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message 1: by NancyJ (last edited Sep 19, 2023 10:13PM) (new)

NancyJ (nancyjjj) | 25 comments Translated books read in 2020-2021

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Mouthful of Birds by Samantha Schweblin
Dark Mother Earth by Christian Novak
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky


message 2: by NancyJ (last edited Sep 19, 2023 10:13PM) (new)

NancyJ (nancyjjj) | 25 comments Translated Books read in 2022

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
The Years by Annie Ernaux
The Winners by Fredrick Backman
Us Against You by Fredrick Backman
Beartown by Fredrick Backman
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
The Employees by Olga Ravn
Britt-Marie Was Here
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Notebook by Agota Kristof
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut


message 3: by NancyJ (last edited Sep 19, 2023 10:25PM) (new)

NancyJ (nancyjjj) | 25 comments Translated books read in 2023

January
To Live by Yu Hua, Chinese
Abigail by Magda Szabo, Hungarian

March
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, Japanese
The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, Japanese
Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa, Japanese
All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami, Japanese

April
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa, Japanese

May
Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius
Translated books read in 2023 - August -

August
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal

September
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
The Door by Magda Szabó
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink


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