Books translated from Romance Languages into English

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Some ideas for my February 2014 TIOLI challenge: "Isn't it Romantic?: Read a Book Originally Written in a Romance Language". Obviously there are hundreds of options out there, so feel free to add your own favorites.
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7 participating members
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The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
19,201 members
308 reviews
4.2
2 Members
inge87, Dilara86
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
12,112 members
253 reviews
4.1
2 Members
inge87, Dilara86
3
Suite Française
by Irène Némirovsky
9,727 members
340 reviews
4
2 Members
SqueakyChu, Dilara86
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The Knot of Vipers
by François Mauriac
919 members
20 reviews
4
2 Members
inge87, Dilara86
5
Becket
by Jean Anouilh
918 members
16 reviews
4
2 Members
inge87, aulsmith
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My Father's Glory
by Marcel Pagnol
833 members
10 reviews
4
2 Members
inge87, Dilara86
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My Mother's Castle
by Marcel Pagnol
593 members
8 reviews
3.9
2 Members
inge87, Dilara86
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Gigi
by Colette
349 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
inge87, Dilara86
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Night
by Elie Wiesel
26,556 members
565 reviews
½ 4.3
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inge87
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Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
25,285 members
327 reviews
½ 4.3
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Dilara86
Explanations
Dilara86: Written in a romance language by a romantic author ;-)
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The Angel's Game
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
8,529 members
422 reviews
½ 3.7
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SqueakyChu
12
Daughter of Fortune
by Isabel Allende
8,499 members
189 reviews
½ 3.7
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lahochstetler
13
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel
by Dai Sijie
6,761 members
228 reviews
½ 3.6
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SqueakyChu
14
The Song of Roland
by Turoldus
5,206 members
37 reviews
½ 3.6
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inge87
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
by Jean-Dominique Bauby
4,338 members
153 reviews
4
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SqueakyChu
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
by Pablo Neruda
3,628 members
56 reviews
4.2
Member
inge87
17
Bonjour Tristesse
by Françoise Sagan
3,251 members
100 reviews
½ 3.5
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lahochstetler
18
Inés of My Soul
by Isabel Allende
2,553 members
90 reviews
½ 3.7
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inge87
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I'm Not Scared
by Niccolò Ammaniti
2,242 members
99 reviews
½ 3.7
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SqueakyChu
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The History of the Siege of Lisbon
by José Saramago
1,743 members
25 reviews
3.8
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inge87
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100 Love Sonnets
by Pablo Neruda
1,514 members
20 reviews
½ 4.4
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inge87
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Platero and I: An Andalusian Elegy
by Juan Ramón Jiménez
1,408 members
26 reviews
½ 3.7
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inge87
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Novecento: Un Monologo
by Alessandro Baricco
1,374 members
39 reviews
3.9
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sallypursell
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Fire in the Blood
by Irène Némirovsky
1,211 members
56 reviews
3.9
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SqueakyChu
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The Bourgeois Gentleman
by Molière
909 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
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aulsmith
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Yvain: The Knight of the Lion
by Chrétien de Troyes
905 members
12 reviews
3.9
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aulsmith
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Perceval, the Story of the Grail
by Chrétien de Troyes
896 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
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aulsmith
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Texaco
by Patrick Chamoiseau
628 members
11 reviews
3.9
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Dilara86
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From the Land of the Moon
by Milena Agus
546 members
41 reviews
½ 3.5
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lahochstetler
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The First Century After Beatrice
by Amin Maalouf
368 members
18 reviews
½ 3.5
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inge87
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Without Roots: The West, Relativism, Christianity, Islam
by Joseph Ratzinger
304 members
3 reviews
4
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inge87
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Death Rites
by Alicia Giménez Bartlett
284 members
12 reviews
½ 3.3
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lahochstetler
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The Cypresses Believe in God
by José María Gironella
266 members
10 reviews
3.9
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inge87
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Dog Day
by Alicia Gimenez-Bartlett
262 members
12 reviews
½ 3.4
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lahochstetler
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Mary and the Fathers of the Church: The Blessed Virgin Mary in Patristic Thought
by Luigi Gambero
225 members
4 reviews
½ 4.3
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inge87
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The Red Horse
by Eugenio Corti
188 members
5 reviews
½ 4.5
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inge87
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The Allure of the Archives
by Arlette Farge
181 members
2 reviews
4.1
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inge87
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Prime Time Suspect
