Read a book from a language you’ve read before

Women in Translation Readathon | 2022 - hosted by kdwinchester

Newer WIT reader option: Try a work in translation from a country you’ve read about in your own language
More challenging option: Read a book from an author you’ve read before

All books added

All Yours
Claudia Piñeiro with Miranda France (Translator)

172 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced

All Yours

Claudia Piñeiro with Miranda France (Translator)

172 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Your Ad Could Go Here by Oksana Zabuzhko

Your Ad Could Go Here
Oksana Zabuzhko with Nina Shevchuk-Murray (Translator), Halyna Hryn (Translator), Askold Melnyczuk (Translator), Marco Carynnyk (Translator), Marta Horban (Translator)

252 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

fiction short stories challenging reflective medium-paced

Your Ad Could Go Here

Oksana Zabuzhko with Nina Shevchuk-Murray (Translator), Halyna Hryn (Translator), Askold Melnyczuk (Translator), Marco Carynnyk (Translator), Marta Horban (Translator)

252 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

fiction short stories challenging reflective medium-paced

In Other Words
Jhumpa Lahiri with Ann Goldstein (Translator)

256 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction memoir inspiring reflective medium-paced

In Other Words

Jhumpa Lahiri with Ann Goldstein (Translator)

256 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction memoir inspiring reflective medium-paced

Lemon
Kwon Yeo-sun with Janet Hong (Translator)

147 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction literary mystery dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

Lemon

Kwon Yeo-sun with Janet Hong (Translator)

147 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction literary mystery dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga

Our Lady of the Nile
Scholastique Mukasonga with Melanie Mauthner (Translator)

250 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

fiction historical challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

Our Lady of the Nile

Scholastique Mukasonga with Melanie Mauthner (Translator)

250 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

fiction historical challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

Iza's Ballad
Magda Szabó with George Szirtes (Translator)

352 pages • first pub 1963 (editions)

fiction literary emotional reflective medium-paced

Iza's Ballad

Magda Szabó with George Szirtes (Translator)

352 pages • first pub 1963 (editions)

fiction literary emotional reflective medium-paced

Woman at Point Zero
Nawal El Saadawi with Sherif Hetata (Translator), Miriam Cooke (Contributor)

160 pages • first pub 1975 (editions)

fiction literary challenging dark reflective medium-paced

Woman at Point Zero

Nawal El Saadawi with Sherif Hetata (Translator), Miriam Cooke (Contributor)

160 pages • first pub 1975 (editions)

fiction literary challenging dark reflective medium-paced

The Inseparables
Simone de Beauvoir with Lauren Elkin (Translator), Deborah Levy (Contributor), Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir (Contributor)

137 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction literary challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

The Inseparables

Simone de Beauvoir with Lauren Elkin (Translator), Deborah Levy (Contributor), Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir (Contributor)

137 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction literary challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

Medea
Christa Wolf

198 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

fiction literary dark reflective slow-paced

Medea

Christa Wolf

198 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

fiction literary dark reflective slow-paced

Gesichter
Tove Ditlevsen

160 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction contemporary dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Gesichter

Tove Ditlevsen

160 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction contemporary dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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