Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Classics in Translation

1.
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front 4.10 avg rating — 505,027 ratings
2.
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,072,923 ratings
3.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,535 ratings
4.
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by: Homer
3.82 avg rating — 1,156,593 ratings
5.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating — 1,069,941 ratings
6.
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo 4.32 avg rating — 992,001 ratings
7.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,235 ratings
8.
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by: Sophocles
3.68 avg rating — 170,458 ratings
9.
Inferno
Inferno 4.03 avg rating — 200,494 ratings
10.
A Doll's House
A Doll's House 3.77 avg rating — 159,020 ratings
11.
The Makioka Sisters
The Makioka Sisters 4.03 avg rating — 11,389 ratings
12.
The Ten Thousand Things
The Ten Thousand Things 3.80 avg rating — 1,832 ratings
13.
Siddhartha
Siddhartha 4.08 avg rating — 846,832 ratings
14.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables 4.21 avg rating — 830,203 ratings
15.
Kristin Lavransdatter
Kristin Lavransdatter 4.31 avg rating — 13,880 ratings
16.
The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita 4.28 avg rating — 401,053 ratings
17.
The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis 3.90 avg rating — 1,338,236 ratings
18.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,019 ratings
19.
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 66,160 ratings
20.
The Second Sex
The Second Sex 4.18 avg rating — 45,861 ratings
21.
Bonjour tristesse
Bonjour tristesse 3.73 avg rating — 66,209 ratings
22.
The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.36 avg rating — 3,900 ratings
23.
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda 4.43 avg rating — 20,292 ratings
24.
The Tale of Genji
The Tale of Genji 3.72 avg rating — 14,370 ratings
25.
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain 4.13 avg rating — 56,591 ratings
25.
Palace Walk (The Cairo Trilogy, #1)
Palace Walk (The Cairo Trilogy, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 21,765 ratings
27.
Memoirs of Hadrian
Memoirs of Hadrian 4.22 avg rating — 34,176 ratings
28.
The Saga of Gösta Berling
The Saga of Gösta Berling 3.63 avg rating — 6,280 ratings
29.
Nada
Nada 3.84 avg rating — 36,982 ratings
30.
Les Liaisons dangereuses
Les Liaisons dangereuses 4.05 avg rating — 57,180 ratings
30.
The Stranger
The Stranger 4.03 avg rating — 1,315,390 ratings
32.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Sorrows of Young Werther 3.69 avg rating — 148,951 ratings
33.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,637 ratings
34.
The Book of the City of Ladies
The Book of the City of Ladies 3.80 avg rating — 4,255 ratings
35.
The Waiting Years
The Waiting Years 3.95 avg rating — 2,952 ratings
36.
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova 4.42 avg rating — 7,511 ratings
37.
Snow Country
Snow Country 3.57 avg rating — 38,914 ratings
38.
The Pillow Book
The Pillow Book 4.02 avg rating — 9,588 ratings
39.
Indiana
Indiana 3.50 avg rating — 3,689 ratings
40.
Thus Were Their Faces
Thus Were Their Faces 3.89 avg rating — 1,141 ratings
41.
The Home and the World
The Home and the World 3.83 avg rating — 5,868 ratings
42.
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments
by: Sappho
4.17 avg rating — 10,970 ratings
43.
Rashomon and Other Stories
Rashomon and Other Stories 4.01 avg rating — 11,726 ratings
44.
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings 4.44 avg rating — 33,252 ratings
45.
Letters to a Young Poet
Letters to a Young Poet 4.28 avg rating — 113,835 ratings
46.
Love in a Fallen City
Love in a Fallen City 3.94 avg rating — 4,334 ratings
47.
The Cherry Orchard
The Cherry Orchard 3.69 avg rating — 44,046 ratings
48.
The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 1: The Golden Days
The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 1: The Golden Days 4.20 avg rating — 2,418 ratings
49.
Selected Letters
Selected Letters 3.77 avg rating — 414 ratings
50.
The Heptameron
The Heptameron 3.59 avg rating — 1,417 ratings
51.
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea 3.84 avg rating — 49,507 ratings
52.
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams 3.86 avg rating — 1,245 ratings
53.
The Confessions of Lady NijĹŤ
The Confessions of Lady Nijō 3.95 avg rating — 697 ratings
54.
Transit
Transit 3.70 avg rating — 3,105 ratings
55.
Cheri and The Last of Cheri
Cheri and The Last of Cheri
by: Colette
3.89 avg rating — 3,717 ratings
56.
The Street of Crocodiles
The Street of Crocodiles 3.98 avg rating — 13,379 ratings
57.
