BYL Reading Challenge discussion

Doesn't matter what language it was translated from, as long as is not originally published in your native language.

Some possibilities:

The Traveling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

I got The Traveling Cat Chronicles for Xmas!

I picked up the ebook of The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia last World Book Day so I'm going to read that for this category.

I’m considering A Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank for BYL 4, this year. It could check ohh a bunch of boxes for the challenge!

I just finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It was on my TBR list for a while and I had totally spaced that it was translated!

For anyone, like me, who enjoyed the Netflix series The Witcher, the books are translated from Polish. ;) I really don't have time to dive into a new fantasy series, but I'm very tempted.

Emily wrote: "For anyone, like me, who enjoyed the Netflix series The Witcher, the books are translated from Polish. ;) I really don't have time to dive into a new fantasy series, but I'm very tempted."

shoot. I'm gonna dive head first into this. Lol. Waiting for the first book :) Not the book I'm choosing for this one though :p

I decided to use The Shadow of the Wind oh, it was incredible. 20 out of 5 stars. Highly, recommend if anyone is struggling on this one. One done....on to the next :)

I am trying to read all of Haruki Murakami’s novels this year, so I should have this one covered!

I’m reading The Hidden Life of Trees. It’s translated from German.

I'm reading The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho; it was originally written in Portuguese.

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee.

I read Pachinko last year and enjoyed it. It isn’t the type of book I usually go for, but I immediately felt like a part of the family and wanted to keep reading to know what was going on in their lives.

Nikki wrote: "I picked up the ebook of The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia last World Book Day so I'm going to read that for this category."

Update: I just finished the book and I loved it! It was so beautifully written/translated.

I read A Man Called Ove, and have since read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and started Les Mis. Apparently this challenge was going to be well covered for me.

I read The Librarian of Auschwitz, originally written in Spanish, by Antonio Iturbe .

I chose "The Murmur of Bees" for this prompt, and I am 16 chapters in, and loving it! Since I started it 3 days early, do you think it still counts as a March through History Book??

Inkheart! My family and I LOVED it!

I read A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende. Wonderful - by far the best book I’ve read this year.

I read Your Perfect Year by Charlotte Lucas for this one. It's translated from German. It wasn't my favorite genre, but it was OK.