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February 2021

A Translated Book

While curating this list, we came across a plethora of great books. To make things relatively simple, we have included, only books of other languages that have been translated to English. We hope this list will help you choose your favourite for this month!
Bookcentric suggests:
  1. Kabuliwala by Rabindranath Tagore
  2. Mad & Madder : Tall Tales of a Fantastic Family by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
  3. The Crazy Tales Of Pagla Dashu And Co. by Sukumar Ray
  5. Pather Panchali : Song of the Road by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
  6. Shesh Prashna : The Final Question by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
  7. Hajar Churashir Maa by Mahasweta Devi
  8. Sei Somoy : Those Days by Sunil Gangopadhyay
  9. Aporajito : The Unvanquished by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
  10. Nondito Norok e : In Blissful Hell by Humayun Ahmed
  11. Khwaabnama by Akhteruzzaman Elias
  12. Letters of Blood by Rizia Rahman
  15. There’s Gunpowder in the Air by Manoranjan Byapari
  16. What Really Happened : Stories by Banaphool
  17. The Moving Shadow : Various Authors by Arunava Sinha
  18. Tree Without Roots by Syed Waliullah
  19. The Observant Owl by Kaliprasanna Singha
  20. Boatman of the Padma by Manik Bandopadhyay
  21. Cobalt Blue by Sachin Kundalkar by Jerry Pinto
  22. Poonachi by Perumal Murugan
  23. Jasmine Days by Benyamin
  24. The Unseeing Idol of Light by K. R. Meera
  25. The Magic Doe by Qutban Suhravardi
  27. Sugandhi Alias Andal Devanayak by T.D. Ramakrishnan
  28. Moustache by S. Hareesh
  29. Hangwoman by K. R. Meera
  30. The Bronze Sword of Thengphakhri Tehsildar by Indira Goswami
  31. Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbagh
  32. The Revenue Stamp by Amrita Pritam
  33. Tamas by Bhisham Sahni
  34. Chander and Sudha by Shree Dharamvir Bharti
  35. Written in Tears by Arupa Patangia Kalita
  37. The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
  38. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
  39. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
  42. Out by Natsuo Kirino
  44. Silence by Shusaku Endo
  46. A River in Darkness : One Man’s Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa
  47. One Hundred Shadows by Hwang JungEun
  49. The Plotters by Un-su Kim
  50. Bluebeard's First Wife by Ha Seong-nan
  51. Please Look After Mom by Shin Kyong-Suk
  52. The Hole by Hye-Young Pyun
  53. Mina by Kim Sagwa
  54. The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-eun
  55. Blood Sisters by Kim Yideum
  56. The Price of Paradise by Susana Lopez Rubio
  58. Thing We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez
  59. The Bitch by Pilar Quintana
  61. The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia
  62. A Long Petal of the sea by Isabel Allende
  63. Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
  64. Such Small Hands by Andre Barba
  65. Fever Dream by Samantha Shweblin
  66. The Hole by Jose Revueltas
  67. 77 by Guillermo Saccomanno
  68. The Spirit of Science Fiction by Roberto Bolano
  69. Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
  70. In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Álvarez
  71. Arséne Lupin by Maurice Le Blanc
  72. Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye
  73. Disoriental by Negar Djavadi
  75. Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila
  76. The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani
  77. The Stranger by Albert Camus
  78. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
  79. No Exit by Jean Paul Sarte
  80. Oscar and the Lady in Pink by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
  81. Never Stop Walking : A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World by Christina Rickardsson
  82. The Family Clause by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
  86. The Harry Hole Series by Jo Nesbo
  88. Willful Disregard by Lena Andersson
  89. Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
  91. The Silver Music Box by Mina Baites
  92. Elven by Bernhard Hennen and James A. Sullivan
  93. The Elephant Keeper’s Daughter by Julia Drosten
  94. Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck
  95. High as the Waters Rise by Anja Kampmann
  96. The Flying Mountain by Christopher Ransmayr
  97. Go Went Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
  98. Käsebier Takes Berlin by Gabriele Tergit
  99. Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann
  100. The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischwili
  101. The Barefoot Woman by Scholastique Mukasonga
  102. Transparent City by Ondjaki
  103. The Conscript: A Novel of Libya’s Anticolonial War by Gebreyesus Hailu
  104. Dar Es Salaam by Night by Ben R. Mtobwa
  105. The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers by Fouad Laroui
  106. The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz
  107. Ladivine by Marie Ndaiye
  108. Baho by Roland Rugero
  110. Murambi, The Book of Bones by Boubacar Boris Diop
  111. Mr. Myombekere and His Wife Bugonoka, Their Son Ntulanalwo and Daughter Bulihwali by Aniceti Kitereza
  112. The Strange Bride by Grace Ogot
  113. Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga by D.O. Fagunwa
  114. Wrath of the Ancestors by A.C. Jordan
  115. The Rich Man of Pietermaritzburg by Sibusiso Nyembezi
  116. The Big Green Tent by Lyudmila Ulitskaya
  117. The Coronation by Boris Akunin
  119. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  120. The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  122. Bright by Duanwad Pimwana
  123. Frontier by Can Xue
  124. Life by Lu Yao
  127. Mirages of the Mind by Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi
  128. Death is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa
  129. Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
  131. Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi
  132. The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar
  133. A Horse Walks Into a Bar by David Grossman
  134. The Door by Magda Szabo
  137. An Untouched House by Willem Frederik Hermans
  139. The Neopolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante
  140. The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio De Maria
  141. Trick by Domenico Starnone