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The best books by Italo Calvino

1 Invisible Cities
2 If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
3 The Cloven Viscount

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The best Hermann Hesse novels

1 Steppenwolf
2 Siddhartha
3 Knulp

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Vulture's best books of 2022

1 Manhunt — Gretchen Felker-Martin
2 Easy Beauty — Chloé Cooper Jones
3 The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On — Franny Choi

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The Washington Post's 10 best books of 2018

1 The Line Becomes a River — Francisco Cantú
2 On Desperate Ground — Hampton Sides
3 One Person, No Vote — Carol Anderson

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The New York Times' 10 best books of 2024

1 All Fours — Miranda July
2 James — Percival Everett
3 You Dreamed of Empires — Álvaro Enrigue

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The best Italian novels of the 20th century

1 The Leopard
2 The Late Mattia Pascal
3 The Tartar Steppe

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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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The Atlantic's best books of 2021

1 Always Crashing in the Same Car — Matthew Specktor
2 Afterparties — Anthony Veasna So
3 Excavate! — Tessa Norton & Bob Stanley

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Time's best books of 2019

1 The Testaments — Margaret Atwood
2 Trust Exercise — Susan Choi
3 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous — Ocean Vuong

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Barack Obama's favourite books of 2024

1 The Anxious Generation — Jonathan Haidt
2 Intermezzo — Sally Rooney
3 Patriot — Alexei Navalny

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The Strega Prize winners of the 2010s

1 The Mussolini Canal — Antonio Pennacchi
2 Inseparabili — Alessandro Piperno
3 Resistere non serve a niente — Walter Siti

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The best books by Gabriel García Márquez

1 The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
2 Strange Pilgrims
3 Leaf Storm

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📘 Non-fiction

Every winner of Sweden's August Prize for non-fiction (1992–2025)

1 Världens ordning och Mörkret i människan – Sverker Sörlin
2 Expeditionen: Min kärlekshistoria – Bea Uusma
3 Gutenberggalaxens nova: En essäberättelse om Erasmus av Rotterdam, humanismen och 1500-talets medierevolution – Nina Burton

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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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🧒 Children's books

The best German-language children's books of all time

1 The Neverending Story
2 Emil and the Detectives
3 The Little Ghost

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🐉 Sagas & series

The Fast & Furious films in release order

1 The Fast and the Furious
2 The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
3 F9

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The Strega Prize winners of the 1980s

1 La vita ingenua — Vittorio Gorresio
2 The Name of the Rose — Umberto Eco
3 Night's Lies — Gesualdo Bufalino

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Japan Booksellers' Award winners, 2014–2025

1 The Forest of Wool and Steel — Natsu Miyashita
2 The Wandering Moon — Yū Nagira
3 Murakami Kaizoku no Musume — Ryō Wada

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The Cervantes Prize winners of the 2010s

1 Ana María Matute
2 Juan Goytisolo
3 Fernando del Paso

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Lesya Ukrainka's best-known lines

1 The earth is not hell, people are not damned, and joy is not a sin but a gift from God.
2 There is no honour in attacking from behind.
3 From the hands of death people receive immortality.

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Arthur Rimbaud's most famous poems

1 Vowels
2 At the Green Inn
3 The Sleeper in the Valley

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The best books by Primo Levi

1 If This Is a Man
2 The Truce
3 The Periodic Table

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Vinicius de Moraes's most famous poems

1 Sonnet of Fidelity
2 Recipe for a Woman
3 Sonnet of Intimacy

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The best Alexandre Dumas novels

1 The Count of Monte Cristo
2 The Forty-Five Guardsmen
3 The Three Musketeers

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