Obviously the term "classics" is relative, but when it comes to books with "classic" reputations, I've realized that the ones I know of are really only from Europe and the Americas.
Effectively I'm looking for the types of novels that have reputations like those that we (in the US at least, I have no experience to speak on behalf of elsewhere) studied in lit classes, but come from origins which are non-Euro/non-Americas.
I think for the purpose of this post I'm looking for novels originally published no more recently than the end of the 1970s or so, and ideally older than that if possible. The translation can of course be more recent, but I'd like the novel itself to be older overall.
by PsyferRL
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For Africa, arguably the most famous classic is *Things Fall Apart* by Chinua Achebe (1958). The book was originally written in English.
The Travels of Ibn Battuta – he’s basically a Muslim Marco Polo, very famous outside of the West