1. Shadow without a Name, Ignacio Padilla
2. The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
3. A Separate Peace, John Knowles
4. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
5. Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin
6. The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
7. Death with Interruptions, Jose Saramago
8. The Painted Veil, W. Somerset Maugham
9. Maurice, E.M. Forster
10. The Go-Between, L.P. Hartley
11. Beloved, Toni Morrison
12. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
13. East of Eden, John Steinbeck
14. Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
15. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
16. Stoner, John Williams
17. Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner
18. The Hand That First Held Mine, Maggie O'Farrell
19. Emily, Alone, Stewart O'Nan
I find this fantastic A Year of Reading the World book list. Writer Ann Morgan set herself a challenge—to read a book from every country in the world in one year. She describes her experience in this BBC article. This is a great list of books to expand my reading horizon.
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Not so sure about Internationalism for Internationalism’s sake. First I want to be sure of the quality of a work of fiction no matter which country it is from.
I spent several years reading South American fiction not by country they were from but by finding out who the best writers were down there.
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