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World literature

Essential Books in Translation

The most-discussed international fiction in English translation — novels that shaped their national literatures and went on to shape world literature.

One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez · 1967 Editor's Choice Get it on Amazon →
The Trial Franz Kafka · 1925 Recommended Get it on Amazon →
The Stranger Albert Camus · 1942 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866 Essential Read See details →
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy · 1877 Essential Read See details →
My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante · 2011 Essential Read See details →
Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami · 1987 Recommended See details →
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera · 1984 Recommended See details →
The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon · 2001 Essential Read See details →
Pedro Paramo Juan Rulfo · 1955 Essential Read See details →
The Vegetarian Han Kang · 2007 Essential Read See details →
Flights Olga Tokarczuk · 2007 Essential Read See details →
The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967 Essential Read See details →
Invisible Cities Italo Calvino · 1972 Essential Read See details →
Kokoro Natsume Soseki · 1914 Essential Read See details →
Swann's Way Marcel Proust · 1913 Essential Read See details →
Perfume Patrick Suskind · 1985 Essential Read See details →
HHhH Laurent Binet · 2010 Essential Read See details →

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