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Essential World Literature

The finest fiction and non-fiction from beyond the English-speaking world — works that every serious reader should encounter.

One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez · 1967 Editor's Choice Get it on Amazon →
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez · 1985 Recommended Get it on Amazon →
The Trial Franz Kafka · 1925 Recommended Get it on Amazon →
The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka · 1915 Essential Read See details →
The Stranger Albert Camus · 1942 Essential Read See details →
The Plague Albert Camus · 1947 Essential Read See details →
Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami · 1987 Recommended See details →
Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami · 2002 Recommended See details →
My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante · 2011 Essential Read See details →
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera · 1984 Recommended See details →
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866 Essential Read See details →
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy · 1877 Essential Read See details →
The Tin Drum Gunter Grass · 1959 Essential Read See details →
Blindness Jose Saramago · 1995 Essential Read See details →
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe · 1958 Recommended See details →
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o · 1967 Essential Read See details →
The Famished Road Ben Okri · 1991 Essential Read See details →
Inferno Dante Alighieri · 1767 Recommended See details →
Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges · 1944 Essential Read See details →

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