Our Best Translated Books of 2024

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE. What happens when the person you’ve built your entire life on is suddenly gone? This question lies at the heart of Jente Posthuma’s deceptively simple What I’d Rather Not Think About...

In this classic Japanese locked room mystery an amateur detective investigates a string of gruesome unsolved murders. Astrologer, fortuneteller, and self-styled detective Kiyoshi Mitarai must solve a macabre murder mystery that has baffled Japan for 40...

This multigenerational novel spanning 100 years chronicles change — changing land, people, and the world around them. A searing novel of language, tradition and loss told in verse, Aednan is grounded in the lives and land of the Sámi, the...

Elegant, slippery, and provocative, Antiquity is a queer Lolita story by prize-winning Swedish author Hanna Johansson—a story of desire, power, obsession, observation, and taboo.On a Greek island rich with ancient beauty, a lonely woman in her...

In the wake of the Great Blackout, faced with the near-extinction of humanity, a pair of lovers speak to each other. They parse, with precision, with familiarity, the endless aspects of their love. Out of their dialogues, piece by piece, a composite...

*As featured as an editor's pick on Radio Four's OPEN BOOK* *One of the Guardian's books to look out for in 2024* "An immersive feminist novel that meshes the personal and political to moving effect" Preti Taneja, Financial Times "A brilliant novel of...

A freaky tale of isolation and the porous membranes between us, Rebecca Gisler’s slim novel renders a collapsing world with equal parts aversion, fascination, and tenderness—for readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Sayaka Murata.At an age...

From the winner of the 2022 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize: a fractal exploration of a woman's grief as she moves through disjointed segments of time. Divided Island is the story of a woman with a neurological disorder. The day she goes in for...

An unforgettable and artful memoir, history and love story from a Palestinian man imprisoned for over 30 years. Longlisted for the National Book Award.A passionate prison memoir from a Palestinian man incarcerated for over 30 years in an Israeli...

Violence and desire shatter the smooth surface of the everyday in this exceptional collection of blackly comic short stories.A game between a woman’s father and husband simmers and boils into scalding danger; a daughter creates an elaborate feast...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE. Rodrigo Blanco Calderón has established himself as one of the great voices of Latin American literature with his debut novel The Night, and his short story collection Sacrifices. Simpatía...

This is a story within a story about two queer women and the colonial history of Taiwan. Riddled with love, longing and loss, this is an exquisite tale about history and humanity.WINNER OF THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE. A...

A harrowing, unforgettable masterpiece by the winner of the Booker International Prize. A confession, a lament, a mad gush of grief and obsession, My Heavenly Favorite is the remarkable and chilling successor to Lucas Rijneveld’s international...

Like a fever dream brought to life, this is the epic story of an ancient empire, political intrigue and destiny. When Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés arrives in Tenochtitlan, the glory and grandeur that greet him make him suspect that...

Named a Best Book of the Year by Vogue, BBC, and Hudson Booksellers.A New Yorker Recommended Read of the Year.An autobiographical novel from Édouard Louis, hailed as one of the most important voices of his generation—about social class,...

Named a Best Book of the Year by Vogue, BBC, and Hudson Booksellers.A New Yorker Recommended Read of the Year.An autobiographical novel from Édouard Louis, hailed as one of the most important voices of his generation—about social class,...

“Vampires are making a comeback, and Yuszczuk is spearheading their revival with this bloody novel.”  —The New York Times Book Review. It is the nineteenth century, the twilight of Europe’s bloody bacchanals, and a...

* SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE * It’s not a river, it’s this river. A hot, motionless afternoon. Enero and El Negro are fishing with Tilo, their dead friend’s teenage son. After hours of struggling with a hooked...

An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy.“Every morning in the bathroom I would repeat the same phrase to myself over and over again . . . Today I’m really gonna be a tough guy.” Growing up in a...

An unforgettable novel of fearless women banding together to pursue the lives they want, inspired by the real-life historic Japanese courtesan strike.In 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Aoi Ichi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan...