My attempt at a global canon

I wanted to ask for some feedback on this. The biggest complaint for aggregated book lists is that they are way too western focused. The issue of course is that non-western lists are rare and hard to find. I feel like I do a decent job at mitigating this, but it's still a huge issue.

This new list tries to solve the problem by restricting the list by country. There is a 3 book limit per country, and only a single book by an author is eligible. I'm also including 20% non-fiction since they are severely under represented. It's definitely still a work in progress and would love some feedback.

Here's the list so you don't have to visit the website

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (Colombian)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (American)
Ulysses by James Joyce (Irish)
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (American)
Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell (British)
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (French)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (American)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (British)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (British)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (Spanish)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russian)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Russian)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (French)
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Italian)
The Odyssey by Homer (Greek)
The Stranger by Albert Camus (French)
The Bible (Jewish)
The Trial by Franz Kafka (Czech)
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (Russian)
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (German)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Nigerian)
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (Dutch)
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (American)
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Canadian)
Walden by Henry David Thoreau (American)
The Aeneid by Virgil (Roman)
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (American)
Oedipus the King by Sophocles (Greek)
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German)
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (Italian)
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass (German)
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (Irish)
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Italian)
Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges (Argentinian)
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Italian)
Essays by Michel de Montaigne (French)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (Czech)
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (British)
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir (French)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley (American)
The Republic by Plato (Greek)
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud (Austrian)
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil (Austrian)
Confessions by Augustine (Roman)
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (Japanese)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (American)
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (Chilean)
The Double Helix by James D. Watson (American)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson (American)
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (British)
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn (American)
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Russian)
Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (German)
A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul (Trinidadian)
The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hašek (Czech)
Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats by William Butler Yeats (Irish)
Medea by Euripides (Greek)
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell (British)
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Indian)
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (French)
Disgrace by J M Coetzee (South African)
If This Is a Man by Primo Levi (Italian)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (Japanese)
Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche (German)
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo (Mexican)
Hunger by Knut Hamsun (Norwegian)
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (Brazilian)
The Histories of Herodotus by Herodotus (Greek)
The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (French)
Mahabharata by Vyasa (Indian)
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (British)
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (Norwegian)
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (Danish)
Metamorphoses by Ovid (Roman)
The Elements of Style by E. B. White, William Strunk Jr. (American)
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov (American)
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton (South African)
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe (American)
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (Indian)
Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch (Austrian)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Dominican)
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (Norwegian)
Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz (Polish)
Independent People by Halldor Laxness (Icelandic)
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg (Scottish)
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (Polish)
The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead (Australian)
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño (Chilean)
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by Joao Guimaraes Rosa (Brazilian)
Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz (Polish)
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (Canadian)
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (Portuguese)
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough (Australian)
Season of Migration to the North by Al-Tayyib Salih (Sudanese)
Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en (Chinese)
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (Brazilian)
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (Lebanese)
Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar (Argentinian)
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth (Austrian)
Poems of W. H. Auden by W. H. Auden ()
Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Canadian)
Call to Arms by Xun Lu (Chinese)
Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin (Chinese)
Voss by Patrick White (Australian)
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima (Japanese)
The Golden Ass (Metamorphoses): Or Metamorphoses by Apuleius (Roman)
La Regenta by Clarín (Spanish)
La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas (Spanish)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigerian)
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwean)
I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch (Swiss)
Fateless by Imre Kertész (Hungarian)
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi (Egyptian)
The Famished Road by Ben Okri (Nigerian)
The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier (Cuban)
The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa (Peruvian)
Embers by Sandor Marai (Hungarian)
Three Trapped Tigers by Guillermo Cabrera Infante (Cuban)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Afghan)
Lanark by Alasdair Gray (Scottish)
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk (Turkish)
Jakob Von Gunten by Robert Walser (Swiss)
The Lusiad by Luís Vaz Camões (Portuguese)
The Bone People by Keri Hulme (New Zealander)
Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (Mexican)
Green Henry by Gottfried Keller (Swiss)
The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes (Mexican)
The Heart Of Midlothian by Sir Walter Scott (Scottish)
Barabbas by Par Lagerkvist (Swedish)
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid (Antiguan)
The Bridge on the Drina by  Ivo Andrić (Bosnian)
So Long a Letter by  Mariama Bâ (Senegalese)
A Grain Of Wheat by Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Kenyan)
Auto Da Fé by Elias Canetti (Bulgarian)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Swedish)
Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer (South African)
God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembène (Senegalese)
The Red Room by August Strindberg (Swedish)
Memed, My Hawk by Yashar Kemal (Turkish)
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by José Saramago (Portuguese)
Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel by Peter Høeg (Danish)
The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born by Ayi K. Armah (Ghanaian)
A Question of Power by Bessie Head (Botswanan)
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon (Trinidadian)
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (Finnish)
Don Segundo Sombra by Ricardo Güiraldes (Argentinian)
The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch (Dutch)
Children of Gebelawi by Naguib Mahfouz (Egyptian)
The Blind Owl by Ṣādiq Hidāyat (Iranian)
The Notebook: The Proof ; The Third Lie : Three Novels by Agota Kristof (Hungarian)

My website has been posted here dozens of times over the years from multiple people. I created it almost 15 years ago as a personal project and desire to read the greatest books of all time. I'm not just posting this to get views.

https://thegreatestbooks.org/global-canon