BOOK RIOT’S 2021 READ HARDER CHALLENGE - hosted by bookriot

Read a non-European novel in translation
All books added
My Brilliant Life by Kim Ae-ran

My Brilliant Life

Kim Ae-ran

208 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

fiction literary emotional reflective slow-paced
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende

The Japanese Lover

Isabel Allende

322 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

fiction literary romance emotional slow-paced
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Dai Sijie

184 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

fiction historical emotional reflective medium-paced
Heaven by Mieko Kawakami

Heaven

Mieko Kawakami

190 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary dark emotional sad medium-paced
The Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo

The Inugami Curse

Detective Kosuke Kindaichi #4

Seishi Yokomizo

320 pages • first pub 1950 (editions)

fiction crime mystery dark mysterious medium-paced
Soul Lanterns by Shaw Kuzki

Soul Lanterns

Shaw Kuzki

176 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction childrens historical emotional reflective slow-paced
If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha

If I Had Your Face

Frances Cha

274 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 1 by Osamu Tezuka, Takashi Nagasaki, Naoki Urasawa

Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 1

Pluto #1

Osamu Tezuka, Takashi Nagasaki, Naoki Urasawa

200 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

fiction manga science fiction adventurous slow-paced
Sailor Moon Eternal Edition 1 by Naoko Takeuchi

Sailor Moon Eternal Edition 1

美少女戦士セーラームーン 完全版 Bishōjo senshi Sailor Moon Kanzenban #1

Naoko Takeuchi

304 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

fiction fantasy manga adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced
City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende

City of the Beasts

Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar #1

Isabel Allende

408 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous mysterious medium-paced