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This page lists books (mainly novels) that were originally written in a language other than English.
| Le Deuxieme Sexe (The Second Sex, 1949 – a seminal work of feminist philosophy); also novels including L'Invitée (She Came to Stay, 1943), Le Sang des Autres (The Blood of Others, 1945), The Mandarins (1954) |
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Simone de Beauvoir |
| The Decameron (1353 – published in English 1886) – a collection of 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men, sheltering in a secluded villa near Florence to escape the Black Death) |
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Giovanni Bocaccio |
| The Outsider (1942), The Plague (1947) |
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Albert Camus |
| Clochemerle (1934) |
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Gabriel Chevalier |
| Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons, 1782) |
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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos |
| Chéri (1920), La Vagabonde (1910), Gigi (1944) |
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Colette |
| The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) |
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Carlo Collodi |
| The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (two volumes, 1605 and 1615) |
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Miguel de Cervantes |
| Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1868–9), Demons (a.k.a. The Possessed, 1871–2), The Brothers Karamazov (1880) |
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Fyodr Dostoevsky |
| The Three Musketeers (1844), and sequels Twenty Years After (1845) and The Vicomte of Bragelonne (1847 – a.k.a. Ten Years Later – published in three parts, the final part being The Man in the Iron Mask); also The Count of Monte Cristo (1845–6), The Black Tulip (1850) |
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Alexandre Dumas (pere) |
| Camille (1848 – a.k.a. La Dame aux Camélias) |
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Alexandre Dumas (fils) |
| Trilby (1895 – featuring the masterful musician and hypnotist Svengali) |
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George du Maurier |
| The Name of the Rose (1980 – English translation 1983), Foucault's Pendulum (1988, English translation 1989) |
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Umberto Eco |
| Madame Bovary (1856) |
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Gustave Flaubert |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967, English translation 1970), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985, English translation 1988) |
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Gabriel García Márquez |
| The Sorrows of Young Werther (semi–autobiographical novel, 1774) |
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Johann von Goethe |
| The Danzig Trilogy: The Tin Drum (1959), Cat and Mouse (1961), Dog Years (1963) | |
Gunter Grass |
| The Good Soldier Schweik (three volumes, 1921–3; English translation 1930 – Czech humorist) |
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Jaroslav Hašek |
| Demian (1919), Siddhartha (1922), The Steppenwolf (1927), The Glass Bead Game (1943) |
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Hermann Hesse |
| Notre Dame de Paris (1831 – known in English as The Hunchback of Notre Dame), Les Misérables (1862) |
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Victor Hugo |
| La barraca (1898 – English translation The Cabin, 1917) – see also Authors: Sources |
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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez |
| The Judgement (short story, 1912), Metamorphosis (short story, 1915), The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926), Amerika (completed in 1914, published posthumously in 1927) |
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Franz Kafka |
| Zorba the Greek (1946) |
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Nikos Kazantzakis |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) |
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Milan Kundera |
| The Girl in the Spider's Web (2015) – the fourth book in the Millennium trilogy, originally by Stieg Larsson |
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David Lagercrantz |
| The Millennium Trilogy: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005), The Girl who Played with Fire (2006), The Girl who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (2007). Died 2004, aged 50 – all three books published posthumously; see also David Lagercrantz |
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Stieg Larsson |
| The Phantom of the Opera (1911) |
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Gaston Leroux |
| If This is a Man (1947, English translation 1959; US title Survival in Auschwitz; wartime memoir, including a harrowing description of two years in Auschwitz); The Periodic Table (1975 – a metaphorical treatise on life as a Jew in Mussolini's Italy, through the properties of chemical elements – named in 2006 by the Royal Institution, London, as the best science book ever written) |
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Primo Levi |
| Death in Venice (1912 novella), The Magic Mountain (1924), Buddenbrooks (1901); Joseph and his Brothers (four volumes, 1930–43 – a retelling of the stories of Genesis), Doctor Faustus (1947 – a "reshaping" of the legend) |
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Thomas Mann |
| The Cardinal's Mistress (1910): only novel of |
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Benito Mussolini |
| Also Sprach Zarathustra (1883–91, English translation 1896) |
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Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Doctor Zhivago (1957) |
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Boris Pasternak |
| A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (In Search of Lost Time, previously known as In Remembrance of Times Past – seven volumes, 1913–27) |
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Marcel Proust |
| Eugene Onegin (verse novel, 1833) |
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Alexander Pushkin |
| All Quiet on the Western Front (1928) |
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Erich Maria Remarque |
| 120 Days of Sodom (1785) |
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Marquis de Sade |
| Bonjour Tristesse (1954 – filmed in 1958 by Otto Preminger) |
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Francoise Sagan |
| Nausea (1938 – "a manifesto of existentialism") |
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Jean–Paul Sartre |
| One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962), Cancer Ward (1968), The First Circle (1968), The Gulag Archipelago (1973) |
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| Childhood (1852), Boyhood (1854), Youth (1856): trilogy of novellas, the first published works of; War and Peace (1869), Anna Karenina (1877) |
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Leo Tolstoy |
| Five Weeks in a Balloon (1861), Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), 20,000 Leagues under the Sea (1870), Around the World in 80 Days (1873) |
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Jules Verne |
| Candide (satirical novel, 1759) |
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Voltaire |
| The Swiss Family Robinson (1812) |
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Johann David Wyss |
| Thérèse Raquin (1867); also The Rougon–Macquart – 20 novels, 1871–93, following the lives of the members of two branches of a fictional family living during the Second French Empire; includes Le Ventre de Paris (1873), L'assommoir (1877), Nana (1880), Germinal (1885) |
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Emile Zola |
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