Literature in Translation

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

28,437 members

315 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

19,124 members

308 reviews

4.2

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

3

2666

by Roberto Bolaño

6,421 members

174 reviews

4.1

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

4

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

12,568 members

193 reviews

4

2 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963

5

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

27,157 members

405 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Spanish

6

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

Around the World in Eighty Days

2,987 members

71 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Portuguese

7

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

16,321 members

258 reviews

3.8

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

8

by Patrick Süskind

17,591 members

432 reviews

3.9

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

9

Autobiography of a Corpse

by Sigismund Krzyżanowski

320 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

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

10

Kafka in Tangier

by Mohammed Said Hjiouij

16 members

9 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: hjiouij

11

The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

42,712 members

739 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

12

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy

27,707 members

428 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Bretzky1

13

Death with Interruptions

2,984 members

115 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Portuguese

14

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

25,292 members

327 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Bretzky1

15

Blindness

All Quiet on the Western Front

12,648 members

379 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

16

The Maias

by Eça de Queirós

1,059 members

29 reviews

4.1

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

17

Beowulf

by Beowulf poet

24,448 members

330 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

18

by Erich Maria Remarque

18,339 members

391 reviews

4.1

Member: Bretzky1

19

Crime and Punishment

20,000 Leagues under the Sea

42,467 members

477 reviews

4.2

Member: Bretzky1

20

Suite Française

by Irène Némirovsky

9,726 members

340 reviews

4

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

21

Kafka on the Shore

by Haruki Murakami

17,506 members

473 reviews

4.1

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

22

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

17,430 members

238 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

23

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

14,157 members

220 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

24

Fatelessness

by Imre Kertész

2,193 members

70 reviews

4.1

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

25

The Iliad

by Homer

38,138 members

373 reviews

4

Member: Bretzky1

26

The Savage Detectives

by Roberto Bolaño

5,153 members

121 reviews

4

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Spanish

27

The Alchemist

by Paulo Coelho

37,671 members

1,008 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

28

Don Quixote

29,523 members

428 reviews

4.1

Member: Bretzky1

29

Sepharad

by Antonio Muñoz Molina

515 members

17 reviews

4.1

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

30

The Stranger

by Albert Camus

34,366 members

491 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

31

Fathers and Sons

by Ivan Turgenev

8,471 members

125 reviews

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

32

La lune et les feux

by Cesare Pavese

1,360 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

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

33

The Girl Who Played with Fire

by Stieg Larsson

29,483 members

914 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

34

Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

27,040 members

372 reviews

4

Member: Bretzky1

35

My Name Is Red

by Orhan Pamuk

6,882 members

167 reviews

3.8

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

36

Candide

by Voltaire

19,950 members

306 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

37

Notes from Underground

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

11,999 members

148 reviews

4.1

Member: Bretzky1

38

The Flanders Panel

by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

3,685 members

75 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Spanish

39

Sophie's World

by Jostein Gaarder

18,270 members

279 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

40

The Phantom of the Opera

by Gaston Leroux

12,416 members

195 reviews

3.8

Member: Bretzky1

41

Selected Writings

by Gérard de Nerval

260 members

3 reviews

3.8

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

42

by Haruki Murakami

17,420 members

373 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

43

The Mysterious Island

Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus

4,602 members

76 reviews

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

44

by Sophocles

12,698 members

50 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

45

The Tale of the 1002nd Night

by Joseph Roth

370 members

8 reviews

3.9

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

46

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

12,117 members

253 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

47

Foucault's Pendulum

by Umberto Eco

17,153 members

252 reviews

3.9

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

48

Daughter of Fortune

by Isabel Allende

8,503 members

189 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

49

The Swallows of Kabul

by Yasmina Khadra

1,279 members

69 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: French

50

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

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

1,133 members

3 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ahef1963

51

by Stieg Larsson

41,970 members

1,714 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

52

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories

by Ida Fink

175 members

1 review

3.8

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

53

Accidental Death of an Anarchist

by Dario Fo

490 members

16 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Italian.

54

Wonder

by Hugo Claus

228 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

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

55

Six Characters in Search of an Author

by Luigi Pirandello

1,368 members

29 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Italian.

56

View with a Grain of Sand

by Wisława Szymborska

1,163 members

15 reviews

½ 4.3

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

57

The Land of Green Plums

by Herta Müller

1,047 members

41 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: German

58

Sarah's Key

by Tatiana de Rosnay

10,861 members

645 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: French.

59

The War of the End of the World

by Mario Vargas Llosa

2,241 members

47 reviews

4.2

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

60

The Hiding Place

by Corrie Ten Boom

9,630 members

144 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Dutch.

61

Faceless Killers

by Henning Mankell

5,263 members

199 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Swedish.

62

A Short History of Decay

by E. M. Cioran

782 members

7 reviews

4

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

63

The Redbreast

by Jo Nesbø

4,340 members

156 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Norwegian.

64

Count Julian

by Juan Goytisolo

211 members

4 reviews

3.9

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

65

The Immoralist

by André Gide

3,265 members

44 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: French.

66

The Obscene Bird of Night

by José Donoso

819 members

13 reviews

4

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

67

Jar City

by Arnaldur Indridason

2,898 members

136 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Icelandic.

68

Sagarana

by João Guimarães Rosa

300 members

3 reviews

½ 4.5

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

69

The Keeper of Lost Causes

by Jussi Adler-Olsen

3,541 members

208 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

1,206 members

13 reviews

3.9

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

71

The Tin Drum

by Günter Grass

7,412 members

91 reviews

4

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

72

Baltasar and Blimunda