Non-American books that every American should read

101.
Americanah
Americanah 4.31 avg rating — 401,496 ratings
102.
The Tale of Genji
The Tale of Genji 3.72 avg rating — 14,370 ratings
103.
Peter Pan
Peter Pan 4.03 avg rating — 366,957 ratings
104.
Like Water for Chocolate
Like Water for Chocolate 3.95 avg rating — 387,464 ratings
105.
Falling Leaves
Falling Leaves 3.91 avg rating — 28,925 ratings
106.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 3.64 avg rating — 160,994 ratings
107.
The Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom of the Opera 3.96 avg rating — 267,557 ratings
108.
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The Elegance of the Hedgehog 3.80 avg rating — 195,797 ratings
109.
Kafka on the Shore
Kafka on the Shore 4.12 avg rating — 528,225 ratings
110.
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 3.75 avg rating — 23,937 ratings
110.
I Write What I Like: Selected Writings
I Write What I Like: Selected Writings 4.37 avg rating — 2,700 ratings
112.
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe 3.76 avg rating — 18,161 ratings
113.
Desert Flower
Desert Flower 4.24 avg rating — 39,495 ratings
114.
The Blind Assassin
The Blind Assassin 3.96 avg rating — 161,163 ratings
115.
Père Goriot
Père Goriot 3.85 avg rating — 64,956 ratings
116.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity 3.98 avg rating — 114,817 ratings
116.
Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
Watership Down (Watership Down, #1) 4.09 avg rating — 499,175 ratings
118.
Ways of Dying (Toloki #1)
Ways of Dying (Toloki #1)
by: Zakes Mda
3.89 avg rating — 1,940 ratings
119.
Go Clown - #AccheDin for Comedy
Go Clown - #AccheDin for Comedy 3.66 avg rating — 130 ratings
119.
LOG: The Legends of Genesis: Not Your Ordinary Heroes
LOG: The Legends of Genesis: Not Your Ordinary Heroes 4.14 avg rating — 21 ratings
121.
Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World
Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World 3.94 avg rating — 2,083 ratings
122.
Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating — 919,206 ratings
122.
A-Ma Alchemy of Love (AoL Mindfulness, #1)
A-Ma Alchemy of Love (AoL Mindfulness, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 57 ratings
124.
Waiting
Waiting
by: Ha Jin
3.54 avg rating — 23,309 ratings
125.
Blood Brothers: The Dramatic Story of a Palestinian Christian Working for Peace in Israel
Blood Brothers: The Dramatic Story of a Palestinian Christian Working for Peace in Israel 4.37 avg rating — 3,319 ratings
126.
Ogniem i mieczem (Trylogia, #1)
Ogniem i mieczem (Trylogia, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 6,543 ratings
127.
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent 4.31 avg rating — 26,227 ratings
128.
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler 4.02 avg rating — 108,213 ratings
129.
A Small Place
A Small Place 4.05 avg rating — 17,327 ratings
130.
Cities of Salt (مدن الملح #1)
Cities of Salt (مدن الملح #1) 4.06 avg rating — 4,758 ratings
131.
The Leopard
The Leopard 4.01 avg rating — 44,214 ratings
132.
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion 3.97 avg rating — 23,508 ratings
133.
Sold
Sold 4.23 avg rating — 63,071 ratings
134.
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts 3.73 avg rating — 33,276 ratings
134.
Absolute Friends
Absolute Friends 3.68 avg rating — 8,771 ratings
136.
The White Tiger
The White Tiger 3.77 avg rating — 200,086 ratings
137.
Shake Hands with the Devil
Shake Hands with the Devil 4.25 avg rating — 13,603 ratings
138.
The Threepenny Opera
The Threepenny Opera 3.88 avg rating — 14,165 ratings
139.
Cat’s Eye
Cat’s Eye 3.95 avg rating — 71,398 ratings
140.
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
by: Lu Xun
3.90 avg rating — 2,456 ratings
141.
Stones from the River (Burgdorf Cycle Book 1)
Stones from the River (Burgdorf Cycle Book 1) 4.09 avg rating — 96,151 ratings
142.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 4.14 avg rating — 306,580 ratings
143.
Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur
Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur 4.23 avg rating — 4,270 ratings
144.
The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine 4.20 avg rating — 8,709 ratings
145.
Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction
Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction 3.98 avg rating — 61 ratings
146.
Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America
Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America 4.11 avg rating — 691 ratings
147.
Comfort Woman
Comfort Woman 3.86 avg rating — 1,903 ratings
148.
A Suitable Boy (A Bridge of Leaves, #1)
A Suitable Boy (A Bridge of Leaves, #1) 4.11 avg rating — 49,456 ratings
149.
Musashi
Musashi 4.47 avg rating — 22,912 ratings
150.
Quo Vadis
Quo Vadis 4.01 avg rating — 41,007 ratings
151.
Imagining Argentina
Imagining Argentina really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,383 ratings
152.
When the Emperor Was Divine
When the Emperor Was Divine 3.81 avg rating — 29,658 ratings
152.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 4.03 avg rating — 126,453 ratings
154.
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa 4.19 avg rating — 66,212 ratings
155.
