Book with list/advice to read world literature/diverse literature

I'm looking to broaden my horizons, and I love books with reading lists/advice (think 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die and Ex Libris. I recently picked up Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to World Fiction but was very disappointed that the aim was to give books SET in a certain location, not necessarily written by someone from that location.

Does anyone know of a book that does what I am looking for: Recommend books written by non-native English writers?

I'm a big proponent of 501 Must-Read Books. Like any list it's far from perfection and contains oddities, but has really done the trick for me that you're looking for. I'm not sure how broad your "non-native English writers" requirement is. For examples under classics, Tolstoy is in the list and he was Russian, Victor Hugo was French, etc. But modern fiction examples include Chinua Achebe (Nigerian), Jorge Amado (Brazilian), Henri Alban Fournier (French), Isaak Babel (Russian), Jorge Borges (Argentina), Andre Breton (French), Mikhail Bulgakov (Russian) ... I'm not even in the Cs yet.

Full list available here on LT: http://www.librarything.com/bookaward/501+Must-Read+Books
LT group: https://www.librarything.com/groups/501mustreadbooks

Let's start a list of those we love the most! I adore reading fiction in English translation. Previously I most loved to read middle eastern literature. Now I'm more into contemporary Japanese literature, but there are so many great novels and authors out there waiting to be discovered. Here's the list I'm starting. Please, everyone, add to it...so we can compile our own list of favorties for @divinenanny. Thank you!

Favorite World Literature in English Translation:

http://www.librarything.com/list/10971/all/Favorite-World-Literature-in-English-...

ETA: I might have missed @divinenanny's original intention. Perhaps that LTer wanted the books to have been written in English...and not be translations. Anyway, my list still stands. Add to it if you want. :)

ETA2: The list I started reflects my own reading bias, but with many entries this list will be improved. I started with only ten books, although there are probably hundreds I could add! I chose these books at random from the star ratings I gave them here on LT. :D

I'm also wondering whether something like Half of a Yellow Sun might qualify under the spirit if not the letter of the request; does a book by a Nigerian author about Nigeria fail because the author's native language is English? Or, for that matter, what about Midnight's Children?

>4 lorax: For my specific list, I'm looking for translated fiction. Books from those countries/cultures/authors are not often as accessible as books that are originally written in English.

Why not start another list called Favorite World Fiction...which could include those books you mentioned?

Sorry I wasn't clear! I was responding to the OP request, not to yours, which was obviously about translated fiction. I guess I should have pointed that out. :( Again, don't worry, I'm not going to post anything inappropriate to your list!

Some good reference sites for literature in translation:

https://arablit.org/

http://www.readafricanbooks.com/

http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/

http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/

Not a list, but a recent & excellent book on modern fiction in translation containing brief descriptions of a whole load of books is The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction. In addition the author of it has a website, The Complete Review, whose reviews are almost all of translated fiction. I suppose you could go through all the reviews there that gave the letter grades 'A' and 'B' to books and treat that as a list of sorts.

>2 Cecrow:
In my recent book haul I also got 501 Must-Read Books. I haven't had a chance yet to really get into it but it is good that there is such a good diversity of authors in there.

>3 SqueakyChu:
My intention was authors from non-English (or Dutch for me) countries, that have been translated into English or Dutch (My French and German are rusty and the rest is non existent...). So I think you got my drift ;)

>4 lorax:
Oh they fit the request. I was mostly trying to exclude the US and UK. They seem to be very well represented already, both in bestseller lists, prize winners etc.

>5 SqueakyChu:, >6 lorax:
I see the confusion. It isn't so much the language of the book, but more the culture of the author. I am very familiar with the US, UK (and The Netherlands) cultures, and would love to learn more about other cultures.

>7 southernbooklady:
Ah great, thanks!

>8 bluepiano:
Oh that is also a nice one, thanks!

nebber mind, already posted.

Only excluding US and UK? I can throw a bunch of Canadian names at you, else you might want to exclude us too, lol

Ann Morgan's The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe and her blog might be of interest.

>9 divinenanny: Does that "or Dutch" exclude Flemish as well? Because a while back my husband had come across http://literairecanon.be/ - "Dynamische canon van de Nederlandstalige literatuur vanuit Vlaams perspectief" if you were interested in some neighborly lit. ;)

I tend to "collect" lists myself, haha, so I have no idea how great overall any of these really are but:
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/5927...
http://flavorwire.com/415153/50-works-of-fiction-in-translation-that-every-engli...
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/12/100-best-novels-in-translation-since-1900...
http://lithub.com/25-new-books-by-african-writers-you-should-read/
https://ayearofreadingtheworld.com/thelist/ This person did a project of "reading the world" several years ago, and continued to read one a month and add titles, so there's stuff from everywhere listed.
There's the Best Translated Book Award so perusing the shortlists likely has some good titles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Translated_Book_Award (>7 southernbooklady: mentioned the place that does this one, Three Percent, but the Wiki page has the shortlists from previous years, which I can't seem to locate on their own page, only the past winners).

Not sure if there's any scope for children's literature in the OP's request, but if that's of any interest to anyone, I recommend the following awards lists (which I am gradually populating):

https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/USBBY+Outstanding+International+Book
https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/IRA+Notable+Book+for+a+Global+Society

https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/IBBY+Honour+Book
https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/The+White+Ravens

The first two are limited to books broadly available in English; the latter two are not.

ETA:
Now, for diversity of natures other than geographic, I've done a bunch of relevant awards lists as well, but here's one that I'd really like to highlight.

https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/In+the+Margins+Official+List