Non-American books that every American should read

1.
The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner 4.35 avg rating — 3,401,683 ratings
2.
1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,225,361 ratings
3.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Thousand Splendid Suns 4.45 avg rating — 1,681,488 ratings
4.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,398 ratings
5.
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 403,040 ratings
6.
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,072,611 ratings
7.
Animal Farm
Animal Farm 4.01 avg rating — 4,355,583 ratings
8.
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1) 4.27 avg rating — 224,907 ratings
9.
Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera 3.94 avg rating — 535,532 ratings
10.
The Stranger
The Stranger 4.03 avg rating — 1,315,198 ratings
11.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray 4.13 avg rating — 1,782,424 ratings
12.
Memoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha 4.16 avg rating — 2,082,434 ratings
13.
Life of Pi
Life of Pi 3.94 avg rating — 1,726,443 ratings
14.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 3.98 avg rating — 122,118 ratings
15.
The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita 4.28 avg rating — 401,004 ratings
16.
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 257,755 ratings
17.
Siddhartha
Siddhartha 4.08 avg rating — 846,756 ratings
18.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,632,498 ratings
19.
The Book Thief
The Book Thief 4.39 avg rating — 2,801,871 ratings
20.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 3,378,174 ratings
21.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,958,945 ratings
22.
Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago 4.01 avg rating — 101,097 ratings
23.
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front 4.10 avg rating — 504,990 ratings
24.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,004 ratings
25.
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 696,617 ratings
26.
The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis 3.90 avg rating — 1,338,005 ratings
27.
Dracula
Dracula 4.02 avg rating — 1,414,890 ratings
28.
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol 4.09 avg rating — 896,438 ratings
29.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,259,590 ratings
30.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating — 1,069,854 ratings
31.
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo 4.32 avg rating — 991,918 ratings
32.
The Alchemist
The Alchemist 3.92 avg rating — 3,429,833 ratings
33.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 4.11 avg rating — 524,748 ratings
34.
Curiosity kills the KatHA
Curiosity kills the KatHA 3.68 avg rating — 75 ratings
35.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Cry, the Beloved Country 3.92 avg rating — 78,530 ratings
36.
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov 4.38 avg rating — 369,455 ratings
37.
The Secret Garden
The Secret Garden 4.16 avg rating — 1,262,898 ratings
38.
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 4.16 avg rating — 192,409 ratings
39.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,182 ratings
40.
The God of Small Things
The God of Small Things 3.96 avg rating — 317,128 ratings
41.
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China 4.30 avg rating — 120,267 ratings
42.
The Poisonwood Bible
The Poisonwood Bible 4.11 avg rating — 779,707 ratings
43.
Interpreter of Maladies
Interpreter of Maladies 4.18 avg rating — 203,018 ratings
44.
Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun 4.34 avg rating — 176,433 ratings
45.
A Fine Balance
A Fine Balance 4.38 avg rating — 156,839 ratings
46.
War and Peace
War and Peace 4.17 avg rating — 356,949 ratings
47.
Long Walk to Freedom
Long Walk to Freedom 4.36 avg rating — 92,315 ratings
48.
Atonement
Atonement 3.95 avg rating — 551,916 ratings
49.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables 4.21 avg rating — 830,165 ratings
50.
The Tin Drum
The Tin Drum 3.95 avg rating — 45,956 ratings
51.
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 273,157 ratings
52.
Midnight’s Children
Midnight’s Children 3.98 avg rating — 130,698 ratings
53.
The Name of the Rose
The Name of the Rose 4.14 avg rating — 387,235 ratings
54.
The House of the Spirits
The House of the Spirits 4.29 avg rating — 304,550 ratings
55.
Night
Night 4.38 avg rating — 1,334,070 ratings
56.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1) 4.22 avg rating — 1,969,818 ratings
57.
Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility 4.09 avg rating — 1,266,031 ratings
58.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 3.89 avg rating — 274,939 ratings
59.
Hiroshima
Hiroshima 4.04 avg rating — 86,428 ratings
60.
A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 753,861 ratings
61.
The God Delusion
The God Delusion 3.90 avg rating — 279,306 ratings
62.
Norwegian Wood
Norwegian Wood really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 696,510 ratings
63.
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books 3.66 avg rating — 138,458 ratings
64.
The Qur'an: Text, Translation, and Commentary
The Qur'an: Text, Translation, and Commentary
by: Anonymous
4.38 avg rating — 71,368 ratings
65.
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 206,927 ratings
66.
Disgrace
Disgrace 3.86 avg rating — 114,192 ratings
67.
Shame
Shame 3.87 avg rating — 12,963 ratings
68.
The Idiot
The Idiot 4.21 avg rating — 207,606 ratings
69.
Cancer Ward
Cancer Ward 4.26 avg rating — 17,570 ratings
69.
David Copperfield
David Copperfield 4.04 avg rating — 253,072 ratings
71.
Eugene Onegin
Eugene Onegin 4.10 avg rating — 68,921 ratings
72.
Cutting for Stone
Cutting for Stone 4.33 avg rating — 417,343 ratings
73.
The Trial
The Trial 3.94 avg rating — 377,239 ratings
74.
The Valley of Unknowing
The Valley of Unknowing 3.85 avg rating — 370 ratings
75.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
by: Lisa See
4.09 avg rating — 382,926 ratings
76.
Little Bee
Little Bee 3.72 avg rating — 247,065 ratings
77.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 4.16 avg rating — 933,424 ratings
78.
Infidel
Infidel 4.20 avg rating — 91,942 ratings
79.
Hunger
Hunger 4.04 avg rating — 62,392 ratings
80.
The Quiet American
The Quiet American 3.98 avg rating — 68,860 ratings
81.
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families 4.22 avg rating — 35,952 ratings
82.
Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot 3.84 avg rating — 217,089 ratings
83.
Jude the Obscure
Jude the Obscure 3.83 avg rating — 74,819 ratings
84.
Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years With a Midwife in Mali
Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years With a Midwife in Mali 4.17 avg rating — 4,983 ratings
85.
The Yacoubian Building
The Yacoubian Building 3.71 avg rating — 22,608 ratings
86.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac 4.06 avg rating — 89,306 ratings
87.
Watchmen
Watchmen 4.39 avg rating — 585,752 ratings
88.
The Inheritance of Loss
The Inheritance of Loss 3.45 avg rating — 54,325 ratings
89.
Dead Souls
Dead Souls 3.98 avg rating — 93,251 ratings
90.
Truly, Madly, Deeply
Truly, Madly, Deeply 3.58 avg rating — 1,555 ratings
91.
The Satanic Verses
The Satanic Verses 3.71 avg rating — 70,295 ratings
92.
Out of Africa
Out of Africa 3.91 avg rating — 46,904 ratings
93.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,615 ratings
94.
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time 3.66 avg rating — 358,685 ratings
95.
The Day of the Triffids
The Day of the Triffids 4.01 avg rating — 115,094 ratings
96.
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
by: Lisa See
3.92 avg rating — 160,764 ratings
96.
The Shipping News
The Shipping News 3.88 avg rating — 150,719 ratings
98.
Palette of Love
Palette of Love 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
99.
1Q84 (1Q84 #1-3)
1Q84 (1Q84 #1-3) 3.95 avg rating — 333,021 ratings
100.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
The Reluctant Fundamentalist 3.73 avg rating — 82,630 ratings
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