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100 Best Novels, in Translation, Since 1900

Books that have been published in other languages and ranked by a couple of English majors. Lots of old familiar faces, which ones haven't you read?
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The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Master and Margarita
1
Mikhail Bulgakov
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
2
Franz Kafka
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
3
Marcel Proust
100 Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcí­A Márquez)
100 Years of Solitude
4
Gabriel Garcí­A Márquez
The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil)
The Man Without Qualities
5
Robert Musil
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
6
Albert Camus
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
The Magic Mountain
7
Thomas Mann
Memoirs of Hadrian (Margarite Yourcenar)
Memoirs of Hadrian
8
Margarite Yourcenar
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
The Little Prince
9
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
10
Haruki Murakami
Journey to the End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
Journey to the End of the Night
11
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
A Book of Memories (Péter Nádas)
A Book of Memories
12
Péter Nádas
History: A Novel (Elsa Morante)
History: A Novel
13
Elsa Morante
How It Is (Samuel Beckett)
How It Is
14
Samuel Beckett
The Death of Virgil (Hermann Broch)
The Death of Virgil
15
Hermann Broch
The Conformist
The Conformist
16
My Name Is Red (Orhan Pamuk)
My Name Is Red
17
Orhan Pamuk
The Lover (Marguerite Duras)
The Lover
18
Marguerite Duras
Zeno's Conscience (Italo Svevo)
Zeno's Conscience
19
Italo Svevo
The Savage Detectives (Roberto Bolaño)
The Savage Detectives
20
Roberto Bolaño
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
21
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Nausea
22
Jean-Paul Sartre
The President
The President
23
All Our Yesterdays (Natalia Ginzburg)
All Our Yesterdays
24
Natalia Ginzburg
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
The Name of the Rose
25
Umberto Eco
The Erasers
The Erasers
26
Spring Snow (Yukio Mishima)
Spring Snow
27
Yukio Mishima
The Feast of the Goat (Mario Vargas Llosa)
The Feast of the Goat
28
Mario Vargas Llosa
Despair (Vladimir Nabokov)
Despair
29
Vladimir Nabokov
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (Jose Saramago)
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
30
Jose Saramago
Fatelessness (Imre Kertész)
Fatelessness
31
Imre Kertész
Children of Gebelawi
Children of Gebelawi
32
Snow Country (Yasunari Kawabata)
Snow Country
33
Yasunari Kawabata
Beware of Pity (Stefan Zweig)
Beware of Pity
34
Stefan Zweig
The Joke (Milan Kundera)
The Joke
35
Milan Kundera
Growth of the Soil
Growth of the Soil
36
Land of Green Plums
Land of Green Plums
37
The Thief's Journal
The Thief's Journal
38
Summer in Baden Baden
Summer in Baden Baden
39
The Piano Teacher (Elfriede Jelinek)
The Piano Teacher
40
Elfriede Jelinek
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