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Gilead (Gilead, #1)
by
3.85 avg rating — 124,912 ratings
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Samuel Johnson Is Indignant
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3.95 avg rating — 1,716 ratings
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The Cows (Quarternote Chapbook Series)
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4.09 avg rating — 545 ratings
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Three Strong Women
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3.23 avg rating — 4,349 ratings
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Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust
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3.84 avg rating — 210 ratings
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Housekeeping
by
3.81 avg rating — 58,730 ratings
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Basti (New York Review Books Classics)
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3.71 avg rating — 770 ratings
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Seven Years
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3.50 avg rating — 1,871 ratings
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Lenin's Kisses
by
3.80 avg rating — 650 ratings
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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
by
4.23 avg rating — 7,063 ratings
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Almost No Memory
by
3.97 avg rating — 1,288 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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The Queue
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3.76 avg rating — 1,797 ratings
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The Four Books
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3.98 avg rating — 1,734 ratings
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Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man
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3.91 avg rating — 2,452 ratings
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Blooms of Darkness
by
3.54 avg rating — 583 ratings
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Dream of Ding Village
by
4.02 avg rating — 2,926 ratings
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| 18 |
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Home (Gilead, #2)
by
4.04 avg rating — 30,274 ratings
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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 — 9,655 ratings
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| 21 |
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Ice (Ice Trilogy #1)
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3.51 avg rating — 1,257 ratings
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Путь Бро
by
3.56 avg rating — 431 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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Роман
by
3.81 avg rating — 204 ratings
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23000 (Światło i Lód #3)
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3.46 avg rating — 227 ratings
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| 26 |
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Dostoïevski Trip
by
3.83 avg rating — 178 ratings
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| 27 |
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Badenheim 1939
by
3.69 avg rating — 1,229 ratings
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| 28 |
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The Story of a Life
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3.89 avg rating — 920 ratings
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| 29 |
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Until the Dawn's Light
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3.31 avg rating — 178 ratings
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The Iron Tracks
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3.69 avg rating — 271 ratings
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Katerina
by
3.70 avg rating — 434 ratings
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Tzili: The Story of a Life
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3.64 avg rating — 366 ratings
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All Whom I Have Loved
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3.67 avg rating — 141 ratings
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To the Land of Cattails
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3.87 avg rating — 97 ratings
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For Every Sin
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3.66 avg rating — 95 ratings
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The Conversion
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3.66 avg rating — 85 ratings
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| 37 |
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Age of Wonders
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3.86 avg rating — 99 ratings
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The Immortal Bartfuss
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3.57 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Laish
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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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3.49 avg rating — 128 ratings
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| 42 |
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Varieties of Disturbance
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3.81 avg rating — 2,427 ratings
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Break It Down
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4.02 avg rating — 2,234 ratings
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| 44 |
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The End of the Story
by
3.62 avg rating — 3,150 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 — 29 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
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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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Serve the People!
by
3.54 avg rating — 1,609 ratings
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Serve the People!
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3.54 avg rating — 1,609 ratings
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| 53 |
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Rosie Carpe
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3.30 avg rating — 169 ratings
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La Sorcière
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2.96 avg rating — 420 ratings
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| 55 |
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Mon coeur à l'étroit
by
3.65 avg rating — 569 ratings
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| 56 |
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Papa doit manger
by
3.45 avg rating — 261 ratings
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| 57 |
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En famille
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3.48 avg rating — 50 ratings
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| 58 |
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Un temps de saison
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3.16 avg rating — 729 ratings
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| 59 |
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Hilda
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3.82 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Autoportrait en vert
by
3.64 avg rating — 1,166 ratings
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Tous mes amis
by
3.62 avg rating — 133 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
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3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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| 65 |
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Les Grandes personnes
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3.25 avg rating — 40 ratings
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| 66 |
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La Diablesse et son enfant
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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
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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| 69 |
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Dream of Ding Village
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4.02 avg rating — 2,926 ratings
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| 70 |
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Lenin's Kisses
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3.80 avg rating — 650 ratings
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| 71 |
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Fiction Writer's Workshop
by
3.97 avg rating — 922 ratings
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| 72 |
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April Fool's Day
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3.57 avg rating — 393 ratings
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| 73 |
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Writing Fiction Step by Step
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3.90 avg rating — 175 ratings
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| 74 |
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Yolk: Short Stories
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3.59 avg rating — 64 ratings
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| 75 |
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Salvation and Other Disasters
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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)
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3.47 avg rating — 17 ratings
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| 80 |
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Stories in the Stepmother Tongue
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3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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| 81 |
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Fiction Writer's Workshop
by
3.97 avg rating — 922 ratings
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| 82 |
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Writing Fiction Step by Step
by
3.90 avg rating — 175 ratings
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| 83 |
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Shopping for a Better Country
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4.19 avg rating — 21 ratings
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| 84 |
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La vita fuori tempo di Ivan Dolinar
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3.57 avg rating — 393 ratings
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| 85 |
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When I Was a Child I Read Books
by
3.87 avg rating — 2,866 ratings
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| 86 |
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The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought
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4.10 avg rating — 1,315 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 — 981 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
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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 — 6,339 ratings
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| 92 |
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On a Day Like This
by
3.49 avg rating — 759 ratings
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| 93 |
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Unformed Landscape
by
3.59 avg rating — 608 ratings
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| 94 |
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We're Flying: Stories
by
3.69 avg rating — 408 ratings
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| 95 |
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Blitzeis
by
3.64 avg rating — 361 ratings
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| 96 |
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In Strange Gardens and Other Stories
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3.63 avg rating — 218 ratings
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Sweet Dreams
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3.52 avg rating — 27 ratings
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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)
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4.20 avg rating — 111 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.