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village 4.12 avg rating — 3,227 ratings
156.
Things I've Been Silent About
Things I've Been Silent About 3.73 avg rating — 4,905 ratings
157.
Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas 4.26 avg rating — 36,384 ratings
158.
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Breath, Eyes, Memory 3.90 avg rating — 30,928 ratings
159.
Collected Novellas
Collected Novellas 3.99 avg rating — 1,167 ratings
160.
The Bone People
The Bone People 4.04 avg rating — 23,583 ratings
161.
Zorba the Greek
Zorba the Greek 4.04 avg rating — 56,530 ratings
162.
Selected Stories
Selected Stories 4.04 avg rating — 1,472 ratings
163.
Palace Walk (The Cairo Trilogy, #1)
Palace Walk (The Cairo Trilogy, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 21,768 ratings
164.
Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching
by: Lao Tzu
4.29 avg rating — 176,923 ratings
165.
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by: Loung Ung
4.35 avg rating — 52,424 ratings
166.
Northanger Abbey
Northanger Abbey 3.85 avg rating — 439,086 ratings
167.
The Baron in the Trees
The Baron in the Trees 4.02 avg rating — 51,057 ratings
168.
Homage to Catalonia
Homage to Catalonia 4.09 avg rating — 68,323 ratings
169.
Down and Out in Paris and London
Down and Out in Paris and London 4.09 avg rating — 97,508 ratings
170.
The Day of the Owl
The Day of the Owl 3.73 avg rating — 17,239 ratings
171.
Someone Knows My Name
Someone Knows My Name 4.47 avg rating — 90,242 ratings
172.
Foucault’s Pendulum
Foucault’s Pendulum 3.91 avg rating — 73,673 ratings
173.
Weave World
Weave World 4.13 avg rating — 33,643 ratings
174.
Bumi Manusia (Tetralogi Buru, #1)
Bumi Manusia (Tetralogi Buru, #1) 4.43 avg rating — 21,802 ratings
175.
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol 4.35 avg rating — 15,179 ratings
176.
Samarkand
Samarkand 4.24 avg rating — 30,675 ratings
176.
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena 4.12 avg rating — 55,467 ratings
178.
True History of the Kelly Gang
True History of the Kelly Gang 3.83 avg rating — 23,798 ratings
179.
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood 3.97 avg rating — 56,654 ratings
180.
Peony in Love
Peony in Love
by: Lisa See
3.64 avg rating — 49,984 ratings
180.
The Discovery of Heaven
The Discovery of Heaven 4.17 avg rating — 17,235 ratings
180.
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror 4.29 avg rating — 10,840 ratings
180.
The Sabi
The Sabi 3.67 avg rating — 1,247 ratings
180.
走得越远,离自己越近 The Farther I Walk, The Closer I Get To Me
走得越远,离自己越近 The Farther I Walk, The Closer I Get To Me
by: Hong Mei
3.65 avg rating — 1,163 ratings
180.
A Modern Declaration of Independence: Crimes Against Humanity and a New System
A Modern Declaration of Independence: Crimes Against Humanity and a New System 4.48 avg rating — 25 ratings
180.
Revolution: 80 Days
Revolution: 80 Days 4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
187.
The Chosen
The Chosen 3.55 avg rating — 1,089 ratings
187.
In the Sea There are Crocodiles: Based on the True Story of Enaiatollah Akbari
In the Sea There are Crocodiles: Based on the True Story of Enaiatollah Akbari really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14,155 ratings
189.
The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)
The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1) 4.29 avg rating — 92,483 ratings
189.
The Complete Adventures of Feluda, Vol. 1 (Feluda #1-16)
The Complete Adventures of Feluda, Vol. 1 (Feluda #1-16) 4.55 avg rating — 7,590 ratings
191.
Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1) 4.12 avg rating — 7,406 ratings
192.
Imajica
Imajica 4.17 avg rating — 24,047 ratings
192.
Independent People
Independent People 4.13 avg rating — 13,794 ratings
192.
Conscious Creativity Mindfulness Meditations (AoL Mindfulness, #7)
Conscious Creativity Mindfulness Meditations (AoL Mindfulness, #7) 4.18 avg rating — 28 ratings
192.
Tree of Life with Spiritual Poetry (AoL Mindfulness, #9)
Tree of Life with Spiritual Poetry (AoL Mindfulness, #9) 4.62 avg rating — 29 ratings
196.
Dabung Girl and Delhi Yatra
Dabung Girl and Delhi Yatra 4.74 avg rating — 43 ratings
196.
Cyber Attack on America: SuperAvni and Dabung Girl: A new age Superhero Graphic Novel / Comic Book for teens and adolescents
Cyber Attack on America: SuperAvni and Dabung Girl: A new age Superhero Graphic Novel / Comic Book for teens and adolescents 4.65 avg rating — 23 ratings
198.
The Standing Dead
The Standing Dead 3.77 avg rating — 497 ratings
198.
Arrow of God (The African Trilogy, #3)
Arrow of God (The African Trilogy, #3) 3.79 avg rating — 8,931 ratings
200.
The Third God
The Third God 4.03 avg rating — 316 ratings
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