Suggested books for the August 25 book discussion

If you want to pick your own titles, the easiest way to search our catalog is by looking up the search term “translat*” and narrow your search on the left side, limit to “adult” and “fiction” and subject, like historical fiction. The “*” will search for both  the words “translated” and “translation” in the book record. Sometimes the record contains “translated by” (the translator) and sometimes “translation from” (the language). If you are not sure whether a title is translated or not, send us an email, and we will find out for you.

Click on a title in the lists below and the link will take you to the record in our catalog.

• The Weeping Woman by Zoe Valdes – 302 p.  (Spanish)
• The Kites by Romain Gary – 311 p. (French)
• Not All Bastards are from Vienna by Andrea Molesini – 348 p. (Italian)
• The Elephant’s Journey by Jose Saramago – 205 p. (Portuguese)
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind – 255 p. (German)
• Celestial Bodies by Jūkhah Ḥārithī – 243 p. (Arabic)
• Midnight Blue by Simone van der Vlugt – 327 p. (Dutch)
• The Year of the Comet by Sergei Lebedev – 245 p. (Russian)
• War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans – 290 p. (Dutch)
• The Secret Supper by Javier Sierra – 329 p. (Spanish)
• Woman of the Ashes by Mia Couto – 254 p. (Portuguese)

Here are several authors who write historical fiction: Isabel Allende,  Andrea Camilleri, Daša Drndić,  Umberto Eco, Mo Yan, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, and Elena Ferante.