• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (February 2021)

• My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Various Authors, translated by Various Translators (August 2022)

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (April 2023)

• Family of Shadows: A Century of Murder, Memory, and the Armenian American Dream by Garin Hovannisian (November 2021)

It is extremely hard to find translated works by Armenian authors. For that reason, I had to resort to an Armenian-American writer who tells the story of his family after the Armenian genocide in 1915. In the meantime, I have a few hard-to-find translated works that I am on the search for.

• Ali and Nino by Kurban Said, translated by Jenia Graman (December 2021)

• Yummah by Sarah A Al Sahfei (January 2022)

• The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z. Hossain (January 2022)

• Kundo Wakes Up by Saad Z. Hossain (February 2023)

• Treasures of the Thunder Dragon by Ashi Dori Wangmo Wangchuck (July 2022)

• The Fisherman King by Kathrina Mohd Daud (March 2022)

• The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up by Liao Yiwu (January 2020)

• 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth  by Xiaolu Guo, translated by Rebecca Morris and Pamela Casey (August 2022)

• Baumgartner's Bombay by Anita Desai (2011)

See Also:

• Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo (December 2016)

• The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, Mattias Ripa (Translator, Part 1), Blake Ferris (Translator, Part 2), Anjali Singh (Translator, Parts 3 and 4) (June 2014)

• Until We Are Free by Shirn Ebadi (May 2022)

• The Forest of Wool and Steel by Natsu Miyashita, translated by Philip Gabriel (August 2021)

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel (March 2023)

• What You Are Looking For is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama, translated by Alison Watts (August 2023)

• Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, translated by Geoffrey Trousselot (November 2023)

• We, The Survivors by Tash Aw (January 2025)

•  You’ve Changed by Pyae Moe Thet War (February 2024)

• In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park, With Maryanne Vollers (September 2021)

See Also

• Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick (January 2014)

• Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden (May 2014)

• The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (February 2017)

• We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib (August 2020) 

• No Funeral for Nazia by Taha Kehar (September 2023)

• Minor Detail by Adania Shibli, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette (October 2023)

• Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country by Patricia Evangelista (January 2024)

• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (2012)

• Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo,  translated by Jamie Chang (December 2021)

• Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park, translated by Anton Hur (March 2022)

• I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki: A Memoir by Baek Sehee , translated by Anton Hur (August 2022)

• The Specters of Algeria by Hwang Yeo Jung, translated by Yewon Jung (May 2023)

See Also

• White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht (June 2023)

See Also

• Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir by Vidyan Ravinthiran (January 2025)

• The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui (February 2018)