Translated Lit

Please note that this is by no means a fully comprehensive list. This is a start in a journey to try to read more globally, and I would love to hear your translated literature recommendations

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created by ScoutB

last updated December, 2025

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Ooo this is a fun list! Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar (Rayuela in Spanish) apparently has the same translator as One Hundred Years of Solitude, and I've heard good things about Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung (translated by Anton Hur)

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ooh I'll have to add them to my TBR!

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Love it! I’ve got some titles for your list!

All by Bora Chung: Cursed Bunny, Your Utopia, and The Midnight Timetable

Petty Lies, by Sulmi Bak

Blood Ties, by Jo Nesbo

Discontent, by Beatriz Serrano

Vanishing World, by Sayaka Murata

Thirst, by Marina Yuszczuk

Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein, by Anne Eekhout

What Mother Won’t Tell Me, by Ivar Leon Menger

Like Animals, by Eve Lemieux

Same Bed Different Dream, by Ed Park

Paradise Rot, by Jenny Hval

Tender is the Flesh, by Agustina Bazterrica

The Vegetarian, by Han Kang

My Husband, by Maud Ventura

I Who Have Never Known Men, by Jacqueline Harpman

Our Share of Night, by Marina Enriquez

The Memory Police, by Yoko Ogawa

The Unworthy, by Agustina Bazterrica

We Do Not Part, by Han Kang

Kitchen, by Banana Yoshimoto

The House of Spirits, by Isabel Allende

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