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AFRICA

1 Algeria The Plague
2 Angola Good Morning Comrades
3 Benin
4 Botswana A Question of Power, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
5 Burkina Faso
6 Burundi Small Country
7 Cabo Verde The Madwoman of Serrano
8 Cameroon Cruel City
9 Central African Republic
10 Chad The Roots of Heaven
11 Comoros Last of the pirates: The Search for Bob Denard
12 Congo (Democratic Republic) Before the Birth of the Moon, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, Heart of Darkness, A Burnt-Out Case
13 Congo (Republic of)
14 Cote D’Ivoire The Bitter Side of Sweet
15 Djibouti Passage of Tears
16 Egypt - Woman at Point Zero, Miramar
17 Equatorial Guinea By Night the Mountain Burns
18 Eritrea Relentless - An Immigrant Story
19 Ethiopia - Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood
20 Gabon
21 Gambia The Sun Will Soon Shine, Reading the Ceiling
22 Ghana Wife of the Gods
23 Guinea The Dark Child
24 Guinea-Bissau The Ultimate Tragedy,
25 Kenya Out of Africa Matigari, Petals of Blood, The River Between
26 Lesotho Chaka
27 Liberia She Would Be King, The House at Sugar Beach
28 Libya The Bleeding of the Stone, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
29 Madagascar
30 Malawi The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
31 Mali Bound to Violence
32 Mauritania The Desert and the Drum, The Last Brother
33 Mauritius Eve out of Her Ruins
34 Morocco Hideous Kinky
35 Mozambique Sleepwalking Land
36 Namibia Embassy Wife
37 Niger
38 Nigeria - Americanah, My Sister, the Serial Killer, An Orchestra of Minorities, Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God
39 Rwanda -The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After; We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
40 Sao Tome & Principe
41 Senegal - God's Bits of Wood, So Long a Letter, At Night All Blood is Black
42 Seychelles Voices: Short stories from the Seychelles Islands
43 Sierra Leone Radiance of Tomorrow, The Heart of the Matter
44 Somalia: This book doesn't really count as the majority of it takes place in Wales but it is by an author born in Somalia and there are some flashbacks in the book to the main character's childhood in Somalia: The Fortune Men
45 South Africa - Cry, the Beloved Country, A Dry White Season, Ancestral Voices
46 South Sudan Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead: War and Survival in South Sudan
47 Sudan Season of Migration to the North
48 Swaziland - Sacred: A Novel on the Edge of the World by Tom Davis, Teaching English in Swaziland: Essays on the Life of Gordon James Thomas
49 Tanzania - Paradise
50 Togo Do They Hear You When You Cry
51 Tunisia The Ardent Swarm
52 Uganda - In a Free State, A Girl Is a Body of Water
53 Zambia A Cowrie of Hope
54 Zimbabwe - The Grass is Singing, Nervous Conditions

ASIA

55 Afghanistan
56 Armenia Three Apples Fell from the Sky, The Sandcastle Girls(takes place largely in Aleppo Syria but is about the genocide of the Armenians in 1915. Many Armenians were driven, on foot, through the dessert, to camps in Aleppo which was then part of the Ottoman Empire)
57 Azerbaijan Ali and Nino
58 Bahrain Round the Bend, Who Shot Ahmed? A Mystery Unravels in Bahrain's Botched Arab Spring
59 Bangladesh Sultana's Dream: A Feminist Utopia and Selections from The Secluded Ones
60 Bhutan Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey Into Bhutan
61 Brunei The Fisherman King
62 Cambodia In the Shadow of the Banyan
63 China - The Water Margin
64 Cyprus The Cypriot, The Island of Missing Trees
65 Georgia A Hero of Our Time
66 India The Moor's Last Sigh, A Fine Balance
67 Indonesia Amok and Other Stories Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
68 Iran Disoriental The Blind Owl
69 Iraq
70 Israel - Black Box
71 Japan - 1Q84, Sputnik Sweetheart, Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
72 Jordan
73 Kazakhstan
74 Kuwait Mama Hissa's Mice
75 Kyrgyzstan Jamilia
76 Laos The Coroner's Lunch
(Read How to Pronounce Knife: Stories. Author from Laotian parents, born in a refugee camp in Thailand and grew up in Canada)
77 Lebanon The Gardens of Light, An Unnecessary Woman
78 Malaysia The Night Tiger
79 Maldives
80 Mongolia
81 Myanmar - From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey
82 Nepal
83 North Korea The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
84 Oman Celestial Bodies and Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs
Palestine - We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I, Mother of Strangers
85 Pakistan The Shadow Lines Mostly India but before Partition
86 Philippines - When the Elephants Dance, Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir
87 Qatar The Girl Who Fell to Earth
88 Saudi Arabia Cities of Salt
89 SingaporeThe Singapore Grip, The Great Reclamation
90 South Korea - The Island of Sea Women
91 Sri Lanka Anil's Ghost, The Story of a Brief Marriage
92 State of Palestine Mornings in Jenin, Where the Desert Meets the Sea
93 Syria Yusra Mardini Butterfly As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow, The Map of Salt and Stars
93b Taiwan (Republic of China/Formosa) Green Island
94 Tajikistan
95 Thailand Sightseeing
95a Tibet (now considered part of China) Seven Years in Tibet
96 Timor-Leste
97 Turkey - 10 minutes and 38 seconds in this strange world, Life Is a Caravanserai
98 Turkmenistan The Tale of Aypi
99 United Arab Emirates The Sand Fish: A Novel from Dubai, Temporary People
100 Uzbekistan The Railway
101 Vietnam - Paradise of the Blind, The Quiet American
102 Yemen

