Argentina

Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

Dreamlike labyrinths explore time and memory.

Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar

The reader becomes a character in this jazz-flavored story of an Argentine expatriate in Paris.

Brazil

Show Down by Jorge Amado

Canada

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

A fundamentalist government ends women's rights in a grim future.

My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki

Strange things happen in the love lives of two women--one a Japanese-American filmmaker from New York, the other a Japanese housewife--linked by a Japanese television show sponsored by an American meat exporter.

Colombia

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez 

A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story.

The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez 

The novel follows Simon Bolivar as he takes his final journey in 1830 down the Magdalena River toward the sea. Forced from power, dogged by assassins, and prematurely aged and wasted by a fatal illness, the General is still a remarkably vital and mercurial man. He seems to remain alive by the sheer force of will that led him to so many victories in the battlefields and love affairs of his past. As he wanders in the labyrinth of his failing powers and still-powerful memories he defies his impending death until the last. 

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez 

Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza consummate their passion at the beginning of the 20th century after having waited over 50 years.

Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez 

A priest hired to exorcize a young girl realizes that she is not sick but instead horrified after living with superstitous nuns in their convent during colonial times.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 

Tells the story of the Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town.

Cuba

The Color of Summer, or the New Garden of Earthly Delights by Reinaldo Arenas

Czech Republic

Immortality by Milan Kundera

Through the actions of three characters--Agnes, her husband, and her sister--and others in contemporary France and Weimar Germany, the author reflects on the image of the individual, the Western cult of sentiment, and the meaning of love.

Finland

Dance of the Tiger: a Novel of the Ice Age by Björn Kurtén

Kurtén draws on recent anthropological discoveries and his vivid imagination to create a compelling tale of life thirty-five thousand years ago, telling the story of Tiger as he seeks revenge for a savage attack on his tribe.