Some of the earliest novels ever written in modern times were composed in Latin for an international audience.
Indeed, novels, satires and the like were composed in a deliberate attempt to re-invent the ancient genres last popularised by the Greeks and Romans.
The list below includes translations into Latin, as well as original works; not only novels, but also other literary works such as short stories, jokes, humorous speeches and diatribes, satire and so on - works of imagination and fantasy.
This list also includes Latin stories and novellas specially written for students.
Disputatio nova contra mulieres, qua probatur eas homines non esse
Intercenales (no link)
The Emperor's New Clothes translated by Leo Latinus
The Emperor's New Clothes translated by Frederick Landis (no link)
Reipublicae Christianopolitanae Descriptio by Johannes Andreae , 1619
JOAN WALSH ANGLUND
Amor est Sensus Quidam Peculiaris translated by G M Lyne (no link)
Puer Romanus 1913 (Available as an Audiobook by The Latinum Institute)
Fabulae 1914
Metamorphoseos Libri
Fabulae (1966)
Liber Primus Principis Arcturi translated by Sir Richard Blackmore
JANE AUSTEN
Superbia et Odium translated by Thomas Cotton (no link)
Disputatio Inauguralis Theoretico-Practica Ius potandi, cum omnibus solennitatibus & controversiis secundum ius utrumq[ue] discussis, breviter adumbrans
VICTOR BAROCAS and SUSAN SCHEARER
Fabulae Mirabiles (no link)
John Barclay was once one of the most celebrated authors in England in his generation, but as his output was in Latin, not English, we do not remember him.
Argenis (1621) available also in an illustrated edition . This book was effectively the number one best-seller of the entire seventeenth century.
Ioannis Barclaii Argenis. Secunda editio. Summa fide et cura concinnata
This book was the first well-constructed and popular novel written since the fall of Rome.
Which just goes to show, that a book can be famous for a very long time, and still be utterly forgotten by everyone except for a small group of modern Latin scholars and historians. (I prefer the use of 'Early Modern Latin' and 'Modern Latin' to Neo-Latin, which is simply a bad translation of the German for 'Modern Latin'. We don't call our contemporary version of English Neo-English, after all, but Modern English! )
Argenis is available in a modern reprint with a facing English translation.
Satyricon (The first satirical 'Roman a Clef' (a novel in which real people or events appear with invented names.) ever written.)
Another edition: Euphormionis Lusinini sive Ioannis Barclaii Satyricon
Alitophili Veritatis Lacrymae sive Euphormionis
The Wizard of Oz translated by W.W. Denslow (1987)
Magus Mirabilis in Oz translated by C J Hinke and George Van Buren ( no link)
Confutatio stultissimae Burdonum Fabulae
Petrus Sclopetarius Aliaeque Fabellae Jucundae 1959 ( no link)
Petrus Sclopetarius "Pistol Pete"
STEPHEN BERARD
Capti (2018) ( no link)
Praecursus (2019) ( no link)
Funus parasiticum, sive Curculionis parasiti mortualia