Very interesting list, Gail. I'm going to look into these for the countries I need. 😚

How did you like The Vegetarian.

LATIN AND SOUTH AMERICA

148 Anguilla
149 Antigua and Barbuda Annie John
150 Argentina - Kiss of the Spider Woman, Martín Fierro Ficciones, The Adventures of China Iron, The Witness (By: Juan José Saer) published: April, 2009
151 Aruba An Island Away
152 Bahamas Learning to Breathe
153 Barbados The Star Side of Bird Hill In Time of Need
154 Belize Cry Among The Rain Clouds: The Belize Detective, Beka Lamb
155 Bermuda
156 Bolivia American Visa
157 Brazil - Dom Casmurro , The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, The Hour of the Star
158 British Virgin Islands Lies I Never Quite Believed
159 Cayman Islands Far Tortuga
160 Chile - Of Love and Shadows
161 Colombia - Love in the Time of Cholera Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord
162 Costa Rica - Where There Was Fire
163 Cuba Before Night Falls, Dirty Havana Trilogy
164 Dominica Wide Sargasso Sea
165 Dominican Republic The Feast of the Goat The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
166 Dutch Antilles
167 Ecuador The Spanish Daughter
168 El Salvador Salvador, Slash and Burn
169 French Guiana The Bastards
170 Grenada Angel: A Novel
171 Guadeloupe The Gospel According to the New World
172 Guatemala Mourning (Author calls himself a Guatemalan author but only parts of the book take place there.
173 Guyana Palace of the Peacock (Faber Editions): 'Magnificent' - Tsitsi Dangarembga
174 Haiti - The Kingdom of This World The Comedians Everything Inside, Breath, Eyes, Memory
175 Honduras The Mosquito Coast, Don't Be Afraid, Gringo
176 Jamaica John Crow's Devil, Augustown
177 Martinique Texaco
178 Montserrat The Kidnapped Prince: The Life of Olaudah Equiano
179 Nicaragua The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey
180 Panama Come Together, Fall Apart, The Tailor of Panama, The Great Divide
181 Paraguay (The Honorary Consul actually takes place over the border in Argentina although the political situation regards Paraquay. It is also, obviously, written by an Englishman) I the Supreme
182 Peru - The Cubs and Other Stories, A World for Julius, The Bedlam Stacks
183 Puerto Rico Simone: A Novel
184 Saint Kitts & Nevis - Indigo, Adventure At Brimstone Hill
185 Saint Lucia Another Life: Fully Annotated
186 St Vincent & Grenadines
187 Suriname Oroonoko
188 Trinidad & Tobago Golden Child, When We Were Birds
189 Uruguay - The Shipyard
190 US Virgin Islands The Marriage of Opposites
191 Venezuela The Lost Steps
192 Turks and Caicos The Bone Hacker

OCEANIA
For all of Micronesia including Federated States of, Marshall Islands, Guam (US), Palau, Kiribati: Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia
193 Australia A Town Like Alice and The Commandant
194 Fiji KalyanaKava in the Blood, A Disappearance in Fiji
195 Kiribati Kiribati, The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
196 Marshall Islands Surviving Paradise: One Year on a Disappearing Island
197 Micronesia The People in the Trees
198 Nauru Paradise for Sale: A Parable of Nature
199 New Zealand The Garden Party and Other Stories The Bone People, The Whale Rider, oo The Luminaries
200 Palau Shipwreck!: Palau Discovered, 1783
201 Papua New Guinea Mr Pip
202 Samoa Where We Once Belonged, The Last Bookaneer
203 Solomon Islands Devil-Devil, The Ghost Road
204 Tonga Voyages
205 Tuvalu Where the Hell Is Tuvalu?
206 Vanuatu Tales of the South Pacific, Things Bright and Beautiful, Road No Good

ANTARTICA The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

NORTH AMERICA

207 Canada Lives of Girls and Women, Fifth Business The Shipping News, Late Nights on Air, The Berry Pickers
208 Mexico - The Underdogs, The Death of Artemio Cruz The Power and the Glory
209 Greenland

What a List!!!! Have you counted your countries?

