- Algeria: Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade – Assia Djebar
- Argentina: Hija – Ana María Shua
- Australia: Year of Wonders – Geraldine Brooks
- Austria: Reverse Waltz: or The Manen of the Prischinger Family – Vea Kaiser
- Barbados: How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps her House – Cherie Jones
- Belgium: The Enemy’s Cosmetique – Amélie Nothomb
- Bolivia: Nuestro mundo muerto – Liliana Colanzi
- Brazil: The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
- Cambodia: The Music of the Ghosts – Vaddey Ratner
- Cameroon: Behold the Dreamers – Imbolo Mbue
- Canada: Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
- Chile: Ten Women – Marcela Serrano
- China: Half a Lifelong Romance -Eileen Chang
- Colombia: Los Divinos – Laura Restrepo
- Costa Rica: Limón Blues – Anacristina Rossi
- Cuba: Domingo de Revolución – Wendy Guerra
- Dominican Republic: Nombres y Animales – Rita Indiana
- Ecuador: Mandíbula – Mónica Ojeda
- Egypt: Chronicle of a Last Summer – Yasmine El Rashidi
- Eswatini: When the Ground is Hard – Malla Nunn
- Ethiopia: Beneath the Lion’s Gaze – Maaza Mengiste
- Finland: Naondel – Maria Turtschaninoff
- France: The Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery
- Germany: Go, Went, Gone – Jenny Erpenbeck
- Ghana: Changes – Ama Ata Aidoo
- Haiti: The Farming of Bones – Edwidge Danticat
- Iceland: Butterflies in November – Audur Ava Olafsdottir
- India: The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
- Iran: Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi
- Israel: Waking Lions – Ayelet Gundar-Gosher
- Italy: Limbo – Melania Mazzucco
- Ireland: Normal People – Sally Rooney
- Jamaica: Brown Girl in the Ring – Nalo Hopkinson
- Japan: Strange weather in Tokyo – Hiromi Kawakami
- Kenya: Dust – Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
- Lebanon: One Thousand and One Nights: A Retelling – Hanan al-Shaykh
- Liberia: She would be King -Wayétu Moore
- Mexico: Arde Josefina – Luisa Reyes Retana
- Morocco: Secret Son – Laila Lalami
- Mozambique: The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy – Paulina Chiziane
- Myanmar: Smile as they Bow – Nu Nu Yi
- Netherlands: The Discomfort of Evening – Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
- New Zealand: This Mortal Boy – Fiona Kidman
- Nicaragua: The Inhabited Woman – Gioconda Belli
- Nigeria: Stay with Me – Ayobami Adebayo
- Norway: A House in Norway – Vigdis Hjorth
- Oman: Celestial Bodies – Jokha Al-Harthi
- Peru: Destierro – Alina Gadea
- Philippines: Banana Heart Summer – Merlinda Bobis
- Poland: Flights – Olga Tokarczuk
- Portugal: The Migrant Painter of Birds – Lídia Jorge
- Russia: The Big Green Tent – Lyudmila Ulitskaya
- Saudi Arabia: Girls of Riyadh – Rajaa al-Sanea
- Serbia: The Tiger’s Wife – Tea Obreht
- Sierra Leone: The Memory of Love – Aminatta Forna
- Singapore: Ponti -Sharlene Teo
- Somalia: The Orchard of Lost Souls – Nadifa Mohamed
- South Africa: July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
- South Korea: Please Look After Mom – Kyung-Sook Shin
- Spain: Lectura Fácil – Cristina Morales
- Sri Lanka: The Hamilton Case – Michelle de Kretser
- Sudan: The Translator – Leila Aboulela
- Sweden: Kallocain – Karin Boye
- Switzerland: Sweet Days of Discipline – Fleur Jaeggy
- Thailand: The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth – Veeraporn Nitiprapha
- Trinidad and Tobago: Love After Love – Ingrid Persaud
- Turkey: The Bastard of Istanbul – Elif Shafak
- Uganda: Kintu – Jennifer Nansubuga
- USA: A Place For Us – Fatima Fahreen Mirza
- Ukraine: Hardly Ever Otherwise – Maria Matios
- Venezuela: Doña Ines vs Oblivion – Ana Teresa Torres
- Vietnam: Vi – Kim Thúy
- Zambia: Patchwork – Ellen Banda-Aaku
- Zimbabwe: We Need New Names – NoViolet Bulawayo