While, for obvious reasons, most of the books I read were written in English, I try to read books from around the world as well. Translation is more of an art than a science, and the difference between a great and a mediocre translation is significant. Fortunately, there are many great translations, past and modern, available in our time.
I have organized these by language, rather than genre or author. In some cases, I have gone with language families or countries.
Akkadian
Gilgamesh Bernarda Bryson
Arabic
Palace Walk Naguib Mahfouz
A Tear and a Smile Kahlil Gibran
Bengali
Gitanjali Rabindranath Tagore
Chinese
The Art of War Sun Tzu
The Garlic Ballads Mo Yan
Outcry Lu Xun
The Tao Te Ching Lao Tzu
Dutch
Amsterdam Stories Nescio
French
Around the World in 80 Days Jules Verne
A Sense of Life Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Candide Voltaire
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand
David Golder Irene Nemirovsky
The Elegance of the Hedgehog Muriel Barbery
Exile and the Kingdom Albert Camus
The Fall Albert Camus
Germinal Emile Zola
Gourmet Rhapsody Muriel Barbery
Hadriana In All My Dreams Rene Depestre
The Imaginary Invalid Moliere
In Defense of Witches Mona Chollet
Journey to the Center of the Earth Jules Verne
The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Le Misanthrope Moliere
Les Miserables (musical) Boublil, Kretzmer, Schoenberg
The Mysterious Island Jules Verne
The Opium of the Intellectuals Raymond Aron
Persepolis Marjane Satrapi
The Sacred and the Profane Mircea Eliade
The School for Husbands Moliere
The School for Wives Moliere
The Second Sex (Part 1) Simone de Beauvoir
The Second Sex (Part 2) Simone de Beauvoir
Spleen and Ideal Charles Baudelaire
Tartuffe Moliere
Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett
A Woman’s Story Annie Ernaux
German
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
The Book of Hours Rainer Maria Rilke
The Dunio Elegies Rainer Maria Rilke
Faust Goethe
The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann
The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
The Quest for Christa T. Christa Wolf
Schumann on Music Robert Schumann
Siddhartha Hermann Hesse
Visitation Jenny Erpenbeck
Greek (Ancient)
Agamemnon Aeschylus
Antigone Sophocles
The Frogs Aristophanes
If Not, Winter (Fragments) Sappho
Medea Euripides
Oedipus Rex Sophocles
Prometheus Bound Aeschylus
Italian
Foucault’s Pendulum Umberto Eco
Inferno Dante
The Servant of Two Masters Carlo Goldoni
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics Carlo Rovelli
Turandot Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Adami, & Renato Simoni
Japanese
Convenience Store Woman Sayaka Murata
Diary of a Void Emi Yagi
Earthlings Sayaka Murata
The Emissary Yoko Tawada
Hard-Boiled Wonderland… Haruki Murakami
Kitchen Banana Yoshimoto
The Memory Police Yoko Ogawa
Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami
Seven Japanese Tales Junichiro Tanizaki
Underground Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami
Korean
The Old Woman With the Knife Gu Byeong-mo
The Vegetarian Han Kang
Latin
In Praise of Folly Erasmus
Norwegian
A Doll’s House Henrik Ibsen
An Enemy of the People Henrik Ibsen
An Enemy of the People Henrik Ibsen (with Amy Herzog)
Ghosts Henrik Ibsen
The Wreath Sigrid Undset
Old English
Beowulf Seamus Heaney
Old Irish
The Voyage of Bran Son of Febal Traditional
Persian
The Essential Rumi (part 1) Rumi
Polish
The End and the Beginning Wislawa Szymborska
Russian
Evening Anna Akhmatova
Ivanov Anton Chekhov
The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov
Mirgorod Nikolai Gogol
Murder on the Leviathan Boris Akunin
Sevastopol Sketches Leo Tolstoy
Three Sisters Anton Chekhov
The Turkish Gambit Boris Akunin
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
The Winter Queen Boris Akunin
Spanish
Cathedral of the Sea Ildefonso Falcones
The Cypresses Believe in God Jose Maria Gironella
The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs Ana Caro Mallen de Soto
Faces in the Crowd Valeria Luiselli
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Salamander Octavio Paz
Selected Poems Pablo Neruda
Signs Preceding the End of the World Yuri Herrera
The Stories of Eva Luna Isabel Allende
Swedish
My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman
The 100 Year Old Man… Jonas Jonasson
Various Languages (collections)
Stories from Quarantine Various Authors
Yiddish
The Old Country Sholem Aleichem
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