Most Popular Translation Books of the 20th century

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The Downfall Of The Gods

Villy Sørensen

Fantasy · Translation

April 1, 1989

6.5/10 10 ratings

The Master of the World

Jules Verne

Science Fiction · Translation

1911

6.5/10 8 ratings

The Pigeon

Patrick Süskind

Magical Realism · Translation

1988

6.5/10 4 ratings

Trilogy of the Rat #1

Hear the Wind Sing

Haruki Murakami

Magical Realism · Translation

1987

6.7/10 3 ratings

His Master's Voice

Stanislaw Lem

Science Fiction · Translation

1968

6.8/10 21 ratings

Kallocain

Karin Boye

Science Fiction · Dystopia · Translation

1940

6/10 3 ratings

Trilogy of the Rat #2

Pinball, 1973

Haruki Murakami

Magical Realism · Translation

1985

6.3/10 3 ratings

The Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

Fantasy · Translation

1900

6.3/10 3 ratings

Dance Dance Dance

Haruki Murakami

Magical Realism · Translation

1994

6.5/10 6 ratings

The Astronauts

Stanislaw Lem

Science Fiction · Translation

1951

5.9/10 18 ratings

The Last World

Christoph Ransmayr

Fantasy · Translation · Historical Fiction

1991

6/10 1 ratings

The Stone Raft

José Saramago

Fantasy · Translation

1986

5/10 2 ratings

The Golden Pot and Other Tales

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Fantasy · Short Stories · Translation

1992

6/10 1 ratings

One Human Minute

Stanislaw Lem

Science Fiction · Translation

1986

6/10 1 ratings

The Best Tales of Hoffmann

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Fantasy · Short Stories · Translation

1967

6/10 1 ratings

The Chain of Chance

Stanislaw Lem

Science Fiction · Translation

1975

5.8/10 24 ratings

R. U. R.

Karel Capek

Science Fiction · Play · Translation

1920

6.7/10 6 ratings

Paris in the 20th Century

Jules Verne

Science Fiction · Translation

1996

5.6/10 8 ratings

Andromeda: A Space-Age Tale

Ivan Yefremov

Science Fiction · Utopia · Translation

1959

5.7/10 10 ratings

Invitation to a Beheading

Vladimir Nabokov

Fantasy · Translation

1959

5/10 1 ratings

The Snail on the Slope

Boris Strugatsky, Arkady Strugatsky

Science Fiction · Translation

1980

5/10 1 ratings

Japan Sinks

Sakyo Komatsu

Science Fiction · Translation · Thriller

1976

5/10 1 ratings

Peace on Earth

Stanislaw Lem

Science Fiction · Translation

1987

5/10 10 ratings

Doña Quixote and Other Citizens / Gold of Ophir

Leena Krohn

Fantasy · Translation

1995

4.7/10 3 ratings

The Devil's Elixirs

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Fantasy · Translation

1963

4.7/10 6 ratings

A Living Soul

P. C. Jersild

Science Fiction · Translation

1988

4/10 1 ratings

My Phantom Husband

Marie Darrieussecq

Fantasy · Translation · Mainstream

1999

The Forest of Hours

Kerstin Ekman

Fantasy · Translation

1998

Collected Fictions

Jorge Luis Borges

Magical Realism · Short Stories · Translation

1998

The Dog King

Christoph Ransmayr

Translation · Alternate History

1997

Twilight Country #2

Sweetwater

Knut Faldbakken

Science Fiction · Translation

1994

Eric in the Land of the Insects

Godfried Bomans

Fantasy · Childrens · Translation

1994

The White Dominican

Gustav Meyrink

Fantasy · Translation

1994

Of Love and Other Demons

Gabriel García Márquez

Magical Realism · Translation

1994

Twilight Country #1

Twilight Country

Knut Faldbakken

Science Fiction · Translation

1993

Walpurgisnacht

Gustav Meyrink

Fantasy · Translation

1993