<p>does anybody have any suggestions for INTERESTING books written by non-Americans???</p>
<p>Not really.. Khaled Hosseini's Kite Runner is pretty good, if that counts. Actually it's just ok. It IS on Stanford's summer reading list though..</p>
<p>I loved the Kite Runner!</p>
<p>It was really sad though...</p>
<p>Alexandre Dumas is really good, imo. He wrote the Count of Monte Cristo and the three musketeers. He's french.</p>
<p>"Faust"; everything by Sherlok Holmes (yes, he wasn't american, who would've thought); everything by Strugatskie, Lem, Bulgakov, Lermontov, Chekhov...</p>
<p>^Sherlock Holmes? You mean Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, right?</p>
<p><em>bans himself from CC and goes to monastery</em>
Sorry, I wasn't concentrating on what I am writing, can I take at least some of the shame from myself by cleaning up "Grade detriments" topic?</p>
<p>Voltaire; love the guy.</p>
<p>The Power of One is by a south-african. It's GREAT</p>
<p>Frankenstein- Mary Shelly</p>
<p>Faust and Voltaire are good too.</p>
<p>If you wanna be really hardcore, read "Paradise Lost" by John Milton.</p>
<p>Les Miserables--Victor Hugo
The Satanic Verses--Salman Rushdie</p>
<p>Wilkie Collins, Thomas Hardy?</p>
<p>Find anything by Jose Saramago, he's amazing</p>
<p>I wouldn't consider Dumas, The Power Of One, or Doyle as "interesting." In fact, The Power Of One was maybe one of the least interesting books I have ever read. I suggest any Russian literature, like Dostoevsky or Nabokov.</p>
<p>theres always the classic and one of my favorites Crime and Punishment</p>
<p>"bows to the amazing talents of Nabokov"</p>
<p>Any Paulo Coehlo books or The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon.</p>
<p>anything by haruki murakami</p>
<p>There's another post like this somewhere with a million and half pages of books.</p>