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Balthasar's Odyssey
(Amin Maalouf)
- a novel of signs and portents in the year 1666
Bar Balto
(Faïza Guène)
- murder and everyday life in a Parisian banlieu
Chance and Necessity
(Jacques Monod)
An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology
Death Comes for the Archbishop
(Willa Cather)
- a novel of the Catholic Church in 19th century New Mexico
Deterring Democracy
(Noam Chomsky)
- an indictment of American imperialism
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Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
(Olivia Judson)
The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex
The End of A Family Story
(Peter Nadas)
- memories of childhood woven into a complex tapestry
Fatelessness
(Imre Kertesz)
- a teenager in Buchenwald concentration camp
The First Crusade
(Peter Frankopan)
The Call From the East
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An Instance of the Fingerpost
(Iain Pears)
- murder, espionage and controversy in Restoration Oxford
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Ka
(Roberto Calasso)
- a superb synthesis of Hindu mythology
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The Leopard
(Giuseppe di Lampedusa)
- a Sicilian aristocrat faces change in 1860
The Master of Go
(Yasunari Kawabata)
- individual and social tensions in a single game
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Obabakoak
(Bernardo Atxaga)
- a metafictional short story collection
The Pages
(Murray Bail)
- a story of philosophy, farming, and travel
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The Prince
(Hushang Golshiri)
- a dark novel about the Qajari lords of Isfahan
River of Time
(Jon Swain)
- a memoir of Cambodia and Vietnam at war
The Secret History of Modernism
(C.K. Stead)
- looking back at life as a student in 1950s London
The Sound of Waves
(Yukio Mishima)
- a simple love story set on a small Japanese island
Tainted Blood
(Arnaldur Indridason)
- an Icelandic murder mystery
The Tale of Genji
(Murasaki Shikibu)
- an abridgement of the 11th century Japanese classic
The Untold History of the Potato
(John Reader)
- social history, agriculture, food
Voyage to the End of the Room
(Tibor Fischer)
- an entertaining and inventive novel
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
(Haruki Murakami)
- a Japanese mix of fantasy and historical fiction
Women in a River Landscape
(Heinrich Böll)
A Novel in Dialogues and Soliloquies
The World of Nagaraj
(R.K. Narayan)
- a loveable but ineffectual dilettante in small-town India
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