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    I'd like to think such an activity would be original interesting and authentic but for most it is just a way of showing off a paltry knowledge of a handful of translations

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    I wonder if Bligh's account of his voyage to Timor would be an acceptable book in this sequence.

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    1. England - Rubicon, The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
    2. Russia - We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
    3. USA - Sewer, Gas & Electric. The Public Works Trilogy by Matt Ruff
    4. Ireland - Dracula by Bram Stoker
    5. Mexico - The Strain by Guillermo De Toro and Chuck Hogan
    6. Peru- Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: A Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa
    7. Australia - Only in Spain by Nellie Bennett
    8. Canada - Star Wars: Darth Bane Trilogy Book 1 by Drew Karpyshyn
    9. Sweden- The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg
    10. Turkey - Snow by Orhan Pamuk
    11. Israel - The Goal by Goldratt, Eliyahu M.
    12. France - The Missing Link by Caroline Mondon
    13. Spain - The Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte
    Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda


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    1. England - Rubicon, The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
    2. Russia - We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
    3. USA - Sewer, Gas & Electric. The Public Works Trilogy by Matt Ruff
    4. Ireland - Dracula by Bram Stoker
    5. Mexico - The Strain by Guillermo De Toro and Chuck Hogan
    6. Peru- Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: A Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa
    7. Australia - Only in Spain by Nellie Bennett
    8. Canada - Star Wars: Darth Bane Trilogy Book 1 by Drew Karpyshyn
    9. Sweden- The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg
    10. Turkey - Snow by Orhan Pamuk
    11. Israel - The Goal by Goldratt, Eliyahu M.
    12. France - The Missing Link by Caroline Mondon
    13. Spain - The Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte
    14. Blitzed -Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler
    Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda


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    1. England - Rubicon, The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
    2. Russia - We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
    3. USA - Sewer, Gas & Electric. The Public Works Trilogy by Matt Ruff
    4. Ireland - Dracula by Bram Stoker
    5. Mexico - The Strain by Guillermo De Toro and Chuck Hogan
    6. Peru- Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: A Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa
    7. Australia - Only in Spain by Nellie Bennett
    8. Canada - Star Wars: Darth Bane Trilogy Book 1 by Drew Karpyshyn
    9. Sweden- The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg
    10. Turkey - Snow by Orhan Pamuk
    11. Israel - The Goal by Goldratt, Eliyahu M.
    12. France - The Missing Link by Caroline Mondon
    13. Spain - The Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte
    14. Blitzed -Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler
    15. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
    Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda


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    1. England - Rubicon, The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
    2. Russia - We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
    3. USA - Sewer, Gas & Electric. The Public Works Trilogy by Matt Ruff
    4. Ireland - Dracula by Bram Stoker
    5. Mexico - The Strain by Guillermo De Toro and Chuck Hogan
    6. Peru- Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: A Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa
    7. Australia - Only in Spain by Nellie Bennett
    8. Canada - Star Wars: Darth Bane Trilogy Book 1 by Drew Karpyshyn
    9. Sweden- The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg
    10. Turkey - Snow by Orhan Pamuk
    11. Israel - The Goal by Goldratt, Eliyahu M.
    12. France - The Missing Link by Caroline Mondon
    13. Spain - The Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte
    14. Blitzed -Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler
    15. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
    Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda


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