| 1. Arthur W Upfield, Death of a Swagman | Outback New South Wales, Australia | |
| 2. Keri Hulme, The Bone People | Whangaroa 0478, New Zealand | |
| 3. G.W. Kent, Devil-Devil | Solomon Islands | |
| 4. Albert Camus, The Outsider | Algiers, Algeria | |
| Peter Ho Davies, The Welsh Girl | Wales, UK | |
| 6. John David Morley, Journey to the End of the Whale | Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia | |
| 7. Tan Twan Eng, The Gift of Rain | George Town, Penang, Malaysia | |
| 8. Graham Greene, The Quiet American | Ho Chi Minh City, District 7, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam | |
| Alex Garland, The Beach | Thailand | |
| 10. Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Jan Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart | Republic of the Union of Myanmar | |
| Xiaolong Qui, Death of a Red Heroine | Shanghai, Shanghai, China | |
| Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg, The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again | 134 32 Norra Lagno, Sweden | |
| Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World | Mongolia | |
| Patricia McCormick, Never Look Back | Cambodia | |
| Francisco Sionil Jose, Dusk | Philippines | |
| Blaine Harden, Escape from Camp 14 | North Korea | |
| Sade Adeniram, Imagine This | Lagos, Nigeria | |
| Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist | The Great Pyramid at Giza, Al Ahram, Nazlet El-Semman, Al Haram, Giza Governorate, Egypt | |
| Alexander McCall Smith, The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection | Gaborone, Botswana | |
| Damon Galgut, In a Strange Room | Lesotho | |
| Markus Zusak, The Book Thief | Molchweg, 70499 Stuttgart, Germany | |
| Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide | Sundarbans | |
| Michael Gruber, The Good Son | Lahore, Pakistan | |
| Pratibha S. Manaen, A Friend in a Thousand | Nepal | |
| Shehan Karunatilaka, Chinaman | Colombo, Sri Lanka | |
| Ann Patchett, Bel Canto | Central America | |
| Nicholas Drayson, A Guide to the Birds of East Africa | Nairobi, Kenya | |
| Tea Obreht, The Tiger's Wife | Belgrade, Serbia | |
| Willy Vlautin, The Free | Washington, USA | |
| Jo Nesbo "The Snowman" | Oslo, Norway | |
| Marina Lewycka "A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian" | Ukraine | |
| Colin Cotterill, Six and a Half Deadly Sins | Laos | |
| Rahul Bhattacharya, The Sly Company of People Who Care | Georgetown, Guyana | |
| Lawrence Osborne, The Forgiven | Morocco | |
| Kate Furnivall, "The Far Side of the Sun" | Nassau, The Bahamas | |
| Elvira Dones, Sworn Virgin | Albania | |
| Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running | Hawaii, USA | |
| J W Ironmonger, Not Forgetting the Whale | Cornwall, UK | |
| Margaret Forster, Keeping the world away | Paris, France | |
| Nathacha Appanah, The Last Brother | Beau Bassin-Rose Hill, Mauritius | |
| Juan Pablo Villalobos, "Down the Rabbit Hole" | Mexico | |
| Paul Torday, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen | Yemen | |
| Vanessa Lafaye, "Summertime" | Florida Keys | |
| Luis Fernando Verissimo, The Spies | State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | |
| Arnaldur Indridasson, "Oblivion" | Reykjavík, Iceland | |
| Louis de Bernieres, Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Kefalonia, Greece | |
| E.M.Forster, "A Room With a View" | Florence, Italy | |
| Louise Erdrich "The Round House" | North Dakota, USA | |
| Colm Toibin, "Brooklyn" | Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, Ireland | |
| Amanda Smyth, "Black Rock" | Black Rock, Trinidad and Tobago | |
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez "One Hundred Years of Solitude" | Colombia | |
| Philip Paris, "The Italian Chapel" | Italian Chapel on Lamb Holm, Lambholm, Orkney KW17 2RT, UK | |
| Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie society" | Guernsey | |
| Kwei Quartey, "Wife of the Gods" | Ghana | |
| Marianna Debes Dahl, "Why Don't You Have Wings to Fly With?" | Tórshavn, Faroe Islands | |
| Emma Hooper, "Etta and Otto and Russell and James" | Saskatchewan, Canada | |
| Sue Monk Kidd, "The Invention of Wings" | Charleston, SC, USA | |
| Louis de Bernieres, "Birds Without Wings" | Turkey | |
| 61. Isabel Allende, "The House of the Spirits" | Chile | |
| Herta Muller, The Passport | Romania | |
| Henry Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines | South Africa | |
| Robert Thorogood, "A Meditation on Murder" | Deshaies, Guadeloupe | |
| Sumia Sukkar, "The Boy from Aleppo Who Painted the War" | Aleppo, Syria | |
| Epeli Hau'ofa, "Kisses in the Nederends" | Tonga | |
| Kris Holloway "Monique and the Mango Rains" | Koutiala, Mali | |
| Andrea Camilleri "The Shape of Water" | Sicily, Italy | |
| Jessie Burton "The Miniaturist" | Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| Elizabeth Ducie, "Gorgito's Ice Rink" | Nikolayevsk, Volgograd Oblast, Russia | |
| Hannah Pool, "My Father's Daughter" | Eritrea | |
| Alexandra Fuller, "Scribbling the cat" | Zambia | |
| Mia Couto, "Confession of the Lioness" | Mozambique | |
| Eowyn Ivey, "The Snow Child" | Alaska, USA | |
| Carlos Ruiz Zafon, "Shadow of the Wind" | Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain | |
| Gaile Parkin, "Baking Cakes in Kigali" | Kigali, Rwanda | |
| Ishmael Beah, "Radiance of Tomorrow" | Sierra Leone | |
| Cesar Aires, "Ghosts" | Buenos Aires, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina | |
| Ernest Hemingway. "The Snows of Kilimanjaro and other stories" | Tanzania | |
| Jiri Weil, "Mendelssohn is on the Roof" | Czech airlines handling a.s., Aviatická 1017/2, 161 00 Praha 6, Czech Republic | |
| Pamela O'Cuneen, "Humingbirds in My Hair" | Suriname |
