Non-American books that every American should read

1.
The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner 4.35 avg rating — 3,402,425 ratings
2.
1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,227,126 ratings
3.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Thousand Splendid Suns 4.45 avg rating — 1,681,899 ratings
4.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,786 ratings
5.
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 403,107 ratings
6.
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,073,559 ratings
7.
Animal Farm
Animal Farm 4.01 avg rating — 4,357,055 ratings
8.
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1) 4.27 avg rating — 224,940 ratings
9.
Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera 3.94 avg rating — 535,620 ratings
10.
The Stranger
The Stranger 4.03 avg rating — 1,315,824 ratings
11.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray 4.13 avg rating — 1,783,164 ratings
12.
Memoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha 4.16 avg rating — 2,082,673 ratings
13.
Life of Pi
Life of Pi 3.94 avg rating — 1,726,776 ratings
14.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 3.98 avg rating — 122,142 ratings
15.
The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita 4.28 avg rating — 401,146 ratings
16.
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 257,783 ratings
17.
Siddhartha
Siddhartha 4.08 avg rating — 846,970 ratings
18.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,633,919 ratings
19.
The Book Thief
The Book Thief 4.39 avg rating — 2,802,475 ratings
20.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 3,378,635 ratings
21.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,428 ratings
22.
Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago 4.01 avg rating — 101,116 ratings
23.
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front 4.10 avg rating — 505,098 ratings
24.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,049 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 — 696,787 ratings
26.
The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis 3.90 avg rating — 1,338,657 ratings
27.
Dracula
Dracula 4.02 avg rating — 1,415,247 ratings
28.
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol 4.09 avg rating — 896,600 ratings
29.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,260,030 ratings
30.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating — 1,070,130 ratings
31.
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo 4.32 avg rating — 992,141 ratings
32.
The Alchemist
The Alchemist 3.92 avg rating — 3,430,780 ratings
33.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 4.11 avg rating — 524,925 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 — 78,541 ratings
36.
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov 4.38 avg rating — 369,581 ratings
37.
The Secret Garden
The Secret Garden 4.16 avg rating — 1,263,176 ratings
38.
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 4.16 avg rating — 192,426 ratings
39.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,373 ratings
40.
The God of Small Things
The God of Small Things 3.96 avg rating — 317,175 ratings
41.
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China 4.30 avg rating — 120,295 ratings
42.
The Poisonwood Bible
The Poisonwood Bible 4.11 avg rating — 779,823 ratings
43.
Interpreter of Maladies
Interpreter of Maladies 4.18 avg rating — 203,045 ratings
44.
Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun 4.34 avg rating — 176,479 ratings
45.
A Fine Balance
A Fine Balance 4.38 avg rating — 156,863 ratings
46.
War and Peace
War and Peace 4.17 avg rating — 357,009 ratings
47.
Long Walk to Freedom
Long Walk to Freedom 4.36 avg rating — 92,336 ratings
48.
Atonement
Atonement 3.95 avg rating — 552,017 ratings
49.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables 4.21 avg rating — 830,261 ratings
50.
The Tin Drum
The Tin Drum 3.95 avg rating — 45,959 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 — 273,174 ratings
52.
Midnight’s Children
Midnight’s Children 3.98 avg rating — 130,718 ratings
53.
The Name of the Rose
The Name of the Rose 4.14 avg rating — 387,295 ratings
54.
The House of the Spirits
The House of the Spirits 4.29 avg rating — 304,672 ratings
55.
Night
Night 4.38 avg rating — 1,334,303 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 — 1,970,157 ratings
57.
Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility 4.09 avg rating — 1,266,281 ratings
58.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 3.89 avg rating — 274,979 ratings
59.
Hiroshima
Hiroshima 4.04 avg rating — 86,445 ratings
60.
A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 753,960 ratings
61.
The God Delusion
The God Delusion 3.90 avg rating — 279,340 ratings
62.
Norwegian Wood
Norwegian Wood really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 696,775 ratings
63.
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books 3.66 avg rating — 138,474 ratings
64.
The Qur'an: Text, Translation, and Commentary
The Qur'an: Text, Translation, and Commentary
by: Anonymous
4.38 avg rating — 71,373 ratings
65.
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 206,938 ratings
66.
Disgrace
Disgrace 3.86 avg rating — 114,218 ratings
67.
Shame
Shame 3.87 avg rating — 12,963 ratings
68.
The Idiot
The Idiot 4.21 avg rating — 207,673 ratings
69.
Cancer Ward
Cancer Ward 4.26 avg rating — 17,574 ratings
69.
David Copperfield
David Copperfield 4.04 avg rating — 253,111 ratings
71.
Eugene Onegin
Eugene Onegin 4.10 avg rating — 68,928 ratings
72.
Cutting for Stone
Cutting for Stone 4.33 avg rating — 417,409 ratings
73.
The Trial
The Trial 3.94 avg rating — 377,390 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 — 382,962 ratings
76.
Little Bee
Little Bee 3.72 avg rating — 247,085 ratings
77.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 4.16 avg rating — 933,785 ratings
78.
Infidel
Infidel 4.20 avg rating — 91,948 ratings
79.
Hunger
Hunger 4.04 avg rating — 62,414 ratings
80.
The Quiet American
The Quiet American 3.98 avg rating — 68,875 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 — 35,956 ratings
82.
Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot 3.84 avg rating — 217,127 ratings
83.
Jude the Obscure
Jude the Obscure 3.83 avg rating — 74,828 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 — 22,609 ratings
86.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac 4.06 avg rating — 89,320 ratings
87.
Watchmen
Watchmen 4.39 avg rating — 585,827 ratings
88.
The Inheritance of Loss
The Inheritance of Loss 3.45 avg rating — 54,331 ratings
89.
Dead Souls
Dead Souls 3.98 avg rating — 93,271 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 — 70,308 ratings
92.
Out of Africa
Out of Africa 3.91 avg rating — 46,909 ratings
93.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,704 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 — 358,691 ratings
95.
The Day of the Triffids
The Day of the Triffids 4.01 avg rating — 115,111 ratings
96.
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
by: Lisa See
3.92 avg rating — 160,776 ratings
96.
The Shipping News
The Shipping News 3.88 avg rating — 150,746 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 — 333,074 ratings
100.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
The Reluctant Fundamentalist 3.73 avg rating — 82,638 ratings
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