I think I've got a good variety in my book list so far. I think I'll skip keeping it a secret.
Code:
Canada Thomson Highway, Rez Sisters
United States John Steinbeck, The Pearl
Mexico Carlos Fuentes, The Death of Artemio Cruz
Cuba Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Havana Blue
Belize Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
Guatemala Rodrigo Rey Rosa; The Beggar's Knife
El Salvador Manlio Argueta, One Day of Life
Peru Daniel Alarcon, Lost City Radio
Chile Maria Luisa Bombal, House of Mist
Bolivia Edmundo Paz Soldan, Turing's Dilemma
Argentina Adolpho Bioy-Casares, The Invention of Morel
Nigeria Ben Okri, The Famished Road
Uruguay Eduardo Galeano, Genesis
Brazil Patricia Melo, In Praise of Lies
Venezuela Romulo Gallegos, Dona Barbara
Angola Jose Eduardo Agualusa, The Book of Chameleons
Zambia Gaile Parkin, Baking Cakes in Kigali
Zimbabwe Petina Gappah, An Elegy for Easterly
Mozambique Mia Couto, The Tuner of Silences
South Africa J M Coetzee, Diary of a Bad Year
Australia David Malouf, Remembering Babylon
Indonesia Andrea Hirata, The Rainbow Troops
Malaysia Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day
Vietnam Lihn Dihn, Blood and Soap
China Mo Yan, Reg Sorghum
South Korea Young-ha Kim, Your Republic is Calling You
Japan Haruki Murakami, Hard Boiled Wonderland
Russia Arkady Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic
Kazakhstan Mukhamet Shayakhmetov, The Silent Steppe
Uzbekistan Hamid Ismailov, The Railway
Afghanistan Atiq Rahimi, Earth and Ashes
Pakistan Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke
India Tabish Khair, The Bus Stopped
Kenya Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Nairobi Heat
Ethiopia Maaza Mengiste, Beneath the Lion's Gaze
Sudan Leila Aboulela, Lyrics Alley
Egypt Alaa Al Aswany, The Yacoubian Building
Turkey Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red
Bulgaria Georgi Gospodinov, Natural Novel
Romania Ilie Nastase, Break Point
Hungary Theodora Goss, In the Forest of Forgetting
Ukraine Nella Bieski, The Year is '42
Poland Stanislaw Lem, Return From the Stars
Lithuania Linia Zilionyte, Born for Freedom
Sweden Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Finland Maria Peura, At the Edge of Light
Norway Matte Newth, The Transformation
Germany Jenny Erpenbeck, Visitation
Switzerland Johanna Spyri - Heidi; Peter Stamm
Italy Donato Carrisi - The Lost Girls of Rome
Albania Ismail Kadare, Chronicle in Stone
Libya Hishmam Matar, In the Country of Men
52 countries. I'm looking through the page numbers to see how doable this is.