"The 121 Best Novels of the 20th/21st Centuries According to the Modern Novel"

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Hello,
I randomly came across this list of best novels: www.listchallenges.com/the-121-best-novels-of-the-20th21st-centuries
I liked that it is quite different from the usual best novels lists you see and I liked that it contains books from other countries and written in other languages. I have been meaning to read more foreign books and I was wondering if you would recommend any from the above list? Aside from French and Russian, I would have to read them in their English translations so would be interested to hear if you had found these to be any good too.
In the list, I have read Camus, Gide, Marquez, Murakami, Bulgakhov, Pasternak and Handke so not that many foreign nationalities.
Thank you!
Of course you could recommend other foreign books too!

Pereira Declares (my version is ‘maintains) is absolutely amazing and in my top books ever. I give it as gifts to bookish people as they are unlikely to have read it.

The Leopard by Lapedusa is also very good and worth owning for the amazing cover, but it’s a great look at the crumbling Italian aristocracy.

One that isn’t there is Captains of the Sands by Jorge Amado. Occasional clunky translation aside it is another that has made it onto my favourite ever list. It’s set in 1930s Bahia and I just cannot get my head around that he wrote it when he was 19 or early 20s. It’s hugely disturbing and there is violence, sexual violence and crime, but it’s set among the slums. I have never forgotten it.

Woefully I have only read 4 of that list. Thanks though, I’ve saved it as there is lots I would like to try there.

Thank you so much for the tips! These definitely sound like my cup of tea! I will see if I can order these.

Periera Maintains is wonderful.

I've read 14 of these books, though lots of the authors' other books. I keep being surprised that Doctor Zhivago is a 20th Century book!

Lolita really is wonderfully written, though I think Nabokov's Pale Fire is better. Although he wrote those in English so I guess they don't really count.

I've not read Snow by Orhan Pamuk, but I liked My Name Is Red.