5 Books for Women in Translation Month (WIT Month)

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01 Aug 202531 Aug 2025

Overview

Try to read five (or more) WIT books for this year’s Women in Translation Month.

Unfortunately, women in translation are still underrepresented in literature. Women in Translation Month tries to combat this by celebrating books that were written and/or translated by women. It takes place every August. 

Challenge Books

All books added

301 pages hardcover 2022

fiction contemporary literary hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

3 hours, 56 minutes audio 2018

nonfiction memoir psychology emotional reflective medium-paced

115 pages paperback 2025 user-added

fiction short stories challenging dark reflective medium-paced

144 pages paperback 2006

fiction contemporary literary dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Água Viva

Clarice Lispector

102 pages paperback 1973

fiction literary dark reflective slow-paced

234 pages digital 2015

fiction lgbtqia+ short stories emotional reflective medium-paced

4 hours audio 1984

fiction autobiography classics literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4 hours, 53 minutes audio 2017

fiction lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective medium-paced

149 pages paperback 2018 user-added

fiction autobiography lgbtqia+ reflective fast-paced

474 pages paperback

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ romance dark mysterious tense medium-paced