World Literature Suggestions
My mother is looking for books by authors who are neither American nor British who she can recommend to high school students (think summer reading type assignments). She is especially looking for the sort of genre fiction (romance, sci-fi, mystery) that would appeal to reluctant readers or really those people who are never going to be English majors. For example when recommending a contemporary British author to students like this she would say Agatha Christie or Terry Pratchett. Mom's favorite non American author is Dostoevsky but somehow that doesn't seem like a promising choice.