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The Blind Owl
Sadegh Hedayat
1937
★ 5.3
Virginia Woolf
Hermione Lee
1996
★ 5.3
Too Loud a Solitude
Bohumil Hrabal
1976
★ 5.5
Dark Elderberry Branch
Marina Tsvetaeva
2012
★ 5.5
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson
1980
★ 6.0
Ask the Dust
John Fante
1939
★ 6.2
A Heart So White
Javier Marias
1992
★ 6.4
Season of Migration to the North
Tayeb Salih
1966
★ 6.4
The Street of Crocodiles
Bruno Schulz
1934
★ 6.5
The Counterfeiters
Andre Gide
1925
★ 6.6
The Foundation Pit
Andrei Platonov
1930
★ 6.6
Zeno's Conscience
Italo Svevo
1923
★ 6.6
Selected Verse
Federico Garcia Lorca
1936
★ 6.9
Selected Poems
Osip Mandelstam
1938
★ 6.9
Hunger
Knut Hamsun
1890
★ 7.0
Red Cavalry
Isaac Babel
1926
★ 7.0
Light in August
William Faulkner
1932
★ 7.2
Herzog
Saul Bellow
1964
★ 7.8
Poems
Elizabeth Bishop
1979
★ 7.8
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
1926
★ 8.0
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