| Titles | Order |
| The Tin Drum by Günter Grass | [1962] |
| The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg | Roman, 1948 |
| Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti | 1949 |
| The President by Miguel Ángel Asturias | Roman, 1950 |
| Barabbas by Pär Lagerkvist | Roman, 1951 |
| A Tale of Poor Lovers [abridged] by Vasco Pratolini | Roman, 1952 |
| All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren | Roman, 1953 |
| Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis | Roman, 1954 |
| Tomorrow and Yesterday by Heinrich Böll | Roman, 1955 |
| The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier | 1956 |
| The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil | Roman, 1958 |
| Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell | Roman, 1959 |
| Justine by Lawrence Durrell | Roman, 1959 |
| The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot by Angus Wilson | Roman, 1960 |
| Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata | Roman, 1961 |
| Children of Sanchez by Oscar Lewis | Roman, 1963 |
| The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer | Roman, 1964 |
| Autobiography by John Cowper Powys | Essai, 1965 |
| The Centaur by John Updike | Roman, 1965 |
| The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński | Essai, 1966 |
| The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe | Roman, 1967 |
| The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Roman, 1968 |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Roman, 1969 |
| Three Trapped Tigers by Guillermo Cabrera Infante | Roman, 1970 |
| Drifting cities by Stratis Tsirkas | Roman, 1971 |
| The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien | Roman, 1972 |
| The Blood Oranges by John Hawkes | Roman, 1973 |
| Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz | Roman, 1974 |
| The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz | Roman, 1974 |
| A Voice from the Chorus by Andrei Sinyavsky | Essai, 1974 |
| One Way or Another by Leonardo Sciascia | Roman, 1975 |
| The Angel of Darkness by Ernesto Sábato | Roman, 1976 |
| The Fifth Gospel by Mario Pomilio | Roman, 1977 |
| The Romantic Agony by Mario Praz | Essai, 1977 |
| Memed, My Hawk by Yasar Kemal | Roman, 1978 |
| A Plan for Escape by Adolfo Bioy Casares | Roman, 1979 |
| Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa | Roman, 1980 |
| God's Grandeur and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) by Gerard Manley Hopkins | Roman, 1980 |
| Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess | Roman, 1981 |
| L'amour n'est pas aimé by Hector Bianciotti | Roman, 1982 |
| Il Malaparte illustrato by Giordano Bruno Guerri | Roman, 1983 |
| Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman | Roman, 1984 |
| Shame by Salman Rushdie | Roman, 1985 |
| Milena by Margarete Buber-Neumann | Essai, 1986 |
| Palinuro of Mexico by Fernando del Paso | Roman, 1986 |
| Madame du Deffand and Her World by Benedetta Craveri | Essai, 1987 |
| A Maggot by John Fowles | Roman, 1987 |
| The Sleepwalker by Margarita Karapanou | Roman, 1988 |
| Pushkin House by Andrei Bitov | Roman, 1989 |
| The Czar's Madman by Jaan Kross | Roman, 1990 |
| Danube by Claudio Magris | Essai, 1990 |
| La saga de Youza by Youozas Baltouchis | Roman, 1991 |
| The Whirlpool by Jane Urquhart | Roman, 1992 |
| Breviario mediterraneo by Predrag Matvejević | Essai, 1993 |
| The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien | Roman, 1993 |
| Ever After by Graham Swift | Roman, 1994 |
| Theory of War by Joan Brady | Roman, 1995 |
| Lytton Strachey: A Biography by Michael Holroyd | Essai, 1996 |
| What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe | Roman, 1996 |
| The Inquisitors' Manual by António Lobo Antunes | Roman, 1997 |
| The Lament of the Linnet by Anna Maria Ortese | Roman, 1998 |
| A Light Comedy by Eduardo Mendoza | Roman, 1998 |
| Pushkin's Button by Serena Vitale | Essai, 1998 |
| Aristocrats by Stella Tillyard | Essai, 1999 |
| A Book of Memories by Péter Nádas | Roman, 1999 |
| The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald | Essai, 1999 |
| American Pastoral by Philip Roth | Roman, 2000 |
| Bartleby & Co. by Enrique Vila-Matas | Essai, 2000 |
| Thine is the Kingdom by Abilio Estévez | Roman, 2000 |
| The Royal Physician's Visit by Per Olov Enquist | Roman, 2001 |
| My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk | Roman, 2002 |
| Mevrouw Bentinck : Onverenigbaarheid van karakter & De groten der aarde by Hella S. Haasse | Essai, 2003 |
| True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey | Roman, 2003 |
| Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi | Essai, 2004 |
| The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón | Roman, 2004 |
| Auf den Spuren von Byron und Tolstoi Eine literarische Wanderung von Montreux nach Meiringen by Michail Schischkin | Essai, 2005 |
| The Master by Colm Tóibín | Roman, 2005 |
| Her Husband: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath--A Marriage by Diane Middlebrook | Essai, 2006 |
| The History of Love by Nicole Krauss | 2006 |
| Searching for John Ford by Joseph McBride | Roman, 2007 |
| Poor People by William T. Vollmann | Essai, 2008 |
| From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey by Pascal Khoo Thwe | Essai, 2009 |
| This Life: A Novel by Karel Schoeman | Roman, 2009 |
| Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique (Portuguese Literature Series) by Gonçalo M. Tavares | Roman, 2010 |
| Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter by Antonia Fraser | Essai, 2010 |
| Oeuvres : Tome 2, Récits et essais by Marina Tsvetaeva — not in English Common Knowledge | Essais, 2011 |
| Persecution by Alessandro Piperno | Roman, 2011 |
| Congo: The Epic History of a People by David Van Reybrouck — not in English Common Knowledge | Essai, 2012 |
| The Retrospective by A. B. Yehoshua — not in English Common Knowledge | Roman, 2012 |
| The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst — not in English Common Knowledge | Roman, 2013 |
| A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz by Göran Rosenberg — not in English Common Knowledge | Essai, 2014 |
| I Saw Her That Night by Drago Jancar — not in English Common Knowledge | Roman, 2014 |
| Atlas of an Anxious Man by Christoph Ransmayr | 2015 |
| The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis — not in English Common Knowledge | Roman, 2015 |
| The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria by Samar Yazbek — not in English Common Knowledge | Essai, 2016 |
| H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald — not in English Common Knowledge | Roman, 2016 |
| East West Street by Philippe Sands — not in English Common Knowledge | Essai, 2017 |
| The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen — not in English Common Knowledge | 2017 |
| Mourning by Eduardo Halfon | Roman, 2018 |
| Qualcosa sui Lehman by Stefano Massini | 2018 |
| Glückskind mit Vater by Christoph Hein — not in English Common Knowledge | Roman, 2019 |
| Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy by Wolfram Eilenberger — not in English Common Knowledge | Essai. 2019 |
| Apeirogon by Colum McCann — not in English Common Knowledge | Roman, 2020 |
| Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate by Daniel Mendelsohn — not in English Common Knowledge | Essai, 2020 |