Utopia by Jacobus Bidermann, 1640
Icaria (1637)
Argonautica Americana (1647)
ENID BLYTON
Nuticulus Satyrique translated by Elizabeth Brice 1993 (no link)
De amore Guiscardi et Sigismundae
De duobus amantibus Tractatus Guistardo scilicet et Sigismunda
Mythica historia de Tito Romano et Gisippo Atheniensi
Satyricon in corruptae iuventutis mores corruptos
MARIE CARDUCCI BOLCHAZY
Quot Animalia? 2002 ( no link)
Quid Edam? 2002 ( no link)
Quo Colore Est? 2003 ( no link)
Quis Me Amat? 2003 ( no link)
ODILIA AND CLAUDIUS MOATTI BOMBARDE
Quomodo Vivebant Romani? translated by Petrus Sagittarius ( no link)
Paddington Bear translated by P. Needham (2001) ( no link)
Noctuae Speculum Omnes res memorabiles variasque et admirabiles Tyli Saxonici machinationes complectens
Stultifera Navis translated by Jacob Locher (no link)
BERTOLT BRECHT
Nuptiae Abderitanae translated by Peter Needham 1999
DIK BROWNE
Haegar Terribilis: Miles Sine Timore Vitiisque translated by Karl Ulrich 1986 ( no link)
HENDRIK BUCHNA
De Tribus Investigatoribus et Terror in Via Sheldon Translated by Ulrich Krause (no link)
Archombrotus et Theopompus (1669)
GUILELMUS BUSCH
Maximilianus atque Mauritius Translated by Ervinus Carantanus Steindl. Munich: Braun and Schneider (1925) ( no link)
Max et Moritz Translated by Dr. G. Merten. Munich: Braun & Schneider, (1932) ( no link)
Maximi et Mauritii Malefacta Translated by Hugone Henerico ( no link)
Paoli. Bern: Franke, (1945) ( no link)
Max et Moritz (1958) ( no link)
Mus et Mopsus Translated by Alexandro Leonardo 1939, 1981 ( no link)
Maxus et Mauritius Translated by Franz Schlosser 1993 ( no link)
Fabellae Pueriles Translated by Erwin Steindl 1960 ( no link)
Plisch et Plum Translated by Ludovico Benning 1976 ( no link)
Carmina Jocosa et Seria Translated by Jurgen Behrens 2003 ( no link)
Civitatis Solis
Civitatis Solis (1602)
JOHN CAPART
Makita Translated by Francisca Deraedt 1997 ( no link)
JULIUS CAESAR
Bellum Helveticum Graphic edition, illustrations by Walter Schmid, abridged by Karl-Heinz Graf von Rothenburg 1996 ( no link)
Alice in Wonderland translated by Clive Harcourt Carruthers (1964) (2011) Chapter 1 to 6
Jabberwocky: Mors Jabrocchi Translated by Augustus Arthur Vansittart 1881
Gabberbochus Translated by Hassard Dodgson 1899
Ibavocus (English Rhymes with Latin Renderings) Translated by Huberti Watson 1937
Taetraferocias et Gabrobocchia Translated by Georgii Strugnell 1970
Mors Jabrocchi Translated by Augusti Vansittart 1972
The Hunting of the Snark Translated by Robert Percival 1934
The Hunting of the Snark Translated by Hubert Digby Watson 1936
Aliciae Per Speculum Transitus Translated by Clive Harcourt Carruthers (1966)
Daimon 1971 (out of print)
Ludus, sive convivium Saturnale
Tonstrina aedilibus Valetudinarii poetici ... locata Tubingae
Septimus 1935 (out of print)
Don Quixote 1988 translated by M. Torres
Dominus Quixotus a Manica Translated by Antonio Peral Torres 2005
Historia Domini Quijoti Manchegui Translated by Ignatius Calvo y Sanchez.
