Underrated reads! | The BEST TRANSLATED books of the 21st century according to YOU!
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Secondhand Time (2013, trans. 2016) by Svetlana Alexievich, trans. Bela Shayevich
Language: Russian
*A Man Called Ove (2012, trans. 2013) by Fredrik Backman, trans. Henning Koch
Language: Swedish
*Beartown (2016, trans. 2017) by Fredrik Backman, trans. Neil Smith
Language: Swedish
*Tender is the Flesh (2017, trans. 2020) by Agustina Bazterrica, trans. Sarah Moses
Language: Spanish
Solenoid (2015, trans. 2022) by Mircea Cărtărescu, trans. Sean Cotter
Language: Romanian
What Can I Do When Everything's on Fire (2001, trans. 2008) by António Lobo Antunes, trans. Gregory Rabassa
Language: Portuguese
Commission of Tears (2000, trans. 2011) by António Lobo Antunes, trans. Gregory Rabassa
Language: Portuguese
The Years (2008, trans. 2017) by Annie Ernaux, trans. Alison L. Strayer
Language: French
Happening (2000, trans. 2021) by Annie Ernaux, trans. Alison L. Strayer
Language: French
At Night All Blood is Black (2018, trans. 2021) by David Diop, trans. Anna Moschovakis
Language: French
My Brilliant Friend (2011, trans. 2012) by Elena Ferrante, trans. Ann Goldstein
Language: Italian
The Eighth Life (2014, trans. 2019) by Nino Haratischvili, trans. Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin
Language: GERMAN not Georgian
I Who Have Never Known Men (1995, trans. 2019) by Jacqueline Harpman, trans. Sophie MacKintosh
Language: French
The Vegetarian (2007, trans. 2015) by Han Kang, trans. Deborah Smith
Language: Korean
Human Acts (2014, trans. 2016) by Han Kang, trans. Deborah Smith
Language: Korean
*Before the Coffee Gets Cold (2015, trans. 2019) by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, trans. Geoffrey Trousselot
Language: Japanese
Heaven (2009, trans. 2022) by Meiko Kawakami, trans. David Boyd and Sam Bett
Language: Japanese
Breasts and Eggs (2008, trans. 2020) by Meiko Kawakami, trans. Louise Heal Kawai
Language: Japanese
All the Lovers in the Night (2011, trans. 2022) by Meiko Kawakami, trans. David Boyd and Sam Bett
Language: Japanese
*The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005, trans. 2008) by Stieg Larsson, trans. Reg Keeland
Language: Swedish
The Dark Forest (2008, trans. 2015) by Cixin Liu, trans. Ken Liu
Language: Chinese
The Three-Body Problem (2006, trans. 2014) by Cixin Liu, trans. Ken Liu
Language: Chinese
The Infatuations (2011, trans. 2013) by Javier Marías, trans. Margaret Jull Costa
Language: Spanish
Hurricane Season (2017, trans. 2020) by Fernanda Melchor, trans. Sophie Hughes
Language: Spanish
Norwegian Wood (1987, trans. 2000) by Haruki Murakami, trans. Jay Rubin
Language: Japanese
1Q84 (2009-2010, trans. 2011) by Haruki Murakami, trans. Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel
Language: Japanese
*Convenience Store Woman (2016, trans. 2018) by Sayaka Murata, trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori
Language: Japanese
Earthlings (2018, trans. 2020) by Sayaka Murata, trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori
Language: Japanese
The Housekeeper and the Professor (2003, trans. 2009) by Yoko Ogawa, trans. Stephen Snyder
Language: Japanese
Life Form (2007, trans. 2010) by Amélie Nothomb, trans. Alison L. Strayer
Language: French
Elena Knows (2007, trans. 2021) by Claudia Piñeiro, trans. Frances Riddle
Language: Spanish
The Employees (2018, trans. 2021) by Olga Ravn, trans. Martin Aitken
Language: Danish
*Persepolis (2000-2003, trans. 2007) by Marjane Satrapi, trans. Blake Ferris and Mattias Ripa
Language: French
M: Son of the Century (2018, trans. 2021) by Antonio Scurati, trans. Anne Milano Appel
Language: Italian
*Minor Detail (2016, trans. 2020) by Adania Shibli, trans. Elisabeth Jaquette
Language: Arabic
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2009, trans. 2019) by Olga Tokarczuk, trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Language: Polish
The Books of Jacob (2014, trans. 2022) by Olga Tokarczuk, trans. Jennifer Croft
Language: Polish
Wizard of the Crow (2004, trans. 2006) by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, trans. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Language: Kikuyu
*The Shadow of the Wind (2001, trans. 2004) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, trans. Lucia Graves
Language: Spanish
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All Comments (13)
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Yay!! I'm so glad The Eighth Life made this list. It's one of my all-time favorite books. It's so good! I read this probably 2 years ago, but I still think of this story and these characters at least once a week. Definitely heartbreaking, but also breathtakingly beautiful ❤
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Nino Haratischvili's Eighth Life is a great read, it is long, it was originally published in German not Georgian. Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is also a great read. Both of these were 5 star reads for me.
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Oh my goodness! I think this is the best list so far. There are a couple of missing gems, especially the greatest living Hungarian writer, so I’ll use the Google form. But I’ve read almost all of these, and every one of the ones I’ve read is marvelous. Really, this list would make a dizzyingly great year of reading. You are only the second BookTuber I’ve seen mention Lobo Antunes—I cannot tell you how exciting that is! Many of his best works are from the 80s and 90s, but the two you listed are masterpieces. And that Thiong’o novel… I don’t know where to start. It is funny but absolutely savage political satire, among other things. Just a masterpiece. This list is so, so good. It is a wide and beautiful world!
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Hi! The eighth life is fantastic!❤
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So much Mieko Kawakami! That makes me happy having read two of her works. I think that synopsis of Life Form is incorrect as it's about a correspondence between two people. It was nice being able to see books I voted for mentioned here. Human Acts seems interesting to me. I should read The Housekeeper and The Professor sometime since I own a copy of it.
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Yeah for The Eighth Life. I hope you love it if you ever get to it ❤( thank you again for the mention 😉) Great list and so interesting to hear what everyone picked ❤
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"Silk" by Alessandro Baricco (made into a movie with Keira Knightly)
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You should do a list of the best non-fiction books of the 21st century.
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I was so excited to read Earthlings because of Convenience Store Woman, but they are nothing alike! Yes, super weird and downright macabre, but good!
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Will there still be One Piece videos? I really like it and I discovered your channel through these videos, and I don't speak English, I watch it with subtitles haha
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Yeah! Some of my recommendations are here 🎉🫰🏻 By the way, you'll need tissues for the Housekeeper and the Professor! I was ugly crying by the end 😢💔
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I sent a recommendation for one of the best brazilians books published in english in the last few years. Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior. Hope you like it!
