Counterpunch: 100 Best Novels, in Translation, Since 1900

1.
The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita 4.28 avg rating — 401,159 ratings
2.
The Name of the Rose
The Name of the Rose 4.14 avg rating — 387,300 ratings
3.
Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf 4.13 avg rating — 206,780 ratings
4.
The Trial
The Trial 3.94 avg rating — 377,404 ratings
5.
The Stranger
The Stranger 4.03 avg rating — 1,315,926 ratings
5.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 3.98 avg rating — 122,144 ratings
7.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating — 1,070,176 ratings
8.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 4.14 avg rating — 306,623 ratings
9.
The Little Prince
The Little Prince 4.33 avg rating — 2,375,914 ratings
10.
Bonjour tristesse
Bonjour tristesse 3.73 avg rating — 66,272 ratings
11.
The Man Without Qualities
The Man Without Qualities 4.19 avg rating — 7,191 ratings
12.
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 696,803 ratings
13.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 3,378,696 ratings
14.
Solaris
Solaris 3.99 avg rating — 124,336 ratings
15.
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain 4.13 avg rating — 56,607 ratings
16.
The Savage Detectives
The Savage Detectives 4.17 avg rating — 50,144 ratings
17.
My Name Is Red
My Name Is Red 3.87 avg rating — 60,044 ratings
17.
The Lover
The Lover 3.71 avg rating — 68,181 ratings
17.
Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 22,264 ratings
20.
The Leopard
The Leopard 4.01 avg rating — 44,236 ratings
21.
The Land of Green Plums
The Land of Green Plums 3.67 avg rating — 6,189 ratings
22.
Growth of the Soil
Growth of the Soil 4.23 avg rating — 12,079 ratings
23.
The Piano Teacher
The Piano Teacher 3.60 avg rating — 15,377 ratings
24.
God's Bits of Wood
God's Bits of Wood 3.98 avg rating — 3,057 ratings
25.
In Search of Lost Time
In Search of Lost Time 4.34 avg rating — 13,695 ratings
26.
Memoirs of Hadrian
Memoirs of Hadrian 4.22 avg rating — 34,197 ratings
27.
Journey to the End of the Night
Journey to the End of the Night 4.19 avg rating — 46,255 ratings
28.
Despair
Despair 3.91 avg rating — 11,286 ratings
29.
Fatelessness
Fatelessness 4.08 avg rating — 13,042 ratings
30.
Embers
Embers 3.99 avg rating — 41,068 ratings
31.
Zeno's Conscience
Zeno's Conscience 3.77 avg rating — 30,967 ratings
32.
The Tartar Steppe
The Tartar Steppe 4.21 avg rating — 38,441 ratings
33.
The Counterfeiters
The Counterfeiters 3.83 avg rating — 10,132 ratings
34.
Beware of Pity
Beware of Pity 4.26 avg rating — 19,915 ratings
35.
Children of Gebelawi
Children of Gebelawi 4.08 avg rating — 30,743 ratings
36.
The Mandarins
The Mandarins 4.19 avg rating — 6,250 ratings
36.
Journey by Moonlight
Journey by Moonlight 4.22 avg rating — 10,347 ratings
38.
The Blind Owl
The Blind Owl 3.96 avg rating — 32,914 ratings
39.
Pedro Páramo
Pedro Páramo 4.06 avg rating — 92,548 ratings
40.
Ferdydurke
Ferdydurke 3.77 avg rating — 20,979 ratings
41.
Hôtel Splendid
Hôtel Splendid 3.87 avg rating — 494 ratings
42.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge 3.93 avg rating — 9,669 ratings
43.
The Dwarf
The Dwarf 3.69 avg rating — 7,662 ratings
44.
Zorba the Greek
Zorba the Greek 4.04 avg rating — 56,535 ratings
45.
The Time of the Doves
The Time of the Doves 3.82 avg rating — 15,559 ratings
46.
The Conformist
The Conformist 3.98 avg rating — 3,342 ratings
47.
The Emigrants (The Emigrants, #1)
The Emigrants (The Emigrants, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 9,429 ratings
48.
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ 4.31 avg rating — 36,798 ratings
49.
Snow Country & Thousand Cranes
Snow Country & Thousand Cranes 3.97 avg rating — 412 ratings
50.
Nausea
Nausea 3.93 avg rating — 134,176 ratings
50.
The Erasers
The Erasers 3.76 avg rating — 1,823 ratings
52.
The Joke
The Joke 4.03 avg rating — 39,345 ratings
52.
Life: A User's Manual
Life: A User's Manual 4.18 avg rating — 9,837 ratings
54.
