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Europe
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- A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra
- A House of My Own, Sandra Cisneros
- A House of Pomegranates, Oscar Wilde
- A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe, Fernando Pessoa
- A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
- A View of the Harbour, Elizabeth Taylor
- A Woman in Berlin, Marta Hillers
- Alibis, André Aciman
- All Our Yesterdays, Natalia Ginzburg
- All That I Am, Anna Funder
- All the Names, José Saramago
- Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
- Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
- Cakes and Ale, W. Somerset Maugham
- Call Me By Your Name, André Aciman
- Clara’s War, Clara Kramer
- Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney
- Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
- Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
- Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell
- Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes
- Fear, Stefan ZweigVienna
- First Love, Ivan Turgenev
- Felicia’s Journey, William Trevor
- From the Land of the Moon, Milena Agus
- Guernica, Dave Boling
- Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin
- Good Morning, Midnight, Jean Rhys
- Great House, Nicole Krauss
- Happiness, Aminatta Forna
- If This Is a Man/Survival in Aushwitz, Primo Levi
- Infidelities, Josip Novakovich
- In Other Words, Jhumpa Lahiri
- In the Garden of Beasts, Erik Larson
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
- Jamilia, Chingiz Aitmatov
- Journey into the Past, Stefan Zweig
- Journey to the Edge of Life, Tezer Özlü
- Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow, Faïza Guène
- Laughter in the Dark, Vladimir Nabokov
- Letters to Milena, Franz Kafka
- Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
- Love and Garbage, Ivan Klíma
- Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
- Memed, My Hawk, Yaşar Kemal
- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
- Music of a Life, Andreï Makine
- My Death, Lisa Tuttle
- My Husband, Maud Ventura
- My Life in Middlemarch, Rebecca Mead
- My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk
- Night, Elie Wiesel
- Night and Day, Virginia Woolf
- Night Train to Lisbon, Pascal Mercier
- Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
- No Name in the Street, James BaldwinNew York City and Paris
- Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggs, Rainer Maria Rilke
- Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham
- Once We Were Brothers, Ronald Balson
- Paris, Edward Rutherfurd
- Purge, Sofi Oksanen
- Raised from the Ground, José Saramago
- Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
- Restless, William Boyd
- Selected Poems, Anna Akhmatova
- Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach
- Snow, Orhan Pamuk
- Spring in Falta, Vladimir Nabokov
- Suite Française, Irène Némirovsky
- Swann in Love, Marcel Proust
- Tess of the d’Ubervilles, Thomas Hardy
- Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain
- Theatre, W. Somerset Maugham
- The American, Henry James
- The Bastard of Istanbul, Elif Shafak
- The Book of Disquiet, Fernando PessoaLisbon
- The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
- The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 1, Anaïs Nin
- The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 2, Anaïs NinLouveciennes, France, Paris, France, and New York City, U.S.
- The Diary of A Young Girl, Anne Frank
- The Enchanted April, Elizabeth von ArnimItaly
- The Gendarme, Mark Mustian
- The Invisible Bridge, Julie Orringer
- The Kitchen Boy, Robert Alexander
- The Kommandant’s Girl, Pam Jenoff
- The Kreutzer Sonata, Leo Tolstoy
- The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
- The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
- The Memory of Love, Linda Olsson
- The Moon and the Bonfires, Cesare Pavese
- The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, John BaxterParis
- The Necklace and Other Tales, Guy de Maupassant
- The Piano Cemetery, José Luís Peixoto
- The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, Fernando Pessoa
- The Slaves of Solitude, Patrick Hamilton
- The Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Tiger’s Wife, Téa Obreht
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
- There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
- This Strange Eventful History, Claire Messud
- Three Strong Women, Marie NDiaye
- Too Loud a Solitude, Bohumil Hrabal
- Vera, Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov, Stacy Schiff
- Villette, Charlotte Brontë
- Walking on the Ceiling, Ayşegül Savaş
- Wartime Diary, Simone de Beauvoir
- Whereabouts, Jhumpa Lahiri
- White Walls: Collected Stories, Tatyana Tolstaya
- White on White, Ayşegül Savaş
- White Teeth, Zadie Smith
- Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
- Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks
- 2666, Robert Bolaño
- 28 Portuguese Poets, Richard Zenith
- 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World, Elif Shafak
- 1984, George Orwell