Decisions, decisions ... browsing in a Beijing bookshop. Photograph: AFP/STR/Getty

The world literature tour returns from Spain refreshed and revitalised, brimming with top tips for Iberian reading.

There were mentions for novelist Javier Marias, poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, Hemingway (about Spain, you see) and The Book of Blanquerna, according to BillyMills, "a late 13th century book which is the first major literary work in Catalan and possibly the first European novel". There were even some who took spoke up for Cervantes, Pérez-Reverte and Cercas. Thanks for all your recommendations.

Thanks too for your votes for this month's destination, which the more perceptive of you may already have noticed is China. What we're looking for is your recommendations for the best of Chinese literature in its broadest sense. So, "best" we'll scan as being not just unquestionably great literature, but also something that might be a cracking read for the beach. Likewise "Chinese" can be taken as widely as you like - there's more than 2000 years of continuous literary culture to cover here as well as a complicated modern diaspora. And "literature" - well, you get the picture. We'd like novels, non-fiction, plays, poems, even the best writing about China from outside China, as well as your votes for next month's destination.

This is also the point at which I should point you all towards our embarrassingly split database (and yes, I have been assured by people telling me things I do not understand that it is impossible to merge them ... usually I just nod). A couple of votes were cast for Italy and Japan - both of which the tour has already visited. Here are the lists. First in blue, and then in orange.

All that remains is for me to second flamby's point that the individual countries of South America each deserve a thread and to throw it open to the floor.

Oh, and did I remember to mention voting?