In this week's spoiler free episode, August and Kendra share their top 5 favorite works that were originally published not in English, as well as a handful of honorable mentions and books they'd like to get to soon. Books mentioned by August: 1. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (translated by Mirra Ginsburg). 2. The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (translated by Benjamin Moser) 3. The God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza (translated by Christopher Hampton). 4. Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez (translated by Megan McDowell). 5. The Plague by Alfred Camus HM. No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre HM. A Man Called One by Fredrik Backman HM. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi TBR. Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov TBR. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Marquez TBR. Dead Girls by Selva Almada. Books mentioned by Kendra: 1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877) - Russian 2. Out by Natsuo Kirino (1997) - Japanese 3. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen (1879) - Norwegian 4. Beowulf disputed (c. 700–1000 AD) - Old English 5. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (1980)- Italian HM. The Iliad by Homer (~8thC BCE) - Ancient Greek HM. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880) - Russian HM. The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942) - French TBR. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov