See here for methodology, though now I am restricting the table to books actually set in the territory of today’s Türkiye. (And I follow the convention that you call people and countries by the name that they wish to be known by.)
| Title | Author | Goodreads raters | LibraryThing owners |
| The Iliad | Homer | 464,049 | 28,539 |
| My Name Is Red | Orhan Pamuk | 57,375 | 7,088 |
| Snow | Orhan Pamuk | 47,051 | 7,086 |
| The Bastard of Istanbul | Elif Shafak | 55,991 | 1,894 |
| The Museum of Innocence | Orhan Pamuk | 33,523 | 2,269 |
| Istanbul: Memories and the City | Orhan Pamuk | 20,544 | 3,654 |
| 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World | Elif Shafak | 65,748 | 999 |
| Birds Without Wings | Louis de Bernières | 15,291 | 2,672 |
The Iliad is very firmly set in and around the siege of Troy, today’s Hisarlık on the Ionian Sea coast. So I’m giving it this week’s prize. But it’s very encouraging that six of the other seven are by actual Turkish authors, even if there are only two different writers.
I disqualified the following books because less than half of them (much less, in a couple of cases) is set in Türkiye: Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides; The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova; Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr; The Forty Rules of Love, by Elif Shafak; The Idiot, by Elif Batuman; and The Island of Missing Trees, again by Elif Shafak. (I’m pretty sure that more than half of The Bastard of Istanbul is set in the city, but not 100%.)
When I did this exercise back in 2015, the same three books came out on top for Turkey (as it was then called).
Next up: Germany.
Asia: India | China | Indonesia | Pakistan | Bangladesh (revised) | Russia | Japan | Philippines (revised) | Vietnam | Iran | Türkiye | Thailand | Myanmar | South Korea | Iraq | Afghanistan | Yemen | Uzbekistan | Malaysia | Saudi Arabia | Nepal | North Korea | Syria | Sri Lanka | Taiwan | Kazakhstan | Cambodia | Jordan | UAE | Tajikistan
Americas: USA | Brazil (revised) | Mexico | Colombia | Argentina | Canada | Peru | Venezuela | Guatemala | Ecuador | Bolivia | Haiti | Dominican Republic | Honduras | Cuba
Africa: Nigeria | Ethiopia (revised) | Egypt | DR Congo | Tanzania | South Africa | Kenya | Sudan | Uganda | Algeria | Morocco | Angola | Mozambique | Ghana | Madagascar | Côte d’Ivoire | Cameroon | Niger | Mali | Burkina Faso | Malawi | Zambia | Chad | Somalia | Senegal | Zimbabwe | Guinea | Benin | Rwanda | Burundi | Tunisia | South Sudan
Europe: Russia | Türkiye | Germany | France | UK | Italy | Spain | Poland | Ukraine | Romania | Netherlands | Belgium
Oceania: Australia | Papua New Guinea