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Works (145)

TitlesOrder
Abyssinian Chronicles by Moses Isegawa — not in English Common KnowledgeUganda
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain — not in English Common KnowledgeUnited States of America
Alamut by Vladimir Bartol — not in English Common KnowledgeSlovenia
American Visa by Juan de Recacoechea — not in English Common KnowledgeBolivia
Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje — not in English Common KnowledgeSri Lanka
Azul by Rubén DaríoNicaragua
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua HammerMali
Beowulf by Beowulf poet — not in English Common KnowledgeDenmark
Bitter Grounds by Sandra Benitez — not in English Common KnowledgeEl Salvador
The Bitter Side of Sweet by Tara Sullivan — not in English Common KnowledgeCote d’Ivoire
Black and White Sands: A Bohemian Life in the Colonial Caribbean by Elma NapierDominica
The Bleeding of the Stone by Ibrahim al-Koni — not in English Common KnowledgeLibya
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood — not in English Common KnowledgeCanada
Blindness by José Saramago — not in English Common KnowledgePortugal
The Blue Sky by Galsan Tschinag — not in English Common KnowledgeMongolia
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba — not in English Common KnowledgeMalawi
The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić — not in English Common KnowledgeBosnia
The Bridge Over the River Kwai: A Novel by Pierre Boulle — not in English Common KnowledgeThailand
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz — not in English Common KnowledgeDominican Republic
Broken April by Ismaîl Kadaré — not in English Common KnowledgeAlbania
By Night the Mountain Burns by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel — not in English Common KnowledgeEquatorial Guinea
Chaka by Thomas Mofolo — not in English Common KnowledgeLesotho
Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia by Tom BissellUzbekistan
Cipotes by Ramon Amaya-Amador — not in English Common KnowledgeHonduras
The Circle of Karma by Kunzang Choden — not in English Common KnowledgeBhutan
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton — not in English Common KnowledgeAustralia
The Comedians by Graham Greene — not in English Common KnowledgeHaiti
The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill — not in English Common KnowledgeLaos
A Cowrie of Hope (African Writers) by Binwell SinyangweZambia
The crocodile by Vincent Eri — not in English Common KnowledgePapua New Guinea
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton — not in English Common KnowledgeSouth Africa
Crystal Boys: A Novel by Hsien-Yung Pai — not in English Common KnowledgeTaiwan
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese — not in English Common KnowledgeEthiopia
The Dark Side of Love by Rafik Schami — not in English Common KnowledgeSyria
Desertion by Abdulrazak Gurnah — not in English Common KnowledgeTanzania
Devil of a State by Anthony Burgess — not in English Common KnowledgeBrunei
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank — not in English Common KnowledgeNetherlands
Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Words {Female Edition} by Milorad Pavić — not in English Common KnowledgeSerbia
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra — not in English Common KnowledgeSpain
Doña Barbara by Rómulo GallegosVenezuela
Dracula by Bram Stoker — not in English Common KnowledgeRomania
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer — not in English Common KnowledgeZimbabwe
Fatelessness by Imre Kertész — not in English Common KnowledgeHungary
Faust I & II by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — not in English Common KnowledgeGermany
Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges — not in English Common KnowledgeArgentina
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng — not in English Common KnowledgeMalaysia
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson — not in English Common KnowledgeSweden
Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea — not in English Common KnowledgeSaudi Arabia
A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam — not in English Common KnowledgeBangladesh
Good Morning Comrades by Ondjaki — not in English Common KnowledgeAngola
Heidi by Johanna Spyri — not in English Common KnowledgeSwitzerland
A House for Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul — not in English Common KnowledgeTrinidad and Tobago
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende — not in English Common KnowledgeChile
Hunger by Knut Hamsun — not in English Common KnowledgeNorway
Hurramabad by Andrei Volos — not in English Common KnowledgeTajikistan
I, the Supreme by Augusto Roa Bastos — not in English Common KnowledgeParaguay
The Invisible Mountain by Carolina De Robertis — not in English Common KnowledgeUruguay
La isla de los hombres solos by Jose Leon Sanchez — not in English Common KnowledgeCosta Rica
Jamilia by Tschingis Aitmatow — not in English Common KnowledgeKyrgyzstan
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini — not in English Common KnowledgeAfghanistan
The Knight in the Panther's Skin by Shota Rustaveli — not in English Common KnowledgeGeorgia
A Land without Jasmine by Wajdi al-Ahdal — not in English Common KnowledgeYemen
The Language of Baklava by Diana Abu-Jaber — not in English Common KnowledgeJordan
Long Way Back by Fuad al-Takarli — not in English Common KnowledgeIraq
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah — not in English Common KnowledgeSierra Leone
Loser Takes All by Graham Greene — not in English Common KnowledgeMonaco
A Many-Splendored Thing by Suyin Han — not in English Common KnowledgeHong Kong
The Matriarch by Witi Ihimaera — not in English Common KnowledgeNew Zealand
Men of Maize: The Modernist Epic of the Guatemalan Indians by Miguel Ángel Asturias — not in English Common KnowledgeGuatemala
Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa — not in English Common KnowledgePalestine
The Mountain Wreath by Peter II, Prince-Bishop of Montenegro — not in English Common KnowledgeMontenegro
