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The Economist's best books of 2021

1 Empire of Pain — Patrick Radden Keefe
2 Do Not Disturb — Michela Wrong
3 Invisible China — Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell

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The BBC's Big Read: Britain's best-loved novels (top 50)

1 Winnie-the-Pooh
2 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
3 Rebecca

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The New York Times' 10 best books of 2021

1 How Beautiful We Were — Imbolo Mbue
2 Intimacies — Katie Kitamura
3 When We Cease to Understand the World — Benjamín Labatut

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Anna Akhmatova's best-known lines (with the poem)

1 If only you knew from what rubbish / poems grow, knowing no shame.
2 "Only children love like that, / and only the first time."
3 If living, then in freedom; / if dying, then at home.

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Czesław Miłosz's best-known poems and quotes

1 There will be no other end of the world, / there will be no other end of the world.
2 What is poetry which does not save / nations or people?
3 I said so little. / Days were short.

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Nizar Qabbani's most famous lines (with the poem)

1 When he dances with me he whispers / words that are not like other words.
2 If a day goes by and I forget / to say to you: may your morning be sugar…
3 My friends, I mourn to you the old language / and the old books.

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Kim Sowol's most famous lines (with the poem)

1 Name shattered to pieces! / Name scattered in the empty air! / Name with no owner when I call it! / Name I will die calling!
2 Mother, sister, let us live by the river: / glittering golden sand in the yard, / the song of the reeds beyond the back gate.
3 Even if I turn to stone standing here, / name I will die calling! / The one I loved! / The one I loved!

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Cecília Meireles's best-known lines (with the poem)

1 I sing because the instant exists / and my life is complete. / I am neither happy nor sad: / I am a poet.
2 I don't know whether to play or study, / to run out or stay calm.
3 I learned from the springs / to let myself be cut / and always come back whole.

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Langston Hughes's most famous lines (with the poem they come from)

1 I, too, sing America. / I am the darker brother.
2 O, let America be America again — / The land that never has been yet — / And yet must be — the land where every man is free.
3 What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun? / Or does it explode?

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The Prince of Asturias Award for Literature winners of the 2000s

1 Doris Lessing
2 Susan Sontag
3 Margaret Atwood

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The Camões Prize winners of the 2000s

1 Autran Dourado
2 Eugénio de Andrade
3 Maria Velho da Costa

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🐉 Sagas & series

Every James Bond film in order

1 Dr. No
2 From Russia with Love
3 Goldfinger

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Giacomo Leopardi's most famous poems

1 The Infinite
2 To Silvia
3 Saturday in the Village

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The Planeta Prize-winning novels of the 1990s

1 El jinete polaco — Antonio Muñoz Molina
2 El manuscrito carmesí — Antonio Gala
3 Death in the Andes — Mario Vargas Llosa

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The Hugo Award winners for Best Novel of the 2010s

1 The Windup Girl — Paolo Bacigalupi
2 Blackout/All Clear — Connie Willis
3 Ancillary Justice — Ann Leckie

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The Nobel Prize in Literature winners of the 1970s

1 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
2 Pablo Neruda
3 Heinrich Böll

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The Planeta Prize-winning novels of the 2000s

1 Mientras vivimos — Maruja Torres
2 La hermandad de la buena suerte — Fernando Savater
3 La canción de Dorotea — Rosa Regàs

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The Cervantes Prize winners of the 1990s

1 Adolfo Bioy Casares
2 Dulce María Loynaz
3 Francisco Ayala

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The Prix Goncourt winners of the 1980s

1 Le Jardin d'acclimatation — Yves Navarre
2 Anne Marie — Lucien Bodard
3 Dans la main de l'ange — Dominique Fernandez

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Vladimir Mayakovsky's best-known lines (with the poem)

1 Listen! / If stars are lit, / it means someone needs it?
2 The street writhes, tongueless: / it has nothing to shout or speak with.
3 In this life / dying / is not hard. / Making life / is much harder.

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The best George Orwell books

1 Nineteen Eighty-Four
2 Animal Farm
3 The Road to Wigan Pier

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Thomas Mann's most important works

1 Buddenbrooks
2 The Magic Mountain
3 Death in Venice

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Mario Benedetti's most famous poems

1 I Love You
2 Don't Save Yourself
3 Let's Make a Deal

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The best Dutch novel of all time according to NRC Handelsblad readers (2007)

1 Out of Mind (Hersenschimmen) – J. Bernlef
2 The Darkroom of Damocles – Willem Frederik Hermans
3 The House of the Mosque – Kader Abdolah

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