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May 10: Preface: The Voyage Out
Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days
Xavier de Maistre, Voyage Around My Room
Harold Bloom, The Western Canon
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9. July 6-10: Kolkata: Rewriting Empire
Rudyard Kipling, Kim
Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
Salman Rushdie, East, West
Jamyang Norbu, The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes
Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
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1. May 11-15: London: Inventing a City
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes
P. G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh
Arnold Bennett, Riceyman Steps
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10. July 13-17: Shanghai-Beijing: Journeys to the West
Wu Cheng'en, Journey to the West
Lu Xun, The Real Story of Ah Q and Other Stories
Eileen Chang, Love in a Fallen City and Other Stories
Mo Yan, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
Bei Dao, The Rose of Time
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2. May 18-22: Paris: Writer's Paradise
Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
Marguerite Duras, The Lover
Julio Cortázar, End of the Game
Georges Perec, W, or the Memory of Childhood
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11. July 20-24: Tokyo-Kyoto: The West of the East
Higuchi Ichiyō, In the Shade of Spring Leaves
Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji
Matsuo Bashō, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
James Merrill, Prose of Departure
Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow
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3. May 25-29: Kraków: After Auschwitz
Primo Levi, The Periodic Table
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Paul Celan, Poems
Czeslaw Milosz, Selected Poems
Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
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12. July 27-31: Brazil-Colombia: Utopias and Dystopias
More, Utopia
Voltaire, Candide
Machado de Assis, Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
Clarice Lispector, Family Ties
Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
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4. June 1-5: Venice-Florence: Invisible Cities
Marco Polo, Travels
Dante, The Divine Comedy
Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron
Donna Leon, By Its Cover
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
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13. August 3-7: Mexico-Guatemala: The Pope's Blowgun
Cantares Mexicanos: Songs of the Aztec Nobility
The Popol Vuh
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Poems
Miguel Ángel Asturias, The President
Rosario Castellanos, The Book of Lamentations
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5. June 8-12: Cairo-Istanbul-Muscat: Stories within Stories
Love Songs of Ancient Egypt
The Thousand and One Nights
Naguib Mahfouz, The Arabian Nights and Days
Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red
Jokha Alharthi, Celestial Bodies
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14. August 10-14: The Caribbean and Beyond: Island Poetry
Derek Walcott, Omeros
James Joyce, Ulysses
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
Judith Schalansky, Atlas of Remote Islands
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6. June 15-19: The Congo-Nigeria: (Post)Colonial Encounters
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Wole Soyinka, Death and the King's Horseman
Georges Ngal, Giambatista Viko: or, The Rape of African Discourse
Chimamanda Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck
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15. August 17-21: New York: Migrant Metropolis
E. B. White, Stuart Little
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
Saul Steinberg, The Labyrinth
James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King
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7. June 22-26: Israel/Palestine: Strangers in a Strange Land
The Hebrew Bible
The New Testament
D. A. Mishani, The Missing File
Emile Habiby, The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist
Mahmoud Darwish, The Butterfly's Burden
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16. August 24-28: Bar Harbor: The World on a Desert Island
Robert McClosky, One Morning in Maine
Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of Pointed Firs
Hugh Lofting, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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8. June 29- July 3: Tehran-Shiraz: A Desertful of Roses
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis
Faces of Love: Hafiz and the Poets of Shiraz
Farid ud-Din Attar, The Conference of the Birds
Ghalib, A Desertful of Roses
Agha Shahid Ali, Call me Ishmael Tonight
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August 31: Conclusion: The Eighty-first Book
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