I quickly counted Africa and came up with 33. (Quickly does not mean accurately. 😉)
Asia 39
Europe 41
Latin and South America 23
Oceania 7
NA 2

Total 145!! Countries and of course, more BOOKS than that.

I am proud to know you. 😘

Total

I had to split my list because GR would not let me use that many characters!! I still think I have more than 60 countries to go though so I am not coming up in the finish line yet. Thank you for moderating this site!

Gail wrote: "I had to split my list because GR would not let me use that many characters!! I still think I have more than 60 countries to go though so I am not coming up in the finish line yet. Thank you for mo..."

You are so welcome. You and Amanda are the stalwarts. I see a few others ocassionally too (K and The Other Gail!!)

Gail wrote: "LATIN AND SOUTH AMERICA

148 Anguilla
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Thank you for reminding me that I had already read Corelli's Mandolin in 2020. I loved that book and his writing.

EUROPE

103 Albania The Successor,Broken April,Chronicle in Stone,Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
104 Andorra Piece by Piece: How I Built My Life
105 Austria The Chess Story, Extinction
106 Belarus Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear DisasterAuthor from Belarus although Chernobyl is now in Ukraine
107 Belgium
108 Bosnia & Herzegovina As if I am not there: A novel about the Balkans also titled: S. The Bridge on the Drina, Nowhere Man
109 Bulgaria - A Ballad for Georg Henig,Under the Yoke, East of the West: A Country in Stories
110 Croatia - The Museum of Unconditional Surrender written by a Croatian born in what was then Yugoslavia. Much of it takes place in Berlin but nevertheless it is about being an exile from Croatia
111 Czech Republic The Little Town Where Time Stood Still, Too Loud a Solitude, Closely Watched Trains, Ignorance
112 Denmark Winter's Tale, To Siberia
113 Estonia Purge, Professor Martens' Departure
114 Faeroe Islands The Old Man and His Sons
115 FinlandThe Summer Book , The Manila Rope, The Unknown Soldier
116 France - The Mandarins, The Bells of Basel
117 Germany - The Guiltless, The Invention of Curried Sausage
118 Greece Corelli’s Mandolin,Astradeni, The Daughter by Pavlos Matesis (April 1, 2010) Paperback, k vassilikos vassil Ed. 1995 Titled Z in English
119 Holy See Conclave
120 Hungary Embers Author Hungarian although his birthplace is now in Slovakia, Celestial Harmonies, The Melancholy of Resistance
121 Iceland The Blue Fox, Independent People
122 Ireland - Carry Me Down, A World of Love
123 Italy - Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year, The Betrothed
124 Latvia The Book of Riga: A City in Short Fiction
125 Liechtenstein
126 Lithuania In Lithuanian Wood, Between Shades of Gray
127 Luxembourg The Pleasure of Drowning
128 Malta The Kappillan of Malta
129 Moldova The Good Life Elsewhere
130 Monaco
131 Montenegro
132 Netherlands The Twins, The quest. By Frederik van Eeden; the authorized translation from the Dutch of De Kleine Johannes, by L.W.C. 1907 Leather Bound , All Souls' Day by Dutch author although it takes place largely in Berlin, Estonia, Japan and Spain.
133 Norway Alberta and Jacob, HUNGER - Knut Hamsun
134 Poland Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, The Manor, The Street of Crocodiles, The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman, Ferdydurke
135 Portugal The Book of Disquiet The Complete Edition
136 Romania The Hunger Angel Romanian author
137 Russia - The Death of Ivan Ilyich, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
138 San Marino A Freak of Freedom;: Or, The Republic of San Marino
139 Serbia Garden, Ashes (born in what was then Yugoslavia and lived in Hungary), The Apology and the Last Days: A Novel
140 Slovakia Seeing People Off
141 Slovenia- Yugoslavia, My Fatherland, A Day in Spring
142 Spain -Don Quixote, Night Boat to Tangier, The Hive by Cela, Camilo Jose (2001) Library Binding
142A Basque Country Obabakoak
143 Sweden Pipi Longstocking, Roseanna, The Saga of Gösta Berling, The Christmas Oratorio, Simon and the Oaks
144 Switzerland - I'm Not Stiller
145 TFYR Macedonia A Spare Life
145A The Republic of North Macedonia The Big Water
146 Ukraine Everything is Illuminated, (author not from Ukraine), Cataract (during Soviet era when Ukraine was a part of the USSR)
147 United Kingdom
147a England - London Fields
147b Wales The Old Devils
147c Ireland Milkman,At Swim, Two Boys
147d Scotland Looking for the Possible Dance,Shuggie Bain, Trainspotting,Sunset Song