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In Parenthesis by David Jones.
The Handmaid's Tale is the only other one I've read by her that I enjoyed, but I'm pretty sure Cat's Eye and The Robber Bride are highly acclaimed. Don't bother with Lady Oracle, though.
You didn't read them in order? Why did you choose to do it that way?
Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
The Odyssey
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Yes, definitely Independent People by Halldor Laxness
Beowulf
A la Recherche du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust (translated as In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past)
Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
Read a book from each country
