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Best Foreign Works of Fiction as Selected by French Speaking Writers

From literary magazine Transfuge. The list is made up of translated (i.e. non-French) works of fiction.
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Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
1
James Joyce
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
2
Miguel De Cervantes
Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry)
Under the Volcano
3
Malcolm Lowry
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (Vladimir Nabokov)
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
4
Vladimir Nabokov
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
5
William Faulkner
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
6
Charles Dickens
American Pastoral (Philip Roth)
American Pastoral
7
Philip Roth
Demons (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Demons
8
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman (Stefan Zweig)
Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman
9
Stefan Zweig
Weights and Measures (Joseph Roth)
Weights and Measures
10
Joseph Roth
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
The Magic Mountain
11
Thomas Mann
A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Flannery O'Connor)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
12
Flannery O'Connor
A Million Little Pieces (James Frey)
A Million Little Pieces
13
James Frey
A Moveable Feast (Ernest Hemingway)
A Moveable Feast
14
Ernest Hemingway
A Writers Diary (Virginia Woolf)
A Writers Diary
15
Virginia Woolf
Ada or Ardor (Vladimir Nabokov)
Ada or Ardor
16
Vladimir Nabokov
All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy)
All the Pretty Horses
17
Cormac McCarthy
Ambiguous Adventure (Hamidou Kane)
Ambiguous Adventure
18
Hamidou Kane
Bacacay (Witold Gombrowicz)
Bacacay
19
Witold Gombrowicz
Letters to a Young Poet (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Letters to a Young Poet
20
Rainer Maria Rilke
A Burnt Child (Dagerman)
A Burnt Child
21
Dagerman
Buddenbrooks
Buddenbrooks
22
Burmese Days (George Orwell)
Burmese Days
23
George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
24
J.D. Salinger
Concrete (Thomas Bernhard)
Concrete
25
Thomas Bernhard
Zeno's Conscience (Italo Svevo)
Zeno's Conscience
26
Italo Svevo
Cutting It Short (Bohumil Hrabal)
Cutting It Short
27
Bohumil Hrabal
Glass Bead Game
Glass Bead Game
28
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield
29
Charles Dickens
Death of a Red Heroine (Qiu Xiaolong)
Death of a Red Heroine
30
Qiu Xiaolong
The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil)
The Man Without Qualities
31
Robert Musil
The Reader (Bernhard Schlink)
The Reader
32
Bernhard Schlink
Disgrace (J.M. Coetzee)
Disgrace
33
J.M. Coetzee
Doctor Faustus (Thomas Mann)
Doctor Faustus
34
Thomas Mann
Doruntine (Ismail Kadare)
Doruntine
35
Ismail Kadare
Metropole (Ferenc Karinthy)
Metropole
36
Ferenc Karinthy
Exemplary Stories (Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra)
Exemplary Stories
37
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
38
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Ferdydurke (Witold Gombrowicz)
Ferdydurke
39
Witold Gombrowicz
Fictions (Jorge Luis Borges)
Fictions
40
Jorge Luis Borges
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