Literature in Translation

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

30,232 members

341 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

19,869 members

309 reviews

4.2

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

3

2666

by Roberto Bolaño

6,810 members

186 reviews

4.1

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

4

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

13,222 members

206 reviews

4

2 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963

5

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

28,323 members

410 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Spanish

6

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

Around the World in Eighty Days

3,168 members

64 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Portuguese

7

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

17,602 members

271 reviews

3.8

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

8

by Patrick Süskind

18,442 members

457 reviews

3.9

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

9

Autobiography of a Corpse

by Sigismund Krzyżanowski

356 members

3 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

45,925 members

778 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

12

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy

29,564 members

459 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Bretzky1

13

Death with Interruptions

3,182 members

108 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Portuguese

14

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

26,885 members

337 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Bretzky1

15

Blindness

All Quiet on the Western Front

13,310 members

398 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

16

The Maias

by Eça de Queirós

1,130 members

29 reviews

4.1

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

17

Beowulf

by Beowulf Poet

26,100 members

334 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

18

by Erich Maria Remarque

19,429 members

408 reviews

4.1

Member: Bretzky1

19

Crime and Punishment

20,000 Leagues under the Sea

45,289 members

496 reviews

4.2

Member: Bretzky1

20

Suite Française

by Irène Némirovsky

10,040 members

349 reviews

4

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

21

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

19,007 members

258 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

22

Kafka on the Shore

by Haruki Murakami

18,417 members

479 reviews

4.1

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

23

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

15,265 members

227 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

24

Fatelessness

by Imre Kertész

2,303 members

70 reviews

4.1

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

25

The Iliad

by Homer

40,929 members

470 reviews

4

Member: Bretzky1

26

The Savage Detectives

by Roberto Bolaño

5,457 members

124 reviews

4

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Spanish

27

The Alchemist

by Paulo Coelho

40,165 members

1,040 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

28

Don Quixote

31,391 members

457 reviews

4.1

Member: Bretzky1

29

Sepharad

by Antonio Muñoz Molina

536 members

17 reviews

4

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

30

The Stranger

by Albert Camus

36,296 members

512 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

31

Fathers and Sons

by Ivan Turgenev

9,004 members

131 reviews

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

32

The Moon and the Bonfires

by Cesare Pavese

1,447 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

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

33

The Girl Who Played with Fire

by Stieg Larsson

30,942 members

934 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

34

Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

28,411 members

386 reviews

4

Member: Bretzky1

35

My Name Is Red

by Orhan Pamuk

7,112 members

174 reviews

3.8

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

36

Candide

by Voltaire

20,972 members

318 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

37

Notes from Underground

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

12,884 members

157 reviews

4.1

Member: Bretzky1

38

The Flanders Panel

by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

3,815 members

77 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: Spanish

39

Sophie's World

by Jostein Gaarder

19,033 members

287 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

40

The Phantom of the Opera

by Gaston Leroux

13,434 members

204 reviews

3.8

Member: Bretzky1

41

Selected Writings

by Gérard de Nerval

270 members

3 reviews

3.8

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

42

by Haruki Murakami

18,183 members

372 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

43

The Mysterious Island

Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus

4,868 members

80 reviews

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

44

by Sophocles

13,507 members

52 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

45

The Tale of the 1002nd Night

by Joseph Roth

394 members

8 reviews

3.8

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

46

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

12,767 members

261 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

47

Foucault's Pendulum

by Umberto Eco

17,730 members

259 reviews

3.9

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

48

Daughter of Fortune

by Isabel Allende

8,859 members

192 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

49

The Swallows of Kabul

by Yasmina Khadra

1,313 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

1,179 members

4 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ahef1963

51

by Stieg Larsson

43,862 members

1,752 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

52

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories

by Ida Fink

189 members

1 review

3.8

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

53

Wonder

by Hugo Claus

234 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

139 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Italian.

55

Six Characters in Search of an Author

by Luigi Pirandello

1,473 members

30 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Italian.

56

View with a Grain of Sand

by Wisława Szymborska

1,236 members

14 reviews

½ 4.3

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

57

The Land of Green Plums

by Herta Müller

1,102 members

45 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: MMFalcone
Explanations: MMFalcone: German

58

Sarah's Key

by Tatiana de Rosnay

11,254 members

661 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: French.

59

The War of the End of the World

by Mario Vargas Llosa

2,360 members

48 reviews

4.2

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

60

The Hiding Place

by Corrie ten Boom

10,640 members

153 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Dutch.

61

Faceless Killers

by Henning Mankell

5,411 members

206 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Swedish.

62

A Short History of Decay

by E. M. Cioran

885 members

7 reviews

4

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

63

The Redbreast

by Jo Nesbø

4,541 members

159 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Norwegian.

64

Count Julian

by Juan Goytisolo

226 members

4 reviews

3.8

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

65

The Immoralist

by André Gide

3,401 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: French.

66

The Obscene Bird of Night

by José Donoso

870 members

13 reviews

4.1

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

67

Jar City

by Arnaldur Indridason

2,975 members

141 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Icelandic.

68

Sagarana

by João Guimarães Rosa

326 members

5 reviews

½ 4.5

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

69

The Keeper of Lost Causes

by Jussi Adler-Olsen

3,690 members

220 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

1,260 members

13 reviews

3.9

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

71

The Tin Drum

by Günter Grass

7,712 members

94 reviews

4

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

72

Baltasar and Blimunda