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Fiction
· 2666 – Roberto Bolaño
· A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
· A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
· A Girl Returned – Donatella Di Pietrantonio
· A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
· A Nearby Country Called Love – Salar Abdoh
· All Living Things – Munir Hachemi
· Almond – Sohn Won-pyung
· American Pastoral – Philip Roth
· American Elsewhere – Robert Jackson Bennett
· And the Mountains Echoed – Khaled Hosseini
· Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
· Anthills of the Savannah – Chinua Achebe
· Apple Knife – Amra Džeko
· At Night All Blood Is Black – David Diop
· Babel – R.F. Kuang
· Beauty Is a Wound – Eka Kurniawan
· Beloved – Toni Morrison
· Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
· Blue Lorries – Radwa Ashour
· Breasts and Eggs – Mieko Kawakami
· Brooklyn – Colm Tóibín
· Butter – Asako Yuzuki
· Celestial Bodies – Jokha Alharthi
· Clockers – Richard Price
· Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata
· Creation Lake – Rachel Kushner
· Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
· Cultish – Amanda Montell
· Dancer from the Dance – Andrew Holleran
· Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver
· Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
· Downriver – Iain Sinclair
· Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk
· East of Eden – John Steinbeck
· Elena Knows – Claudia Piñeiro
· Em and the Big Hoom – Jerry Pinto
· Enter Ghost – Isabella Hammad
· Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid
· Factory – Hiroko Oyamada
· False War – Carlos Manuel Álvarez
· Family Lexicon – Natalia Ginzburg
· Fever Dream – Samanta Schweblin
· Flesh – Khan
· Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
· Fresh from the Grave – Ninon
· Funny Boy – Shyam Selvadurai
· Gate of the Sun – Elias Khoury
· Giovanni's Room – James Baldwin
· Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
· God of the Woods – Liz Moore
· Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
· Gravity's Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
· Great Indian Brain Rot – Riju
· Hangwoman – K.R. Meera
· Heaven – Mieko Kawakami
· Hell Screen – Ryunosuke Akutagawa
· Hollow Places – T. Kingfisher
· Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
· Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets – David Simon
· Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
· House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
· Hurricane Season – Fernanda Melchor
· I'll Be There – Shin Kyung-sook
· In the Dream House – Carmen Maria Machado
· In the Miso Soup – Ryu Murakami
· Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
· Inspector Imanishi Investigates – Seicho Matsumoto
· Intermezzo – Sally Rooney
· Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
· Jesus' Son – Denis Johnson
· Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton
· Kairos – Jenny Erpenbeck
· Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 – Cho Nam-joo
· Knockemstiff – Donald Ray Pollock
· Lady Tan's Circle of Women – Lisa See
· Lanark – Alasdair Gray
· Last Days – Brian Evenson
· Last House on Needless Street – Catriona Ward
· Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin
· Little Heaven – Nick Cutter
· Lincoln: A Novel – Gore Vidal
· Living Things – Munir Hachemi
· Maa – Independent People – Halldór Laxness
· Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
· Maps – Nuruddin Farah
· Martyr! – Kaveh Akbar
· Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
· Mending Bodies – Zubair Ahmad
· Middlemarch – George Eliot
· Minor Detail – Adania Shibli
· Moby Dick – Herman Melville
· Moderato Cantabile – Marguerite Duras
· My Annihilation – Fuminori Nakamura
· My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
· My Dreadful Body – Tina
· My Struggle – Karl Ove Knausgaard
· No Longer Human – Osamu Dazai
· North Water – Ian McGuire
· Notes from Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
· Notes of a Crocodile – Qiu Miaojin
· On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous – Ocean Vuong
· Our Share of Night – Mariana Enriquez
· Out – Natsuo Kirino
· Outer Dark – Percival Everett
· Pachinko – Min Jin Lee
· Palace of the Peacock – Wilson Harris
· Parable of the Sower – Octavia Butler
· Pedagogy of the Oppressed – Paulo Freire
· Penguin Book of International Short Stories
· Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
· Piranesi – Susanna Clarke
· Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
· Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
· Raven: The Untold Story of Jim Jones – Tim Reiterman
· Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
· Red April – Santiago Roncagliolo
· Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
· Republic of Caste – T. Revathi
· Restoration – Ave Barrera
· Road – Cormac McCarthy
· Salvage the Bones – Jesmyn Ward
· Satantango – László Krasznahorkai
· Savage Detectives – Roberto Bolaño
· Season of Migration to the North – Tayeb Salih
· Secret History – Donna Tartt
