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Gilead (Gilead, #1)
by
3.85 avg rating — 127,487 ratings
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Samuel Johnson Is Indignant
by
3.95 avg rating — 1,716 ratings
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The Cows (Quarternote Chapbook Series)
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4.08 avg rating — 559 ratings
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Three Strong Women
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3.23 avg rating — 4,443 ratings
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Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust
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3.84 avg rating — 208 ratings
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Housekeeping
by
3.81 avg rating — 59,570 ratings
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Basti (New York Review Books Classics)
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3.70 avg rating — 782 ratings
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Seven Years
by
3.50 avg rating — 1,907 ratings
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Lenin's Kisses
by
3.82 avg rating — 673 ratings
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| 10 |
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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
by
4.22 avg rating — 7,136 ratings
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| 11 |
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Almost No Memory
by
3.96 avg rating — 1,294 ratings
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| 12 |
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Story and Other Stories
by
4.28 avg rating — 50 ratings
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| 13 |
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The Queue
by
3.75 avg rating — 1,839 ratings
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| 13 |
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The Four Books
by
3.99 avg rating — 1,772 ratings
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| 15 |
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Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man
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3.91 avg rating — 2,488 ratings
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Blooms of Darkness
by
3.53 avg rating — 590 ratings
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| 17 |
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Dream of Ding Village
by
4.03 avg rating — 3,047 ratings
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| 18 |
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Home (Gilead, #2)
by
4.04 avg rating — 30,673 ratings
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| 19 |
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Vladimir Sorokin: [sbornik rasskazov]
by
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Day of the Oprichnik
by
3.74 avg rating — 9,881 ratings
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| 21 |
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Ice (Ice Trilogy #1)
by
3.51 avg rating — 1,266 ratings
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| 22 |
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Путь Бро
by
3.57 avg rating — 435 ratings
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| 23 |
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Vladimir Sorokin, Dostojevskij-Trip
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4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
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| 24 |
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Роман
by
3.82 avg rating — 208 ratings
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23000 (Światło i Lód #3)
by
3.45 avg rating — 228 ratings
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| 26 |
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Dostoïevski Trip
by
3.83 avg rating — 183 ratings
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| 27 |
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Badenheim 1939
by
3.69 avg rating — 1,246 ratings
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| 28 |
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The Story of a Life
by
3.89 avg rating — 934 ratings
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| 29 |
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Until the Dawn's Light
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3.33 avg rating — 181 ratings
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The Iron Tracks
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3.69 avg rating — 273 ratings
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Katerina
by
3.69 avg rating — 446 ratings
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Tzili: The Story of a Life
by
3.64 avg rating — 366 ratings
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All Whom I Have Loved
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3.67 avg rating — 144 ratings
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To the Land of Cattails
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3.89 avg rating — 99 ratings
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For Every Sin
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3.66 avg rating — 95 ratings
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| 36 |
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The Conversion
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3.66 avg rating — 86 ratings
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| 37 |
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Age of Wonders
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3.85 avg rating — 103 ratings
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The Immortal Bartfuss
by
3.56 avg rating — 169 ratings
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Laish
by
3.33 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Healer
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3.38 avg rating — 56 ratings
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| 41 |
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Unto the Soul
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3.47 avg rating — 129 ratings
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| 42 |
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Varieties of Disturbance
by
3.81 avg rating — 2,447 ratings
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| 43 |
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Break It Down
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4.02 avg rating — 2,252 ratings
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| 44 |
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The End of the Story
by
3.62 avg rating — 3,202 ratings
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| 45 |
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Proust, Blanchot and a Woman in Red (Volume 5) (Cahiers)
by
4.17 avg rating — 30 ratings
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| 46 |
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SKETCHES FOR A LIFE OF WASSILY
by
4.42 avg rating — 26 ratings
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| 47 |
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A Chronicle of the Peacock. Stories Of Partition, Exile And Lost Memories
by
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 21 ratings
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| 48 |
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The Seventh Door: And Other Stories
by
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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| 49 |
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Gini Chuni Kahaniyan / گنی چنی کہانیاں
by
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Circle and other stories
by
3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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| 51 |
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Serve the People!
by
3.54 avg rating — 1,649 ratings
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| 52 |
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Serve the People!
