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Best Books Not Written in English

A selection of the some of the greatest and most widely-read novels written in any language other than English.
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After Midnight
After Midnight
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All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
All Quiet on the Western Front
2
Erich Maria Remarque
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
3
Leo Tolstoy
Blindness (José Saramago)
Blindness
4
José Saramago
Bonjour Tristesse - Françoise Sagan (1954)
Bonjour Tristesse - Françoise Sagan (1954)
5
The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition (Fernando Pessoa)
The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
6
Fernando Pessoa
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
7
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Buddenbrooks (Thomas Mann)
Buddenbrooks
8
Thomas Mann
Candide (Voltaire)
Candide
9
Voltaire
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo
10
Alexandre Dumas
The Counterfeiters (André Gide)
The Counterfeiters
11
André Gide
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Crime and Punishment
12
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Darkness at Noon (Arthur Koestler)
Darkness at Noon
13
Arthur Koestler
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls
14
Nikolai Gogol
Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago
15
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
16
Miguel De Cervantes
Eugene Onegin (Aleksandr Pushkin)
Eugene Onegin
17
Aleksandr Pushkin
Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)
Fathers and Sons
18
Ivan Turgenev
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
19
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Germinal (Émile Zola)
Germinal
20
Émile Zola
Jaroslav Hasek: The Good Soldier Svejk
Jaroslav Hasek: The Good Soldier Svejk
21
Le Grand Meaulnes (Alain Fournier)
Le Grand Meaulnes
22
Alain Fournier
Growth of the Soil (Knut Hamsun)
Growth of the Soil
23
Knut Hamsun
A Hero of Our Time (Mikhail Lermontov)
A Hero of Our Time
24
Mikhail Lermontov
Hopscotch (Julio Cortázar)
Hopscotch
25
Julio Cortázar
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
26
The House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende)
The House of the Spirits
27
Isabel Allende
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
28
Victor Hugo
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Idiot
29
Fyodor Dostoevsky
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Italo Calvino)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
30
Italo Calvino
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
31
Marcel Proust
Invitation to a Beheading (Vladimir Nabokov)
Invitation to a Beheading
32
Vladimir Nabokov
Journey to the End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
Journey to the End of the Night
33
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Kiss of the Spider Woman (Manuel Puig)
Kiss of the Spider Woman
34
Manuel Puig
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
The Little Prince
35
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
Lost Illusions (Honoré De Balzac)
Lost Illusions
36
Honoré De Balzac
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)
Love in the Time of Cholera
37
Gabriel García Márquez
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
38
Gustave Flaubert
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
The Magic Mountain
39
Thomas Mann
The Man Who Planted Trees (Jean Giono)
The Man Who Planted Trees
40
Jean Giono
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