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Convenience Store Woman
The Vegetarian
The Stranger
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
The Odyssey
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Crime and Punishment
Anna Karenina
The Iliad
The Metamorphosis
The Master and Margarita
The Memory Police
Norwegian Wood
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
Em and The Big Hoom by Jerry PintoThe Song Seekers by Saswati SenguptaThe Walls of Delhi by Uday PrakashLeela's Book by Alice AlbiniaThe Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya
2013 DSC Prize Longlist
14 books — 8 voters

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel BarberyOld Filth by Jane GardamA Novel Bookstore by Laurence CosséMy Brilliant Friend by Elena FerranteThe Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
Europa Edition Books
126 books — 140 voters


Emily Croy Barker
That's the problem with translations," she added sadly. "You can never quite reproduce the flavor of the original. ...more
Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

Christopher Hitchens
The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that ‘if English was good enough for Jesus, then it’s good enough for me’.
Christopher Hitchens

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