Literature map of the world

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

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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

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Europe

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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

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Aisa

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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

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Australiz, New Zealand

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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

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Africas

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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

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