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The 100 Best Novels in Translation - Page 2

This list is drawn from "The 100 Best Novels in Translation" (Boyd Tonkin, 2018). According to Ian McEwan: "This is a brilliant and extremely useful guide, approachable on every level. Boyd Tonkin opens up infinite worlds of the imagination." Tonkin gives his preferred English translation for each title which should assist in finding an enjoyable version.
To make this list a more useful resource, I created the entire set of 101 icons from scratch, in order to include the preferred translator(s), so please try this challenge. CHECK an item if you have read ANY translation. The list is sorted alphabetically by title.
Note: The icons show a version of the work which uses the suggested translation. There are 101 items because the preferred translation of "Solaris" by Bill Johnston may prove elusive, whereas Kilmartin-Cox remains easy to find. Tonkin is a British literary critic, specialising in translated fiction, and an adviser to the International Booker Prize.
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (Italo Calvino, Trans. William Weaver)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (Italo Calvino, Trans. William Weaver)
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In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust, Trans Moncrieff, Kilmartin, Enright)
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust, Trans Moncrieff, Kilmartin, Enright)
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Independent People (Halldór Laxness, Tr. J.A. Thompson)
Independent People (Halldór Laxness, Tr. J.A. Thompson)
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Indiana (George Sand, Trans. Sylvia Raphael)
Indiana (George Sand, Trans. Sylvia Raphael)
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The Invention of Morel (Adolfo Bioy Casares, Tr. Ruth L.C. Simms)
The Invention of Morel (Adolfo Bioy Casares, Tr. Ruth L.C. Simms)
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Jacques the Fatalist (Denis Diderot, Trans. David Coward)
Jacques the Fatalist (Denis Diderot, Trans. David Coward)
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Journey by Moonlight (Antal Szerb, Trans. Len Rix)
Journey by Moonlight (Antal Szerb, Trans. Len Rix)
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Journey to the End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Trans. Ralph Manheim)
Journey to the End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Trans. Ralph Manheim)
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Kristin Lavransdatter (Sigrid Undset, Trans. Tiina Nunnally)
Kristin Lavransdatter (Sigrid Undset, Trans. Tiina Nunnally)
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The Land of Green Plums (Herta Müller, Trans. Michael Hofmann)
The Land of Green Plums (Herta Müller, Trans. Michael Hofmann)
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The Leopard (Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, Trans A. Colquhoun)
The Leopard (Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, Trans A. Colquhoun)
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Choderlos De Laclos, Trans. Douglas Parmée)
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Choderlos De Laclos, Trans. Douglas Parmée)
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Les Misérables (Victor Hugo, Julie Rose Trans.)
Les Misérables (Victor Hugo, Julie Rose Trans.)
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Life and Fate (Vasily Grossman, Trans. Robert Chandler)
Life and Fate (Vasily Grossman, Trans. Robert Chandler)
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Life: A User's Manual (Georges Perec, Trans. David Bellos)
Life: A User's Manual (Georges Perec, Trans. David Bellos)
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The Lover (Marguerite Duras, Trans. Barbara Bray)
The Lover (Marguerite Duras, Trans. Barbara Bray)
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Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert, Trans. Adam Thorpe)
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert, Trans. Adam Thorpe)
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The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann, Trans. John E. Woods)
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann, Trans. John E. Woods)
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The Makioka Sisters (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Trans.  Edward Seidensticker)
The Makioka Sisters (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Trans. Edward Seidensticker)
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The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil, Tr. Sophie Wilkins & Burton Pike)
The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil, Tr. Sophie Wilkins & Burton Pike)
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The Master and Margarita (The Master and Margarita, Tr. Hugh Aplin)
The Master and Margarita (The Master and Margarita, Tr. Hugh Aplin)
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Memoirs of Hadrian (Marguerite Yourcenar, Trans. Grace Frick)
Memoirs of Hadrian (Marguerite Yourcenar, Trans. Grace Frick)
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Michael Kohlhaas in the Marquise of O- And Other Stories (Heinrich Von Kleist, Trans. David Luke)
Michael Kohlhaas in the Marquise of O- And Other Stories (Heinrich Von Kleist, Trans. David Luke)
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Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable (Samuel Beckett, Tr. the Author, Patrick Bowles)
Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable (Samuel Beckett, Tr. the Author, Patrick Bowles)
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The Moon and the Bonfires (Cesare Pavese, Trans. R.W. Flint)
The Moon and the Bonfires (Cesare Pavese, Trans. R.W. Flint)
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The Murderess (Alexandros Papadiamantis, Tr. Peter Levi)
The Murderess (Alexandros Papadiamantis, Tr. Peter Levi)
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Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre, Trans. Robert Baldick)
Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre, Trans. Robert Baldick)
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Near to the Wild Heart (Clarice Lispector, Trans. Alison Entrekin)
Near to the Wild Heart (Clarice Lispector, Trans. Alison Entrekin)
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Niels Lyhne (Jens Peter Jacobsen, Trans. Tiina Nunnally)
Niels Lyhne (Jens Peter Jacobsen, Trans. Tiina Nunnally)
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Rainer Maria Rilke, Trans. Michel Hulse)
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Rainer Maria Rilke, Trans. Michel Hulse)
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Old Man Goriot (Honoré De Balzacm Trans. Olivia McCannon)
Old Man Goriot (Honoré De Balzacm Trans. Olivia McCannon)
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez, Tr. Gregory Rabassa)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez, Tr. Gregory Rabassa)
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Only Yesterday (S.Y. Agnon, Trans. Barbara Harshav)
Only Yesterday (S.Y. Agnon, Trans. Barbara Harshav)
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The Outsider (Albert Camus, Trans. Sandra Smith)
The Outsider (Albert Camus, Trans. Sandra Smith)
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Pedro Páramo (Juan Rulfo, Trans. Margaret Sayers Peden)
Pedro Páramo (Juan Rulfo, Trans. Margaret Sayers Peden)
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Petersburg (Andrei Bely, Trans. John Elsworth)
Petersburg (Andrei Bely, Trans. John Elsworth)
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The Princesse De Clèves (Madame De La Fayette, Trans. Robin Buss)
The Princesse De Clèves (Madame De La Fayette, Trans. Robin Buss)
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The Quest for Christa T (Christa Wolf, Trans. Christopher Middleton)
The Quest for Christa T (Christa Wolf, Trans. Christopher Middleton)
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The Radetzsky March (Joseph Roth, Trans. Michael Hofmann)
The Radetzsky March (Joseph Roth, Trans. Michael Hofmann)
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The Red and the Black (Stendhal, Trans. Roger Gard)
The Red and the Black (Stendhal, Trans. Roger Gard)
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