by Alicia Gimenez-Bartlett
175 members
3 reviews
½ 3.3
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lahochstetler
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The Dream Maker
by Jean-Christophe Rufin
153 members
6 reviews
3.8
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inge87
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A Fine of Two Hundred Francs
by Elsa Triolet
143 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
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inge87
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Translation is a Love Affair
by Jacques Poulin
131 members
19 reviews
3.9
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inge87
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Mirèio
by Frédéric Mistral
120 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
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inge87
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The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir
by Norman Manea
104 members
3 reviews
4.1
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inge87
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A Not So Perfect Crime
by Teresa Solana
99 members
7 reviews
½ 3.5
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inge87
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The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris
by Leïla Marouane
94 members
6 reviews
½ 3.4
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lahochstetler
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Francis of Assisi: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Saint
by André Vauchez
79 members
3 reviews
4
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inge87
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Ashes
by Grazia Deledda
40 members
3 reviews
3.9
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Dilara86
Explanations
Dilara86: Beautiful book by a Sardinian author
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Cosmas, or the Love of God
by Pierre de Calan
30 members
1 review
4
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inge87
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The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
42,669 members
739 reviews
4.2
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
34,343 members
490 reviews
3.9
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Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
25,475 members
379 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
24,408 members
411 reviews
½ 4.3
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20,000 Leagues under the Sea
by Jules Verne
17,417 members
238 reviews
½ 3.7
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Foucault's Pendulum
by Umberto Eco
17,147 members
252 reviews
3.9
57
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
by Jules Verne
14,142 members
220 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Phantom of the Opera
by Gaston Leroux
12,409 members
194 reviews
3.8
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
by Muriel Barbery
11,661 members
642 reviews
3.8
60
Like Water for Chocolate
by Laura Esquivel
11,638 members
249 reviews
3.8
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Baudolino
by Umberto Eco
7,650 members
101 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Leopard
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
6,340 members
146 reviews
4.1
63
Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville
5,557 members
30 reviews
4.2
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Le Grand Meaulnes
by Alain-Fournier
3,313 members
79 reviews
3.8
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The Age of Reason
by Jean-Paul Sartre
3,295 members
25 reviews
3.8
66
The Betrothed
by Alessandro Manzoni
2,964 members
49 reviews
4
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The Poem of the Cid
by Anonymous
2,337 members
34 reviews
3.8
68
The Queen of the South
by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
2,253 members
50 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Crusades through Arab Eyes
by Amin Maalouf
2,210 members
36 reviews
3.9
70
Philothea, or An Introduction to the Devout Life
by Francis de Sales
2,090 members
34 reviews
½ 4.5
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Marina
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
1,878 members
113 reviews
3.8
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The Time in Between
by María Dueñas
1,832 members
108 reviews
3.8
73
Why Read the Classics?
by Italo Calvino
1,502 members
21 reviews
3.8
74
Leo the African
by Amin Maalouf
1,501 members
35 reviews
3.9
75
The Lusiads
by Luís Vaz de Camões
1,334 members
29 reviews
3.8
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Gourmet Rhapsody
by Muriel Barbery
1,239 members
73 reviews
3.2
77
In Diamond Square
by Mercè Rodoreda
1,054 members
39 reviews
4
78
The Dream of the Celt
by Mario Vargas Llosa
1,047 members
47 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Heptameron
by Marguerite de Navarre
798 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
80
Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture
by José Saramago
753 members
12 reviews
3.1
81
Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart
by Chrétien de Troyes
588 members
6 reviews
3.9
82
The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas
by Étienne Gilson
530 members
7 reviews
4.1
83
The Spirit of Mediaeval Philosophy
by Étienne Gilson
396 members
2 reviews
4.1
84
One Day of Life
by Manlio Argueta
370 members
4 reviews
3.9
85
Stone in a Landslide
by Maria Barbal
276 members
19 reviews
3.8
86
Here's to You, Jesusa!
by Elena Poniatowska
268 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Corpse Reader
by Antonio Garrido
268 members
21 reviews
½ 3.6
88
The German Mujahid
by Boualem Sansal
250 members
20 reviews
½ 3.7
89
Massacre in Mexico
by Elena Poniatowska
227 members
4 reviews
4
90
Algerian Chronicles
by Albert Camus
154 members
3 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Brotherhood of Book Hunters
by Raphaël Jérusalmy
95 members
3.2
93
The Black Envelope
by Norman Manea
80 members
1 review
4
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Saving Mozart: The Journal of Otto J. Steiner
by Raphaël Jérusalmy
78 members
6 reviews
3.8
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Compulsory Happiness
by Norman Manea
67 members
3.8
96
Las Soldaderas: Women of the Mexican Revolution
by Elena Poniatowska
61 members
1 review
½ 3.5
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The Lair
by Norman Manea
47 members
½ 2.3
98
Three Arthurian romances : poems from medieval France
by Ross G. Arthur
42 members
1 review
½ 3.3