36/193 (UN recognised nations)
- Afghanistan – Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner
- Albania
- Algeria – Albert Camus The Stranger
- Andorra
- Angola
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina – Esteban Echeverría El matadero
- Armenia
- Australia – Markus Zusak The Book Thief
- Austria – Robert Seethaler A Whole Life
- The Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Belize
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil – Paulo Coelho The Alchemist
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada – Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile – Isabel Allende La casa de los espíritus
- China – Sun Tzu The Art of War
- Colombia – Gabriel García Márquez Crónica de una muerte anunciada
- Comoros
- Congo, Democratic Republic of
- Congo, Republic of
- Costa Rica
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Croatia
- Cuba – Nicolás Guillén Selección poética
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic – Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Denmark – Søren Kierkegaard The Seducer’s Diary
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic – Junot Díaz The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao
- East Timor
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Finland
- France – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars
- Gabon
- The Gambia
- Georgia
- Germany – Patrick Süskind Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
- Ghana
- Greece – Homer The Odyssey
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India – Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland – James Joyce Ulysses
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan – Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Kurdistan*
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya – Hisham Matar The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macedonia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia – Tan Twan Eng The Gift of Rain
- Maldives
- Mali
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mexico – Laura Esquivel Like Water for Chocolate
- Micronesia, Federated States of
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- New Zealand – Eleanor Catton The Luminaries
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists
- North Korea
- Norway – Per Petterson Out Stealing Horses
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Palestine
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal – José Saramago Blindness
- Qatar
- Romania – Elie Wiesel Night
- Russia – Leo Tolstoy War and Peace
- Rwanda
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia – Derek Walcott Omeros
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Korea – Haemin Sunim The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm and Mindful in a Fast-Paced World
- South Sudan
- Spain – Miguel de Unamuno Niebla
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Swaziland
- Sweden – Stieg Larsson The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom – Virginia Woolf The Waves
- United States of America – F. Scott Fitzgerald Flappers and Philosophers
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Vatican City
- Venezuela
- Vietnam – Ocean Vuong Night Sky with Exit Wounds
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe