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Around the world in ten books

Ten books, ten places. Japan, Baghdad, Guatemala, China, Spain, Germany, Russia, the Mississippi, Nigeria, Colombia.

The works, in reading order

  1. 1. The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu · 1010s
  2. 2. One Thousand and One Nights various authors · 9th century
  3. 3. Popol Vuh Anonymous (Popol Vuh) · c. 1550
  4. 4. Journey to the West Wu Cheng'en · 1592
  5. 5. Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes · 1605 to 1615
  6. 6. Faust, Part One Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808
  7. 7. Eugene Onegin Alexander Pushkin · 1823 to 1831
  8. 8. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain · 1884
  9. 9. Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe · 1958
  10. 10. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez · 1967

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