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A Linguistic Pilgrimage

So you're sick of reading only things that were originally written in English and want to branch out a tad. Well, here are some recommendations for twelve languages, five books a piece: Arabic, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. I'd recommend more in more tongues, but alas: I'm going to have to read a lot more for that.
P.S. Of course Rosie sludged their way all over by claiming to have read the first four works on this list without, I imagine, having even looked at them. I doubt they could find a single country whose major language is Arabic on a map.
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Gate of the Sun (Elias Khoury)
Gate of the Sun (Elias Khoury)
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The Woman From Tantoura (Radwa Ashour)
The Woman From Tantoura (Radwa Ashour)
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Cities of Salt (Abdul Rahman Munif)
Cities of Salt (Abdul Rahman Munif)
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Woman at Point Zero (Nawal El Saadawi)
Woman at Point Zero (Nawal El Saadawi)
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Women of Sand and Myrrh (Hanan Al-Shaykh)
Women of Sand and Myrrh (Hanan Al-Shaykh)
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Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
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The Second Sex (Simone De Beauvoir)
The Second Sex (Simone De Beauvoir)
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Memoirs of Hadrian (Margarite Yourcenar)
Memoirs of Hadrian (Margarite Yourcenar)
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The Wretched of the Earth (Franz Fanon)
The Wretched of the Earth (Franz Fanon)
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God's Bits of Wood (Ousmane Sembène)
God's Bits of Wood (Ousmane Sembène)
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The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
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Letters to a Young Poet (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Letters to a Young Poet (Rainer Maria Rilke)
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The Quest for Christa T. (Christa Wolf)
The Quest for Christa T. (Christa Wolf)
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Visitation (Jenny Erpenbeck)
Visitation (Jenny Erpenbeck)
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The Trial (Franz Kafka, Trans. Mike Mitchell)
The Trial (Franz Kafka, Trans. Mike Mitchell)
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Fatelessness (Imre Kertész)
Fatelessness (Imre Kertész)
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Embers (Sandor Marai)
Embers (Sandor Marai)
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Nine Suitcases (Béla Zsolt)
Nine Suitcases (Béla Zsolt)
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Liquidation (Imre Kertész)
Liquidation (Imre Kertész)
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The Door (Magda Szabó)
The Door (Magda Szabó)
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Italo Calvino)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Italo Calvino)
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The Drowned and the Saved (Primo Levi)
The Drowned and the Saved (Primo Levi)
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The Art of Joy (Goliarda Sapienza)
The Art of Joy (Goliarda Sapienza)
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The Story of a New Name (Elena Ferrante)
The Story of a New Name (Elena Ferrante)
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Artemisia (Anna Banti)
Artemisia (Anna Banti)
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The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)
The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)
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The Makioka Sisters (Junichiro Tanizaki)
The Makioka Sisters (Junichiro Tanizaki)
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Deep River (Shūsaku Endō)
Deep River (Shūsaku Endō)
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The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea (Yukio Mishima)
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea (Yukio Mishima)
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Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)
Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)
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The Guest (Sok-Yong Hwang)
The Guest (Sok-Yong Hwang)
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Human Acts (Han Kang)
Human Acts (Han Kang)
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The Vegetarian (Han Kang)
The Vegetarian (Han Kang)
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The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong (Lady Hyegyeong)
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong (Lady Hyegyeong)
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In the Depths (Moo-Sook Hahn)
In the Depths (Moo-Sook Hahn)
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The Song of Everlasting Sorrow (Wang Anyii)
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow (Wang Anyii)
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Beijing Coma (Ma Jian)
Beijing Coma (Ma Jian)
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Half a Lifelong Romance (Eileen Chang)
Half a Lifelong Romance (Eileen Chang)
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The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai (Han Bangqing)
The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai (Han Bangqing)
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Six Records of a Floating Life (Shen Fu)
Six Records of a Floating Life (Shen Fu)
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