Books by Country

Algeria / France

Start with The Stranger by Albert Camus.

Ancient Near East

Start with The Bible by Various.

Arabia

Start with The Quran by Unknown.

4 books

Argentina

Start with Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges.

Australia

Start with The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead.

7 books

Austria

Start with The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Start with The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić.

Brazil

Start with The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by João Guimarães Rosa.

Bulgaria

Start with Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti.

Canada

Start with The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.

Chile

Start with 2666 by Roberto Bolaño.

China

Start with Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en.

Colombia

Start with One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.

4 books

Czech Republic

Start with The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.

Czechoslovakia

Start with The Trial by Franz Kafka.

Denmark

Start with Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen.

Dominican Republic

Start with The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz.

50 books

France

Start with In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust.

24 books

Germany

Start with The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann.

12 books

Greece

Start with The Odyssey by Homer.

Hungary

Start with Embers by Sándor Márai.

Iceland

Start with Independent People by Halldór Laxness.

4 books

India

Start with Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.

11 books

Ireland

Start with Ulysses by James Joyce.

18 books

Italy

Start with The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.

Japan

Start with The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu.

Lebanon

Start with The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran.

Mexico

Start with Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo.

Multiple

Start with One Thousand and One Nights by Unknown.

Netherlands

Start with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.

Nigeria

Start with Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.

Norway

Start with Hunger by Knut Hamsun.

Poland

Start with Solaris by Stanisław Lem.

Portugal

Start with The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa.

Roman Empire

Start with De Rerum Natura by Lucretius.

Rome

Start with The Aeneid by Virgil.

Rome (Ancient)

Start with Metamorphoses by Ovid.

21 books

Russia

Start with Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.

Scotland

Start with The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg.

South Africa

Start with Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton.

6 books

Spain

Start with Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.

Sweden

Start with Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren.

Switzerland

Start with I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch.

Trinidad and Tobago

Start with A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul.

138 books

United Kingdom

Start with Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.

144 books

United States

Start with The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.