To read a book from an author that was born in every country in the world:
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| Country | Author | Book |
| Afghanistan | Hosseini, Khaled | The Kite Runner |
| Albania | Ismail Kadare | The general of the dead army |
| Algeria | Maya Arriz-Tamza | Zaïd le mendiant |
| Andorra | Albert Villaró | El Sindicat de L’oblit |
| Angola | Ondjaki | Good Morning Comrades |
| Antigua and Barbuda | Jamaica Kincaid | Among Flowers |
| Argentina | Claudia Pineiro | Elena Knows |
| Armenia | Narine Abgaryan | Three Apples Fell From the Sky |
| Australia | Michelle de Kretser | The Rose Grower |
| Austria | Rainer Maria Rilke, | Duion elegies |
| Azerbaijan | Nizami Ganjavi | The Story of Layla and Majnun |
| The Bahamas | Helen Klonaris | If I had the wings |
| Bahrain | Noor Al Noaimi | The pearl thief |
| Bangladesh | Adidas Jaigurdar | Rani Choudhury Must Die |
| Barbados | Cherie Jones | How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House |
| Belarus | Valzhyna Mort | Music for the Dead and Ressurected |
| Belgium | George Simenon | The Negro |
| Belize | Zee Edgell | The Festival of San Joaquin |
| Benin | Olympe Bhêly-Quenum | Un Piege sans Fin |
| Bhutan | Kunzang Choden | Aunty Mouse |
| Bolivia | Giovanna Rivero | Fresh Dirt from the Grave |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Sasa Stanisic | How the Soldier Repairs the Gramaphone |
| Botswana | Unity Dow | The Screaming of the Innocent |
| Brazil | Coelho, Paulo | By the River Piedra |
| Bulgaria | Sabahattin Ali | Madonna in a Fur Coat |
| Burkina Faso | Monique Ilboudo | So distant from my life |
| Burundi | Gaël Faye | Small Country |
| Cabo Verde | Germano Almeida | The Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva Araujo |
| Cambodia | Vaddey Ratner | In the Shadow of the Banyon |
| Cameroon | Imbolo Mbue | How Beautiful We Were |
| Canada | Gile Blunt | Forty words for sorrow |
| Central African Republic | Adrienne Yabouza | Co wives Co widows |
| Chad | Koulsy Lamko | Comme des Flèches |
| Chile | Roberto Bolaño Ávalos | Distant Star |
| China | Ma Jian | Red Dust |
| Colombia | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Relato de un naufrago |
| Comoros | Mohamed Kaffir | The Kaffir of Karthala |
| Congo, Democratic Republic of the | Kama Kamanda | Les Contes de Griot |
| Congo, Republic of the | Alain Mabanckou | The Death of Comrade President |
| Costa Rica | John Manuel Arias, | Where there was fire |
| Côte d’Ivoire | Gauz | Standing Heavy |
| Croatia | Dubravka Ugrešić | The Ministry of Pain |
| Cuba | Leonardo Padura | The Transparency of Time |
| Cyprus | Alex Michaelides | The Fury |
| Czech Republic | Milan Kundera | The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
| Denmark | Søren Aabye Kierkegaard | Fear and Trembling |
| Djibouti | Mouna-Hodan Ahmed | Les Enfants du Khat |
| Dominica | Alick Lazare | Nature Island Verses |
| Dominican Republic | Rita Inidiana | Made in Saturn |
| Ecuador | Lorena Hughes | The Spanish Daughter |
| Egypt | Sa’dawi, Nawal | Woman at point zero |
| El Salvador | Roque Dalton | Historias y peomas de una luche de classes |
| Equatorial Guinea | Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel | By Night the Mountain Burns |
| Eritrea | Hannah Azieb Pool | My Fathers’ Daughter, |
| Estonia | Kross, Jaan.Eric. | The Conspiracy |
| Eswatini | Sarah Mkhonza | Weeding the Flower Beds |
| Ethiopia | Mihret Sabhet | The History of a Difficult Child |
| Fiji | Rao, Nilima | A Disappearance in Fiji: |
| Finland | Antti Tuomainen | Dark as my heart |
| France | Alexandre Dumas | La dame Aux Camelia |
| Gabon | Justine Mintsa | Awu’s story |
| The Gambia | Lenrie Peters | The Second Round |
| Georgia | Boris Akunin | Turkish Gambit |
| Germany | Gunter Grass | The tin drum |
| Ghana | Boyd, William, | On the Yankee Station |
| Greece | Homer | The Iliad |
| Grenada | Jacob Ross | The Bone Readers |
| Guatemala | Rodrigo Fuentes | Trout, Belly Up |
| Guinea | Camara Laye | The Radiance of the King |
| Guinea-Bissau | Abdulai Sila | The Ultimate Tragedy |
| Guyana | Beryl Gilroy | Black Teacher |
| Haiti | Rene Depestre | The Festival of the Greasy Pole |
| Honduras | Lucila Gamero de Medina | Blanca Olmedo |
| Hungary | Kertész, Imre | Fateless |
| Iceland | Laxness, Halldor | Paradise Reclaimed |
| India | Salman Rushdie | Midnight’s Children |
| Indonesia | Clarissa Goenawan | The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida |
| Iran | Satrapi, Marjane | Persepolis |
| Iraq | Jim Al-Khalil | Sun Fall |
| Ireland | Sally Rooney | Conversations with Friends |
