I'm allowing books written in exile. Some of these would have been hard, if not impossible, to find in translation otherwise. Noted with an asterisk

• Afghanistan: The Patience Stone, Atiq Rahimi*
• Albania
• Algeria
• Burundi, A Small Country, Gael Faye*
• England, GHost Wall, Sarah Moss
• Ireland, Normal People, Sally Rooney
• Japan, The Emissary, Yoko Tawada
• Morocco, The Perfect Nanny, Leila Slimani
• New Zealand, The Things She's Seen, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Ezekiel Kwaymullina
• Nigeria, My Sister the Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite
• Vietnam, Inside Out & Back Again, Thanhha Lai