My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk — not in English Common KnowledgeTurkey
My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj PezeshkzadIran
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco — not in English Common KnowledgeItaly
No Sweetness Here and Other Stories by Ama Ata Aidoo — not in English Common KnowledgeGhana
Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal — not in English Common KnowledgePhilippines
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway — not in English Common KnowledgeCuba
On Heroes, Lizards and Passion by Zoila Ellis — not in English Common KnowledgeBelize
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez — not in English Common KnowledgeColombia
The Orchard of Lost Souls by Nadifa Mohamed — not in English Common KnowledgeSomalia
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson — not in English Common KnowledgeNorth Korea
Othello by William Shakespeare — not in English Common KnowledgeCyprus
Palace of the Peacock by Wilson HarrisGuyana
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz — not in English Common KnowledgeEgypt
Palpasa Café by Narayan WagleNepal
Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz — not in English Common KnowledgePoland
Panther in the Basement by Amos OzIsrael
Paradise of the Blind by Thu Hương Dương — not in English Common KnowledgeVietnam
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo — not in English Common KnowledgeMexico
The Pillar of Salt by Albert Memmi — not in English Common KnowledgeTunisia
The Plague by Albert Camus — not in English Common KnowledgeAlgeria
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver — not in English Common KnowledgeCongo
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen — not in English Common KnowledgeUnited Kingdom
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran — not in English Common KnowledgeLebanon
Pynter Bender by Jacob Ross — not in English Common KnowledgeGrenada
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth — not in English Common KnowledgeAustria
The Radiance of the King by Camara Laye — not in English Common KnowledgeGuinea
The Return of Philip Latinowicz by Miroslav Krleža — not in English Common KnowledgeCroatia
Rivers of Babylon by Peter Pišťanek — not in English Common KnowledgeSlovakia
Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron — not in English Common KnowledgeRwanda
The Sagas of Icelanders by Örnólfur Thorsson — not in English Common KnowledgeIceland
The Sand Child by Tahar Ben Jelloun — not in English Common KnowledgeMorocco
The Sand Fish: A Novel from Dubai by Maha GargashUnited Arab Emirates
Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan — not in English Common KnowledgeBurma
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih — not in English Common KnowledgeSudan
I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal — not in English Common KnowledgeCzechia
Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer — not in English Common KnowledgeLiechtenstein
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky — not in English Common KnowledgeUkraine
The Singapore Grip by J. G. Farrell — not in English Common KnowledgeSingapore
Sleepwalking Land by Mia Couto — not in English Common KnowledgeMozambique
Small Kingdoms by Anastasia HobbetKuwait
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid — not in English Common KnowledgeAntigua
So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ — not in English Common KnowledgeSenegal
Song for Night by Chris Abani — not in English Common KnowledgeBarbados
The Tailor of Panama by John le Carré — not in English Common KnowledgePanama
The Tale of Aypi by Ak Welsapar — not in English Common KnowledgeTurkmenistan
The Tale of Genji by Shikibu Murasaki — not in English Common KnowledgeJapan
Tales of the Tikongs by Epeli Hau'ofaTonga
Temps de chien, numéro 172 by Patrice Nganang — not in English Common KnowledgeCameroon
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe — not in English Common KnowledgeNigeria
This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta ToerIndonesia
Three Kingdoms by Guanzhong Luo — not in English Common KnowledgeChina
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas — not in English Common KnowledgeFrance
Told by Starlight in Chad by Joseph Brahim SeidChad
Travels in Blood and Honey by Elizabeth Gowing — not in English Common KnowledgeKosovo
The Turtle of Oman by Naomi Shihab Nye — not in English Common KnowledgeOman
Ulysses by James Joyce — not in English Common KnowledgeIreland
Under the North Star by Väinö Linna — not in English Common KnowledgeFinland
Under the Yoke by Ivan Vazov — not in English Common KnowledgeBulgaria
The Vegetarian by Han Kang — not in English Common KnowledgeSouth Korea
The Villagers by Jorge Icaza — not in English Common KnowledgeEcuador
Vilnius Poker by Ricardas Gavelis — not in English Common KnowledgeLithuania
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich — not in English Common KnowledgeBelarus
Voices From Madagascar: An Anthology of Contemporary Francophone Literature (Ohio RIS Africa Series) by Jacques BourgeacqMadagascar
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy — not in English Common KnowledgeRussia
War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans — not in English Common KnowledgeBelgium
Weeding the Flowerbeds by Sarah MkhonzaSwaziland
Weep Not, Child by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o — not in English Common KnowledgeKenya
When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head — not in English Common KnowledgeBotswana
Where We Once Belonged by Sia Figiel — not in English Common KnowledgeSamoa
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga — not in English Common KnowledgeIndia
Who Killed Palomino Molero? by Mario Vargas Llosa — not in English Common KnowledgePeru
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys — not in English Common KnowledgeJamaica
Wind from the Carolinas by Robert Wilder — not in English Common KnowledgeThe Bahamas
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis — not in English Common KnowledgeGreece