata Filipović | Diary | Bosnian | Christina Pribićević-Zorić |
33 | Serbia | Dictionary of the Khazars | Milorad Pavić | Novel | Serbian | Christina Pribicevic-Zoric |
34 | Montenegro | Montenegro: A Novel | Starling Lawrence | Fiction | English | |
35 | Albania | The General of the Dead Army | Ismail Kadare | Historical novel | Albanian | Derek Coltman |
36 | Macedonia | Freud’s Sister | Goce Smilevski | Fiction | Macedonian | Christina E. Kramer |
37 | Greece | The Iliad | Homer | Epic poem | Ancient Greek | A. S. Kline |
38 | Russia | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | Novel | Russian | Nathan Haskell Dole |
Aisa
S.No | Country Name | Book Name | Author | Genre | Language | Translated into English |
1 | Turkey | My Name is Red | Orhan Pamuk | Historical Fiction | Turkish | Erdağ M. Göknar |
2 | Georgia | Knight in the Panther’s Skin | Shota Rustaveli | Epic Poetry | Georgian | |
3 | Armenia | The Fool | Raffi | Novel | Armenian | Jane S. Wingate (Boston, 1950) and Donald Abcarian (Princeton, 2000) |
4 | Azerbaijan | Blue Angels | Chingiz Abdullayev | Detective fiction | Azerbaijani, Russian | |
5 | Iran | Shahnameh | Abolqasem Ferdowsi | Epic Poem | Persian | GEORGE WARNER and EDMOND WARNER |
6 | Iraq | The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq | Hassan Blasim | Short Story Collection | Arabic | Jonathan Wright |
7 | Syria | The Dark Side of love | Rafik Schami | Novel | Arabic | Anthea Bell |
8 | Lebanon | The Hakawati | Rabih Alameddine | Novel | English | |
9 | Israel | Mornings in Jenin | Susan Abulhawa | Novel | English | |
10 | Kuwait | A Map of Home | Randa Jarrar | Novel | English | |
11 | UAE | The Sand Fish | Maha Gargash | Novel | English | |
12 | Saudi Arabia | Cities of Salt | Abdel Rahman Munif | Novel | Arabic | Peter Theroux |
13 | Qatar | The Emergence of Qatar | Habibur Rahman | History Non Fiction | English | |
14 | Bahrain | Chronicles of Majnun Layla and Selected Poems | Qassim Haddad | Poetry | Arabic | Ferial Ghazoul |
15 | Yemen | The Hostage | Zayd Mutee’ Dammaj | Novel | Arabic | Christopher Tingley, May Jayyusi |
16 | Oman | The Turtle of Oman | Naomi Shihab Nye | Juvenile Fiction | English | |
17 | Kazakhstan | The Book of Words | Abay Qunanbayuli | Collection of Poems | Kazakh | |
18 | Turkmenistan | The Tale of Aypi | Ak Welsapar | Fiction | English | |
19 | Uzbekistan | Chasing the Sea | Tom Bissell | History | English | |
20 | Kyrgyzstan | Jamilia | Chingiz Aytmatov | Novel | Russian | Fainna Glagoleva |
21 | Tajikistan | Hurramabad | Andreĭ Volos | Fiction | Russian | A. L. Tait |
22 | Afghanistan | Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | Historical fiction | English | |
23 | Pakistan | The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Mohsin Hamid | Novel | English | |
24 | Nepal | The Palpasa Cafe | Narayan Wagle | Novel | Nepali | Bikash Sangraulaa |
25 | India | The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | Novel | English | |
26 | Bhutan | The Circle of Karma | Kunzang Choden | Fiction | English | |
27 | Balochistan | The Baloch Cultural Heritage | Jan Muhammad Dashti | Non-fiction | English | |
28 | Bangladesh | A Golden Age | Tahmima Anam | Historical novel | English | |
29 | Myanmar | Smile as they Bow | Nu Nu Yi | Fiction | Burmese | Alfred Birnbaum |
30 | Laos | In the Other Side of the Eye | Bryan Thao Worra | Poetry | English | |
31 | Thailand | The Four Reigns | Kukrit Pramoj | Novel | Thai | Tulachandra |
32 | Vietnam | The Sorrows of War | Bao Ninh | Novel | Vietnamese | Frank Palmos |
33 | Cambodia | First they Killed my Father | Loung Ung | Memoir | English | |
34 | Taiwan | Green Island | Shawna Yang Ryan | Novel | English | |
35 | Sri Lanka | Anil’s Ghost | Michael Ondaatje | Historical Fiction | English | |
36 | Mongolia | The Blue Sky | Galsan Tschinag | Novel | Mongolian | Katharina Rout |
37 | Korea | The Aquariums of Pyongyang | Kang Chol-hwan, Pierre Rigoulot | Memoir | Korean | Yair Reiner |
38 | South Korea | The Vegetarian | Han Kang | Contemporary fiction | Korean | Deborah Smith |
39 | Japan | Kokoro | Natsume Sōseki | Novel | Japanese | |
40 | China | The Dream of the Red Chamber | Cao Xueqin | Novel | Chinese | David Hawkes and John Minford |
41 | Malaysia | The Garden of Evening Mists | Tan Twan Eng | Novel | English | |
42 | Brunei | Some Girls | Jillian Lauren | Memoir | English | |
43 | Indonesia | This Earth of Mankind | Pramoedya Ananta Toer | Historical novel | Indonesian | Maxwell Lane |
44 | Philippines | Noli Me Tangere | José Rizal | Historical novel | Spanish | Charles E. Derbyshire |