FRANCIS PHARCELLUS CHURCH AND VIRGINIA O'HANLON
Vere, Virginia, Sanctus Nicolaus Est! Translated by Walter Sauer and Hermann Wiegand 2001
Dissertatio satyrica physico-medico-moralis de pica nasi, sive tabaci sternutatorii moderno abusu, & noxa
Pinnochio translated by U.E. Paoli (1962)
Pinoculus Translated by Enrico Maffacini 1951
LOUIS COUPERUS
De Morte Vestae Translated by Wolfgang Jenniges (2006)
Satyra Menippea Iuliani Caesares
The Divine Comedy translated into Latin by Pasquali-Marinelli (1874)
Magistri Corneli Secretum translated by Paulo Kangiser
Summi Pontificis Mula translated by Genovela Immé
Robinson Crusoeus translated by Arcadius Avellanus (1896)
Rebilius Crusoe translated by F.W. Newman (1884)
Robinson Crusoeus translated by F J Goffaux (1809)
Robinsonius Minor translated by JFG Nagel (1823)
Robinsonius Secundus translated by P J Lieberkuhn (1785)
XAVIER DE MAISTRE
Exules Siberiani Translated by H.D. Broadhead 1932
CHARLES DICKENS
Carmen ad Festum Nativitatis Translated by Thomas Cotton 2014
Somnium Filii de Stella Translated by William Arthur Hanes (2013)
Spina Piscis Magica Translated by William Arthur Hanes (2013)
WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS
Donaldus Anas atque Nox Saraceni Translated by Iosephus Mir 1984
Michael Musculus et Lapis Sapientiae Translated by Carole Egger 1984
Donaldus Anas et Actiones Fuduciae Translated by Iosephus Mir
Scrugulus in re vere Mirabili Translated by Carole Egger
Scrugulus et Radius Contra Procellam Translated by Carole Egger
Michael Musculus et Regina Africae Translated by Carole Egger
JULIA DONALDSON
Gruffalo Translated by Ben Harris 2012
Amphitheatrum sapientiae Socraticae joco-seriae, hoc est, Encomia et commentaria autorum, qua veterum, qua recentiorum prope omnium: quibus res, aut pro vilibus vulgo aut damnosis habitae, styli patrocinio vindicantur, exornantur ... opus ad mysteria naturae descenda
The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk
Silver Blaze
The Adventure of the Yellow Face
Ritualia Musgraviensia Translated by Paul Churchill and Dale K. Ferwell. 1998
Sherlock Holmes Latin Reader Translated by Paul Churchill and Dale K. Ferwell.
DUFAUX - DELABY
Murex et Aurum Translated by Claudius Aziza and Catherina Rousset.
HANAH DIYAB
Aladdin and the Magic Lamp - Graphic Novel Style
Argonautici sive de Vellere Aureo : libri XXIV. (1778)
FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT
Romulus Magnus Translated by Nikolaus Gross
MARIE VON EBNER EXCHENBACH
De Crambambulo Translated by Nikolaus Gross
Joco-seria, id est Stultitiae laus et Utopia insula
Libellus facetus gestas res viginti quattuor parasitum iocundissime pertractans
Satyra Pransus Paratus in poetas et eorum contemptores
IAN FALCONER
Olivia Translated by Amy High 2007
Carolus et Maria 1933 (Available as an Audiobook by The Latinum Institute)
Fabulae Selectae J. Fontani
LOUISE FIELD
Petrus Cuniculus et Pa Translated by William Arthur Hanes 2015
Vituperium et damnatio pulicum
Saturnalitiae Coenae, variatae somnio, sive peregrinatione caelesti (1616)
CORNELIA FUNKE
De Gallinis Ferocibus Translated by Ulrich Krauss.
ARTHUR GIESERT
Numeri Romani Translated by Michael Gutzschhahn
CONRADUS GOEDDAEUS
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Werther Juvenis Quae Passus Sit Translated by Nicolaus Gross 2005
MERCEDES GONZALES -HABA
Tacitus Cattus 1997
Nova Solyma by Samuel Gott. This Latin novel was previously ascribed to the poet Milton, and indeed, Google Books, in some editions, has it catalogued with Milton as the author.
JEREMIAS GOTTHELF
De Aranea Nigra Translated by Nicolas Gross 1988
Ursulae Gansiae epistola arcana ad Ioannem Fridericum Herelium Noribergensem non ignoti satiricum
DUFF GRAHAM
Festum Nativitatis Christi Petri Cuniculi Translated by William A. Hanes.
KENNETH GRAHAM
Aurae Intersalices Translated by Thomas Cotton 2011
Selected Stories translated by Christopher Anstey
THOMAS GRAY
Fallentis Semita Vitae Translated by Robert Percival Brinton 1938
THE BROTHERS GRIMM
Rumpelstultulus Translated by John W. Fendrick 1978
Apologi Grimmiani Translated by Sigrides Albert 1988
Nonnulli Apologi Grimmiani Translated by Rochus Habitzky 2003
Fabellae Pueriles Translated by Nicolas Gross 2004
Ludibria maelevola clerici, vel proscrioptio pravae mercis et mentis
Tiresias seu Caecitatis encomium
Mundus Alter et Idem by Joseph Hall, 1605 (Being released in series as an Audiobook by The Latinum Institute)
BARBEL HAASM
De Thesauro Piratarum Translated by Helmut Russegger.
