Best-of-the-year lists just aren't as popular outside the US/UK.
One of the more notable ones (of the few ...) in France is Lire's Palmarès Lire: les 20 meilleurs livres de l'année 2013 -- which isn't strictly speaking a top twenty list -- which they announced a couple of weeks ago.
They crown a book of the year -- Nobel Prize-favorite Svetlana Alexievich's latest (available in English ? ha !) -- but otherwise select a top book in any number of (well, nineteen) categories, including: best foreign novel (Mudwoman by Joyce Carol Oates), best first foreign novel (Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers), and so on.
At least a lot of these are available in English -- because they were written in English. (Tellingly, none of the winners that weren't written in English is available in English -- though the Pierre Lemaitre (best French novel) will be sooner rather than later).)
At least a lot of these are available in English -- because they were written in English. (Tellingly, none of the winners that weren't written in English is available in English -- though the Pierre Lemaitre (best French novel) will be sooner rather than later).)