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Bookriot's 100 Must-Read Works of Speculative Fiction in Translation

There's a great big world out there, filled with accomplished authors writing in every language. Speculative fiction is an especially vibrant genre, and with works like Cixin Liu's award-winning Three-Body Problem garnering much-deserved applause here in the U.S., and multiple anthologies of Spanish-language fiction becoming available, there's never been a better time to build your TBR list.
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1985 (György Dalos)
1985
1
György Dalos
The Absolute at Large (Capek)
The Absolute at Large
2
Capek
Anubis: A Desert Novel (Ibrahim Al Koni)
Anubis: A Desert Novel
3
Ibrahim Al Koni
Awakening to the Great Sleep War (Gert Jonke)
Awakening to the Great Sleep War
4
Gert Jonke
Between Earth and Moon (Otfrid Von Hanstein)
Between Earth and Moon
5
Otfrid Von Hanstein
Biogenesis (Tatsuaki Ishiguro)
Biogenesis
6
Tatsuaki Ishiguro
Black Tea and Other Tales (Samuel Marolla)
Black Tea and Other Tales
7
Samuel Marolla
The Book of Madness (Levent Şenyürek)
The Book of Madness
8
Levent Şenyürek
The Carpet Makers
The Carpet Makers
9
Cat Country (Lao She)
Cat Country
10
Lao She
Cold Skin (Albert Sanchez Piñol)
Cold Skin
11
Albert Sanchez Piñol
The Core of the Sun (Johanna Sinisalo)
The Core of the Sun
12
Johanna Sinisalo
The Dark Domain (Stefan Grabinski)
The Dark Domain
13
Stefan Grabinski
The Dark Forest (Cixin Liu)
The Dark Forest
14
Cixin Liu
Dead Mountaineer's Hotel (Arkady and Boris Strugatsky)
Dead Mountaineer's Hotel
15
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Death's End (Liu Cixin)
Death's End
16
Liu Cixin
Dendera (Yuya Sato)
Dendera
17
Yuya Sato
Egalia's Daughters (Gerd Brantenberg)
Egalia's Daughters
18
Gerd Brantenberg
Empire V (Viktor Pelevin)
Empire V
19
Viktor Pelevin
Eternal War: Armies of Saints (Livio Gambarini)
Eternal War: Armies of Saints
20
Livio Gambarini
Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges)
Ficciones
21
Jorge Luis Borges
Folding Beijing (Hao Jin)
Folding Beijing
22
Hao Jin
The Fourth Circle (Zoran Zivkovic)
The Fourth Circle
23
Zoran Zivkovic
From the Earth to the Moon
From the Earth to the Moon
24
Gene Mapper (Taiyo Fujii)
Gene Mapper
25
Taiyo Fujii
The Golden Age (Michal Ajvaz)
The Golden Age
26
Michal Ajvaz
The Goldsmith's Secret (Elia Barceló)
The Goldsmith's Secret
27
Elia Barceló
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Haruki Murakami)
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
28
Haruki Murakami
Heart of Tango (Elia Barceló)
Heart of Tango
29
Elia Barceló
HWJN (Ibraheem Abbas)
HWJN
30
Ibraheem Abbas
I Who Have Never Known Men (Jacqueline Harpman)
I Who Have Never Known Men
31
Jacqueline Harpman
Ice (Vladimir Sorokin)
Ice
32
Vladimir Sorokin
In Concert Performance (Nikolai Dezhnev)
In Concert Performance
33
Nikolai Dezhnev
In a Thousand Years (Emile Calvet)
In a Thousand Years
34
Emile Calvet
Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)
Invisible Cities
35
Italo Calvino
The Island of Eternal Love (Daína Chaviano)
The Island of Eternal Love
36
Daína Chaviano
Jagannath
Jagannath
37
Japan Sinks - Sakyo Komatsu
Japan Sinks - Sakyo Komatsu
38
Kallocain (Karin Boye)
Kallocain
39
Karin Boye
Kalpa Imperial (Angélica Gorodischer)
Kalpa Imperial
40
Angélica Gorodischer
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