| Israel | Etgar Keret | Gaza Blues |
| Italy | Primo Levi | Moments of reprieve |
| Jamaica | Nicola Yoon | The Sun is also a Star |
| Japan | Sayaka Murata | Earthlings |
| Jordan | Tayseer Sboul | You as of Today, My Homeland |
| Kazakhstan | Rollan Seisenbayev | The Dead Wander in the Desert |
| Kenya | Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o | The Perfect Nine |
| Korea, North | Wan Suh Park | The Naked Tree |
| Korea, South | Lee, Min Jin. | Pachinko |
| Kosovo | Statovci, Pajtim | Crossing |
| Kyrgyzstan | Hamid Ismailov | The Railway |
| Laos | Outhine Bounyavong | Mothers Beloved |
| Latvia | Nora Ikstena | Russian Milk |
| Lebanon | Nada Awar Jarrar | An Unsafe Haven |
| Lesotho | Mpho ‘M’atsepo Nthunya | Singing Away the Hunger |
| Liberia | Wayetu Moore | The Dragons, The Giant, The Women: A Memoir |
| Libya | Najwa Bin Shatwan | Catalogue of a Private Life |
| Lithuania | Ricardas Gavelis | Memoirs of a life cut short |
| Luxembourg | Jean Burlesk | The Pleasure of Drowning |
| Malawi | Steve Chimombo | The Bird Boy’s Song |
| Malaysia | Tan Twan Eng | The Garden of Evening Mists |
| Mali | Yambo Ouologuem | Bound to Violence |
| Malta | Immanuel Mifsud | In the Name of the Father (& of the Son) |
| Marshall Islands | Jetnil-Kijiner, | Poems from a Marshallese Daughter |
| Mauritania | Karim Miske | Arab Jazz |
| Mauritius | Ananda Devi | The Living Days |
| Mexico | Carlos Fuentes | The Death of Artemio Cruz |
| Micronesia, Federated States of | Emelihter Kihleng | My Urohs |
| Moldova | Vladimir Lorchenkov | The Good Life Elsewhere |
| Mongolia | Galsan Tschinag | The Blue Sky |
| Morocco | Tahar Ben Jelloun | The Blinding Abscence of Light |
| Mozambique | Marcelo Panguana | Leoa la Hija del Silencio |
| Namibia | Joseph Diescho | Born of the Sun |
| Netherlands | Margo Minco | Het Bittere Krud |
| New Zealand | Frame, Janet. | Towards Another Summer |
| Nigeria | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Americanah |
| North Macedonia | Lidija Dimokovska | Grandma Non-Oui |
| Norway | Lars Mytting | The sixteen trees of the somme |
| Pakistan | Hamid, Mohsin, | The Reluctant Fundamentalist |
| Panama | Carlos Wynter Melo | Pecados |
| Peru | Mario Vargas llosa | La Tia Julia Y El Escribidor |
| Philippines | Samantha Sotto Yambao | The Elsewhere Express |
| Poland | Isaac Bashevis Singer | The penitent |
| Portugal | Eça de Queiroz | The Maias |
| Romania | Müller, Herta | Nadirs |
| Russia | Ldeo Tolstoy | War and Peace |
| Rwanda | Scholastique Mukasonga | Our Lady of the Nile |
| Saint Lucia | Derek Walcott | The Bounty |
| Saudi Arabia | Rajaa Alsanea | Girls of Riyadh |
| Senegal | Mariama Bâ | so long a letter |
| Serbia | Tea Obreht | Inland |
| Sierra Leone | Saa M Sindondoeh Jumu | Sakayo |
| Singapore | Meihan Boey | The Formidable Miss Cassidy |
| Slovakia | Sandor Marai | The Rebels |
| Slovenia | Lojze Kovačič | Newcomers |
| Somalia | Nadifa Mohamad | Black Mamba Boy |
| South Africa | Andre Brink | The First Life of Adamastor |
| Spain | Lorca | Bodas de sangre |
| Sri Lanka | Shehan Karunatilaka | Seven Moons of Maali Almeida |
| Sudan | Leila Aboulela | A New Year |
| Sudan, South | Majok Tulba | Beneath the Darkening Sky |
| Sweden | Tove Jansson | Traveling light |
| Switzerland | Cohen, Albert | Belle de Seigneur |
| Syria | Faysal Khartesh | Roundabout of Death |
| Taiwan | Tash Aw | Five Star Billionaire |
| Tanzania | Abdulrazak Gurnah | Paradise |
| Thailand | Pitchaya Sudbanthad | Bancock wakes to rain |
| Togo | Tété-Michel Kpomassie | Michel the Giant |
| Tonga | Epeli Hau’ofa | Kisses in the Nederends |
| Trinidad and Tobago | Ingrid Persaud | Love after Love |
| Tunisia | Hassouna Mosbahi | A Tunisian Tale |
| Turkey | Pamuk, Orhan,Güneli. | The White Castle |
| Turkmenistan | Ak Welsapar | The Tale of Aypi |
| Uganda | Moses Isegawa | Abyssinian Chronicles |
| Ukraine | Andrey Yuryevich Kurkov | Death and the penguin |
| United Arab Emirates | Saara El-Arifi | Faebound |
| United Kingdom | Doris Lessing | The Golden Notebook |
| United States | Hermin Melville | Moby Dick |
| Uruguay | Juan Carlos Onetti | Dejemos hablar al viento |
| Uzbekistan | Mahmuda Saydumarova | A Collection of Uzbek short Stories |
| Vanuatu | Mikaela Nyman | Sista stanap strong |
| Venezuela | Karina Sainz Borgo | It would be night in Caracas |
| Vietnam | Can Lao | Monkey Bridge |
| Yemen | Wajdi Al-Ahdal | Land of Sweetheart Deals |
| Zambia | Namwali Serpell | The Old Drift |
| Zimbabwe | Tsitsi Dangarembga | This Mournable Body |
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