Read 10 books in translation (2024)

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17 participants (127 books)

01 Jan 2024—31 Dec 2024

Overview

Read 10 books, translated from a language you don't speak! Want an extra challenge: read books by 10 different authors too. Even more difficult: each book translated from a different language :)!

Challenge Books

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The Short End of the Sonnenallee: A Novel by Thomas Brussig

The Short End of the Sonnenallee: A Novel

Thomas Brussig

176 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

fiction literary funny lighthearted fast-paced
The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov

The Physics of Sorrow

Georgi Gospodinov

283 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

fiction contemporary challenging reflective medium-paced
I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee

I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki

I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki #2

Baek Se-hee

4 hours, 44 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction memoir psychology emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre by Cho Yeeun

The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre

Cho Yeeun

208 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction horror dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Anomaly by Andrej Nikolaidis

Anomaly

Andrej Nikolaidis

134 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction literary science fiction challenging dark mysterious fast-paced
Astral Season, Beastly Season by Tahi Saihate

Astral Season, Beastly Season

Tahi Saihate

125 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

fiction contemporary emotional reflective medium-paced
The Delivery by Margarita García Robayo

The Delivery

Margarita García Robayo

169 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Here Be Icebergs by Katya Adaui

Here Be Icebergs

Katya Adaui

130 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction short stories dark reflective medium-paced
Diary of a Malayali Madman by N. Prabhakaran

Diary of a Malayali Madman

N. Prabhakaran

336 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction short stories dark reflective slow-paced
Oraefi: The Wasteland by Ófeigur Sigurðsson

Oraefi: The Wasteland

Ófeigur Sigurðsson

352 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

fiction contemporary reflective slow-paced