Summer Challenge 2026: In Translation

Looking for help completing your Summer Challenge Bingo Card? Here are some books have been translated to English.

Updated June 26, 2026
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We are green and trembling
Cabezón Cámara, Gabriela
Paper Book
**LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026** **Winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature** A sumptuous and surreal historical reimagining of one of South America's best-known trans men, Antonio de Erauso 'Playful and...
Somebody is walking on your grave
Enriquez, Mariana
Paper Book
An enchanting, highly personal tour of some of the most iconic cemeteries of the world--part travelogue, part memoir, part "excursions through death," by the author of Our Share of Night and "queen of horror" (Los Angeles Times) "Not a travelogue so much as a...
On earth as it is beneath
Maia, Ana Paula
Paper Book
INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED 2026On land where enslaved people were once tortured and murdered, the state built a penal colony in the wilderness, where inmates could be rehabilitated, but never escape. Now, decades later, and having only succeeded in trapping men, not changing them for...
Whereabouts
Lahiri, Jhumpa
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies--her first in nearly a decade--about a woman questioning her place in the world, wavering between stasis and movement, between the need to...

Translated from Italian.

The cat who saved the library
Natsukawa, Sōsuke
Paper Book
Nanami sees nothing wrong with a library and cat combination. But a talking cat is a whole other story. Thirteen-year-old Nanami Kosaki loves reading. The local library is a home from home and books have become her best friends. When Nanami notices books disappearing from the...

Translated from Japanese.

The djinn's apple
Morani, Djamila
Paper Book
Historical fiction meets crime fiction in The Djinn's Apple, an award-winning YA murder mystery set in the Abbasid period--the golden age of Baghdad. A ruthless murder. A magical herb. A mysterious manuscript. When Nardeen's home is stormed by angry...

Translated from Arabic.

Snowglobe
Pak, So-yŏng
Paper Book
Discover the groundbreaking Korean YA thriller, for fans of Squid Game, Black Mirror and The Hunger Games! WHEN YOU'RE INSIDE, THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING . . . Raised in a climate-ravaged, frozen world, every day is a struggle for survival for...

Translated from Korean.

The Master and Margarita
Bulgakov, Mikhail
Paper Book
'Bulgakov is one of the greatest Russian writers, perhaps the greatest' Independent Written in secret during the darkest days of Stalin's reign, The Master and Margarita became an overnight literary phenomenon when it was finally published it, signalling artistic...

Translated from Russian.

A man called Ove Translated by Henning Koch (2014)
Backman, Fredrik
Paper Book
"You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll feel new sympathy for the curmudgeons in your life." --People The #1 New York Times bestseller about the grumpy old man next door that's an uplifting exploration of the unreliability of first impressions and a reminder that life...

Translated from Swedish.

Persepolis
Satrapi, Marjane
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. "A wholly original achievement.... Satrapi evokes herself and her schoolmates coming of age in a...

Translated from French.

Roman stories
Lahiri, Jhumpa
Paper Book
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies returns with her first short story collection since the publication of her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth--a major literary event and a tour de force Nine mesmerizing...

Translated from Italian.

Sisters in yellow
Kawakami, Mieko
Paper Book
A gripping, hypnotic account of young women making their way in Tokyo and the wounds of the past that won't heal, Sisters in Yellow is the bold and brilliant new novel from International Booker shortlisted author, Mieko Kawakami. Kimiko Yoshikawa, a sixty-year-old woman, is on trial...
We do not part : a novel
Han, Kang
Paper Book
Beginning one morning in December, We Do Not Part traces the path of Kyungha as she travels from the city of Seoul into the forests of Jeju Island, to the home of her old friend Inseon. Hospitalized following an accident, Inseon has begged Kyungha to hasten there to feed her beloved pet bird,...
Good and evil and other stories
Schweblin, Samanta
Paper Book
The International Bestseller'No one writes like Samanta Schweblin' - Lorrie Moore'These stories are perfect for the times we dwell inside' - Colum McCannThe strange and explosive new collection from the incomparable imagination of Samanta Schweblin, a master of the short story. A gripping blend of...
Death takes me
Rivera Garza, Cristina
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2025 A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FOR 2025 'A labyrinthine masterpiece' New York Times'A subversive twist on the traditional serial killer story' TIME 'Obsessive,...
White Nights: 2023
Honek, Urszula.
Paper Book
Eating ashes
Navarro, Brenda
Paper Book
  'Stunning... An energetic and harrowing new voice.' Miriam Toews, author of Women Talking Winner of the Cálamo Award for the best book published in Spain in 2022
The nights are quiet in Tehran
Bazyar, Shida
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026 A captivating, polyphonic novel of one family's flight from and return to Iran. 1979. Behzad, a young communist revolutionary, fights with his friends for a new order after the Shah's expulsion. He tells of sparking hope, of...
The remembered soldier
Daanje, Anjet
Paper Book
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST THE NEW YORK TIMES100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2025 THE NEW YORK TIMES"The Best Historical Fiction Novels to Read Right Now" PUBLISHERS WEEKLY2025 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR An extraordinary love story and a captivating novel about the power of memory and...
Taiwan travelogue : a novel
Yang, Shuangzi
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE WINNER OF THE 2026 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history, and power May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama...
The Wax Child
Aitken, Martin.
Paper Book
It was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child, when she melted down beeswax and set it in the image of a small human. For days, she carried it tucked beneath her arm, shaping it with the warmth of her flesh, giving it life. She fashioned for it eyes and ears that...

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