Recs if you like The Discomfort of Evening...

in which nothing happens or a lot happens, but sometimes it feels like nothing at all.

also known as: lit fic that feels like a dream or a nightmare or a hallucination.

winners, shortlist and longlist (this will be a very long list indeed). complete from 2016-2026

This list will contain books that made me go, "Wait what?" I am still not sure if I completely get them but I i think I semi-liked some of them 🤣 (p.s. I am adding recs by other users so some i havent read yet)

A list with ALL longlisted titles from the National Book Award for Translated Literature (USA) and the International Booker prize (UK) .

Updated once new nominees are announced.

Currently updated with: • NBA 2018-2025 • International Booker 2016-2026

A list to help those who aspire to read from authors outside the typical areas. I will be creating different list for different regions. I will also list the countries currently found in the list. Be sure to check out the other lists! Note: The countries are not perfect as some countries are classified differently, so I did my best.

Current Countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Wales

I love love love a novel written by a poet — imaginative beautiful prose galore!

Fasten your seatbelts and travel through Europe with these books from every European country!

(Suggestions are very welcome, specially for any missing countries)

longlists of every year from 2016 onwards

books from outside of the us that have taken home the gold (ideally in translation)

some of the books selected are from authors who were overall recognized

The International Booker Prize is awarded yearly to the best works of long-form fiction or collections of short stories translated into English and published in the UK and/or Ireland.

the best of the low lands. learn about life in slavery under dutch colony rule or the big flood in 1953, when the water bursts through the dikes, or get entangled in the eccentricities of connie palmens seven men. personal recommendation is the song of stork and dromedary by anjet daanje, a gothic and philosophical novel about a character based on daanjes favorite writer: emily brönte.

all translated from dutch, except for ‘the safekeep’ (original written in english by yael van der wouden)

Fiction books set in the Netherlands

books that my thoughts always come back to because of how they made me feel. they don't even necessarily have to have been five star reads.