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Flavorwire's 50 Works of Fiction in Translation That Every English Speaker Should Read

"There’s an entire world of literature out there if you just look beyond what was written in your native tongue. Major works in other languages are being translated into English all the time, meaning that there’s no time like the present for you to enjoy books from places like Russia, Egypt, Mexico, and other nations around the globe.
If you’re looking to get your literary passport stamped, here are 50 destinations to start you off — but, by all means, don’t let these be the only translated books you read. There are plenty of other titles that could have gone on this list, whose main purpose is to help get you excited for literature originally written in different languages."
--- Jason Diamond, Flavorwire
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Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
1
Miguel De Cervantes
Candide (Voltaire)
Candide
2
Voltaire
Ambiguous Adventure
Ambiguous Adventure
3
The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)
The Three Musketeers
4
Alexandre Dumas
Against Nature
Against Nature
5
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
Les Miserables
6
Victor Hugo
Sultana's Dream (Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain)
Sultana's Dream
7
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
8
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Personal Matter
A Personal Matter
9
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
10
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls
11
Nikolai Gogol
Touch (Adania Shibli)
Touch
12
Adania Shibli
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
13
Gustave Flaubert
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
14
Leo Tolstoy
Oblomov
Oblomov
15
Swann's Way (Marcel Proust)
Swann's Way
16
Marcel Proust
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
17
Franz Kafka
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
The Magic Mountain
18
Thomas Mann
The Book of Happiness (Nina Berberova)
The Book of Happiness
19
Nina Berberova
Bedtime Eyes (Amy Yamada)
Bedtime Eyes
20
Amy Yamada
Climates (Andre Maurois)
Climates
21
Andre Maurois
After the Divorce (Grazia Deledda)
After the Divorce
22
Grazia Deledda
The Street of Crocodiles
The Street of Crocodiles
23
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
24
Albert Camus
Chess Story
Chess Story
25
Invitation to a Beheading (Vladimir Nabokov)
Invitation to a Beheading
26
Vladimir Nabokov
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Master and Margarita
27
Mikhail Bulgakov
Near to the Wild Heart
Near to the Wild Heart
28
Collected Stories (Robert Walser)
Collected Stories
29
Robert Walser
The Mandarins (Simone De Beauvoir)
The Mandarins
30
Simone De Beauvoir
Labyrinths (Jorge Luis Borges)
Labyrinths
31
Jorge Luis Borges
The Death of Artemio Cruz (Carlos Fuentes)
The Death of Artemio Cruz
32
Carlos Fuentes
Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)
Invisible Cities
33
Italo Calvino
The House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende)
The House of the Spirits
34
Isabel Allende
The Lover (Marguerite Duras)
The Lover
35
Marguerite Duras
Austerlitz (W.G. Sebald)
Austerlitz
36
W.G. Sebald
Land of Green Plums
Land of Green Plums
37
IQ84 (Haruki Murakami)
IQ84
38
Haruki Murakami
Women of Algiers in Their Apartment (Assia Djebar)
Women of Algiers in Their Apartment
39
Assia Djebar
Broken Glass (Alain Mabanckou)
Broken Glass
40
Alain Mabanckou
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