Literature in Translation

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

34,517 members

395 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: Bretzky1, MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Russian. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Translation. 1991

2

The Name of the Rose

by Umberto Eco

21,770 members

334 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Italian. William Weaver Translation. 1984

3

2666

by Roberto Bolaño

7,787 members

213 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Bretzky1, MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Spanish. Natasha Wimmer Translation. 2009

4

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

14,542 members

232 reviews

4

2 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963

5

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

30,960 members

445 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Spanish

6

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

Around the World in Eighty Days

3,515 members

70 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Portuguese

7

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

20,227 members

301 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: French.

8

by Patrick Süskind

20,330 members

497 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: German. John E. Woods Translation. 1987

9

Autobiography of a Corpse

by Sigismund Krzyżanowski

433 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Russian. Joanne Turnbull & Nikolai Formozov Translation. 2014

10

Kafka in Tangier

by Mohammed Said Hjiouij

18 members

9 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: hjiouij

11

The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

53,167 members

874 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

12

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy

33,611 members

511 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Bretzky1

13

Death with Interruptions

3,612 members

121 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Portuguese

14

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

30,687 members

380 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Bretzky1

15

Blindness

All Quiet on the Western Front

14,628 members

432 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

16

The Maias

by Eça de Queirós

1,277 members

30 reviews

4.1

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Portuguese. Margaret Jull Costa Translation. 2008

17

Beowulf

by Beowulf Poet

29,324 members

362 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

18

by Erich Maria Remarque

22,099 members

440 reviews

4.1

Member: Bretzky1

19

Crime and Punishment

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

51,784 members

576 reviews

4.2

Member: Bretzky1

20

Suite Française

by Irène Némirovsky

10,626 members

357 reviews

4

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: French. Sandra Smith Translation. 2007

21

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

21,397 members

283 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

22

Kafka on the Shore

by Haruki Murakami

20,698 members

530 reviews

4

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Japanese. Philip Gabriel Translation. 2006

23

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

17,603 members

264 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

24

Fatelessness

by Imre Kertész

2,583 members

73 reviews

4.1

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Hungarian. Tim Wilkinson Translation. 2005

25

The Iliad

by Homer

47,633 members

448 reviews

4

Member: Bretzky1

26

The Savage Detectives

by Roberto Bolaño

6,181 members

138 reviews

4

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Spanish

27

The Alchemist

by Paulo Coelho

44,274 members

1,129 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

28

Don Quixote

35,903 members

532 reviews

4.1

Member: Bretzky1

29

Sepharad

by Antonio Muñoz Molina

587 members

17 reviews

4

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Spanish. Margaret Sayers Peden Translation. 2004

30

The Stranger

by Albert Camus

40,900 members

581 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

31

Fathers and Sons

by Ivan Turgenev

10,049 members

148 reviews

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

32

The Moon and the Bonfires

by Cesare Pavese

1,647 members

32 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Italian. R.W. Flint Translation. 2003

33

The Girl Who Played with Fire

by Stieg Larsson

33,708 members

977 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

34

Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

31,417 members

420 reviews

4

Member: Bretzky1

35

My Name Is Red

by Orhan Pamuk

7,755 members

185 reviews

3.8

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Turkish. Erda M Göknar Translation.

36

Candide

by Voltaire

23,150 members

344 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

37

Notes from Underground

Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy

14,912 members

188 reviews

4.1

Member: Bretzky1

38

The Flanders Panel

by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

4,083 members

83 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Spanish

39

by Jostein Gaarder

20,795 members

317 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

40

The Phantom of the Opera

by Gaston Leroux

15,579 members

227 reviews

3.8

Member: Bretzky1

41

Gérard de Nerval: Selected Writings

by Gérard de Nerval

300 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: French. Richard Sieburth Translation. 2000

42

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel

by Haruki Murakami

19,673 members

405 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

43

The Mysterious Island

Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus

5,559 members

92 reviews

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

44

by Sophocles

15,271 members

62 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

45

The Tale of the 1002nd Night

by Joseph Roth

428 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: German. Michael Hofmann Translation. 1999

46

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

14,300 members

284 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

47

Foucault's Pendulum

by Umberto Eco

19,190 members

275 reviews

3.9

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Italian. William Weaver Translation. 1990

48

Daughter of Fortune

by Isabel Allende

9,591 members

203 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

49

The Swallows of Kabul

by Yasmina Khadra

1,427 members

70 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: French

50

Crime and Punishment [Norton Critical Edition, 3rd ed.]

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

1,330 members

6 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ahef1963

51

by Stieg Larsson

48,000 members

1,819 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

52

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories

by Ida Fink

209 members

1 review

3.9

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Polish. Madeline Levine and Francine Prose Translation. 1988

53

Wonder

by Hugo Claus

248 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Dutch. Michael Henry Heim Translation. 2010

54

Methuen Student Editions : Fo : Accidental Death of an Anarchist {Nye}

by Joseph Farrell

157 members

3 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Italian.

55

Six Characters in Search of an Author

by Luigi Pirandello

1,655 members

38 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Italian.

56

View with a Grain of Sand

by Wislawa Szymborska

1,357 members

16 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Polish. Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh 1996

57

The Land of Green Plums

by Herta Müller

1,210 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: German

58

Sarah's Key

by Tatiana de Rosnay

12,256 members

679 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: French.

59

The War of the End of the World

by Mario Vargas Llosa

2,638 members

54 reviews

4.2

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Spanish. Helen R. Lane. 1985

60

The Hiding Place

by Corrie ten Boom

12,476 members

165 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Dutch.

61

Faceless Killers

by Henning Mankell

5,800 members

224 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Swedish.

62

A Short History of Decay

by E. M. Cioran

1,039 members

7 reviews

4

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: French. Richard Howard Translation. 1976

63

The Redbreast

by Jo Nesbø

4,921 members

167 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Norwegian.

64

Count Julian

by Juan Goytisolo

255 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Spanish. Helen R. Lane Translation. 1975

65

The Immoralist

by André Gide

3,691 members

51 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: French.

66

The Obscene Bird of Night

by José Donoso

1,025 members

15 reviews

4

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Spanish. Hardie St. Martin and Leonard Mades Translation. 1974

67

Jar City

by Arnaldur Indriðason

3,156 members

145 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Icelandic.

68

Sagarana

by João Guimarães Rosa

391 members

7 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Portuguese. Harriet de Onis Translation. 1967

69

The Keeper of Lost Causes

by Jussi Adler-Olsen

4,149 members

233 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Danish.

70

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

by Peter Weiss

1,379 members

15 reviews

3.9

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: German. Geoffrey Skelton and Adrian Mitchell Translation. 1966

71

The Tin Drum

by Günter Grass

8,409 members

104 reviews

4

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: German. Ralph Manheim Translation. 1964

72

Baltasar and Blimunda