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Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel — not in English Common Knowledge	1
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson — not in English Common Knowledge	2
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich — not in English Common Knowledge	3
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro — not in English Common Knowledge	4
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald — not in English Common Knowledge	5
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman — not in English Common Knowledge	6
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates — not in English Common Knowledge	7
Autumn by Ali Smith — not in English Common Knowledge	8
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell — not in English Common Knowledge	9
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — not in English Common Knowledge	10
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante — not in English Common Knowledge	11
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth — not in English Common Knowledge	12
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich — not in English Common Knowledge	13
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters — not in English Common Knowledge	14
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert — not in English Common Knowledge	15
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen — not in English Common Knowledge	16
The Road by Cormac McCarthy — not in English Common Knowledge	17
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein — not in English Common Knowledge	18
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon — not in English Common Knowledge	19
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson — not in English Common Knowledge	20
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari — not in English Common Knowledge	21
Tenth of December: Stories by George Saunders — not in English Common Knowledge	22
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon — not in English Common Knowledge	23
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan — not in English Common Knowledge	24
Normal People by Sally Rooney — not in English Common Knowledge	25
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty — not in English Common Knowledge	26
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro — not in English Common Knowledge	27
Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy — not in English Common Knowledge	28
My Struggle: Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgård — not in English Common Knowledge	29
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead — not in English Common Knowledge	30
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson — not in English Common Knowledge	31
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee — not in English Common Knowledge	32
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel — not in English Common Knowledge	33
Outline by Rachel Cusk — not in English Common Knowledge	34
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal — not in English Common Knowledge	35
Experience by Martin Amis — not in English Common Knowledge	36
The Green Road by Anne Enright — not in English Common Knowledge	37
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst — not in English Common Knowledge	38
White Teeth by Zadie Smith — not in English Common Knowledge	39
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion — not in English Common Knowledge	40
Atonement by Ian McEwan — not in English Common Knowledge	41
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis — not in English Common Knowledge	42
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine — not in English Common Knowledge	43
Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit — not in English Common Knowledge	44
Levels of Life by Julian Barnes — not in English Common Knowledge	45
Human Chain by Seamus Heaney — not in English Common Knowledge	46
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi — not in English Common Knowledge	47
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett — not in English Common Knowledge	48
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson — not in English Common Knowledge	49
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood — not in English Common Knowledge	50
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín — not in English Common Knowledge	51
Small Island by Andrea Levy — not in English Common Knowledge	52
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey — not in English Common Knowledge	53
Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard — not in English Common Knowledge	54
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan — not in English Common Knowledge	55
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane — not in English Common Knowledge	56
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon — not in English Common Knowledge	57
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt — not in English Common Knowledge	58
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos by Anne Carson — not in English Common Knowledge	59
Dart by Alice Oswald — not in English Common Knowledge	60
This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner — not in English Common Knowledge	61
Mother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn — not in English Common Knowledge	62
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot — not in English Common Knowledge	63
On Writing by Stephen King — not in English Common Knowledge	64
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn — not in English Common Knowledge	65
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli	66
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker — not in English Common Knowledge	67
The Constant Gardener by John le Carré — not in English Common Knowledge	68
The Infatuations by Javier Marías — not in English Common Knowledge	69
Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller — not in English Common Knowledge	70
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware — not in English Common Knowledge	71
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff — not in English Common Knowledge	72
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick — not in English Common Knowledge	73
Days without End by Sebastian Barry — not in English Common Knowledge	74
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk — not in English Common Knowledge	75
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman — not in English Common Knowledge	76
Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera — not in English Common Knowledge	77
The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin — not in English Common Knowledge	78
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger by Richard Wilkinson — not in English Common Knowledge	79
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang — not in English Common Knowledge	80
Harvest by Jim Crace — not in English Common Knowledge	81
Coraline by Neil Gaiman — not in English Common Knowledge	82
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions by Valeria Luiselli — not in English Common Knowledge	83
The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy — not in English Common Knowledge	84
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins — not in English Common Knowledge	85
Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment by Yanis Varoufakis — not in English Common Knowledge	86
Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood — not in English Common Knowledge	87
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman — not in English Common Knowledge	88
Bad blood by Lorna Sage — not in English Common Knowledge	89
Light by M. John Harrison — not in English Common Knowledge	91
The Siege by Helen Dunmore — not in English Common Knowledge	92
Darkmans by Nicola Barker — not in English Common Knowledge	93
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell — not in English Common Knowledge	94
Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan — not in English Common Knowledge	95
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara — not in English Common Knowledge	96
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling — not in English Common Knowledge	97
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson — not in English Common Knowledge	98
Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou — not in English Common Knowledge	99
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron — not in English Common Knowledge	100

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