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Goodreads "Women Around the World"

"A list about female authors from non-English speaking countries...The point is to try to move away from the Anglophone and American focused lists of female authors to get other points of view..." (Goodreads)
These are books which received 2 or more votes. Some duplicates and very low ranking books were not included.
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The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
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The House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende)
The House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende)
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Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
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The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
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The Second Sex (Simone De Beauvoir)
The Second Sex (Simone De Beauvoir)
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Like Water for Chocolate (Laura Esquivel)
Like Water for Chocolate (Laura Esquivel)
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Americanah (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
Americanah (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
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Memoirs of Hadrian (Marguerite Yourcenar)
Memoirs of Hadrian (Marguerite Yourcenar)
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Out of Africa (Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen)
Out of Africa (Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen)
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The Summer Book (Tove Jansson)
The Summer Book (Tove Jansson)
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The Lover (Marguerite Duras)
The Lover (Marguerite Duras)
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The Complete Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi)
The Complete Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi)
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My Brilliant Friend (Elena Ferrante)
My Brilliant Friend (Elena Ferrante)
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Bonjour Tristesse (Francoise Sagan)
Bonjour Tristesse (Francoise Sagan)
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Wild Swans (Jung Chang)
Wild Swans (Jung Chang)
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Suite Française (Irène Némirovsky, Trans. Sandra Smith)
Suite Française (Irène Némirovsky, Trans. Sandra Smith)
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The Piano Teacher (Elfriede Jelinek)
The Piano Teacher (Elfriede Jelinek)
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Kitchen (Banana Yoshimoto)
Kitchen (Banana Yoshimoto)
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Purple Hibiscus (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
Purple Hibiscus (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
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Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren)
Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren)
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery)
The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery)
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The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)
The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)
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The Mandarins (Simone De Beauvoir)
The Mandarins (Simone De Beauvoir)
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Kristin Lavransdatter (Sigrid Undset, Trans. Tiina Nunnally)
Kristin Lavransdatter (Sigrid Undset, Trans. Tiina Nunnally)
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In the Time of the Butterflies (Julia Alvarez)
In the Time of the Butterflies (Julia Alvarez)
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Woman at Point Zero (Nawal El Saadawi)
Woman at Point Zero (Nawal El Saadawi)
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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Simone De Beauvoir)
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Simone De Beauvoir)
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The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector)
The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector)
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July's People (Nadine Gordimer)
July's People (Nadine Gordimer)
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The Housekeeper and the Professor (Yoko Ogawa)
The Housekeeper and the Professor (Yoko Ogawa)
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Purge (Sofi Oksanen)
Purge (Sofi Oksanen)
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Heidi (Johanna Spyri)
Heidi (Johanna Spyri)
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I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the I
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the I
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The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova (Anna Akhmatova)
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova (Anna Akhmatova)
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Love in a Fallen City (Eileen Chang)
Love in a Fallen City (Eileen Chang)
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The Door (Magda Szabó)
The Door (Magda Szabó)
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The Wall (Marlen Haushofer)
The Wall (Marlen Haushofer)
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So Long a Letter (Mariama Bâ, Trans. Modupé Bodé-Thomas)
So Long a Letter (Mariama Bâ, Trans. Modupé Bodé-Thomas)
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Voices From Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Voices From Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
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The Vegetarian (Han Kang)
The Vegetarian (Han Kang)
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