by
3.54 avg rating — 1,649 ratings
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| 53 |
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Rosie Carpe
by
3.30 avg rating — 173 ratings
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| 54 |
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La Sorcière
by
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2,165 ratings
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| 55 |
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Mon coeur à l'étroit
by
3.64 avg rating — 581 ratings
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| 56 |
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Papa doit manger
by
3.46 avg rating — 268 ratings
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| 57 |
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En famille
by
3.54 avg rating — 52 ratings
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| 58 |
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Un temps de saison
by
3.14 avg rating — 746 ratings
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| 59 |
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Hilda
by
3.83 avg rating — 184 ratings
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| 60 |
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Autoportrait en vert
by
3.64 avg rating — 1,212 ratings
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| 61 |
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Tous mes amis
by
3.61 avg rating — 135 ratings
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| 62 |
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La Femme changée en bûche
by
3.40 avg rating — 15 ratings
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| 63 |
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Quant au riche avenir
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2.43 avg rating — 21 ratings
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| 64 |
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Comédie classique
by
3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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| 65 |
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Les Grandes personnes
by
3.24 avg rating — 41 ratings
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| 66 |
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La Diablesse et son enfant
by
4.02 avg rating — 55 ratings
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| 67 |
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NDW: Die neue deutsche Welle
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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| 68 |
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Les paradis de Prunelle
by
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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| 69 |
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Dream of Ding Village
by
4.03 avg rating — 3,047 ratings
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| 70 |
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Lenin's Kisses
by
3.82 avg rating — 673 ratings
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| 71 |
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Fiction Writer's Workshop
by
3.97 avg rating — 926 ratings
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| 72 |
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April Fool's Day
by
3.57 avg rating — 396 ratings
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| 73 |
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Writing Fiction Step by Step
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3.92 avg rating — 177 ratings
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| 74 |
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Yolk: Short Stories
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3.58 avg rating — 65 ratings
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| 75 |
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Salvation and Other Disasters
by
3.94 avg rating — 35 ratings
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| 76 |
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Apricots from Chernobyl
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4.23 avg rating — 30 ratings
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| 77 |
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Shopping for a Better Country
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4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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| 78 |
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Three Deaths
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3.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
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| 79 |
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Plum Brandy: Croatian Journeys (Terra Incognita Series, 7)
by
3.47 avg rating — 17 ratings
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| 80 |
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Stories in the Stepmother Tongue
by
3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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| 81 |
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Fiction Writer's Workshop
by
3.97 avg rating — 926 ratings
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| 82 |
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Writing Fiction Step by Step
by
3.92 avg rating — 177 ratings
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| 83 |
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Shopping for a Better Country
by
4.19 avg rating — 21 ratings
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| 84 |
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La vita fuori tempo di Ivan Dolinar
by
3.57 avg rating — 396 ratings
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| 85 |
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When I Was a Child I Read Books
by
3.87 avg rating — 2,895 ratings
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| 86 |
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The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought
by
4.10 avg rating — 1,324 ratings
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| 87 |
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Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self (The Terry Lectures Series)
by
3.81 avg rating — 987 ratings
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| 88 |
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Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution
by
3.90 avg rating — 117 ratings
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| 89 |
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Puritans and Prigs
by
4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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| 90 |
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Mother Country
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3.90 avg rating — 117 ratings
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| 91 |
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Agnes
by
3.23 avg rating — 6,487 ratings
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| 92 |
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On a Day Like This
by
3.48 avg rating — 774 ratings
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| 93 |
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Unformed Landscape
by
3.58 avg rating — 620 ratings
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| 94 |
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We're Flying: Stories
by
3.68 avg rating — 416 ratings
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| 95 |
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Blitzeis
by
3.64 avg rating — 370 ratings
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| 96 |
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In Strange Gardens and Other Stories
by
3.65 avg rating — 226 ratings
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| 97 |
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Sweet Dreams
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3.57 avg rating — 28 ratings
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| 98 |
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When We Lived in Uncle's Hat: When We Lived in Uncle's Hat and Other Incredible Places (Contemporary Picture Books from Europe)
by
4.20 avg rating — 112 ratings
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So only books by those ten authors are to be included in this poll.
The 2013 winner of the Man Booker prize was Lydia Davis of Canada.
Initially awarded for an author's body of work, since 2016 the award has been given annually to a single book in English translation, with a £50,000 prize for the winning title, shared equally between author and translator.