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Gilead (Gilead, #1)
by
3.85 avg rating — 126,427 ratings
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Samuel Johnson Is Indignant
by
3.95 avg rating — 1,717 ratings
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The Cows (Quarternote Chapbook Series)
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4.09 avg rating — 554 ratings
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Three Strong Women
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3.23 avg rating — 4,393 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 — 59,230 ratings
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Basti (New York Review Books Classics)
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3.70 avg rating — 778 ratings
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Seven Years
by
3.50 avg rating — 1,889 ratings
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Lenin's Kisses
by
3.82 avg rating — 669 ratings
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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
by
4.22 avg rating — 7,113 ratings
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| 11 |
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Almost No Memory
by
3.96 avg rating — 1,292 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
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3.75 avg rating — 1,822 ratings
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| 13 |
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The Four Books
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3.98 avg rating — 1,755 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 — 2,475 ratings
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Blooms of Darkness
by
3.54 avg rating — 587 ratings
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| 17 |
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Dream of Ding Village
by
4.02 avg rating — 2,988 ratings
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| 18 |
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Home (Gilead, #2)
by
4.04 avg rating — 30,514 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 — 9,790 ratings
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| 21 |
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Ice (Ice Trilogy #1)
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3.51 avg rating — 1,266 ratings
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Путь Бро
by
3.57 avg rating — 434 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 — 206 ratings
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23000 (Światło i Lód #3)
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3.45 avg rating — 228 ratings
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| 26 |
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Dostoïevski Trip
by
3.83 avg rating — 180 ratings
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| 27 |
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Badenheim 1939
by
3.69 avg rating — 1,237 ratings
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| 28 |
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The Story of a Life
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3.89 avg rating — 921 ratings
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| 29 |
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Until the Dawn's Light
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3.33 avg rating — 180 ratings
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The Iron Tracks
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3.69 avg rating — 272 ratings
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Katerina
by
3.69 avg rating — 443 ratings
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Tzili: The Story of a Life
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3.64 avg rating — 364 ratings
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All Whom I Have Loved
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3.69 avg rating — 143 ratings
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To the Land of Cattails
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3.88 avg rating — 100 ratings
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For Every Sin
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3.66 avg rating — 96 ratings
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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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3.87 avg rating — 102 ratings
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The Immortal Bartfuss
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3.56 avg rating — 169 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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3.47 avg rating — 129 ratings
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| 42 |
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Varieties of Disturbance
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3.81 avg rating — 2,433 ratings
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| 43 |
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Break It Down
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4.02 avg rating — 2,244 ratings
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| 44 |
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The End of the Story
by
3.62 avg rating — 3,177 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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Serve the People!
by
3.54 avg rating — 1,633 ratings
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| 52 |
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Serve the People!
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3.54 avg rating — 1,633 ratings
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| 53 |
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Rosie Carpe
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3.30 avg rating — 171 ratings
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| 54 |
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La Sorcière
by
2.98 avg rating — 499 ratings
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| 55 |
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Mon coeur à l'étroit
by
3.64 avg rating — 577 ratings
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| 56 |
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Papa doit manger
by
3.46 avg rating — 265 ratings
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| 57 |
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En famille
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3.54 avg rating — 52 ratings
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| 58 |
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Un temps de saison
by
3.15 avg rating — 734 ratings
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| 59 |
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Hilda
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3.83 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Autoportrait en vert
by
3.64 avg rating — 1,195 ratings
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| 61 |
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Tous mes amis
by
3.62 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
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3.24 avg rating — 41 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
by
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 — 2,988 ratings
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| 70 |
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Lenin's Kisses
by
3.82 avg rating — 669 ratings
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| 71 |
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Fiction Writer's Workshop
by
3.97 avg rating — 924 ratings
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| 72 |
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April Fool's Day
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3.57 avg rating — 395 ratings
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| 73 |
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Writing Fiction Step by Step
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3.91 avg rating — 176 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
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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
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 — 924 ratings
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| 82 |
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Writing Fiction Step by Step
by
3.91 avg rating — 176 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
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3.57 avg rating — 395 ratings
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| 85 |
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When I Was a Child I Read Books
by
3.87 avg rating — 2,879 ratings
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| 86 |
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The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought
by
4.10 avg rating — 1,321 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 — 985 ratings
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| 88 |
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Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution
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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 — 6,431 ratings
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| 92 |
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On a Day Like This
by
3.48 avg rating — 767 ratings
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| 93 |
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Unformed Landscape
by
3.58 avg rating — 612 ratings
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| 94 |
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We're Flying: Stories
by
3.68 avg rating — 411 ratings
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| 95 |
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Blitzeis
by
3.64 avg rating — 366 ratings
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| 96 |
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In Strange Gardens and Other Stories
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3.64 avg rating — 223 ratings
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| 97 |
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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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4.18 avg rating — 113 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.