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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.
Here are several authors who write historical fiction: Isabel Allende, Andrea Camilleri, Daša Drndić, Umberto Eco, Mo Yan, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, and Elena Ferante.
Books by Oliver Pötzsch, Jussi Adler-Olsen, Arnaldur Indriðason, and Pierre Lemaître are usually good bets for this genre.
Books by Auður A. Ólafsdóttir, Fredrik Backman, Haruki Murakami, Paulo Coelho, Jose Saramago, Orhan Pamuk might fall in the general fiction category.
Any books by Peter Wohlleben would qualify as non-fiction translations. Umberto Eco also has several nonfiction books.