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1. Things Fall Apart 51.

The Aeneid
Chinua Achebe | Africa Virgil | Ancient World
2. Night 52. The God of Small Things
Elie Wiesel | Europe Arundhati Roy | India
3. The Kite Runner 53. Midnight’s Children
Khaled Hosseini | The Middle Salman Rushdie | India
East 54. Love in the Time of Cholera
4. The Stranger Gabriel Garcia Marquez | South America
Albert Camus | Europe 55. Reading Lolita in Tehran: 
5. Cry, the Beloved Country A Memoir in Books
Alan Paton | Africa Azar Nafisi | The Middle East
6. The Metamorphosis 56. The Book Thief
Franz Kafka | Europe Markus Zusak | Europe
7. Siddhartha 57. Annie John
Hermann Hesse | Europe Jamaica Kincaid | The Caribbean
8. The Joy Luck Club 58. Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Amy Tan | China Gabriel Garcia Marquez | South America
9. Oedipus the King 59. Obasan
Sophocles, translated by  Joy Kogawa | Japanese/Canada
Bernard M. Knox | Ancient 60. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the 
World Cultural Revolution
10. The Odyssey Ji-li Jiang | China
Homer, translated by Robert 61. Medea
Fitzgerald | Ancient World Euripides | Ancient World
11. A Doll’s House  62. I Have Lived a Thousand Years: 
(Four Major Plays, Vol. I) Growing Up in the Holocaust
Henrik Ibsen | Europe Livia Bitton-Jackson | Europe
12. All Quiet on the Western 63. Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Front Susan Vreeland | Europe
Erich M. Remarque | Europe 64. The Little Prince
13. One Hundred Years of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by 
Solitude Richard Howard | Europe
Gabriel Garcia Marquez | South 65. Living up the Street
America Gary Soto | Hispanic American
14. Candide 66. The Namesake: A Novel
Voltaire | Europe Jhumpa Lahiri | India
15. Antigone 67. Sold
Sophocles | Ancient World Patricia McCormick | India
16. Crime and Punishment 68. The Bookseller of Kabul
Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Europe Asne Seierstad | The Middle East
17. The Inferno 69. What is the What: The Autobiography
Dante Alighieri, translated by  of 
John Ciardi | Europe Valentino Achak Deng
18. The Iliad Dave Eggers | Africa
Homer, translated by W.H.D. 70. All But My Life: A Memoir
Rouse | Ancient World Gerda Weissman Klein | Europe
19. Life of Pi 71. My Forbidden Face: 
Yann Martel | Canada Growing Up Under the Taliban
20. Cyrano de Bergerac Latifa | The Middle East
Edmond Rostand | Europe 72. Before We Were Free
21. Les Miserables Julia Alvarez | The Caribbean
Victor Hugo | Europe 73. The Bonesetter’s Daughter
22. Don Quixote Amy Tan | China
Miguel de Cervantes | Europe 74. Dawn
23. Nectar in a Sieve Elie Wiesel | Europe
Kamala Markandaya | India 75. Dreaming in Cuban
24. Like Water for Chocolate Cristina Garcia | The Caribbean
Laura Esquivel | Mexico
25. The Epic of Gilgamesh:  76. Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an
The Babylonian Epic Poem Unwanted Chinese Daughter
and Other Texts in Akkadian Adeline Yen Mah | China
and Sumerian 77. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
translated by Andrew George |  Victor Hugo | Europe
Ancient World 78. In My Hands: 
26. Bless Me, Ultima Memories of a Holocaust Survivor
Rudolfo Anaya | Hispanic Irene Opdyke with 
American Jennifer Armstrong | Europe
27. Three Cups of Tea: One 79. Le Morte d’Arthur
Man's Mission to Promote Thomas Malory | Europe
Peace...  80. Out of Africa and Shadows on the
One School at a Time Grass
Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Isak Dinesen | Africa
Relin |  81. The Phantom of the Opera
The Middle East Gaston Leroux | Europe
28. Madame Bovary 82. Purple Hibiscus
Gustave Flaubert | Europe Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Africa
29. Mythology 83. Ties That Bind, Ties That Break
Edith Hamilton | Ancient World Lensey Namioka | Asia
30. The Alchemist: A Fable About 84. Waiting
Following Your Dream Ha Jin | Asia
Paulo Coelho | Europe 85. Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing
31. In the Time of the Butterflies Up Iranian in America
Julia Alvarez | The Caribbean Firoozeh Dumas | The Middle East
32. Hiroshima 86. A Book of Luminous Things: 
John Hersey | Japan An International Anthology of Poetry
33. Kaffir Boy: The True Story of Czeslaw Milosz, ed.
a  87. Enrique’s Journey: 
Black Youth's Coming of Age The Story Of A Boy’s Dangerous
in Apartheid South Africa Odyssey
Mark Mathabane | Africa Sonia Nazario | Central America
34. The House of the Spirits 88. The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Isabel Allende | South America Alexander McCall Smith | Africa
35. A Long Way Gone:  89. Retold African American Folktales
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier David Haynes | Africa
Ishmael Beah | Africa 90. Waiting for Godot
36. The Count of Monte Cristo Samual Beckett | Ireland
Alexandre Dumas | Europe 91. American Shaolin: Flying Kids,
37. One Day in the Life of  Buddhist, Monks, and the Legend of
Ivan Denisovich Iron Crotch: 
Alexander Solzhenitsyn | Europe An Odyssey in the New China
38. A Thousand Splendid Suns Matthew Polly | China
Khaled Hosseini | The Middle 92. Apology
East Plato | Ancient World
39. The Poisonwood Bible 93. The Bet
Barbara Kingsolver | Africa Anton Chekhov | Europe
40. Balzac and the Little Chinese 94. Born Confused
Seamstress Tanuja Desai Hidier | India
Dai Sijie | China 95. The Good Earth
41. A Portrait of the Artist  Pearl S. Buck | China
As a Young Man 96. Chanda’s Secrets
James Joyce | Ireland Allan Stratton | Africa
42. Anne Frank: The Diary  97. The Cherry Orchard
of a Young Girl Anton Chekov | Europe
Anne Frank | Europe 98. Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of
43. Persepolis: The Story of a an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
Childhood Adeline Yen Mah | China
Marjane Satrapi | The Middle 99. City of the Beasts
East Isabel Allende | South America
44. The Power of One 100. Crow Lake
Bryce Courtenay | Africa Mary Lawson | Canada
45. First They Killed My Father: 
A Daughter of Cambodia
Remembers
Loung Ung | Cambodia
46. The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood | Canada
47. Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy | Europe
48. The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli | Europe
49. Snow Flower and the Secret
Fan: 
A Novel
Lisa See | China
50. Persepolis 2: The Story of a
Return
Marjane Satrapi | The Middle
East

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