China trilogy
by Peter Hessler
4.22 · 60 ratings
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by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Remembrance of Earth's Past
by Liu Cixin
4.28 · 248 ratings
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Stephen Fry's Great Mythology
by Stephen Fry
4.35 · 138 ratings
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The African Trilogy
by Chinua Achebe
3.81 · 122 ratings
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Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry
4.17 · 114 ratings
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Wars of the Roses
by Conn Iggulden
4.10 · 111 ratings
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The Romanovs
by Robert K. Massie
4.03 · 111 ratings
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Dead Djinn Universe
by P. Djèlí Clark
4.05 · 110 ratings
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Power of the Dog
by Don Winslow
4.34 · 80 ratings
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George Smiley
by John le Carré
3.97 · 263 ratings
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Voices of Utopia
by Svetlana Alexievich
4.43 · 116 ratings
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L.A. Quartet
by James Ellroy
3.97 · 113 ratings
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Long Price Quartet
by Daniel Abraham
3.94 · 152 ratings
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Ibis Trilogy
by Amitav Ghosh
3.98 · 64 ratings
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China trilogy
by Peter Hessler
4.22 · 60 ratings
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The Cairo Trilogy
by Naguib Mahfouz
4.26 · 80 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4.33 · 75 ratings
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Detective Sean Duffy
by Adrian McKinty
4.14 · 128 ratings
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Nervous Conditions
by Tsitsi Dangarembga
3.69 · 52 ratings
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Trilogy
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
4.17 · 46 ratings
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Perveen Mistry
by Sujata Massey
3.95 · 73 ratings
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The Amberlough Dossier
by Lara Elena Donnelly
3.95 · 58 ratings
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Memoria del fuego
by Eduardo Galeano
4.35 · 40 ratings
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Inspector Singh Investigates
by Shamini Flint
3.79 · 48 ratings
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