Well everyone has seen or heard about the rather translation light Guardian 100 books since 2000 wel I m doing a list of books from 2000 most I have reviewed since the blog but others I read before the blog.This is a personal list in reply to the Guardian list and reflects my own tastes in translated fiction.
- Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
- Compass by Mathias Enard
- parallel stories by Peter Nadas
- Stones in a landslide by Maria Barbal
- The coming by Andrej Nikoladis
- Trieste by Dasa Drndric
- Rings of Saturn by W G Sebald
- Satantango by Laszlo Krasznarhorkai
- Traveller of the century by Andres Neumann
- By night the mountains burn by Juan Tomas Avila Laurel
- The anatomy of a moment by Javier Cercas
- The briefcase by Hiromi Kawakami
- A death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgaard
- Panorama by Dustan Sarotar
- The tower by Uwe Tellkamp
- Heaven and Hell by Jon kalman Stefansson
- Revulsion in San Salvador by Horacio Castellanos Moya
- Beside the sea by Veronique Olmi
- Colourless Tsukuru Tazakiand his years of pilgimage by Haruki Murkami
- Bilbao – New york – Bilbao by Kirmen Uribe
- River by Esther Kinsky
- The carpenter pencil by Manuel Rivas
- The book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agulusa
- The mirror of Beauty by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
- Where tigers are at home by Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès
- Dublinesque by Enrique Vila matas
- Martutene by Ramon Saizarbitoria
- Memoirs of a Porcupine by Alain Mabanckou
- The whispering Muse by Sjon
- White book by Han Kang
- Windows on the world by Frederic Beigbeder
- The sermon on the fall of Rome by jerome Ferrari
- Azazeel By Youssef Ziedan
- Bricks and Mortar by Clemens Meyer
- Resistance by Julian Fuks
- Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
- Harraga by Boualem Sansal
- Shtetl love song by Grigory kanovich
- Kamchatka by Marcelo Figureas
- The dirty dust by Máirtín Ó Cadhain
- Mrs Sartrois by Elke Schmitter
- Goodbye, bird by Aram Pachyan
- New Finnish Grammar by Diego marani
- Fireflies by Luis Sagasti
- The corpse washer by Sinan Antoon
- Love/war by Ebba Witt-Brattström
- The Years by Anne Ernaux
- To the end of the land by David Grossman
- Blindly by Claudio Magris
- I will mention a few of huge books Zibaldone by Giacomo Leopardi, Bottoms dream by Arno schmidt and Stalingrad by Vasily Grossmann
sylvie444
Sep 22, 2019 @ 18:08:33
Thank you for your list of translated books.
winstonsdad
Sep 22, 2019 @ 20:45:20
Thanks
kaggsysbookishramblings
Sep 22, 2019 @ 18:37:09
That’s quite a list Stu. Really, the Guardian one was very silly.
winstonsdad
Sep 22, 2019 @ 20:45:13
thanks
BookerTalk
Sep 22, 2019 @ 20:55:33
What a fantastic resource this is Stu. Lots of names I have still to read
winstonsdad
Sep 22, 2019 @ 20:59:56
Thanks
Lisa Hill
Sep 22, 2019 @ 23:25:15
What a wonderful resource! I’m going to make a Goodreads list (linking back to you here, of course) so that I can tick off the ones I read as I do them.
I have already read some, from your recommendations, of course. They are:
The Savage Detectives; Trieste; Rings of Saturn; Traveller of the Century (my favourite of all of these); The Briefcase; A Death in the Family (hmm, you know what I think about Knausgaard!!); Beside the Sea; The Mirror of Beauty; Dublinesque; New Finnish Grammar and Stalingrad. I have some of the others on the TBR and my wishlist as well.
It occurs to me that there are few other readers in the world who could come up with a list like this. If The Guardian had any sense, they’d have interviewed you for their article!
TravellinPenguin
Sep 22, 2019 @ 23:41:40
This is a wonderful list. You are probably the best advocate going for translated fiction. 🤠🐧
Lisa Hill
Sep 22, 2019 @ 23:55:21
PS here’s the list at Goodreads, let me know if you want me to change anything. https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/139897.Top_50_Books_in_Translation_from_2000_recommended_by_Stu_at_Winston_s_Dad
Reese Warner
Sep 23, 2019 @ 01:21:13
A very cool list. All the more so because your #1 & #2 might very well be my #1 & #2. This gives me a lot of things to look at…
Nish
Sep 23, 2019 @ 09:52:04
Ouch! I am aware that I don’t read much translated fiction. But I haven’t read even a single one on this list 😦
Lee Monks
Sep 24, 2019 @ 08:29:36
Fantastic list, Stu. Love that #1 as well….