GERHART HAUPTMAN
De Thilo Custode Ferriviae Translated by Nikolaus Gross 2005
Via ad Servitutem 1944
THOMAS HAYES
Res Gestae Simii Pilosi Nasonis
Hercules tuam fidem, sive munsterus hypobolimaeus
Aethiopicorum Libri Decem Graece et Latine Contextum.
HERMANN HESSE
Sub Rota Translated by Sigrides C. Albert 1994
Duodecim Narrationes Translated by Sigrides C. Albert
Siddartha Translated by Antonius Peral Torres
HEINRICH HOFFMANN
The Latin Struwwelpeter Translated by W.H.D. Rouse 1934
Petrus Hirsutus Translated by Hans Jürgen Schmidt 1939
Petrus Hirsutus Translated by Petro Wiesmann 1954
Petrus Hirsutus Translated by Eduardus Bornemann 1979
Petrus Ericius Translated by Hugone Henrico Paoli 1960
Shock-headed Peter Translated by Peter Weismann 2002
ANTHONY HOPE
Captivus Zendae Translated by Thomas Cotton 2011
Pantaleonis Vaticinia Satyra (1633)
HANNA HUTCHINSON
Tres Ursi Translated by Lea Ann A. Osburn 1995
TOVE JANSSON
Tatae Muminis Commentarii Rerum Gestarum 1995
Tatae Muminis Commentarii Rerum Gestarum Translated by Konrad Kokoszkiewicz 2009
ERICH KASTNER
De Aemilio et Investigatoribus Translated by Ulrich Krauße 2011
Baronis Mynchusani Mirabilia Itinera et Pericula Marina Terrestiaque Translated by Nicolaus Gross
JOHN KEATS
Keatsi Hyperionis Libri Tres Translated by Carolus Merivale.
Somnium seu opus posthumum de astronomia lunari (1634)
JEFF KINNEY
Comentarii de Inepto Puero Translated by Daniel Gallagher 2015
KARL F. KIELMEYER
Disquisitio Chemica Acidularum Bergensium et Goeppingensium Translated by Nikolaus Gross 2006
RUDYARD KIPLING
Prorsus Taliter Fabulae ad Delectationem Parvulorum Translated by Louis Kelly 1982
Itinerarium Exstaticum (1660)
HEINRICH VON KLEIST
Anecdota Rei Proximo Bello Borussico Factae Translated by Nikolaus Gross 2004
Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterranneum 1741
WILLIAM KOTZWINKLE
Walter Canis Inflatus Translated by Rob Dobbin 2004
MUNRO LEAF
Ferdinandus Taurus Translated by Elizabeth Chamberlain Hadas 1962
Scydromedia by Antonius Legrand 1699
Fables translated by Thomas Erpenius
Haiwatha translated by Francis William Newman 1862
ELIAS LONROTT
Kalevala Latina, Carmen Epicum Nationis Finnorum Translated by Tuomo Pekkanen 1996
The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath translated by Alexander Ricius
Grunnius sophista sive pelagus humanae miseriae
Domus atque Mens translated by Arcadius Avellanus
DOROTHY MACLAREN
Esopus Hodie 1985
JACQUES MARTIN
Alix, Spartici Filius Translated by Claudius Aziza and Michael Dubrocard 1983
ANDRE MARX
De Tribus Investigatoribus et Fato Draconis Translated by Ulrich Krause 2010
GUY DE MAUPASSANT
Quid Venale Fuerit Translated by Genovela
Immé
Cornelia 1933 (Available as an Audiobook by The Latinum Institute)
Winnie the Pooh translated by A. Lenard (1991)
Domus Anguli Puensis Translated by Brian Staples 1980
Winnie Ille Pu Semper Ludet Translated by Brian Staples 1998
The Necklace translated by Arcadius Avellanus
CLEMENT MOORE
Beata Illa Nox Translated by Hermann Wiegand and Walter Sauer 2005
KAREN MOORE
Libellus De Historia 2005
CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN
Carmina Lunovillia Translated by Peter Siesmann 1965
Parthenopei Novellae, Fabulae, Comoedia
Somnium, sive paralipomena Virgili
Somnium alterum, in lib. ii Lucreti praefatio
OGDEN NASH
Ave Ogden. Translated by James C. Gleeson and Brian N. Meyer 1973
Ulularum speculum, alias triumphus humanae stultitiae Vol 1
Erythraei Pinacotheca Imaginum Illustrium
DAVID C NOE
Tres Muri Caeci 2005
Gunnlaugi Ormstungu ok Skald-Rafni Saga
Historiola dē Brandō Līberālī.