· Seductive Poison – Deborah Layton
· Sellout – Paul Beatty
· Seven Surrenders – Ada Palmer
· Shadow King – Maaza Mengiste
· Shadow Ticket – Alessandro
· She Waits Where Shadows Gather – K.R. Meera
· Short Stay in Hell – Steven L. Peck
· Signs Preceding the End of the World – Yuri Herrera
· Sisters in Yellow – Hana
· Sleepwalkers – Hermann Broch
· Stoner – John Williams
· Sula – Toni Morrison
· Sunburn – Chloe Michelle Howarth
· Surface Detail – Iain M. Banks
· Swimming in the Dark – Tomasz Jedrowski
· Taiga – Kyoko
· Taiwan Travelogue – Yang Shuang-zi
· Tale of Genji – Murasaki Shikibu
· Tangerinn – Emanuela Anechoum
· The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – Stuart Turton
· The Alexandria Quartet – Lawrence Durrell
· The Amateur Marriage – Anne Tyler
· The Anthropologists – Ayşegül Savaş
· The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
· The Bengal Reader
· The Berry Pickers – Amanda Peters
· The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth – Veeraporn Nitiprapha
· The Blind Owl – Sadegh Hedayat
· The Book of Disappearance – Ibtisam Azem
· The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
· The Castle – Franz Kafka
· The Cipher – Kathe Koja
· The Coin – Yasmin Zaher
· The Corpse Washer – Sinan Antoon
· The Covenant of Water – Abraham Verghese
· The Croning – Laird Barron
· The Cult at the End of the World – David E. Kaplan
· The Dangers of Smoking in Bed – Mariana Enriquez
· The Decameron – Giovanni Boccaccio
· The Dispossessed – Ursula K. Le Guin
· The Door – Magda Szabó
· The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
· The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree – Shokoofeh Azar
· The Executioner's Song – Norman Mailer
· The Factory – Hiroko Oyamada
· The Famished Road – Ben Okri
· The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargas Llosa
· The Girls – Emma Cline
· The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
· The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
· The Hollow Places – T. Kingfisher
· The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
· The Human Stain – Philip Roth
· The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai
· The Last Man – Maurice Blanchot
· The Last Samurai – Helen DeWitt
· The Long Ships – Frans G. Bengtsson
· The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
· The Memory Police – Yoko Ogawa
· The Ministry of Utmost Happiness – Arundhati Roy
· The Moustache – Emmanuel Carrère
· The Moviegoer – Walker Percy
· The Murderess – Alexandros Papadiamantis
· The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
· The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran – Shida Bazyar
· The North Water – Ian McGuire
· The Old Drift – Namwali Serpell
· The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas – Ursula K. Le Guin
· The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
· The Pearl That Broke Its Shell – Nadia Hashimi
· The Petty Demon – Fyodor Sologub
· The Remainder – Alia Trabucco Zerán
· The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
· The Road – Cormac McCarthy
· The Secret History – Donna Tartt
· The Shadow King – Maaza Mengiste
· The Shadow Ticket – Alessandro
· The Son – Philipp Meyer
· The Starless Sea – Erin Morgenstern
· The Transit of Venus – Shirley Hazzard
· The Tunnel – William H. Gass
· The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce
· The Vegetarian – Han Kang
· The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
· The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
· The Way of Kings – Brandon Sanderson
· The Wedding People – Alison Espach
· The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
· Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
· Things We Lost in the Fire – Mariana Enriquez
· Thousand Plateaus – Deleuze & Guattari
· Three Body Problem – Cixin Liu
· Till We Have Faces – C.S. Lewis
· Time of the Assassins – Godfrey
· To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
· Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin
· Train Dreams – Denis Johnson
· Train Whistle Guitar – Albert Murray
· Trans-Atlantyk – Witold Gombrowicz
· Trees – Percival Everett
· Unclaimed Terrain – Ajay Navaria
· Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
· War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
· We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson
· We Love You, Bunny – –
· White Noise – Don DeLillo
· Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? – Jeanette Winterson
· Wizard of the Crow – Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
· Women Without Men – Shahrnush Parsipur
· Yasmin Zaher The Coin – –
· Your Face Tomorrow – Javier Marías
· Zeroville – Steve Erickson
Non-Fiction & Poetry
· Aime Césaire – Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
· Angela Davis – Women, Race & Class
· Bhagat Singh – Jail Notebook
· Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer
· Caste – Isabel Wilkerson
· Didion – Play It As It Lays
· Fighting Fascism – –
· Going Clear – Lawrence Wright
· Grit – Angela Duckworth
· Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets – David Simon
