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This list was created with a primary goal in mind : help readers - especially US readers - to expand their reading experience by reading more translated books written by writers all over the world. Why is it important? Well. Don't you think that nowadays, we seriously need to look at how people live and think around the world? That we seriously need to stop being so self-centered? Because you know what? the lack of knowledge brings a boulevard to stereotypes.
So, we need diverse books.
We need diverse books written by minorities in the US and other English countries.
But we also need diverse books whose authors *GASP* don't speak English.
We need to push for more translated books.
I'm building up a blog with that aim at heart, and here are the first books I'll read for this project.
--- Please add your recs!
All genres accepted.
Only rule : the book must have been written in another language than English, and been translated in English (or in French).
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The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
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POENA DAMNI: THE TRILOGY (3-Book Box Set)
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Blindness
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The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5)
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The Master and Margarita
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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Z213: EXIT
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The First Death
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Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 440,171 ratings
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Norwegian Wood
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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Human Acts
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Invisible Cities
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Out
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The Name of the Rose
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The Woman in the Dunes
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Blood of Elves (The Witcher, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 239,015 ratings
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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The Complete Persepolis
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The Thief Lord
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3.99 avg rating — 101,816 ratings
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Kafka on the Shore
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Solaris
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3.99 avg rating — 126,386 ratings
score: 380,
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The Guest Cat
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3.55 avg rating — 34,788 ratings
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The Iliad / The Odyssey
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4.07 avg rating — 82,631 ratings
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The Vegetarian
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My Name Is Red
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3.87 avg rating — 60,506 ratings
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Doctor Zhivago
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Candide, or Optimism
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3.76 avg rating — 296,803 ratings
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Kitchen
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3.90 avg rating — 124,192 ratings
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The Baron in the Trees
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Pedro Páramo
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My Brilliant Friend (My Brilliant Friend, #1)
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Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
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Confessions of a Mask
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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3.98 avg rating — 123,235 ratings
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The House of the Spirits
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4.29 avg rating — 309,734 ratings
score: 292,
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Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era
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4.47 avg rating — 23,229 ratings
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The Red Notebook
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3.86 avg rating — 23,308 ratings
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Faust
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3.90 avg rating — 49,035 ratings
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R.U.R.
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
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The Tartar Steppe
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4.21 avg rating — 39,546 ratings
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Il mondo di Sofia: Romanzo sulla storia della filosofia
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3.97 avg rating — 277,511 ratings
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The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso
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4.08 avg rating — 168,820 ratings
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Narcissus and Goldmund
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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
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4.02 avg rating — 109,375 ratings
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Siddhartha
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4.08 avg rating — 856,293 ratings
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The Neverending Story
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4.18 avg rating — 217,688 ratings
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The Housekeeper and the Professor
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Death and the Penguin
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3.78 avg rating — 21,583 ratings
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Kristin Lavransdatter
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4.31 avg rating — 14,082 ratings
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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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3.87 avg rating — 199,367 ratings
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The Heart of Touqar - THT - Epic - Vol 1
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Eng.Sara Ahmad (Goodreads Author)
4.91 avg rating — 92 ratings
score: 200,
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The Ice Princess (Fjällbacka, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 87,181 ratings
score: 197,
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With the People from the Bridge (Poena Damni Book 2)
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4.56 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Inkdeath (Inkworld, #3)
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3.98 avg rating — 92,941 ratings
score: 195,
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Inkspell (Inkworld, #2)
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Cornelia Funke (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 134,151 ratings
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Independent People
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4.12 avg rating — 13,969 ratings
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The Emperor: Downfall of An Autocrat
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4.08 avg rating — 9,089 ratings
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Signs Preceding the End of the World
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3.89 avg rating — 15,617 ratings
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Don Quixote
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3.91 avg rating — 299,788 ratings
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War and Peace
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If Cats Disappeared from the World
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3.79 avg rating — 119,435 ratings
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No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories
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Please Look After Mom
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The Nakano Thrift Shop
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Convenience Store Woman
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Oedipus the King
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Sweet Bean Paste
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Crónica de una muerte anunciada
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A Man Called Ove
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4.38 avg rating — 1,179,977 ratings
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Il re di Norvegia
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Woman at Point Zero
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The Queue
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
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To Live
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I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
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The Summer Book
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La Nuit des temps
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Anna Karenina
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Momo
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Purge
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Soccer in Sun and Shadow
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Christiane F: Autobiography of a Girl of the Streets and Heroin Addict
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The Book of Embraces
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The Metamorphosis
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The Legend of the Wandering King
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Strange Weather in Tokyo
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A Cup of Rage
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The Stranger
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Thus Bad Begins
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Butterfly Valley: A Requiem
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Ficciones
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The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman
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The End of Days
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The Symposium
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The Art of War
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Alienor ✘ French Frowner ✘ (of badger and SNAKE) wrote: "Herman wrote: "Wasn't Heart of Darkness written in English, even if it wasn't Conrad's first language?Also, do the books have to be "recommended", or is it OK if we vote for them via "add books t..."
Yep. Written in English. I'll remove it.
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How to Vote
To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link vote for this book clicking it will add that book to your votes.
To vote on books not in the list or books you couldn't find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
Also, do the books have to be "recommended", or is it OK if we vote for them via "add books to this list?""
Oh, I wasn't the one adding Conrad, but I'm gonna check... I think you may be right. And yes, adding books is perfect :) Thanks!