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For languages where I've read more than one book, I will make a separate post by language.

Language Learner Level:
1. Babylon by Yasmina Reza translated from French to English by Linda Asher Original title: Babylone
2. Out by Natsuo Kirino translated from Japanese to English by Stephen Snyder Original title: OUT ��
3. Selected Prose and Prose-Poems by Gabriela Mistral read in Bilingual edition Spanish with English translation by Stephen Tapscott
4. Khufu's Wisdom by Naguib Mahfouz translated from Arabic to English by Raymond Stock Original title: عبث الأقدار
5. In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri translated from Italian to English by Ann Goldstein Note: Bilingual edition: Italian text included in book, but I don't read Italian, so didn't read that part.

Translator Level:
6. Samy by Zdenka Becker read in German (original language)
7. The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore translated from Bengali to English by Surendranath Tagore Original title: ঘর�� বাইর��
8. Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali translated from Turkish to English by Maureen Freely Original title Kürk Mantolu Madonna
9. Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko translated from Russian to English by Julia Meitov Hersey Original title Віта Ностра
10. Frog by Mo Yan translated from Mandarin Chinese to English by Howard Goldblatt Original title: ��

Interpreter Level:
11. Antigone by Sophocles translated from Ancient Greek to English by Francis Storr Original title: Αντιγόνη
12. Tehran Noir edited and translated from Farsi (Persian) to English by Salar Abdoh 2 of the stories were written originally in English
13. Walking: One Step at a Time by Erling Kagge translated from Norwegian to English by Becky Crook, Original title: Å gå. Ett skritt av gangen
14. Chasing the King of Hearts by Hanna Krall translated from Polish to English by Phillip Boehm Original title: Król kier znów na wylocie
15. The Boy Between Worlds: A Story of Love and Loss by Annejet van der Zijl translated from Dutch to English by Kristen Gehrman Original title: Sonny Boy

Linguist Level:
16. The Seventh Garment by Eugenia Fakinou translated from Modern Greek to English by Ed Emery Original title: Το έβδομο ρούχο
17.Maresi by Maria Turtschaninoff translated from Finnish to English by Annie Prime Original title: Breven från Maresi
18. The Hole by Pyun Hye-Young translated from Korean to English by Sora Kim-Russell Original title: 홀 The Hole
19. Katalin Street by Magda Szabó translated from Hungarian to English by Agnes Farkas Smith Original title: Katalin utca
20. The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector translated from Portuguese to English by Katrina Dodson Original title: Todos os Contos

Polyglot Level:
21. Hotel Tito by Ivana Simić Bodrožić translated from Croatian to English by Ellen Elias-Bursać Original title: Hotel Zagorje
22. Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag translated from Kannada (Indian language) to English by Srinath Perur Original title: ಘಾಚರ�� ಘೋಚರ��
23. The Tale of Hansuli Turn by Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay translated from Bengali or Bangla not sure which is correct (Indian language) to English by Ben Conisbee Baer Original title: হাঁসুলী বাঁকের উপকথ��
24. Cobalt Blue by Sachin Kundalkar translated from Marathi (Indian language) to English by Jerry Pinto Could not find the original title.
25. A Kitchen in the Corner of the House by Ambai translated from Tamil (Indian language) into English by Lakshmi Holmström also could not find the original title for this one.

Additional books Original Language: Arabic most translated to English

The Baghdad Clock byShahad Al Rawi
The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq by Hassan Blasim
The Baghdad Eucharist by Sinan Antoon
Fünfzig Gramm Paradies: Roman aus dem Libanon by Iman Humaidan (read in German, translated from Arabic to German)
Memoirs from the Women's Prison by Nawal El Saadawi
In Search of Walid Masoud by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
The Angels Die by Yasmina Khadra
Clouds over Alexandria by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid
Dreams of Maryam Tair: Blue Boots and Orange Blossoms by Mhani Alaoui
Women of Sand and Myrrh by Hanan Al-Shaykh
The Occasional Virgin by Hanan Al-Shaykh
Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories by Alifa Rifaat
Farewell Damascus by Ghada Samman
The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi

Additional books Original Language: French translated to English
Eve out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi
Beyond the Rice Fields by Naivo
A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir
Disoriental by Négar Djavadi
The Years by Ernaux Annie
Chourmo by Jean-Claude Izzo
Solea by Jean-Claude Izzo

Additional books Language: read in German or English

Happy ohne Ende by Shari Low translated from English to German -read in German but didn't enjoy it.
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self by Alice Miller translated from German to English
Dies ist kein Liebeslied by Karen Duve Read in German
Flugasche by Monika Maron read in German

Additional books Original Language: Mandarin Chinese translated to English

China in Ten Words by Yu Hua
Binu and the Great Wall by Su Tong
Tongwan City by Gao Jianqun
A Private Life by Chen Ran

Additional books Original Language: Japanese translated to English
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Real World by Natsuo Kirino
The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories by Yukiko Motoya
Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama by Yayoi Kusama
Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

Additional books Original Language: Farsi (Persian) translated to English:
The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat

Additional books Language: read in Spanish
Molly's Game by Molly Bloom translated from English to Spanish (read in Spanish, but not a book I'd recommend)
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Breve historia de la mitología griega by Fernando López Trujillo read in Spanish
Hasta siempre, mujercitas by Marcela Serrano read in Spanish
De mujeres y diosas aztecas by Miriam López Hernández read in Spanish
Between Eternities by Javier Marías translated from Spanish into English (Too lazy to read this one in Spanish so I read it in English, but did enjoy it)

Additional books Original Language: Turkish translated to English

Divorce Turkish Style by Esmahan Aykol
The Lost Word by Oya Baydar

Additional books Original Language: Polish translated to English

The Captive Mind by Czesław Miłosz

Additional books Original Language: Portuguese translated to English
Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector

Additional books Original Language: Kannada translated to English Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man by U.R. Ananthamurthy

I don't think I'll manage any more books in translation this year, so I'm calling it done. I'm quite pleased to have read books translated from 25 different languages. Note: I'm assuming it's ok to consider Ancient Greek and Modern Greek two different languages, otherwise it's 24 (but I'm still happy either way) . Reading books translated from the various languages of India was quite interesting and an unexpected bonus of this challenge. I enjoyed the vast majority of the books I read, and fortunately there were just a very few clunkers. Two of the not so good ones were books I read translated from English into either Spanish or German, so even if I didn't enjoy the books themselves that much, I was able to practice my reading in those languages so they weren't a total waste of time. It was also nice to see what other people were reading. I'm sure I added many books to my almost infinite hope to read someday list thanks to postings by the many participants.

That's quite an accomplishment! The Indian language translations sound interesting. Happy reading in 2020!