Historia dē vitulō fulvam in fronte maculam habente.
Hervarar saga ok Heiðrekskongs
Hungurvaka, Páls Biskups Saga, ok Þattr Af Thorvalldi Vidförla
Narrātiō dē Egillō ex haustō sanguine nūncupātō.
Narrātiō dē Egillō Vendilskagēnsī
Nials Saga (Available as an Audiobook by The Latinum Institute - currently being released as a series)
Orkneyinga Saga & Saga Hins Helga Magnusar Eyia Jarls,
Rēs gestae Carolī Vesael dictī.
First Latin Reader 1912 (Available as an Audiobook by The Latinum Institute)
Ad Alpes (Available as an Audiobook by The Latinum Institute)
HELMUT OBERST
Plautus in Comics 1971
GEORGE ORWELL
Fundus Animalium Translated by Thomas Cotton 2012
Ciceronis Filius 1964
LUCY FITCH PERKINS
Gemini Batavi Translated by William Arthur Hanes 2015
Historia Lepida de Quibusdam Ebriis Mercatoribus
DANIEL PETTERSEN AND AMELIE ROSENGREN
Pugio Bruti (2018)
Opera nova in quibus mirifica, jocos salesque, poetica, historica et medica lib. v. complectitur
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Cattus Niger, Ranunculus & Puteus et Pendulum Translated by Nikolaus Gross 2004
Urania ( A poetical word filled with scene play like Alexandrian tales)
Psyche Cretica by Ludovicus Praschius
Facetiae 1689
Mons Spes translated by Arcadius Avellanus
Suppetiarium Mergularum translated by Arcadius Avelllanus
Quae mala accidant ei qui divitibus matrimonio iungitur
Julia 1941 (Available as an Audiobook by The Latinum Institute)
ALEMANNUS REINERUS
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE
De Nocte Olisiponensi Translated by Sigrides C. Albert 2002
H RIDER HAGGARD
Iani Nicii Erythraei Evdemiae Libri VIII. (1637)
Latin Stories for Reading or Telling 1935
J K ROWLING
Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis Translated by Peter Needham 2003
Harrius Potter et Camera Secretorum Translated by Peter Needham 2006
The Black Brothers translated by Arcadius Avellanus
The Little Prince translated by A. Haury (1961)
Regulus Translated by Alexander Winkler 2010
FRANCOISE SAGAN
Tristitia Salve Translated by Alexander Lenard 1964
Oratiuncula panegyrica: seu laus gonorrhoeae
De Parnasso et finitimis locis
ALEX SAXON
Memento Mori Translated by Nikolaus Gross.
HARRY SCHNUR
Gai Arri Nuri supplementum Petronianum 1992
Vallum Berolinense (Menippea) 1977
ANNA SCHMIDT
Jippus et Jannica Translated by Harm-Jan van Dam.
