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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman
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The Logos by Mark Desilva
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The Sellout by Paul Beatty
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Boswell by Stanley Elkin
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Mr. Weightlifting by Richard Bak

I, Grape by Brock Clarke
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Solenoid by Mircea Carterescu
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Marshland by Otohiko Kaga
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Radiant Terminus Antoine Volodine
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Natural Causes by Nina Lykke
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A Thousand Peaceful Cities by Jerzy Pilch
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Tomas Jonsson, Best Seller by Guðberger Bergsson
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Children in Reindeer Woods by Kristin Omarsdottir
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A Thousand Forests in One Acorn
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Scars by Juan Jose Saer
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The Event by Juan Jose Saer
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Street of Thieves by Mathias Enard
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Tell them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants by Mathias Enard
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The Annual Banquet of the Gravedigger’s Guild by Mathias Enard
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Compass by Mathias Enard
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Zone by Mathias Enard
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Ninth Building by Zou Jingzhi
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The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov
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Thrown Into Nature by Milen Ruskov
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The Vladivostok Circus by Elisa Shua Dusapin
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Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin
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Melville by Rodrigo Fresan
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American Fictionary by Dubravka Ugresic
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Night School: A Reader for Grownups by Zsófia Bán
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The Taker by Rubem Fonseca
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