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1. Russian: The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
2. Latin: The Annals of Imperial Rome by Tacitus
3. French: Pietr the Latvian by Georges Simenon
4. Korean: The Accusation by Bandi
5. German: The Provinces Of The Roman Empire: The European Provinces by Theodor Mommsen
Bonus for 5 languages +1
6. Greek - Lysistrata / The Acharnians / The Clouds by Aristophanes
7. Icelandic - The Blue Fox by Sjón
8. Dutch - Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company by Multatuli
9. Hungarian - They Were Divided by Miklós Bánffy
10. Persian- The Conference of Birds by Attar of Nishapur
Bonus for 5 languages +1
11. Swedish - Miss Julie by August Strindberg
12. Finnish - The Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot
13. Estonian - The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirähk
14. Polish- Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz
15. Portuguese - Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture by José Saramago
Bonus for 5 languages: +1
16. Spanish - The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly by Luis Sepúlveda
17. Macedonian - The Time of the Goats by Luan Starova
18. Chinese - The Scholars by Wu Jingzi
19. Albanian - The Successor by Ismail Kadare
20. Norwegian - Love's Comedy by Henrik Ibsen
Bonus for 5 languages +1
21. Japanese - Japanese Tales from Times Past: Stories of Fantasy and Folklore from the Konjaku Monogatari Shu by Anonymous
22. Serbo-Croatian - The Walnut Mansion by Miljenko Jergović
23. Italian - Black Run by Antonio Manzini
24. Slovene - Three Loves, One Death by Evald Flisar
Bonus books:
Russian - Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich +1
Russian - Pomegranate Roads: A Soviet Botanist's Exile from Eden by Gregory M. Levin +1
Russian - My Childhood by Maxim Gorky +1
French - The Carter of 'La Providence' by Georges Simenon +1
French- Maigret in Vichy by Georges Simenon +1
French - The World is Moving Around Me: A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake by Dany Laferrière +1
Russian - The Good Life Elsewhere by Vladimir Lorchenkov +1
Greek - The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates by Xenophon+1
Russian - My Apprenticeship by Maxim Gorky +1
German - The Man in the Ice by Konrad Spindler +1
Hungarian - Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb +1
Greek - The Frogs of Aristophanes +1
French- A Crime in Holland by Georges Simenon +1
Norwegian - Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen +1
Italian - Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari +1
Total: 44

1. Bulgarian Book: A Ballad for Georg Henig (1 point)
2. Dutch book: Forever a Stranger and Other Stories (set in Indonesia), Geur der droefenis (2 points)
3. French book: The Opposing Shore, The Charterhouse of Parma, Germinal, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Tin Flute (Canada), The Roots of Heaven, Promise at Dawn,Là-Bas (8 points)
4. Hebrew Book:Black Box (1 point)
5) Russian Book: The Idiot, Anna Karenina, The Clay Machine-Gun, Oblomov (4 points)
*First 5 languages bonus point*
6) German Book: The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr , The Young Man, The Guiltless (Austria), All Quiet on the Western Front, Austerlitz, Anton Reiser, Jahrestage, None But The Brave, Extinction (Austria), The Magic Mountain, (9 points)
7) Spanish Book: Deep Rivers (Peru), Three Trapped Tigers (Cuban Spanish), In Search of Klingsor (Mexican author), La dama número trece, A Heart So White], The Lost Steps(6 points)
8) Portugese Book: The History of the Siege of Lisbon, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition (2 points)
9) Turkish Book: Snow (1 point)
10) Chinese Book: Monkey: The Journey to the West (1 point)
* 5 languages bonus point*
11) Japanese Book: Kokoro, The Sea of Fertility (2 points)
12) Arabic Book: Celestial Bodies, Midaq Alley, The Arabian Nights(3 points)
13) Danish Book: Smilla's Sense of Snow(1 point)
14) Italian Book: One, No One and One Hundred Thousand, Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year(2 points)
total: 46 points
Books mentioned in this topic
Lives of the Artists Volume II (other topics)Three Loves, One Death (other topics)
Black Run (other topics)
The Walnut Mansion (other topics)
Hedda Gabler (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Giorgio Vasari (other topics)Evald Flisar (other topics)
Antonio Manzini (other topics)
Miljenko Jergović (other topics)
Anonymous (other topics)
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Points:
1. You earn 1 point for each book you read in translation for a language different than the others already taken. (Only one point for Spanish, or French, or any other language, for example.)
2. You earn 1 bonus point every time you have read 5 new language transaltions.
3. You earn 1 bonus point every time you read a second language translation from the same country.
4. Points are not limited.