Note: Countries are listed by their current names, which may not be accurate for historical fiction. These cases are marked with an HF.
Algeria
- The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee (YA)
Antarctica
- Rising From Ash by Jax Meyer (South Pole)
- All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes
Argentina
- Brickmakers by Selva Almada
- The Gods of Tango by Caro De Robertis
- Who is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht
- Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk
Austria
- All of You Every Single One by Beatrice Hitchman
- *All Girls Be Mine Alone by Sophie Strohmeier
Bangladesh
- Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam
- The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan
Bermuda
- All Are Welcome by Liz Parker
Botswana
- Wild Life by Keena Roberts (Memoir)
Brazil
- The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel
- Here the Whole Time by Vitor Martins
- This is Our Place by Vitor Martins
- *The Songbird by Stacy Lynn Miller
- Where We Go From Here by Lucas Rocha
Bulgaria
- What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
- Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
Cameroon
- These Letters End in Tears by Musih Tedji Xaviere
Chile
- Like Happiness by Ursula Villarreal-Moura
China
- Blue Hunger by Viola di Grado
- A Clash of Steel by C.B. Lee (Historical YA)
- She Who Became the Sun by Shelly Parker-Chan (Historical)
- The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
- After the Dragons by Cynthia Zhang
- Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (YA Sci-Fi)
- Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao (MG Sci-Fi)
Colombia
- *Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You by Julián Delgado Lopera
Czechia
- The Lights of Prague by Nicole Jarvis (HF)
- The Summer of Us by Cecelia Vinesse (YA)
Egypt
- In the Spider’s Room by Muhammed Abdelnabi
- A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark
- Greenland by David Santos Donaldson
- *Cleopatra by Saara El-Arifi
Estonia
- And the Trees Stare Back by Gigi Griffis (YA)
Ethiopia
- Finding Joy by Adriana Herrera (M/M Romance)
Finland
- My Name is Magic by Xan van Rooyen
France
- The Last Nude by Ellis Avery
- The Disenchantment by Celia Bell
- Lie With Me by Philippe Besson
- We Are the Beasts by Gigi Griffis (YA)
- *Almost Life by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
- An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera
- The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
- *Like We Were in Paris by Stephan Lee (YA)
- Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis
- The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher
- The Paris Affair by Maureen Marshall
- The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
- Strange Beasts by Susan J. Morris
- The Beasts of Paris by Stef Penney
- The Perfume Thief by Timothy Schaffert
- The Titanic Survivors’ Book Club by Timothy Schaffert
- What’s Left of the Night by Ersi Sotiropoulos
- *The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan
- The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
- The Summer of Us by Cecelia Vinesse (YA)
Germany
- Blood Rouge by Jeza Belle
- Paper Love by Jae
- The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee (YA)
- A Blood as Bright as the Moon by Andrea Morstabilini
- Black Deutschland by Darryl Pinckney
- I Make Envy on Your Disco by Eric Schnall
- Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken by Nita Tyndall (YA)
- The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin by Kip Wilson (YA)
Ghana
- No One Dies Yet by Kobby Ben Ben
Greece
- The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine (Lesbos)
- Young Conquerors: A Novel of Hephaestion and Alexandros by Christopher Cosmos
- Antiquity by Hanna Johansson
- The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
- Lion’s Legacy by L.C. Rosen (YA)
- Fire on the Island by Timothy Jay Smith
Greenland
- Greenland by David Santos Donaldson
- Last Night in Nuuk by Niviaq Korneliussen
Honduras
- Libertad by Bessie Flores Zaldívar
Hong Kong
- Three Months to Forever by Hudson Lin
Hungary
- This Rebel Heart by Katherine Locke
Iceland
- Boulder by Eva Baltasar
- Seidman by James Erich
- Miss Iceland by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
India
- The Sea Elephants by Shastri Akella
- The Other Man by Farhard J. Dadyburjor
- *Queerly Beloved by Farhard J. Dadyburjor
- Falling Into Place by Sheryn Munir
- Mother India by Tova Reich
- Blue-Skinned Gods by SJ Sindu
- The City of Devi by Manil Suri
Iran
- The Moon at Nine by Deborah Ellis (YA)
- If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan (YA)
- Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram (YA)
- Medusa of the Roses by Navid Sinaki
Ireland
- These Days by Lucy Caldwell
- The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
- Juno Loves Legs by Karl Geary
- Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth
- *Heap Earth Upon It by Chloe Michelle Howarth
- The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar (YA)
- Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar (YA)
- The Dos and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar (YA)
- Witches of Ash & Ruin by E. Latimer (YA)
- The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue
- Thirst Trap by Gráinne O’Hare
