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A Linguistic Pilgrimage - Page 2

So you're sick of reading only things that were originally written in English and want to branch out a tad. Well, here are some recommendations for twelve languages, five books a piece: Arabic, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. I'd recommend more in more tongues, but alas: I'm going to have to read a lot more for that.
P.S. Of course Rosie sludged their way all over by claiming to have read the first four works on this list without, I imagine, having even looked at them. I doubt they could find a single country whose major language is Arabic on a map.
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Epitaph of a Small Winner (Machado De Assis, Trans. William L. Grossman)
Epitaph of a Small Winner
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Machado De Assis, Trans. William L. Grossman
The Book of Disquiet (Fernando Pessoa)
The Book of Disquiet
42
Fernando Pessoa
The Passion According to G.H. (Clarice Lispector)
The Passion According to G.H.
43
Clarice Lispector
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (Jorge Amado)
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
44
Jorge Amado
The Obscene Madame D (Hilda Hilst)
The Obscene Madame D
45
Hilda Hilst
The Slynx (Tatyana Tolstaya)
The Slynx
46
Tatyana Tolstaya
Memories of the Future (Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky)
Memories of the Future
47
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Voices From Chernobyl (Svetlana Alexievich)
Voices From Chernobyl
48
Svetlana Alexievich
Journey Into the Whirlwind (Evgenia Ginzburg)
Journey Into the Whirlwind
49
Evgenia Ginzburg
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls
50
Nikolai Gogol
Traveler of the Century (Andrés Neuman)
Traveler of the Century
51
Andrés Neuman
The Savage Detectives (Roberto Bolaño)
The Savage Detectives
52
Roberto Bolaño
Memory of Fire (Eduardo Galeano)
Memory of Fire
53
Eduardo Galeano
The Book of Lamentations (Rosario Castellanos)
The Book of Lamentations
54
Rosario Castellanos
Labyrinths (Jorge Luis Borges)
Labyrinths
55
Jorge Luis Borges
Let the Right One in (John Ajvide Lindqvist)
Let the Right One In
56
John Ajvide Lindqvist
The Saga of Gösta Berling (Selma Lagerlöf)
The Saga of Gösta Berling
57
Selma Lagerlöf
The Unit (Ninni Holmqvist)
The Unit
58
Ninni Holmqvist
The Summer Book (Tove Jansson)
The Summer Book
59
Tove Jansson
Barabbas (Pär Lagerkvist)
Barabbas
60
Pär Lagerkvist
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