Selected Writings
Selected Writings 3.73 avg rating — 355 ratings
57.
Essays in Idleness and HĹŤjĹŤki
Essays in Idleness and Hōjōki 3.86 avg rating — 2,614 ratings
59.
The Kagero Diary: A Woman’s Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan (Volume 19) (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies)
The Kagero Diary: A Woman’s Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan (Volume 19) (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies) 3.76 avg rating — 727 ratings
60.
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches 4.02 avg rating — 6,177 ratings
61.
The Selected Poems of T'ao Ch'ien
The Selected Poems of T'ao Ch'ien
by: Tao Qian
4.41 avg rating — 127 ratings
62.
I Am a Cat
I Am a Cat 3.68 avg rating — 16,996 ratings
63.
The Lais of Marie de France
The Lais of Marie de France 3.83 avg rating — 9,665 ratings
64.
The Wild Geese
The Wild Geese 3.56 avg rating — 3,594 ratings
64.
The Book of Lamentations
The Book of Lamentations 4.21 avg rating — 918 ratings
66.
Chaka
Chaka 3.63 avg rating — 663 ratings
66.
Grand Hotel
Grand Hotel 3.88 avg rating — 2,499 ratings
68.
Iza's Ballad
Iza's Ballad 4.32 avg rating — 4,765 ratings
69.
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
by: Lu Xun
3.90 avg rating — 2,456 ratings
70.
Miss Sophie's Diary and Other Stories (Panda Books)
Miss Sophie's Diary and Other Stories (Panda Books)
by: Ding Ling
3.78 avg rating — 155 ratings
71.
The Book of Disquiet
The Book of Disquiet 4.40 avg rating — 35,764 ratings
72.
Pinjar: The Skeleton and Other Stories
Pinjar: The Skeleton and Other Stories 3.95 avg rating — 505 ratings
73.
Arturo's Island
Arturo's Island 4.03 avg rating — 14,281 ratings
74.
Memoirs of a Woman Doctor
Memoirs of a Woman Doctor 3.48 avg rating — 4,349 ratings
75.
The Open Door
The Open Door 4.19 avg rating — 3,502 ratings
76.
The Doctor's Wife
The Doctor's Wife 3.80 avg rating — 895 ratings
77.
Jakob von Gunten
Jakob von Gunten 3.88 avg rating — 5,804 ratings
78.
No Exit
No Exit 4.11 avg rating — 44,800 ratings
78.
A Personal Matter
A Personal Matter 3.90 avg rating — 15,079 ratings
80.
Hopscotch
Hopscotch 4.20 avg rating — 47,312 ratings
81.
The Little Virtues
The Little Virtues 4.10 avg rating — 9,829 ratings
82.
Iceland's Bell
Iceland's Bell 3.90 avg rating — 2,304 ratings
83.
The Essays: A Selection
The Essays: A Selection 4.07 avg rating — 2,448 ratings
84.
Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz: Selected Works
Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz: Selected Works 3.92 avg rating — 273 ratings
85.
The Princesse de Clèves
The Princesse de Clèves 3.35 avg rating — 18,136 ratings
86.
Letters of a Peruvian Woman
Letters of a Peruvian Woman 3.45 avg rating — 597 ratings
87.
The Beauty and the Beast
The Beauty and the Beast 3.71 avg rating — 7,667 ratings
88.
Voyage Around My Room: Selected Works of Xavier de Maistre
Voyage Around My Room: Selected Works of Xavier de Maistre 3.80 avg rating — 458 ratings
89.
Delphine
Delphine 3.90 avg rating — 88 ratings
90.
Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.02 avg rating — 529 ratings
91.
Journey by Moonlight
Journey by Moonlight 4.22 avg rating — 10,347 ratings
92.
A Riot of Goldfish
A Riot of Goldfish 3.46 avg rating — 2,722 ratings
93.
Child of All Nations
Child of All Nations 3.65 avg rating — 1,052 ratings
94.
Beware of Pity
Beware of Pity 4.26 avg rating — 19,903 ratings
95.
Waiting for God
Waiting for God 4.17 avg rating — 2,738 ratings
96.
The Planetarium
The Planetarium 3.54 avg rating — 472 ratings
97.
The Death of Artemio Cruz
The Death of Artemio Cruz 3.86 avg rating — 11,454 ratings
98.
They Divided the Sky
They Divided the Sky 3.40 avg rating — 1,973 ratings
99.
The Ravishing of Lol Stein
The Ravishing of Lol Stein 3.60 avg rating — 5,865 ratings
100.
Closely Watched Trains
Closely Watched Trains 3.72 avg rating — 12,392 ratings