1. Central America – Laura Esquivel: Like Water for Chocolate
2. South America – Gabriel García Márquez: El coronel no tiene que escriba / Nobody Writes to the Colonel, and Other Stories
3. Caribbean – Various Authors: Trinidad Noir (Akashic Noir series)
4. North Africa – Assia Djebar: L’amour, La fantasia
5. Sub-Saharan Africa – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Dear Ijeawele
6. Eastern Europe – Olivia Manning: The Spoilt City
7. Central Asia – Valerie Hansen: The Silk Road
8. Middle East – Zahra Hankir (ed): Our Women on the Ground
9. South East Asia – A.M. Stuart: Singapore Sapphire
10. Oceania – Graeme Kent: Devil-Devil
11. African American – Barack Obama: A Promised Land
12. Native American – Joy Harjo: Crazy Brave
13. Women – Toni Morrison: Sula
14. LGBT – Patricia Highsmith: Carol, or, The Price of Salt
15. Jewish – Nora Ephron: I Remember Nothing
16. Muslim – Orhan Pamuk: My Name Is Red
17. Buddhism – Dalai Lama: Introduction to Buddhism
18. Indigenous – Katherena Vermette: The Break
19. Equality – Kamala Harris: The Truths We Hold
20. Colonialism – Mukoma wa Ngugi: Nairobi Heat
21. Human Rights – Marcie R. Rendon: Murder on the Red River
22. Free Speech – John Steinbeck: The Moon Is Down
23. Displacement – Rebecca Tinsley: When the Stars Fall to Earth
24. Slavery – Colson Whitehead: The Underground Railroad
25. Free Space – Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God