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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Summer Challenge 2026: In Translation

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

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On earth as it is beneath
Maia, Ana Paula
Ebook
Whereabouts
Lahiri, Jhumpa
Paper Book
'If the antidote to a year of solitude and trauma is art, then this novel is the answer. It is superb' SUNDAY TIMES'A rare kind of literary celebrity' VOGUE'A hypnotic disappearing act' OBSERVERThe new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Man Booker...

Translated from Italian.

The Cat Who Saved the Library
Natsukawa, Sosuke/ Kawai, Louise Heal (TRN)
Paper Book
The must-have sequel to Sosuke Natsukawa's bestselling The Cat Who Saved Books - an uplifting tale from Japan about a talking cat, a book-loving girl and the power of books to make a difference in the world.Nanami sees nothing wrong with a library and cat combination. But a talking cat is a whole...

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
Park, Soyoung
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
Backman, Fredrik
Paper Book
NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING TOM HANKS The million-copy bestselling phenomenon: a funny, moving, uplifting tale of love and community that will leave you with a spring in your step. 'Warm, funny, and almost unbearably moving' Daily Mail ...

Translated from Swedish.

Roman stories
Lahiri, Jhumpa
Paper Book
A collection of short stories set in and around Rome from Jhumpa Lahiri, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies. 'Stimulating, elengant, distinctive and thought-provoking' - Sunday Times In these short stories Jhumpa Lahiri sets...

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 : a novel
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,...
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 'A novel of epic scope that resonates powerfully while wars of tragic loss...
Taiwan travelogue : a novel
Yang, Shuangzi
Ebook
The Wax Child
Ravn, Olga
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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