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The Most Beautiful Books Ever Written
A Listmania! list by N. D. Taylor (Gambia, West Africa)

1. Dangerous Love by Ben Okri

The list author says:
	"An incredibly intelligent, beautiful and poetic retelling of a young man's life in Lagos"

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2. The New Life by Orhan Pamuk

The list author says:
	"Turkish Magical Realism, the book begins: "I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.""

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3. Essential Rumi (Essential (Booksales)) by Jalal al-Din Rumi

The list author says:
	"The most perfect, exquisite poetry ever written"

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4. Sexing The Cherry by Jeanette Winterson

The list author says:
	"Although there is a main narrative to this book, fairy tales and dreams run in and out of the text and it's hard to resist chasing after them too..."

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5. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The list author says:
	"The story of the Buendias family, filled with magic, love, tragedy and mystery"

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6. The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

The list author says:
	"A dazzling collection of short stories by the great Isabel Allende"

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7. Chronicler Of The Winds by Henning Mankell

The list author says:
	"A magical little fable of mozambiquan street-life that is as full of the small joys of personal life as it is its tragedies and sadnesses..delicate, beautiful and moving"

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8. The Famished Road by Ben Okri

The list author says:
	"Ben Okri's masterpiece...read, then re-read again!"

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9. The Bloody Chamber & Other Sto by Carter Angela

The list author says:
	"A collection of short stories; Carter has taken classical children's tales and added glorious language with adult magic and sensuality"

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10. God's Bits of Wood (Heinemann African Writers Series) by Sembene Ousmane

The list author says:
	"Set during the railway strike in Senegal in the 1940s, this novel celebrates not only anti-colonial struggles, but the beauty of West-Afican life"

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11. In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture by Anthony Appiah

The list author says:
	"African philosophy, and a truly fanastic thinker; here lies the future of the generations to come"

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12. The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren

The list author says:
	"Although a writer of childrens' books, Astrid Lindgren will always be the best writer ever to come out of Sweden; her books are as enchanting to me now as they were when I was little"

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13. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Illustrated by Mervyn Peake by Lewis Carroll

The list author says:
	"What a crazy, magical, delightful trip to go on!"

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14. Collins Classics - Complete Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde

The list author says:
	"Another very perfect writer. The best of them all, the short story "the sphinx without a secret""

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15. Introduction to Socialism by Leo Huberman

The list author says:
	"Beautiful because it is true and so important today and in the future ahead"

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16. Waiting For an Angel by Helon Habila

The list author says:
	""Political" novel set in Nigeria, beautifully judged, powerful, compassionate and complete"

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17. The Romance of Tristan and Iseult by M., Joseph Bedier

The list author says:
	"Also known as "Tristan & Isolde", this is what Romeo &Juliet was based on, and together they really are the greatest love stories ever written"

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