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5 Books for National Translation Month

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4 participants (9 books)

01 Sep 2025—30 Sep 2025

Overview

September is (Inter)National Translation Month!

Inspired by the 5 Books for Women in Translation Month challenge by maren_218, I started this to track books I want to read, but anyone is welcome to join and aim for five translated works in September!

5 Books for National Translation Month

phonotactless Host

4 participants (9 books)

STARTS: 01 Sep 2025ENDS: 30 Sep 2025

Overview

September is (Inter)National Translation Month!

Inspired by the 5 Books for Women in Translation Month challenge by maren_218, I started this to track books I want to read, but anyone is welcome to join and aim for five translated works in September!

Challenge Books

All books added

Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga

Nervous Conditions
Nervous Conditions #1

Tsitsi Dangarembga

204 pages • paperback • 1988 (editions)

fiction classics historical literary challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

fiction classics historical literary challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga

Nervous Conditions

Nervous Conditions #1

Tsitsi Dangarembga

204 pages • paperback • 1988

fiction classics historical literary challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

fiction classics historical literary challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk with Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)

274 pages • hardcover • 2009 (editions)

fiction crime literary mystery thriller dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

fiction crime literary mystery thriller dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Olga Tokarczuk with Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)

274 pages • hardcover • 2009

fiction crime literary mystery thriller dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

fiction crime literary mystery thriller dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

The Door by Magda Szabó

The Door
Magda Szabó with Len Rix (Translator)

262 pages • hardcover • 1987 (editions)

fiction classics literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced

fiction classics literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced

The Door by Magda Szabó

The Door

Magda Szabó with Len Rix (Translator)

262 pages • hardcover • 1987

fiction classics literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced

fiction classics literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy

321 pages • hardcover • 1997 (editions)

fiction classics literary dark emotional sad slow-paced

fiction classics literary dark emotional sad slow-paced

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things

321 pages • hardcover • 1997

fiction classics literary dark emotional sad slow-paced

fiction classics literary dark emotional sad slow-paced

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
Elif Shafak

312 pages • hardcover • 2019 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

312 pages • hardcover • 2019

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

The House of the Spirits
Del Valle Family #1

Isabel Allende with Magda Bogin (Translator)

448 pages • paperback • 1982 (editions)

fiction historical literary magical realism emotional reflective medium-paced

fiction historical literary magical realism emotional reflective medium-paced

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

The House of the Spirits

Del Valle Family #1

Isabel Allende with Magda Bogin (Translator)

448 pages • paperback • 1982

fiction historical literary magical realism emotional reflective medium-paced

fiction historical literary magical realism emotional reflective medium-paced

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro

288 pages • paperback • 2005 (editions)

fiction dystopian literary science fiction emotional reflective sad slow-paced

fiction dystopian literary science fiction emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Never Let Me Go

288 pages • paperback • 2005

fiction dystopian literary science fiction emotional reflective sad slow-paced

fiction dystopian literary science fiction emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Beartown by Fredrik Backman

Beartown
Beartown #1

Fredrik Backman with Neil Smith (Translator)

496 pages • paperback • 2016 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Beartown by Fredrik Backman

Beartown

Fredrik Backman with Neil Smith (Translator)

496 pages • paperback • 2016

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali

Madonna in a Fur Coat
Sabahattin Ali with Alexander Dawe (Translator), Maureen Freely (Translator)

160 pages • hardcover • 1943 (editions)

fiction classics literary romance emotional reflective sad medium-paced

fiction classics literary romance emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali

Madonna in a Fur Coat

Sabahattin Ali with Alexander Dawe (Translator), Maureen Freely (Translator)

160 pages • hardcover • 1943

fiction classics literary romance emotional reflective sad medium-paced

fiction classics literary romance emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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