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Explore voices from around the world by reading a work in translation. This list includes books by women writing in languages other than English.
Updated September 19, 2022
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My brilliant friend
Ferrante, Elena
Paper Book
The story of Elena and Lila begins in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. They learn to rely on each other and discover that their destinies are bound up in the intensity of their relationship. Elena Ferrante's piercingly honest portrait of two girls'...
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The vegetarian : a novel
Han, Kang
Paper Book
A beautiful, unsettling novel in three acts, about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul. Winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize.
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Lullaby
Slimani, Leila
Paper Book
The baby is dead. It only took a few seconds. When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect caretaker for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet,...
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A long petal of the sea
Allende, Isabel
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of The House of the Spirits, this epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents follows two young people as they flee the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in search of a place to call home. "One of the most...
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A winter's promise
Dabos, Christelle
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Long ago, following a cataclysm called 'The Rupture', the world was shattered into floating celestial islands, known now as Arks. Ophelia lives on Anima, an Ark where objects have souls. Beneath her worn scarf and thick glasses, Ophelia hides two powers- the ability to read the past of objects and...
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Hurricane season
Melchor, Fernanda
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Inspired by a real event of the murder of a woman in rural Mexico, Hurricane Seasontakes place in a world filled with superstitions and violence-violence that poisons everything around. The Witch is dead. After a group of children playing in the murky waters of the irrigation...
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Celestial bodies = Sayyidat al-qamar
ı̀Þ♯rith♯±, J¿±khah
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The Gilded cage
Lackberg, Camilla
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'A sexy, sensational novel with intoxicating vengeance and an unexpected tenderness' No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter All that glitters... People would kill to have Faye Adelheim's life. She lives in an ultra-swanky apartment in the most...
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The murder of Harriet Krohn
Fossum, Karin
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The absolution
Sigurdardottir, Yrsa
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The new novel from the internationally bestselling, prizewinning, queen of Icelandic crime. The police find out about the crime the way everyone does: on Snapchat. The video shows the terrified victim begging for forgiveness. When her body is found, it is marked with a number...
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