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200 Amazing Books to Diversify Your Bookshelf - Page 2

There are so many fantastic authors out there that never make Greatest Books lists because those lists are already overflowing with Caucasian writers. Usually it's not intended, but so often we tend to focus on books written by white authors, since the literary world was dominated by their voices for centuries. But here are 200 books from around the world that deserve to make most Best Books lists.
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The Alchemist
The Alchemist
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The Round House
The Round House
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Like Water for Chocolate
Like Water for Chocolate
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The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros)
The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros)
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Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Crónica De Una Muerte Anunciada) 1981
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Crónica De Una Muerte Anunciada) 1981
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Black Boy
Black Boy
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Dreaming in Cuban
Dreaming in Cuban
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Kafka on the Shore
Kafka on the Shore
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This Is How You Lose Her
This Is How You Lose Her
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The Master of Go Yasunari Kawabata
The Master of Go Yasunari Kawabata
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The Vagrants (Yiyun Li)
The Vagrants (Yiyun Li)
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Sula (Toni Morrison)
Sula (Toni Morrison)
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White Teeth
White Teeth
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Brown Girl in the Ring (Nalo Hopkinson)
Brown Girl in the Ring (Nalo Hopkinson)
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Passing
Passing
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The Blacker the Berry (Wallace Thurman)
The Blacker the Berry (Wallace Thurman)
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We Need New Names
We Need New Names
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Kinder Than Solitude
Kinder Than Solitude
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Up From Slavery (Booker T. Washington)
Up From Slavery (Booker T. Washington)
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The Boy Next Door (Irene Sabatini)
The Boy Next Door (Irene Sabatini)
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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Hopscotch
Hopscotch
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The Makioka Sisters - Junichiro Tanizaki
The Makioka Sisters - Junichiro Tanizaki
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The Women of Brewster Place (Novel)
The Women of Brewster Place (Novel)
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Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
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Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin)
Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin)
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The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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The Meursault Investigation (Kamel Daoud)
The Meursault Investigation (Kamel Daoud)
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Persepolis
Persepolis
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Homegoing (Yaa Gyasi)
Homegoing (Yaa Gyasi)
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The Hired Man
The Hired Man
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Fledgling (Octavia E. Butler)
Fledgling (Octavia E. Butler)
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Ink (Sabrina Vourvoulias)
Ink (Sabrina Vourvoulias)
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X
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Another Country
Another Country
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The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
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