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Books translated from Romance Languages into English

Description: 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.

Members: 7 participating members (show all)

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1
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
18,137 members, 284 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: Dilara86, inge87

Score: 2

2
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
11,455 members, 235 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: Dilara86, inge87

Score: 2

3
Suite Française
by Irène Némirovsky
9,359 members, 331 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: SqueakyChu, Dilara86

Score: 2

4
The Knot of Vipers
by François Mauriac
859 members, 16 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: Dilara86, inge87

Score: 2

5
Becket
by Jean Anouilh
854 members, 15 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: aulsmith, inge87

Score: 2

6
My Father's Glory
by Marcel Pagnol
781 members, 10 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: Dilara86, inge87

Score: 2

7
My Mother's Castle
by Marcel Pagnol
557 members, 8 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: inge87, Dilara86

Score: 2

8
Gigi
by Colette
320 members, 7 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: Dilara86, inge87

Score: 2

9
Night
by Elie Wiesel
24,390 members, 538 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

Lists: inge87

Score: 1

10
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
23,135 members, 309 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: Dilara86

Score: 1

Explanations:

Dilara86 (2): Written in a romance language by a romantic author ;-)

11
The Angel's Game
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
8,037 members, 398 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Lists: SqueakyChu

Score: 1

12
Daughter of Fortune
by Isabel Allende
8,030 members, 180 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: lahochstetler

Score: 1

13
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
by Dai Sijie
6,466 members, 223 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: SqueakyChu

Score: 1

14
The Song of Roland
by Turoldus
4,880 members, 37 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)

Lists: inge87

Score: 1

16
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
by Pablo Neruda
3,303 members, 48 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: inge87

Score: 1

17
Bonjour Tristesse
by Françoise Sagan
3,054 members, 98 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

Lists: lahochstetler

Score: 1

18
Inés of My Soul
by Isabel Allende
2,421 members, 81 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: inge87

Score: 1

19
I'm Not Scared
by Niccolò Ammaniti
2,117 members, 96 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: SqueakyChu

Score: 1

20
The History of the Siege of Lisbon
by José Saramago
1,622 members, 23 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Lists: inge87

Score: 1

21
100 Love Sonnets
by Pablo Neruda
1,423 members, 18 reviews
4.39 stars (4.39 stars)

Lists: inge87

Score: 1

22
Novecento: Un Monologo
by Alessandro Baricco
1,312 members, 38 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: sallypursell

Score: 1

23
Platero and I: An Andalusian Elegy
by Juan Ramón Jiménez
1,272 members, 25 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: inge87

Score: 1

24
Fire in the Blood
by Irène Némirovsky
1,159 members, 54 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: SqueakyChu

Score: 1

25
The Bourgeois Gentleman
by Molière
865 members, 2 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: aulsmith

Score: 1

26
Yvain: The Knight of the Lion
by Chrétien de Troyes
839 members, 12 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: aulsmith

Score: 1

27
Perceval, the Story of the Grail
by Chrétien de Troyes
837 members, 9 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)

Lists: aulsmith

Score: 1

28
Texaco
by Patrick Chamoiseau
563 members, 10 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: Dilara86

Score: 1

29
From the Land of the Moon
by Milena Agus
522 members, 41 reviews
3.48 stars (3.48 stars)

Lists: lahochstetler

Score: 1

30
The First Century After Beatrice
by Amin Maalouf
342 members, 18 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

Lists: inge87

Score: 1

31
Without Roots: The West, Relativism, Christianity, Islam
by Joseph Ratzinger
283 members, 2 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: inge87

Score: 1

32
Death Rites
by Alicia Giménez Bartlett
267 members, 10 reviews
3.32 stars (3.32 stars)

Lists: lahochstetler

Score: 1

33
Dog Day
by Alicia Gimenez-Bartlett
246 members, 10 reviews
3.39 stars (3.39 stars)

Lists: lahochstetler

Score: 1

34
The Cypresses Believe in God
by José María Gironella
236 members, 8 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: inge87

Score: 1

36
The Red Horse
by Eugenio Corti
175 members, 4 reviews
4.52 stars (4.52 stars)

Lists: inge87

Score: 1

37
Prime Time Suspect
by Alicia Gimenez-Bartlett
166 members, 2 reviews
3.28 stars (3.28 stars)

Lists: lahochstetler

Score: 1

38
The Allure of the Archives
by Arlette Farge
162 members, 2 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: inge87

Score: 1

40
The Dream Maker
by Jean-Christophe Rufin
143 members, 5 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: inge87

Score: 1

41
A Fine of Two Hundred Francs
by Elsa Triolet
135 members, 2 reviews
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)

Lists: inge87

Score: 1

42
Translation is a Love Affair
by Jacques Poulin
125 members, 19 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: inge87

Score: 1

43
Mirèio
by Frédéric Mistral
105 members, 4 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: inge87

Score: 1

44
A Not So Perfect Crime
by Teresa Solana
99 members, 7 reviews
3.48 stars (3.48 stars)

Lists: inge87

Score: 1

45
The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir
by Norman Manea
97 members, 3 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: inge87