- At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O’Neill
- Normal People by Sally Rooney
- The Falling in Love Montage by Ciara Smyth (YA)
- Not My Problem by Ciara Smyth (YA)
Israel
- Sunhead by Alex Assan (YA GN)
- A Meeting of Two Prophets by Judah Tasa
- Urban Tails by Ilana Zeffren (Comic)
Italy
- Call Me By Your Name and Find Me by André Aciman
- How it All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi (YA)
- Nicked by M.T. Anderson (Historical)
- Vesuvius by Cass Biehn (YA, Historical)
- A Beautiful Crime by Christopher Bollen
- Leading Men by Christopher Castellani
- Eight Strings by Margaret DeRosia
- Miranda in Milan by Katharine Duckett
- Maddalena and the Dark by Julia Fine (Historical)
- The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee (YA, Historical)
- The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
- The Guncle Abroad by Steven Rowley
- The Dogs of Venice by Steven Rowley
- When Love Gives You Lemons by Steven Salvatore (YA)
- The Summer of Us by Cecelia Vinesse (YA)
- Two People by Donald Windham
Jamaica
- Songs of Irie by Asha Ashanti Bromfield (YA)
- Broughtupsy by Christina Cooke
- Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
- Every Dark Desire by Fiona Zedde
Japan
- *Jackson Alone by Jose Ando
- Solo Dance by Li Kotomi
- Catfish Rolling by Clara Kumagai (YA)
- *Passage to Tokyo by Poppy Kuroki
- The Night of Baba Yaga by Akiro Otani, trans. by Sam Bett
- A Darkly Beating Heart by Lindsay Smith (YA)
- *Fish and Water by Gengoroh Tagame
- *Love Makes Mochi by Stephany Valentine (YA)
- Memorial by Bryan Washington
- Palaver by Bryan Washington
Korea (South)
- Flip the Script by Lyla Lee (YA)
- Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park
- Violet by Kyung-Sook Shin
Lebanon
- The True Story of Raja the Gullible by Rabih Alameddine
- Restless by Joseph Kai (GN)
Malaysia
- Black Water Sister by Zen Cho
- Bellies by Nicola Dinan (partially set)
Mexico
- Perpetual West by Mesha Maren
- Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley
Nigeria
- Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi
- Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh
- God’s Little Children Are Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu
- And Then He Sang a Lullaby by Ani Kayode
- Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
- Vagabonds! by Eloghosa Osunde
- Necessary Fiction by Eloghosa Osunde
- An Ordinary Wonder by Buki Papillon
Norway
- Cross My Heart and Never Lie by Nora Dåsnes
- The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
- The Reckless Kind by Carly Heath (island off the coast)
Pakistan
- Other Names for Love by Taymour Soomro
Philippines
- Don’t Tell My Mother by Brigitte Bautista
- The Lease of Their Problems by Brigitte Bautista and Chi Yu Rodriguez
- “The Murders in the Rue Apartelle, Boracay” by Rin Chupeco (in His Hideous Heart)
- So Forward by Mina V. Esguerra
- Another Word For Happy by Agay Llanera
- Lulu Sinagtala and the Tagalog Gods by Gail D. Villanueva
Poland
- Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski
- *Intrusive Behavior by Sebastian J. Plata
- The Fourth Courier by Thomas Jay Smith
Russia
- Let the Dead Bury the Dead by Allison Epstein
- Spring in Siberia by Artem Mozgovoy
- Wound by Oksana Vasyakina
- *Steppe by Oksana Vasyakina
Scotland
- Summer at the Scottish Castle by Rachel Bowdler – P
- Out of the Blue by Sophie Cameron (YA)
- Last Bus to Everland by Sophie Cameron (YA)
- The Resurrectionist by A. Rae Dunlap
- The Needfire by MK Hardy
- Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins (YA)
- Mangos and Mistletoe by Adriana Herrera (Amz)
- The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee (YA)
- All the Stars in the Daylight Sky by Maya MacGregor (YA)
- *The Book of Blood and Roses by Annie Summerlee
Singapore
- When They Burned the Butterfly by Wen-yi Lee
- *City of Others by Jared Poon
- The Spy and Her Serpent by Maria Ying
South Africa
- Kaleidoscope Song by Fox Benwell
- The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden
- The Other Me by Xan van Rooyen
- Nate Plus One by Kevin van Whye
Spain
- Countries of Origin by Javier Fuentes
- The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
- Meet Me in Madrid by Verity Lowell
- The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
- Bad Habit by Alana S. Portero (Madrid)
- All This I Will Give to You by Dolores Redondo
- Spanish Surrender by Rachel Spangler
- Briefly, a Delicious Life by Nell Stevens (Mallorca)
Sri Lanka
- The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
- Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
- Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai
St. Thomas
- Hurricane Girl by Kacen Callender
Suriname
- On a Woman’s Madness by Astrid Roemer
Switzerland
- The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee (YA)
Syria
- The Foghorn Echoes by Danny Ramadan
Taiwan
- Solo Dance by Li Kotomi
- Taiwan Travelogue by
Trinidad & Tobago
- The Dreaming by Andre Bagoo
- Sweethand by N.G. Peltier
Turkey
- *No God But Us by Bobuq Sayed
- Istanbul Crossing by Timothy Jay Smith
Ukraine
- The Sunflower Boys by Sam Wachman
Uruguay
- Cantoras by Caro de Robertis
Vietnam
- A Banh Mi for Two by Trinity Nguyen (YA)
- She is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran (YA)
- The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
Zambia
- The Lion’s Den by Iris Mwanza