De Admirabili Fallacia et Astutia Vulpeculae Reinikes
E C SEGAR
Popeius - De Circi Mysterio Translated by Amadeus Pacitti 1985
THEODOR SEUSS GEISEL
O, Loca tu Ibis. Translated by Leone Roselle 1994
Quomodo Invidiosulus Nomine Grinchus Christi Natalem Translated by Jennifer Morrish Tunberg and Terence O. Tunberg 1998
Cattus Petasatus Translated by Jennifer Morrish Tunberg and Terence O. Tunberg. 2000
Virent Ova Virent Perna Translated by Jennifer Morrish Tunberg and Terence O. Tunberg. 2003
MAURICE SENDAK
Ubi Fera Sunt Translated by Richard A. LaFleur 2015
Hamlet - To be or not to be translated by C. Pavur
Sertum Shakespearianum Translated by Henry Latham
SHEL SILVERSTEIN
Arbor Alma Translated by Guenevera Tunberg and Terentius Tunberg. 2002
DOROTHY SIMKO
Prisca et Silvanus, Augusta Raurica Deleta Translated by Bruno W. Häuptli
Prisca et Silvanus, Turbida Tempora Augustae Rauricae Translated by Bruno W. Häuptli and Maurcus Clausen.
ALBERT SIXTUS
Lepusculorum Scholastica Translated by Herimanno Wiegand 2007
BRIAN J SMITH
Volatus ad Lunam 2010
Ora Maritima 1927 (Available as an Audiobook by The Latinum Institute)
Pro Patria 1907 (Available as an Audiobook by The Latinum Institute)
Mysterium Arcae Boule Translated by Arcadius Avellanus.
Treasure Island translated by Arcadius Avellanus ( Currently being released in series as an audio book by The Latinum Institute)
Ostium Cl. V. De Maletroit translated by Arcadius Avellanus
Carmina Non Prius Audita De Ludis et Hortis Virginibus Puerisque Translated by T.R. Glover 1922
THEODORE STORM
De Speculo Cypriani Translated by Rochus Habitzky.
Viola Tricolor Translated by Rochus Habitzky.
Fabulae Divales translated by Arcadius Avellanus
AUGUST STRINDBERG
Scidula Translated by Wolfgang Jenniges 2012
PATRICK SUSKIND
Fragrantia, Historia Homicida Translated by Nikolaus Gross
ALTA TABOR
Villi Mus Translated by William Arthur Hanes 2013
J.R.R. TOLKEIN
Hobitus Ille Translated??? by Mark Walker
P L TRAVERS
Maria Popina ab A - Z Translated by G.M. Lyne 1968
HARRIET TAYLOR TREADWELL
Musici Bremae et Fabulae Alterae Translated by Brian John Smith 2009
Facetiae Latinae et Germanicae
De Vita Caroli Magni et Rolandi
MARK TWAIN
A Ghost Story Translated by Alexander George Kozak 1996
Ben Hur illustrated
E B WHITE
Tela Charlottae Translated by Bernice L. Fox 1985
CHRISTOPH MARTIN WEILAND
Historia Agathonis Translated by Nikolaus Gross.
OSCAR WILDE
Princeps Felix et Aliae Fabulae Translated by Anna Everet Book 2016
ROSE WILLIAMS
Ursus et Porcus, Taurus Rex, Octavus Octapus, Rena Rhinoceros 2008
Tres Porculi 2006
Columbetes, sive de arte natandi dialogus
De eo quod iustum est circa spiritus familiares foeminarum, hoc est pulices
Academia prima, sive de stylo poetica
Academia secunda, sive de stylo poetica
Comparatio Constantini Germanici Et Sarckmasii
Dissertationum ludicrarum et amoenitatum scriptores varii
Facetus 'Cum nihil utilius ...'
Ludicrarum et amoenitatum scriptores varii
Medieval Latin Tales from Germany
Momus, sive satyra Varroniana, poesi poetisque cognoscendis accommodata
Historia Calumniae Novercalis
Gaeomemphionis Cantaliensis Satyricon
Thanks to David Porter and Diane Warne Anderson for suggestions.