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The non-western books that every student should read according to the guardian:
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Malgudi Omnibus by R.K. Narayan
Flowers in the Mirror by Li Ruzhen
Samskara by U.R. Ananthamurthy
Absent by Betool Khedairi
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
On Black Sisters' Street by Chika Unigwe
So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba
Dhammapada, Buddhist Text
Does /lit agree? And where's /lits' non western list?
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Forgot link: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/nov/26/the-non-western-books-that-every-student-should-read
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>>8771496
Not the Mahfouz I would pick, but he's still a very solid choice. I can't speak to their other picks though
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>no Upanishads
>no Analects
>no Daodejing
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>>8771496
>U.R. Ananthamurthy
that is surely a joke name
like i. m, cumming or something
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A personal matter by Kenzaburo Oe
Poetic Edda
Poems of Li Po
Rubaiyat of Omar Kayyem
...maybe the Nart Sagas and the Kalevala for some crazy mythologies outside the mainstream.
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