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Germany - Book: 'Buddenbrook' by Thomas Mann. The novel tells the story of the progressive decline of a wealthy family over the course of four generations, while also criticizing the German bourgeoisie society of the 19th century.

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Brazil - Book: 'Dom Casmurro' by Machado de Assis. A man marries the love of his life but he suffers from jealousy - he suspects that his wife cheated on him with his best friend and that his friend is the true father of his son.

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Canada - Book: 'Anne of Green Gables' by L. M. Montgomery. Two single siblings decide to adopt a boy to help out at the Green Gables farm. Due to a misunderstanding, orphan, Anne Shirley, is sent instead.

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Denmark - Book: 'Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow' by Peter Høeg. Smilla Jaspersen is a specialist in ice and studies its properties. She is convinced that a terrible crime was committed and that the victim was Isaiah, a six-year-old boy.

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Spain - Book: 'Don Quixote' by Miguel de Cervantes. Don Quixote is a noble who lives in a village in the Spanish region of La Mancha. He loves chivalric romances and in his fantasies, he believes that he is a knight. He sets out on an adventure with his loyal squire, Sancho Panza.

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United States of America - Book: 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee. It's a novel about racism and injustice, telling the story of a lawyer who defends a black man accused of raping a white woman in the 1930s and as a result, faces backlash from the community.

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Finland - Book: 'The Unknown Soldier' by Väinö Linna. It is a story about soldiers during the war between Finland and the Soviet Union.

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Norway - Book: 'Hunger' by Knut Hamsun. The narrator is a young and lonely writer who wanders the streets of Kristiania (now Oslo), living in extreme poverty and experiencing moments of delirium and aggressive mood changes.

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France - Book: 'The Count of Monte Cristo' by Alexandre Dumas. The book tells the story of a sailor who is unjustly imprisoned but ends up becoming friends with a priest while in jail, who later dies. The sailor escapes from prison and inherits a mysterious fortune. Then, he decides to take revenge on everyone who played a part in his imprisonment.

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Greece - Book: 'Iliad' by Homero. The novel is about the events that occurred during a period of 50 days, in the 10th, and last year, of the Trojan War.

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Ireland - Book: 'Ulysses' by James Joyce. The story narrates an ordinary day in the life of a man in Dublin, in 1904, and the people he meets. They talk, develop romances, travel, dream, drink and philosophize.

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Italy - Book: 'Divine Comedy' by Dante Alighieri. The poem is divided into three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso.

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Portugal - Book: 'Baltasar and Blimunda' by José Saramago. The novel tells the story of a king who promised to build a convent in the city of Mafra. The plot follows the people who build the monastery, a soldier without a hand, a woman with powers and a priest that goes mad and thinks he can fly.

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United Kingdom - Book: 'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens. It tells the story of Pip (Philip Pirip), an orphan boy who becomes a gentleman after inheriting a mysterious fortune.

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Russia - Book: 'War and Peace' by Leo Tolstoy. Set during war time, the novel is based on fictional and historical facts about Russia during the invasion of Napoleon's troops. The characters in the story love, hate and fight, but above all they wish to find the meaning of life.

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Sweden - Book: 'Gösta Berling's Saga' by Selma Lagerlöf. A city welcomes the men returning from the Napoleonic Wars, who bring stories and adventures to tell. Among them is Gösta Berling, a renegade priest who is young, brilliant, joyful, gallant and seductive.

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Switzerland - Book: 'Heidi' by Johanna Spyri. It is the story of a Swiss orphan, written as a children's book in 1880.

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Mexico - Book: 'Pedro Páramo' by Juan Rulfo. Pedro Páramo is a powerful man, feared and obeyed by everyone. He travels to his mother's hometown of Comala to find that it is a ghost town. The ones who are still alive spend their time praying for the dead who haunt the place with their sad souls and old memories.

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Afghanistan - Book: 'The Kite Runner' by Khaled Hosseini. The novel tells the story of the friendship between Amir and Hassan, two boys who live in Afghanistan in the 1970s. Twenty years later, when Amir is established in the US, he returns to his home country and is forced to deal with his past.

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Argelia - Book: 'The Stranger' by Albert Camus. Meursault receives a telegram with the news of his mother's death. When he returns home after the funeral, he becomes friends with a dubious neighbor, gets involved with an old colleague from home and goes to the beach. Everything is fine until there's a murder...

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Cuba - Book: 'Havana' by Martin Cruz Smith. The Cuban city is the destination for Moscow policeman, Arkady Renko's, adventures. He is designated by the Russian embassy to find a missing friend.

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South Korea - Book: 'The Vegetarian' by Han Kang. An average woman lived her life without enthusiasm nor complaints until a dream inspired her to become vegetarian. The decision was met with extreme reactions from her family.

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India - Book: 'The God of Small Things' by Arundhati Roy. It is a story about three generations of a family living in the region of Kerala, in the south of India. They were initially scattered all around the globe but end up returning to their birthplace.

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Turkey - Book: 'My Name is Red Georgia' by Orhan Pamuk. In Istanbul, during the last years of the 16th century, a Sultan orders that a secret book celebrating his life and empire is written. However, a crime is committed...

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Egypt - Book: 'Palace Walk' by Naguib Mahfuz. It is the portrait of a family and a country fighting for independence in a society that has been resisting change for centuries.

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Peru - Book: 'Death in the Andes' by Mario Vargas Llosa. Under the threat of the Maoist guerrillas of the Sendero Luminoso, Corporal Lituma and his adjunct, Tomás Carreño, live in a miners camp in the mountains of Peru, where inexplicable and dark disappearances begin happening.

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Colombia - Book: 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel García Márquez. It tells the story of the Buendía family, a group of solitary individuals that inhabit the mystical village of Macondo. The narrative develops around the family members.

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Japan - Book: 'Kokoro' by Natsume Soseki. It is about the two main characters and the society they live in. The story includes themes such as traditional Japanese culture, Western modernization and the world of national and international politics.

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Belarus - Book: 'Voices from Chernobyl' by Svetlana Alexievich. It tells the story of the 1986 tragedy.

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