Today we are listing our five favorites of a theme, and since one of my favorite genres is translated literature I’ll take this time to give you my top five (or six) from several different countries.
French literature:
~Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
~Bonjour Tristesse by Francois Sagan
~Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
~Le Petit Prince by Antoine St. Exupery
~Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac
~Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Russian literature:
~Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
~The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevesky
~Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
~The Master and Margarita by Mikail Bulgakov
~Ivan and Misha by Michael Alenyikov
~The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevesky
Italian literature:
~Swimming to Elba by Siliva Avallone
~The Potter’s Field by Andrea Camilleri
~Ten by Andrej Longo
~The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
~The Parrots by Filippo Bologna
Spanish literature:
~The Infatuations by Javier Marias
~Barcelona Shadows by Marc Pastor
~The Nautical Chart by Arturo Perez-Reverte
~The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato
~The Shadow of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
~The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Japanese literature:
~Kafka on The Shore by Haruki Murakami
~The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
~Naoko by Keigo Higashino
~Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami
~The Housekeeper and The Professor by Yoko Ogawa
~The Buddha in The Attic by Julie Otsuka
~Strangers by Taichi Yamada
~Inspector Iminishi Investigates by Seicho Matsumoto
~A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
~A Woman in The Dunes by Kobo Abe
~Silence by Shusaku Endo
Well, clearly I can’t narrow it down to just five and given the chance I could go on and on with favorite Japanese titles. But, I’ll stop with these and hope that I’ve tantalized you enough with this mere taste.
I’m looking forward to hearing what your top five favorites are. Or, six as the case may be.
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