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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm enjoying looking through this list as it's released each day. How many books have you read so far from the list? And are you planning to submit a list of your own? They have a place for reader submissions. It's really hard to narrow down to just ten, but here's my best effort.

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
North Woods by Daniel Mason
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
John Adams by David McCullough
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Circe by Madeline Miller
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Such a provincial, self-centered selection. Where are the great global books?[/quote]

OP here, I get it and sort of agree with you. I read quite a bit of translated fiction published since 2000 (in fact, one of my reading themes for the year is "women in translation") but when I looked for books I'd rated 5 stars, they just didn't make the cut for me personally.

Just in the last few months I've read:
A Modern Family by Helga Flatland
THe Easy Life in Kamusari by Shion Miura
The Pastor by Hanne Orstavik
Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

What would you put on a list with more global selections? I'd love to add them to my reading list. 
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