Read Europe! ...
... plus US and Canada, so I guess ... it's more like read the west.
One book per country. See list below for spoilers. Included in case you want to find a specific country.
* Austria: Letters to a Young Poet
* Canada: Anne of Green Gables
* Denmark: Andersen's Fairy Tales
* England: Pride & Prejudice
* Finland: Kaleva
* France: Mme Bovary
* Germany: Faust
* Greece: Odyssey
* Greenland: The Prophets of Eternal Fjord
* Hungary: The Door (Szabo)
* Iceland: Prose Edda
* Ireland: Tain Bo
* Italy: Inferno
* Netherlands: Diary of a Young Girl
* Norway: A Doll's House
* Poland: Lalka
* Portugal: The Lusiads
* Russia: Eugene Onegin
* Scotland: Peter Pan
* Spain: Don Quixote
* Sweden: Beowulf
* Switzerland: Heidi
* Ukraine: Kobzar
* US: The Bell Jar
* Wales: Under Milk Wood
