Here’s a look at the top three book titles per region.
Southeast Asia: This Earth of Mankind, by Pramoedya Ananta Toer (Indonesia), Noli Me Tángere, by José Rizal (Philippines), The Garden of Evening Mists, by Tan Twan Eng (Malaysia), The Sorrows of War, by Bảo Ninh (Vietnam), First They Killed My Family, by Loung Ung (Cambodia), The Four Reigns, by Kukrit Pramoj (Thailand), In the Other Side of the Eye, by Bryan Thao Worra (Laos), Smile as they Bow, by Nu Nu Yi (Myanmar), Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, by Jillian Lauren (Brunei), The Redundancy of Courage, by Timothy Mo (East Timor)
North and Central America: Pedro Páramo, by Juan Rulfo (Mexico), To Kill a Mocking Bird, by Harper Lee (USA), Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery (Canada).
South America: Fictions, by Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina), The House of Spirits, by Isabel Allende (Chile), Lituma in the Andes, by Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru).
Western Europe: Don Quixote of La Mancha, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Spain), The Count of Montecristo, by Alexandre Dumas (France), The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighier (Italy).
Eastern Europe: War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy (Russia), Pan Tadeusz, by Adam Mickiewicz (Poland), Eclipse of the Crescent Moon, by Géza Gárdonyi (Hungary).
Africa: The Stranger, by Albert Camus (Algeria), The Antipeople, by Sony Labou Tansi (Congo), Misfortune, by JM Coetzee (South Africa).
Asia: My Name is Red, by Orhan Pamuk (Turkey), Dream in Red Pavilion, by Cao Xueqin (China), Kokoro, by Natsume Sōseki (Japan).
Oceania: Cloudstreet, by Tim Winton (Australia), The Bone People, by Keri Hulme (New Zealand), Death of a Muruk, by Bernard Narokobi (Papua New Guinea).
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