Beyond the Western Canon

Explore a curated list of essential books beyond the Western Canon. Discover diverse literary treasures and expand your reading horizons with these must-read global works.

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The Cairo Trilogy

by Najīb Maḥfūẓ

A series of historical fiction based on the life of a family living in Cairo during the British Colonial period and afterward.
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Children of the Alley

by Naguib Mahfouz

The tumultuous alley of this rich and intricate novel (first published in Arabic in 1959) is inhabited by a delightful Egyptian family, but is also …
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The Leopard

by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

A classic of modern fiction. Set in the 1860s, THE LEOPARD is the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching …
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The Moor's Last Sigh

by Salman Rushdie

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses combines a ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined …
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Brick Lane

by Monica Ali

“A book you won’t be able to put down. A Bangladeshi immigrant in London is torn between the kind, tedious older husband with whom she …