Foreign


The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
The Little Prince
The Kite Runner
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
The Stranger
The Alchemist
Crime and Punishment
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
Norwegian Wood
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Anna Karenina
Kafka on the Shore
The Metamorphosis
One Hot Italian Summer by Karina HalleGetting Hot with the Scot by Melonie JohnsonDon't Close Your Eyes by Lynessa JamesSmitten by the Brit by Melonie JohnsonComplicated Moonlight by Lynessa Layne
Book Boyfriends With Accents
125 books — 67 voters
Lalka by Bolesław PrusFerdydurke by Witold GombrowiczBlood of Elves by Andrzej SapkowskiSolaris by Stanisław LemQuo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Best Polish Books
577 books — 554 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Foreign Lands
2,359 books — 2,194 voters
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,078 books — 622 voters

新世界より [Shinsekai Yori] by Yusuke Kishi氷菓 [Hyouka] by Honobu YonezawaNo.6, Vol. 1 by Atsuko Asano境界の彼方 [Kyoukai no Kanata] by Torii Nagomuしろくまカフェ [Shirokuma Cafe] by Higaaroha
USA Release Wishlist
439 books — 145 voters
Cinder by Marissa MeyerTiger's Curse by Colleen HouckThe Thief Lord by Cornelia FunkeMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenDaughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
Set in foreign countries
229 books — 45 voters

Brian W. Aldiss
The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain for ever like a mirage in his mind. However, misfortune can itself sow seeds of creativity. ---- Afterword to "Hothouse" Brian Aldiss ...more
Brian Aldiss, Hothouse

Peter Høeg
There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from it. When I start talking about Qaanaaq, to myself or to others, I again start to lose what has never been truly mine.
Peter Hoeg

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