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A list of fiction about translators/translation, or featuring a character who is a translator. The books themselves do not necessarily have to be in translation!
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A Heart So White
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4.02 avg rating — 17,645 ratings
score: 283,
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The Portable Veblen
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Elizabeth Mckenzie (Goodreads Author)
3.46 avg rating — 8,205 ratings
score: 280,
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Tatiana (Arkady Renko, #8)
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3.78 avg rating — 5,645 ratings
score: 200,
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An Unnecessary Woman
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3.82 avg rating — 13,844 ratings
score: 195,
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Good on Paper
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Rachel Cantor (Goodreads Author)
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 723 ratings
score: 190,
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2 people voted
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62: A Model Kit
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4.11 avg rating — 2,910 ratings
score: 189,
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The Bay of Noon
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3.82 avg rating — 890 ratings
score: 184,
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Under the Net
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3.78 avg rating — 16,164 ratings
score: 179,
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The Translator
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3.77 avg rating — 918 ratings
score: 177,
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The Summer Before the Dark
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3.60 avg rating — 2,859 ratings
score: 177,
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The Translator
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Leila Aboulela (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 2,325 ratings
score: 171,
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2 people voted
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I Am China
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3.72 avg rating — 1,103 ratings
score: 100,
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La caverna de las ideas
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3.98 avg rating — 3,218 ratings
score: 100,
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Mirror, Shoulder, Signal
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3.21 avg rating — 3,010 ratings
score: 100,
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Traveller of the Century
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3.83 avg rating — 2,217 ratings
score: 99,
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Lost in Translation
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Edward Willett (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 63 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Ways to Disappear
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Idra Novey (Goodreads Author)
3.44 avg rating — 4,639 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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Faces in the Crowd
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3.58 avg rating — 6,842 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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Fog Island Mountains
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Michelle Bailat-Jones (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 179 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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Early One Morning
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Virginia Baily (Goodreads Author)
3.43 avg rating — 3,648 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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The Summer Guest
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Alison Anderson (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 834 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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N.P
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3.54 avg rating — 12,602 ratings
score: 91,
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1 person voted
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70% Acrylic 30% Wool
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Viola Di Grado (Goodreads Author)
3.12 avg rating — 694 ratings
score: 90,
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1 person voted
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Between
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4.02 avg rating — 42 ratings
score: 88,
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1 person voted
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The End of the Story
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3.62 avg rating — 3,109 ratings
score: 86,
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1 person voted
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Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt
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3.73 avg rating — 3,147 ratings
score: 83,
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1 person voted
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Bottom's Dream
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4.35 avg rating — 113 ratings
score: 79,
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1 person voted
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Pereira Maintains
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4.19 avg rating — 34,876 ratings
score: 77,
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1 person voted
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Revenge of the Translator
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3.25 avg rating — 121 ratings
score: 76,
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1 person voted
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Babel
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R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 426,114 ratings
score: 75,
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