Browse by Language

Books by Original Language

Discover the major works of world literature through the languages in which they first entered the canon.

Hub Count

Ranked Works

500

Page Type

languages

10 books

Ancient Greek

Start with The Odyssey by Homer.

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2 books

Arabic

Start with One Thousand and One Nights by Unknown.

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1 book

Chinese

Start with Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en.

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1 book

Classical Japanese

Start with The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu.

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1 book

Czech

Start with The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera.

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1 book

Danish

Start with Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen.

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1 book

Dutch

Start with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.

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303 books

English

Start with Ulysses by James Joyce.

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57 books

French

Start with In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust.

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38 books

German

Start with The Trial by Franz Kafka.

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3 books

Greek

Start with Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis.

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1 book

Hebrew / Greek

Start with The Bible by Various.

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2 books

Hungarian

Start with Embers by Sándor Márai.

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1 book

Icelandic

Start with Independent People by Halldór Laxness.

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17 books

Italian

Start with The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.

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1 book

Japanese

Start with The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami.

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6 books

Latin

Start with The Aeneid by Virgil.

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1 book

Middle English

Start with The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.

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3 books

Norwegian

Start with Hunger by Knut Hamsun.

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3 books

Polish

Start with Solaris by Stanisław Lem.

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5 books

Portuguese

Start with The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa.

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21 books

Russian

Start with Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.

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2 books

Sanskrit

Start with Mahabharata by Vyasa.

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1 book

Serbo-croatian

Start with The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić.

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16 books

Spanish

Start with One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.

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1 book

Sumerian / Akkadian

Start with The Epic of Gilgamesh by Unknown.

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1 book

Swedish

Start with Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren.

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