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31 Underrated Foreign Novels You Should Read

Here's BuzzFeed's list of 31 foreign novels that need to be discovered and appreciated. Have you already read many of these books?
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The Dressmaker of Khair Khana
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana
2
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
3
The Natural Way of Things (Charlotte Wood)
The Natural Way of Things (Charlotte Wood)
4
A Golden Age (Tahmima Anam)
A Golden Age (Tahmima Anam)
5
The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector)
The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector)
6
First They Killed My Father (Loung Ung)
First They Killed My Father (Loung Ung)
7
Son of a Trickster (Eden Robinson)
Son of a Trickster (Eden Robinson)
8
Shanghai Girls (Lisa See)
Shanghai Girls (Lisa See)
9
The Keeper of Lost Causes (Jussi Adler-Olsen)
The Keeper of Lost Causes (Jussi Adler-Olsen)
10
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
11
The End of Eddy (Edouard Louis)
The End of Eddy (Edouard Louis)
12
Perfume (Patrick Suskind)
Perfume (Patrick Suskind)
13
I, Rigoberta Menchu (Rigoberta Menchu)
I, Rigoberta Menchu (Rigoberta Menchu)
14
Claire of the Sea Light
Claire of the Sea Light
15
Babyji (Abha Dawesar)
Babyji (Abha Dawesar)
16
My Uncle Napoleon (Iraj Pezeshkzad)
My Uncle Napoleon (Iraj Pezeshkzad)
17
I'm Not Scared
I'm Not Scared
18
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
19
A Grain of Wheat (Ngugi Wa Thiong'o)
A Grain of Wheat (Ngugi Wa Thiong'o)
20
Pachinko (Min Jin Lee)
Pachinko (Min Jin Lee)
21
The Garden of the Evening Mists (Tan Twan Eng)
The Garden of the Evening Mists (Tan Twan Eng)
22
Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimamanda Ngozi Achibie)
Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimamanda Ngozi Achibie)
23
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
24
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
25
The Conservationist
The Conservationist
26
The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
27
Funny Boy
Funny Boy
28
Memed, My Hawk (Yasher Kemal)
Memed, My Hawk (Yasher Kemal)
29
The Railway (Hamid Ismailov)
The Railway (Hamid Ismailov)
30
The Best We Could Do (Thi Bui)
The Best We Could Do (Thi Bui)
31
Butterfly Burning (Yvonne Vera)
Butterfly Burning (Yvonne Vera)
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