| Title | Author+Bio | Country of Origin |
| Dawn | Elie Wiesel, 1961 | Born in Romania/Hungary, Moved to France after Holocaust
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| The Thousand and One Nights | Compiled from folktales, 850 AD | Persia, Baghdad, Cairo
|
| The Saboteur | Ha Jin | China |
| The Inferno | Dante, 14th Century | Italy, Florence |
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe, 1959 | Nigeria |
| The Moment before the Gun Went Off | Nadine Gordimer | South Africa |
| The Guest | Albert Camus, 1957 | Algeria |
| In the Shadow of War | Ben Okri | Nigeria |
| No Witchcraft for Sale | Doris Lessing
| Zimbabwe/Rhodesia |
| The Prisoner who Wore Glasses | Bessie Head, Born in Insane Asylum | South Africa |
| Like the Sun | R.K. Narayan | India |
| A Doll's House | Henrik Ibsen, 1889 | Norway |
| My Father Writes to My Mother | Assie Djebar | Algeria |
| From Behind the Veil | Dhu'l Nun Ayyoub | Iraq |
| The Youngest Doll | Rosario Ferre | Puerto Rico |
| A Meeting in the Dark | Ngugi wa Thiong'o | Kenya |
| Black Girl | Sembene Ousmane | Senegal |
