Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 22 hours ago

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Hello, August is Women in Translation Month and so I'm giving you 8 book recommendations for women in translation month, and also talking about my TBR. I plan to read lots of books this month as I love books by women in translation and I'm hoping to find some new favourites, so let me know yours in the comments below.

0:00 - Intro
0:28 - Book Recommendations
12:16 - My TBR

Books Mentioned
Katalin Street by Magda Szabo trans. Len Rix
Pink Slime by Fernanda Trias trans. Heather Cleary
Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel trans. Rosalind Harvey
The Vegetarian by Han Kang trans. Deborah Smith
Mona by Pola Oloixarac trans. Adam Morris
Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez trans. Megan McDowell
Kim Jiyoung Born 1982 by Cho Nam Joo trans. Jamie Chang
Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector trans. Stefan Tobler
The Aeneid by Virgil trans. by Shadi Barscht
Drive your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi trans. Lucy North & David Boyd
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrente trans. Ann Goldstein
Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo trans. Leah Janeczko
Wound by Oksana Vasyakina trans. Elina Alter
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto trans. Megan Backus