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Reading the World
- Afghanistan — The Wasted Vigil, Nadeem Aslam
- Algeria
- Angola
- Argentina — Death as a Side Effect, Ana María Shua (Review); Purgatory, Tomás Eloy Martínez
- Australia — The Paperbark Shoe, Goldie Goldbloom (Review)
- Austria — The Post-Office Girl, Stefan Zweig
- Azerbaijan
- Bangladesh
- Belarus — Factory of Tears, Valzhyna Mort
- Belgium
- Benin
- Bolivia
- Brazil — The Taker And Other Stories, Rubem Fonseca
- Bulgaria — East of the West: A Country in Stories, Miroslav Penkov (Review)
- Burkina Faso
- Burma
- Burundi
- Cambodia– In the Shadow of the Banyan, Vaddey Ratner
- Cameroon — Dark Heart of the Night, Leonora Miano (Review)
- Canada — Too Much Happiness: Stories, Alice Munro
- Chad
- Chile — The Private Lives of Trees, Alejandro Zambra
- China — The Cave Man, Xiaoda Xiao; The Fat Years, Chan Koonchung; Serve the People!, Yan Lianke
- Colombia — The Informers, Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Review)
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Cuba
- Czech Republic — The Maimed, Hermann Ungar
- Dominican Republic– The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz
- Ecuador
- Egypt — Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth, Naguib Mahfouz; Karnak Café, Naguib Mahfouz; The Thief and the Dogs, Naguib Mahfouz
- El Salvador
- Ethiopia — Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
- France — By a Slow River, Phillipe Claudel; The Interrogation, J.M.G. Le Clézio (Review); The Investigation, Phillipe Claudel; A Life on Paper: Stories, Georges-Olivier Chateaureynaud
- Germany — The Drinker, Hans Fallada; The Hangman’s Daughter, Oliver Pötzsch; Little Man, What Now?, Hans Fallada; The Reader, Bernhard Schlink; Wolf Among Wolves, Hans Fallada (Review)
- Ghana
- Greece
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hungary — Tranquility, Attila Bartis
- India — Between the Assassinations, Aravind Adiga (Review); Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh (Review)
- Indonesia
- Iran — The Colonel, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
- Iraq
- Israel — The Attack, Yasmina Khadra
- Italy
- Japan — The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell
- Kazakhstan — The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, Chingiz Aitmatov
- Kenya
- Korea, Dem. People’s Republic of — The Orphan Master’s Son, Adam Johnson
- Korea, Republic of — Your Republic Is Calling You, Young-Ha Kim
- Laos
- Libya — Anatomy of a Disappearance, Hisham Matar
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Mali
- Mexico — Beauty Salon, Mario Bellatin (Review); Season of Ash: A Novel in Three Acts, Jorge Volpi; Vlad, Carlos Fuentes
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Nepal
- Netherlands — Comedy in a Minor Key, Hans Keilson; Rupert: A Confession, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer; The Twin, Gerbrand Bakker (Review)
- Niger
- Nigeria — Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
- Pakistan
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru — Red April, Santiago Roncagliolo (Review)
- Philippines
- Poland — Entanglement, Zygmunt Miloszewski
- Portugal — Death with Interruptions, José Saramago; The Double, José Saramago
- Romania — The Appointment, Herta Müller (Review); Youth Without Youth, Mircea Eliade
- Rwanda
- Saudi Arabia — Finding Nouf, Zoë Ferraris
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Somalia
- South Africa
- Spain — Death in Spring, Merce Rodoreda; The Painter of Battles, Arturo Perez-Reverte
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Sweden — God’s Mercy, Kerstin Ekman (Review); To Mervas, Elisabeth Rynell
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Uganda
- Ukraine — Wave of Terror, Theodore Odrach
- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
- Venezuela
- Vietnam — The Sorrow of War, Bao Ninh
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
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