Here are my top 10 favorite novels. Admittedly, language limitations have prevented me from reading several of these in the language in which they were originally written, but I list them here nevertheless, as I am no less in love with them as the result of having read translated versions. The list:
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
- The Way of All Flesh (Samuel Butler)
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Laurence Sterne)
- Ulysses (James Joyce)
- Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes)
- Malone Dies (Samuel Beckett)
- Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
- Confessions of Zeno (Italo Svevo)
- On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
- Look Homeward, Angel (Thomas Wolfe)