Starting your "one book per country" reading challenge? Here's a curated starter list across 30 countries on 6 continents — chosen for literary quality, cultural insight, and international availability in translation.
30 Countries, 30 Books
Nigeria — Things Fall Apart (Achebe) · Colombia — One Hundred Years of Solitude (García Márquez) · Japan — The Vegetarian... actually that's Korea. Japan: The Convenience Store Woman (Murata) · South Korea — The Vegetarian (Han Kang) · India — The God of Small Things (Roy) · Turkey — My Name Is Red (Pamuk) · Russia — The Master and Margarita (Bulgakov) · Egypt — Midaq Alley (Mahfouz) · Poland — Flights (Tokarczuk) · Argentina — Fever Dream (Schweblin) · Brazil — The Aleph... no, Brazil: The Hour of the Star (Lispector) · Czech Republic — The Trial (Kafka) · Norway — Out Stealing Horses (Petterson) · Chile — The House of the Spirits (Allende) · Kenya — A Grain of Wheat (Ngugi).
Track your progress on the Genesis of Literary world map.