November's mini-challenge: Non English origin

[Liz]

There are tons of amazing books out there that didn't start out in English. Some international best-selling authors are very well known in the US, such as Steig Larsson (Girl With the Dragon Tattoo), Cornelia Funke (Inkheart) and Haruki Murakami (The Wind Up Bird Chronicle). Others stand patiently in the wings, waiting to be discovered.

This month's challenge is to read a book that was originally published in a language other than English. The field is wide open on this one. Want to read translated plays or poems? Go for it. Do you speak another language? Feel free to read a book in that language!

Here are some recommendations to get you started. The library owns all of these:


Share your suggestions below!

[Ann]

This month's book club book is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson.
A couple of the books that I've read that were originally published in another language were The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo and Smila's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg.

[Pattie]

Ohhh, maybe it is time for me to finally tackle "War and Peace."