· How Not to Die – Michael Greger
· Ishmael – Daniel Quinn
· Kabir – Poems
· Killers of the Flower Moon – David Grann
· Malcolm X – Autobiography
· Myth of the Holy Cow – D.N. Jha
· On Tyranny – Timothy Snyder
· Palestinian Cookbook – Joudie Kalla
· Pedagogy of the Oppressed – Paulo Freire
· Priestdaddy – Patricia Lockwood
· Psycho-Cybernetics – Maxwell Maltz
· Republic of Caste – –
· Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis
· The Bengal Reader
· The Dictator's Handbook – Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
· The Executioner's Song – Norman Mailer
· The Gulag Archipelago – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Short Stories & Anthologies
· Aesop's Fables
· Borges – Labyrinths
· In a Grove – Ryunosuke Akutagawa
· Penguin Book of International Short Stories
· Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
· The Dangers of Smoking in Bed – Mariana Enriquez
· Things We Lost in the Fire – Mariana Enriquez
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BOOK SUGGESTIONS BASED ON YOUR COLLECTION
Your library shows strong interests in: translated literary fiction, horror with literary merit, Japanese/Korean literature, queer literature, speculative fiction, and sociopolitical works. Here are targeted recommendations:
If you love Ottessa Moshfegh, Han Kang, and Mieko Kawakami:
· Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (you have this—try Earthlings)
· Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-joo (you have this)
· The Vegetarian by Han Kang (you have this—try Human Acts)
· Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami (you have this—try All the Lovers in the Night)
If you love Mariana Enriquez's horror:
· The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (you have this)
· Things We Lost in the Fire (you have this)
· Our Share of Night (you have this)
· Try: Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin
If you love Japanese literary fiction:
· Out by Natsuo Kirino (you have this)
· In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami (you have this)
· The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa (you have this)
· Try: The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino, Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami
If you love Ursula K. Le Guin:
· The Dispossessed (you have this)
· The Left Hand of Darkness (you have this)
· Try: The Word for World is Forest, The Lathe of Heaven
If you love Latin American literature:
· Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor (you have this)
· Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin (you have this)
· Try: Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, The Remainder by Alia Trabucco Zerán
If you love queer literature:
· Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (you have this)
· In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (you have this)
· Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski (you have this)
· Try: Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters, Real Life by Brandon Taylor
If you love speculative/dystopian:
· Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (you have this)
· The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa (you have this)
· Try: The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh, The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
If you love Indian literature in translation:
· Hangwoman by K.R. Meera (you have this)
· The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (you have this)
· Try: A Death in Delhi by Neeraj, Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag
If you love existential/postmodern fiction:
· Stoner by John Williams (you have this)
· The Tunnel by William H. Gass (you have this)
· Try: The Loser by Thomas Bernhard, The Lime Twig by John Hawkes
If you love literary horror:
· Last Days by Brian Evenson (you have this)
· Little Heaven by Nick Cutter (you have this)
· Try: The Fisherman by John Langan, The Red Tree by Caitlín R. Kiernan
If you love African literature:
· Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (you have this)
· At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop (you have this)
· Try: The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah, Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
If you love short story collections:
· The Penguin Book of International Short Stories (you have this)
· The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (you have this)
· Try: Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado, Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Hidden gems based on your eclectic taste:
· The Employees by Olga Ravn (corporate sci-fi)
· The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili (epic Georgian family saga)
· The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (Sierra Leone)
· A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa (Angola)
· The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar (Iranian magical realism – you have this)
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