Readers Dozen for June is to read a book translated from another language. This is perhaps easier than you think, since several “classic” authors have written in languages other than English. Here are a few to try:
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Homer – The Iliad, The Odyssey
Alexandre Dumas – The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo
Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina, War and Peace
Jules Verne – Around the World in 80 Days, The Mysterious Island
Isabel Allende – The House of the Spirits, Zorro
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Or, pick up one of these titles:
So Long a Letter – Miriama Ba
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Malice – Keigo Higashino
The Dinner – Herman Koch
The Three-Body Problem – Cixin Lui
The Cairo Trilogy – Najib Mahfouz
In the Country of Men – Hisham Matar
The Housekeeper and the Professor – Yoko Ogawa
We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
Suite Francaise – Irene Zemirovsky
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Or, take a look at these lists:
Women in Translation (Goodreads)
Best Translated Books You Missed in 2019 (Words Without Borders)
Translated Literature (National Book Awards)
20 Best Books in Translation You’ve Never Read (Publishers Weekly)
Here’s the link for the June Readers Dozen online entry form. Read on!
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