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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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Multiple Choice
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The Feast of the Goat
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Desert
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Essence of Camphor
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Conversation in the Cathedral
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Ghachar Ghochar
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Invisible Planets: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese SF in Translation
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Les Liaisons dangereuses
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The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction, Vol. I
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Rakesh Khanna (Editor)
3.61 avg rating — 414 ratings
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Sleepwalking Land
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Roadside Picnic
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Heaven
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The Elephant's Journey
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The Club Dumas
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Season of Migration to the North
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Dream of Ding Village
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Genesis (Memory of Fire, #1)
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Diary of a Mad Old Man
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The Late Mattia Pascal
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The Murder of Halland
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Vol. 1 of 2 (chapter 1-60)
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I Curse the River of Time
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The Lover
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Satantango
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The Tin Drum
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The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
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Broken Glass
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The Man Who Snapped His Fingers
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On the Heights of Despair
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The Sound of Colors: A Journey of the Imagination
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Tears in Rain
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Tiger Moon
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Wolves' Dream
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The Seventh Cross
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Motherwit
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The Dead Writer
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My Brilliant Life
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 1: The Golden Days
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
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Fever Dream
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Maitreyi
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A Chance of Sunshine
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The Scar
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Se questo è un uomo
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Le Sang de l'Ange (Les Démons d'Alexia, #5)
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De 100-jarige man die uit het raam klom en verdween
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City of the Beasts (Eagle and Jaguar, #1)
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Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 44,972 ratings
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Baluta
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Dom Casmurro
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Cancer Ward
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Lowering Clouds
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The Picture Bride
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ملحمة قلب التوقار 1
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4.91 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Traveler of the Century
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The Tale of Genji
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Home
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The Box Man
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Austerlitz
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Orange: The Complete Collection, Volume 1
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Le Crépuscule des Elfes
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Il bar sotto il mare
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Homeless in my Land: Translations from Modern Marathi Dalit Short Stories
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Engineer of Human Souls
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The Salon of Exiled Artists in California
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Clara Reads Proust
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We, the Drowned
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The Pillow Book
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The Suicide Shop
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Six Héritiers (Le Secret de Ji, #1)
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Margherita Dolce Vita
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Thunderstorm: Dalit Stories
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The Captive Mind
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Compass
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Ru
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La pourpre et l'or (Murena, #1)
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Novecento. Un monologo
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Erebos
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The Stepchild: Angaliyat
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Viva o Povo Brasileiro
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The Hour of the Star
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The Mutations
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Three Kingdoms (4-Volume Boxed Set)
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The Pomegranate Lady and Her Sons: Selected Stories
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Marilyn's Last Sessions
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Heartsinger
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The Way of the Samurai
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Trinity Blood: Reborn on the Mars, Volume 3: Empress of the Night
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Veronika Decides to Die
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L'écume des jours
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My Friend Hitler and Other Plays of Yukio Mishima
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The Phantom of the Opera
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The branded =: Uchalya
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A Casa dos Budas Ditosos
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The Garden of Monsters
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Paradise of the Blind
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Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow
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Trinity Blood: Reborn on the Mars, Volume 2: The Iblis
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Le Roi se meurt
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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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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!