Ongoing challenge with no time limit.
Book settings from 80 different countries.
These are just ideas; I won’t read them all!

Bolded titles have been read.

Afghanistan
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Albania
The Three-Arched Bridge by Ismail Kadare
? by Kadare

Algeria
? by Camus

Argentina
Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton
The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene

Armenia
Three Apples Fell From Heaven by Micheline Aharonian Marcom

Australia
I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak

Austria
The Piano Teacher by Jelinek
The Third Man by Graham Greene

Azerbaijan
Ali and Nino by Kurban Said

Belgium
Niccolo Rising by Dorothy Dunnett

Belize
Belize by Carlos Ledson Miller

Bolivia
CrossFire by Jeanette Windle
Biting Silence by Arturo Von Vacono

Borneo
Kalimantaan by C. S. Godshalk

Botswana
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith

Brazil
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado

Burma (Myanmar)
The Piano Tuner

Cambodia
Finding Moon by Tony Hillerman

Cameroon
Houseboy by Ferdinand Oyono

Canada
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Mad Shadows by Marie-Claire Blais
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Sitting Practice by Caroline Adderson
Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
The Road Past Altamont by Gabrielle Roy
Jacob Two-Two’s First Spy Case by Mordecai Richler
Bear by Marian Engel

Chile
? by Allende

China
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Wild Swans by Jung Chang

Columbia
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Congo
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Cuba
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene

Czechoslovakia
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Denmark
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Smilla’s Sense of Snow

Dominican Republic
? by Julia Alvarez

Egypt
The Map of Love

El Salvador
A Book of Common Prayer by Didion, Joan

England
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Estonia
Czar’s Madman by Jaan Kross

Finland
Ice Moon by Jan Costin Wagner
House of Orphans
Winter Fire by William R. Trotter

France
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky

Germany
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Greece
The Birds by Aristophanes

Haiti
The Comedians by Graham Greene

Hungary
Embers by Sandor Marai
Kaddish for a Child not Born

Iceland
Independent People by Halldor Laxness

India
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Indonesia
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Iran
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Persepolis

Iraq
Naphtalene by Alia Mamdouh,

Ireland
The Sea by John Banville

Israel
A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
? by Yehoshua
A Literary Murder by Batya Gur

Italy
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
Jamaica
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Japan
After Dark by Murakami
Silence by Endo
Strangers by Yamada

Jordan
Staircase of a Thousand Steps by Masha Hamilton
West of the Jordan by Laila Halaby

Kazakhstan
The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years by Chingiz Aitmatov
Nine Layers of Sky by Liz Williams

Kenya
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

Lebanon
Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury

Lithuania
The Last Girl by Stephan Collishaw

Mexico
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo

Morocco
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalami

Netherlands
Discovery of Heaven by Mulisch

New Zealand
The Bone People by Keri Hulme

Nigeria
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Things Fall Apart - Achebe

Norway
Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath by Sigrid Undset

Oman
Sandstorm by James Rollins

Papua New Guinea
Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones

Peru
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

Phillipines
When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe

Poland
Shosha by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Portugal
? by Saramago

Russia
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Russian author, sci-fi setting)

Samoa
Where We Once Belonged by Sia Figiel

Scotland
The Translator - Leila Aboulela

Senegal
So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba

Sierra Leone
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene.

Slovenia
Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho

South Africa
The Life and Times of Michael K - JM Coetzee

South Korea
The New Year by Pearl S. Buck

Spain
Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene,
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (read in 2006)

Sri Lanka
Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje

Sudan
The Translator - Leila Aboulela
The Translator by Daoud Hari
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih

Sweden
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerhof

Switzerland
Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party by Graham Greene.

Thailand
Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap

Trinidad & Tobago
? by Naipaul

Turkey
Birds without Wings by Louis DeBernieres
? by Pamuk
Zabelle by Nancy Kricorian

Tunisia
The African Quest by Lyn Hamilton
The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith

Ukraine
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka by Gogol

Uruguay
The Tree of Red Stars by Tessa Bridal

Uzbekistan
Private Wars by Greg Rucka
The Railway by ?

Vietnam
The Quiet American by Graham Greene

Wales
A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
Sixpence House by Paul Collins

Zimbabwe
Zenzele by J. Nozipo Maraire
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga

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