![]() ![]() I was pleasantly surprised by two newer titles that made the list: Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, translated from Spanish by Megan McDowell, and Human Acts by Han Kang, translated from Korean by Deborah Smith. ![]() You might recognize John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let Me In by its movie title, Let the Right One In. It’s a mixture of classics like Anna Karenina and The Odyssey, current bestsellers like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and A Man Called Ove (two of the four Swedish books on the list), and some others that I initially couldn’t figure out why they had made the list but then realized that many of them had movie/TV adaptations. In celebration of World Book Day, Goodreads recently announced 40 of the most popular translated books on the site, writing that “the joy of reading is universal-that’s why we’re shining a spotlight on some of the most popular translated books on Goodreads!” So what made the list? ![]()
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