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Around the World in 80 Novels

I was in Waterstones buying my copy of the Centenary edition of Ulysses the other day (which is gorgeous, by the way, and perfect for a first-time reader, as it has heaps of notes and other stuff to help understand the text. Beware though, this beauty weighs about a ton!), when I saw this book and dropped it on the pile on a whim.
It's a fun little book, though I'd have preferred more books by native authors (instead of books about Portugal by Canadians, for example). It concentrates mostly on the countries visited in Verne's book (with a couple of detours thrown in).
Is it a definitive book of world fiction? No, not even close, but I guess it makes a decent jumping-off point.
The books from 82 onwards are the "further reading" suggestions found in the back of the book.
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Around the World in 80 Novels (Henry Russell)
Around the World in 80 Novels (Henry Russell)
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Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson)
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Death of a Gossip (M.C. Beaton)
Death of a Gossip (M.C. Beaton)
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Knots & Crosses (Ian Rankin)
Knots & Crosses (Ian Rankin)
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Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
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Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
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Jamaica Inn (Daphne Du Maurier)
Jamaica Inn (Daphne Du Maurier)
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White Teeth (Zadie Smith)
White Teeth (Zadie Smith)
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How Green Was My Valley (Richard Llewellyn)
How Green Was My Valley (Richard Llewellyn)
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Cal (Bernard MacLaverty)
Cal (Bernard MacLaverty)
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Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
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The Commitments
The Commitments
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The City and the Mountains (Eça De Queiroz)
The City and the Mountains (Eça De Queiroz)
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For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
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The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
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After the Circus (Patrick Modiano)
After the Circus (Patrick Modiano)
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Chocolat (Joanne Harris)
Chocolat (Joanne Harris)
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A Widow for One Year (John Irving)
A Widow for One Year (John Irving)
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The Miniaturist (Jessie Burton)
The Miniaturist (Jessie Burton)
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Goodbye to Berlin (Christopher Isherwood)
Goodbye to Berlin (Christopher Isherwood)
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Alone in Berlin (Hans Fallada)
Alone in Berlin (Hans Fallada)
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The Reader (Bernhard Schlink)
The Reader (Bernhard Schlink)
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Hotel Du Lac (Anita Brookner)
Hotel Du Lac (Anita Brookner)
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Vienna Passion (Lilian Faschinger)
Vienna Passion (Lilian Faschinger)
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The Leopard (Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa)
The Leopard (Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa)
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My Brilliant Friend (Elena Ferrante)
My Brilliant Friend (Elena Ferrante)
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Illyrian Spring (Ann Bridge)
Illyrian Spring (Ann Bridge)
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A Girl in Exile (Ismail Kadare)
A Girl in Exile (Ismail Kadare)
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Captain Corelli'S Mandolin – Louis De Berniere
Captain Corelli'S Mandolin – Louis De Berniere
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The Island (Victoria Hislop)
The Island (Victoria Hislop)
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The Towers of Trebizond (Rose Macaulay)
The Towers of Trebizond (Rose Macaulay)
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Snow (Orhan Pamuk)
Snow (Orhan Pamuk)
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Forgotten Fire (Adam Bagdasarian)
Forgotten Fire (Adam Bagdasarian)
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The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight (Gina Oschner)
The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight (Gina Oschner)
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Back to Moscow (Guillermo Erades)
Back to Moscow (Guillermo Erades)
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Faceless Killers (Henning Mankell)
Faceless Killers (Henning Mankell)
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Modus: Death in Oslo (Anne Holt)
Modus: Death in Oslo (Anne Holt)
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Smilla's Sense of Snow (Peter Høeg)
Smilla's Sense of Snow (Peter Høeg)
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To the End of the Land (David Grossman)
To the End of the Land (David Grossman)
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