We have had the "Foreign Language Authors" assignment at the library for as long as I remember.
In desperation at one point, (in the glory days when we were allowed to make booklists and recommended reading lists for the public) I made up a Foreign Authors List with the author, title and country the work was originally published in because these foreign authors could not be from Great Britain. I had to make sure:
The books needed to be readable by high school students.
We needed to own copies of the book at our branch.
Here is the list with additions of novels anyone might like regardless of age and needer, needer, ownership is ethereal.
Achebe, Chinua Things
fall apart Nigeria
Allende, Isabelle House
of the spirits Chile
Allende, Isabelle Kingdom
of the Golden Dragon Chile
Allende, Isabelle City
of the beasts Chile
Anyi, Wang Baotown China
Balzac, Honore De Cousin
Bette France
Calvino, Italo If
on a winter's night a traveller Italy
Camus, Albert The
Stranger France
Cervantes, Miguel Don
Quixote Spain
Coelho, Paulo The Alchemist Portugal
Dangarembga, Tsitsi Nervous
conditions Zimbabwe
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Crime
and Punishment Russia
Dumas, Alexandre Count
of Monte Cristo France
Dumas, Alexandre Three
Musketeers France
Dumas, Alexandre The
Man in the Iron mask France
Emecheta, Buchi The
Joys of motherhood Nigeria
Flaubert, Gustav
Madame Bovary
France
Funke, Cornelia Inkheart Germany
Funke, Cornelia Inkheart Germany
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel One
hundred years of solitude Columbia
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
Love in the time of cholera Columbia
Gogol, Nickolai Dead
souls Russia
Grass, Gunter The
Tin drum Germany
Hesse, Herman Siddhartha Germany
Hoeg, Peter Smilla's
sense of snow Denmark
Hugo, Victor Hunchback
of Notre Dame France
Hugo, Victor Les
Miserables France
Japrisot, Sebastien
A Very Long Engagement France
Jensen, Carsten We the drowned Denmark
Jensen, Carsten We the drowned Denmark
Kafka, Franz The
Trial Germany
Kafka, Franz The
Metamorphosis Germany
Kincaid, Jamaica Annie
John Antigua
Kundera, Milan Unbearable
lightness of being Czechoslovakia
Lem, Stanislaw Solaris Poland
Leroux, Gaston Phantom
of the opera France
Mahfuz, Najib Akhenaten,
dweller in truth Egypt
Malraux, Andre Man's
fate France
Mann, Thomas The
Magic mountain Germany
Mann, Thomas Demian,
the story of Emil Sinclair's youth Germany
Markandaya, Kamala Nectar
in a sieve India
Mishima, Yukio Temple of the Golden
Pavilion Japan
Murakami, Haruki The Windup Bird Chronicle Japan
Murakami, Haruki The Windup Bird Chronicle Japan
Murasaki, Shikibu The
Tale of Genji Japan
Nabokov, Vladimir Invitation to a Beheading Russia
Nabokov, Vladimir Invitation to a Beheading Russia
Naipaul V. S. A
Bend in the river Trinidad
Nesbo, Jo The Redbreast Norway
Pamuk, Orhan My name is red Turkey
Puig, Manual Kiss of the Spider Woman Argentina
Nesbo, Jo The Redbreast Norway
Pamuk, Orhan My name is red Turkey
Puig, Manual Kiss of the Spider Woman Argentina
Orczy, Baroness The
Scarlet Pimpernel France
Pasternak, Boris Doctor
Zhivago Russia
Perez-Reverte, Arturo
Captain Alatriste Spanish
Proust, Marcel Swann's
way France
Remarque, Erich Maria All
quiet on the western front Germany
Rolvaag, Ole Giants
in the Earth Norway
Sholokov, Mikhail And
quiet flows the Don Russia
Sienkiewicz, Henry K. Quo
Vadis Poland
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr One
day in the life of Ivan Denisovitch Russia
Stendahl The
Red and the Black France
Tolstoy, Leo War
and Peace Russia
Tolstoy, Leo Anna
Karenina Russia
Tolstoy, Leo Death
of Ivan Ilych Russia
Turgenev, Ivan Fathers
and sons Russia
Undset, Sigrid The
Bridal Wreath Norway
Vargas Llosa, Mario The
War of the end of the world Peru
Verne, Jules Around
the world in eighty days France
Verne, Jules 20,000
leagues under the sea France
Verne, Jules Journey
to the center of the earth France
Verne, Jules The
Mysterious island France
Voltaire Candide France
Werfel, Franz Song
of Bernadette Germany
Zafon, Carlos Ruiz Shadow of the Wind Spain
Zafon, Carlos Ruiz Shadow of the Wind Spain
Zola, Emile Germinal France
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