International Fiction

The world beyond the English-language default. Literary fiction from places without a narrower shelf here yet — read in translation or in its own English, and never flattened into a postcard of its region.

On the Place & Period shelf.

Books shelved as International Fiction

• Goddess of Filth — V. Castro
• El librero de Gaza — Rachid Benzine
• Sweet Bean Paste — Alison Watts
• Logia — Francisco Ortega
• Notes from Underground — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Gótico botánico: Cuentos de un verdor perverso — Patricia Esteban Erlés
• Las voces — Muriel Spark
• The Flowers of Buffoonery — Sam Bett
• El invencible verano de Liliana — Cristina Rivera Garza
• Black Water Sister — Zen Cho
• El legado de las diosas — Kateřina Tučková
• Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird — Agustina Bazterrica
• The Secret Life of Insects — Bernardo Esquinca
• Ciertas cosas oscuras — Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Lobizona — Romina Garber
• A Long Finish — Michael Dibdin
• La mano prieta
• Albert Savarus — Honoré de Balzac
• La amortajada — María Luisa Bombal
• House of Mist — María Luisa Bombal
• Jaulas vacías — Bibiana Camacho
• Escalofríos urbanos — Les Quintero
• Mi planta de naranja lima — José Mauro de Vasconcelos
• The Covenant of Water — Abraham Verghese

Related genres

• Historical Fiction
• American Literature
• East Asian Literary Fiction
• Irish Literature
• Southern Fiction
• French Literature
• Latin American Fiction
• Victorian Fiction
• Spanish Literature
• Japanese Literature
• Chicano & Latinx Fiction
• Western
• Mexican Literature
• Italian Literature
• Medieval
• African American Literature
• Russian Literature
• Korean Literature
• Appalachian
• Scottish Literature
• Canadian Literature
• Caribbean Literature

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