45 | East Timor | The Redundancy of Courage | Timothy Mo | Novel | English |
Australiz, New Zealand
S.No | Country Name | Book Name | Author | Genre | Language | Translated into English |
1 | Australia | Cloudstreet | Tim Winton | Novel | English | |
2 | Papua New Guinea | Death of a Muruk | Bernard Narokobi | Drama | English | |
3 | Vanuatu | Black Stone | Grace Mera Molisa | Vanuatuan poetry | English | |
4 | Solomon Islands | Suremada | Rexford T Orotaloa | Short Stories | English | |
5 | Fiji | Tales of the Tikongs | Epeli Hau’ofa | Fiction | English | |
6 | New Zealand | The bone People | Keri Hulme | Mystery novel | English |
Africas
S.No | Country Name | Book Name | Author | Genre | Language | Translated into English |
1 | Libya | In the Country of Men | Hisham Matar | Novel | English | |
2 | Algeria | The Stranger | Albert Camus | Philosophical novel | French | Stuart Gilbert |
3 | Chad | The Roots of Heaven | Romain Gary | Novel | French | Jonathan Griffin |
4 | South Africa | Disgrace | J. M. Coetzee | Novel | English | |
5 | Namibia | Born of the Sun: A Namibian Novel | Joseph Diescho, Celeste Wallin | Novel | English | |
6 | DR Congo | The Antipeople | Sony Labou Tansi | Novel | French | |
7 | Mauritania | Silent Terror: A Journey into Contemporary African Slavery | Samuel Cotton | Social Sciences | English | |
8 | Morocco | The Sand Child | Tahar Ben Jelloun | Novel | French | Alan Sheridan |
9 | Mali | Sundiata: Lion King of Mali | David Wisniewski | Juvenile Fiction | English | |
10 | Burkina Faso | The Parachute Drop | Norbert Zongo | Novel | French | Christopher Wise |
11 | Guinea | The Dark Child: The Autobiography of an African Boy | Camara Laye | Memoir | Portuguese | James Kirkup |
12 | Senegal | So Long a Letter | Mariama Bâ | Novel | French | Modupé Bodé-Thomas. |
13 | Sierra Leone | A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier | Ishmael Beah | Memoir | English | |
14 | Côte d’Ivoire | Aya de Yopougon | Marguerite Abouet | Graphic Novel | French | Helge Dascher |
15 | Ghana | Ghana Must Go | Taiye Selasi | Novel | English | |
16 | Nigeria | Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe | Historical fiction | English | |
17 | Niger | Sarraounia | Abdoulaye Mamani | Fiction | French | |
18 | Cameroon | The Old Man and the Medal | Ferdinand Oyono. | Novel | French | John Reed |
19 | Gabon | The Fury and Cries of Women | Angèle Rawiri. | Novel | French | Sara Hanaburgh |
20 | Equatorial Guinea | The Wonga Coup | Adam Roberts | Non-fiction | English | |
21 | Republic of the Congo | Broken Glass | Alain Mabanckou | Novel | French | Helen Stevenson |
22 | Central African Republic | Batouala | Rene Maran | Novel | French | Barbara Beck |
23 | Kenya | Petals of Blood | Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o | Novel | Gikuyu | Chinua Achebe |
24 | Sudan | Lyrics Alley | Leila Aboulela | Novel | English | |
25 | Egypt | Palace Walk | Naguib Mahfouz | Novel | Arabic | William M. Hutchins, Olive E. Kenny |
26 | Ethiopia | Beneath the Lion’s Gaze | Maaza Mengiste | Novel | English | |
27 | Eritrea | I Didn’t Do It for You | Michela Wrong | Non-fiction | English | |
28 | Zambia | Scribbling the Cat | Alexandra Fuller | Non-fiction | English | |
29 | Zimbabwe | The House of Hunger | Dambudzo Marechera | Short Story Collection | English | |
30 | Guinea-Bissau | Unity and Struggle | Amilcar Cabral | Selected Speeches | English | |
31 | Angola | A Gloriosa Família | Pepetela | Novel | Portuguese | |
32 | Botswana | The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency | Alexander McCall Smith | Novel | English | |
33 | Madagascar | Translations from the Night | Jean Joseph Rabearivelo | Selected Poems | French | Robert Ziller |
34 | Lesotho | Chaka | Thomas Mofolo | Novel | Sotho | F. H. Dutton |
35 | Malawi | The Lower River | Paul Theroux | Novel | English | |
36 | Mozambique | Ter ra Sonambula | Mia Couto | Historical fiction | Portuguese | David Brookshaw |
37 | Tanzania | Desertion | Abdulrazak Gurnah | Fiction | English | |
38 | Uganda | Abyssinian Chronicles: A Novel | Moses Isegawa | Novel | English | |
39 | South Sudan | They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky | Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng, Benjamin Ajak, Judy A. Bernstein | Autobiographical story | English | |
40 | Somalia | The Orchard of Lost Souls | Nadifa Mohamed | Historical Fiction | English | |
41 | Tunisia | The pillar of salt | Albert Memmi | Novel | English | |
42 | Rwanda | Left to Tell | Immaculee Ilibagiza, Steve Erwin | Memoir | English |