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Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuściński

Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Making Sense of the Troubles by David McKittrick

The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years by Chingiz Aitmatov

Wizard of the Crow by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Imperium by Ryszard Kapuściński

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell

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The Bee Sting

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by Paul Murray

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by Jon Fosse

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