The Passion According to G.H.
The Passion According to G.H. 4.13 avg rating — 16,774 ratings
55.
Sidetracked (Kurt Wallander, #5)
Sidetracked (Kurt Wallander, #5) 4.08 avg rating — 24,527 ratings
56.
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands 4.62 avg rating — 6,059 ratings
56.
A Heart So White
A Heart So White 4.02 avg rating — 17,244 ratings
58.
Happy Moscow
Happy Moscow 3.81 avg rating — 1,165 ratings
59.
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Berlin Alexanderplatz 3.84 avg rating — 10,886 ratings
60.
No Longer Human
No Longer Human 3.95 avg rating — 228,530 ratings
61.
Man's Fate
Man's Fate 3.75 avg rating — 6,327 ratings
62.
The Moon and the Bonfire
The Moon and the Bonfire 3.78 avg rating — 18,315 ratings
63.
The Rings of Saturn
The Rings of Saturn 4.23 avg rating — 16,866 ratings
64.
The Discovery of Heaven
The Discovery of Heaven 4.17 avg rating — 17,238 ratings
65.
Black Rain
Black Rain 3.99 avg rating — 4,436 ratings
66.
Homo Faber
Homo Faber 3.68 avg rating — 30,242 ratings
67.
A Book of Memories
A Book of Memories 4.06 avg rating — 646 ratings
68.
How It Is
How It Is really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,453 ratings
69.
History
History 4.31 avg rating — 10,584 ratings
70.
The Death of Virgil
The Death of Virgil 4.14 avg rating — 1,716 ratings
71.
Death and the Penguin
Death and the Penguin 3.78 avg rating — 21,142 ratings
72.
The President
The President 3.97 avg rating — 6,420 ratings
73.
All Our Yesterdays
All Our Yesterdays 3.99 avg rating — 4,666 ratings
74.
The Feast of the Goat
The Feast of the Goat 4.34 avg rating — 40,762 ratings
75.
The Thief's Journal
The Thief's Journal 3.93 avg rating — 5,092 ratings
76.
Summer in Baden-Baden
Summer in Baden-Baden 3.66 avg rating — 1,364 ratings
77.
Portrait of a Man Unknown
Portrait of a Man Unknown 3.64 avg rating — 203 ratings
78.
The New Story of O
The New Story of O
by: Anonymous
3.52 avg rating — 61 ratings
79.
Nadja
Nadja 3.54 avg rating — 12,677 ratings
80.
This Life
This Life 4.06 avg rating — 157 ratings
81.
Yo-Yo Boing!
Yo-Yo Boing! 3.57 avg rating — 127 ratings
82.
The Kingdom of This World
The Kingdom of This World 3.78 avg rating — 7,902 ratings
83.
Terra Nostra
Terra Nostra 4.12 avg rating — 1,315 ratings
84.
Red Lights
Red Lights 3.80 avg rating — 1,398 ratings
85.
The True Story of Ah Q
The True Story of Ah Q
by: Lu Xun
3.84 avg rating — 2,427 ratings
86.
Three Trapped Tigers
Three Trapped Tigers 3.91 avg rating — 2,161 ratings
87.
Century of Locusts
Century of Locusts 3.70 avg rating — 47 ratings
88.
La Grande Maison
La Grande Maison 3.85 avg rating — 363 ratings
89.
A Dark Night's Passing
A Dark Night's Passing 3.70 avg rating — 228 ratings
90.
Das siebte Kreuz
Das siebte Kreuz 3.97 avg rating — 3,095 ratings
91.
La Conspiration
La Conspiration 3.71 avg rating — 226 ratings
92.
Memed, My Hawk (İnce Memed, #1)
Memed, My Hawk (İnce Memed, #1) 4.49 avg rating — 12,363 ratings
93.
The Ragazzi
The Ragazzi 3.60 avg rating — 5,837 ratings
94.
Stolen Spring
Stolen Spring 3.72 avg rating — 2,656 ratings
95.
Jacob the Liar
Jacob the Liar 3.85 avg rating — 3,339 ratings
96.
The Open Door
The Open Door 4.19 avg rating — 3,503 ratings
97.
तमस
तमस 4.16 avg rating — 1,973 ratings
98.
Dita Saxova
Dita Saxova 3.70 avg rating — 145 ratings
99.
The Good Hope (Dedalus Europe 2010)
The Good Hope (Dedalus Europe 2010) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 54 ratings
100.
Swallows of Kabul
Swallows of Kabul 3.69 avg rating — 11,929 ratings