Score: 1

46
The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris
by Leyla Zineb Mechentel
88 members, 6 reviews
3.38 stars (3.38 stars)

Lists: lahochstetler

Score: 1

49
Ashes
by Grazia Deledda
36 members, 3 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: Dilara86

Score: 1

Explanations:

Dilara86 (6): Beautiful book by a Sardinian author

50
Cosmas, or the Love of God
by Pierre de Calan
30 members, 1 review
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: inge87

Score: 1

51
The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
39,050 members, 701 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Score: 0

52
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
32,120 members, 457 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Score: 0

53
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
23,810 members, 349 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Score: 0

54
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas père
22,447 members, 390 reviews
4.32 stars (4.32 stars)

Score: 0

55
Foucault's Pendulum
by Umberto Eco
16,426 members, 242 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Score: 0

56
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
by Jules Verne
15,512 members, 227 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Score: 0

57
Journey to the Center of the Earth
by Jules Verne
12,754 members, 198 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Score: 0

58
The Phantom of the Opera
by Gaston Leroux
11,227 members, 190 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Score: 0

59
Like Water for Chocolate
by Laura Esquivel
11,037 members, 240 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Score: 0

60
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
by Muriel Barbery
10,933 members, 629 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Score: 0

61
Baudolino
by Umberto Eco
7,321 members, 99 reviews
3.54 stars (3.54 stars)

Score: 0

62
The Leopard
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
5,894 members, 134 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Score: 0

63
Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville
5,083 members, 28 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Score: 0

64
Le Grand Meaulnes
by Alain-Fournier
3,119 members, 72 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Score: 0

65
The Age of Reason
by Jean-Paul Sartre
3,115 members, 25 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Score: 0

66
The Betrothed
by Alessandro Manzoni
2,651 members, 47 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Score: 0

67
The Queen of the South
by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
2,128 members, 49 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Score: 0

68
The Poem of the Cid
by Anonymous
2,038 members, 29 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Score: 0

69
The Crusades through Arab Eyes
by Amin Maalouf
2,025 members, 35 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Score: 0

70
Introduction to the Devout Life
by Francis de Sales
1,816 members, 29 reviews
4.46 stars (4.46 stars)

Score: 0

71
Marina
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
1,695 members, 107 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Score: 0

72
The Time in Between
by María Dueñas
1,688 members, 100 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Score: 0

73
Leo the African
by Amin Maalouf
1,390 members, 33 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Score: 0

74
Why Read the Classics?
by Italo Calvino
1,356 members, 21 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Score: 0

75
The Lusiads
by Luís Vaz de Camões
1,200 members, 29 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Score: 0

76
Gourmet Rhapsody
by Muriel Barbery
1,179 members, 70 reviews
3.15 stars (3.15 stars)

Score: 0

77
In Diamond Square
by Mercè Rodoreda
958 members, 37 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Score: 0

78
The Dream of the Celt
by Mario Vargas Llosa
935 members, 44 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Score: 0

79
The Heptameron
by Marguerite de Navarre
750 members, 6 reviews
3.51 stars (3.51 stars)

Score: 0

81
Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart
by Chrétien de Troyes
547 members, 6 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Score: 0

82
The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas
by Etienne Gilson
484 members, 3 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Score: 0

83
The Spirit of Mediaeval Philosophy
by Etienne Gilson
361 members, 1 review
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Score: 0

84
One Day of Life
by Manlio Argueta
355 members, 4 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Score: 0

85
Stone in a Landslide
by Maria Barbal
253 members, 18 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Score: 0

86
Here's to You, Jesusa!
by Elena Poniatowska
247 members, 2 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Score: 0

87
The Corpse Reader
by Antonio Garrido
246 members, 20 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Score: 0

88
The German Mujahid
by Boualem Sansal
242 members, 20 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Score: 0

89
Massacre in Mexico
by Elena Poniatowska
209 members, 4 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Score: 0

90
Algerian Chronicles
by Albert Camus
142 members, 3 reviews
3.44 stars (3.44 stars)

Score: 0

92
The Brotherhood of Book Hunters
by Raphaël Jérusalmy
89 members, 0 reviews
3.19 stars (3.19 stars)

Score: 0

93
Saving Mozart: The Journal of Otto J. Steiner
by Raphaël Jérusalmy
79 members, 6 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Score: 0

94
The Black Envelope
by Norman Manea
72 members, 0 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Score: 0

95
Compulsory Happiness
by Norman Manea
62 members, 0 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Score: 0

96
Las Soldaderas: Women of the Mexican Revolution
by Elena Poniatowska
56 members, 1 review
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Score: 0

97
Three Arthurian romances : poems from medieval France
by Ross G. Arthur
42 members, 1 review
3.33 stars (3.33 stars)

Score: 0

98
The Lair
by Norman Manea
38 members, 0 reviews
2.25 stars (2.25 stars)

Score: 0

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Started by: inge87 (February 2014)

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