BOOKS WRITTEN IN A NON-NATIVE LANGUAGE

This is a list of books written by authors whose native language is different than the language they use for writing.
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3.84 avg rating — 194,528 ratings
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3.43 avg rating — 496,367 ratings
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3.89 avg rating — 92,868 ratings
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3.77 avg rating — 2,812 ratings
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3.88 avg rating — 4,159 ratings
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3.85 avg rating — 2,122 ratings
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4.27 avg rating — 110,047 ratings
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3.59 avg rating — 22,050 ratings
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3.69 avg rating — 2,970 ratings
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3.88 avg rating — 1,070 ratings
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4.38 avg rating — 463 ratings
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3.93 avg rating — 81 ratings
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3.89 avg rating — 23,684 ratings
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4.14 avg rating — 37,167 ratings
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3.75 avg rating — 1,439 ratings
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3.62 avg rating — 30,439 ratings
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4.07 avg rating — 112 ratings
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4.20 avg rating — 25,392 ratings
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4.09 avg rating — 56,498 ratings
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4.04 avg rating — 91 ratings
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3.69 avg rating — 6,168 ratings
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3.69 avg rating — 2,515 ratings
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3.81 avg rating — 227 ratings
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3.62 avg rating — 3,507 ratings
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4.09 avg rating — 94,943 ratings
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3.82 avg rating — 3,347 ratings
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3.39 avg rating — 2,682 ratings
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3.96 avg rating — 1,469 ratings
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4.13 avg rating — 11,400 ratings
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3.78 avg rating — 86 ratings
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4.16 avg rating — 49,018 ratings
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4.01 avg rating — 2,570 ratings
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4.07 avg rating — 16,181 ratings
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3.83 avg rating — 3,716 ratings
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3.92 avg rating — 1,767 ratings
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3.74 avg rating — 1,074 ratings
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3.88 avg rating — 655 ratings
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3.88 avg rating — 510 ratings
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3.52 avg rating — 21 ratings
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3.62 avg rating — 18,961 ratings
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3.94 avg rating — 3,505 ratings
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3.80 avg rating — 23,008 ratings
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4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
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4.04 avg rating — 8,211 ratings
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3.92 avg rating — 10,944 ratings
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3.63 avg rating — 247 ratings
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3.82 avg rating — 723 ratings
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3.18 avg rating — 38 ratings
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3.56 avg rating — 108 ratings
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3.83 avg rating — 169 ratings
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3.22 avg rating — 49 ratings
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4.38 avg rating — 1,197 ratings
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3.53 avg rating — 21,901 ratings
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3.50 avg rating — 2,400 ratings
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3.70 avg rating — 1,698 ratings
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61 books · 18 voters · list created February 6th, 2011 by Albena (votes) .
Lists are re-scored approximately every 5 minutes.


Albena 440 books
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Susanna - Censored by GoodReads 3335 books
858 friends
Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) 546 books
368 friends
Derya 910 books
81 friends
Bettie 15706 books
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Boriana 979 books
99 friends
Tesni 2629 books
87 friends
Mag 2322 books
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Susanna - Censored by GoodReads I think all of Samuel Beckett would qualify. (I didn't vote for them, because I hate Beckett.)


message 2: by Albena (last edited Feb 16, 2011 11:39AM) (new)

Albena Did you see this? A little bit after this list was created, an article appeared in "The Guardian" on the same subject. What a coincidence!

Dan Vyleta's top 10 books in second languages
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/...


Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) Interesting ... so I've now also learned the "educated" expression for this kind of thing -- "exophonic" writing!

Good points about Lucian of Samosata and Adelbert von Chamisso, though.


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