john, your list inspired me to try my hand at this! but i'll go slow and put down my top 25 for books first. And again they are in no particular order. Regarding non-English works, I've restricted myself to what is available in translation. 

Books

1. Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
2. If On a Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino
3. Love In The Time Of Cholera/ No One Writes To The Colonel - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
4. Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
5. A Perfect Peace - Amos Oz
6. In an Antique Land - Amitav Ghosh
7. Poems of Paul Celan 
8. Everything that Shakespeare ever wrote (if i'm forced to choose, then "Macbeth"...also for the widely different interpretations of it in film, like Polanski's "Macbeth", Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood", Wajda's "Siberian Lady Macbeth", ", Vishal Bharadwaj's "Maqbool" and so on) 
9. Perfume - Patrick Suskind (Tom Tykwer's film based on this novel in in production...am looking forward to it)
10. The Idiot - Dostoevsky
11. Everything by Michel Foucault ("This Is Not A Pipe" on Magritte's paintings, occupy a special place)
12. Ulysses - James Joyce
13. Poems of Constantine Cavafy
14. Poems of Miroslav Holub
15. Another Life - Derek Walcott
16. Poems of Ted Hughes, especially "Crow"
17. The Joke - Milan Kundera
18. The Flowers of Evil - Charles Baudelaire
19. Four Quartets - T. S. Eliot
20. And Really Frau Blum Would Very Much Like to Meet the Milkman - Peter Bichsel 
21. The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass 
22. The Castle - Franz Kafka
23. The Arcades Project - Walter Benjamin
24. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
25. In The Forest (Aranyak) - Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay

There is a lot I've left out. The hazards of lists!!!

M