List of literary works by number of translations

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This is a list of the most translated literary works (including novels, plays, series, collections of poems or short stories, and essays and other forms of literary non-fiction) sorted by the number of languages into which they have been translated. Only translations published by established, independent publishers are taken into account, not people self-publishing translations (real or automatic) via publish-on-demand or on websites, to avoid artificially inflated counts.

#TitleAuthorDateNumber of languages with sourceOriginal language
1The BibleSee Authorship of the BibleSee Dating the Bible3,384 (at least one book)
2,191 (at least New Testament)
698 (Old and New Testaments, including
the Protocanonical books)[1]
Hebrew,
Aramaic,
Koine Greek
2The Little PrinceAntoine de Saint-Exupéry1943>500[2][3]French
3The Adventures of PinocchioCarlo Collodi1883240-260[4][5]Italian
4Dao De JingLaozi400 BCE>250[6]Classical Chinese
5The Pilgrim's ProgressJohn Bunyan1678>200[7]English
6The Communist ManifestoKarl Marx and Friedrich Engels1848>200[8]German
7Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll1865174[9]English
8Grimm's Fairy TalesJacob and Wilhelm Grimm1812–1858170[10]German
9Steps to ChristEllen G. White1892>160[11]English
10Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra1615>140 (complete and portions)[12][13]Spanish
11Andersen's Fairy TalesHans Christian Andersen1835–1852129[14]Danish
12Book of MormonSee Origin of the Book of Mormon1830115[15]English
13The Adventures of AsterixRené Goscinny & Albert Uderzo1959–present115[16] (not all volumes are available in all languages)French
14QuranSee History of the Quran650>114[17][18]Classical Arabic
15The Way to HappinessL. Ron Hubbard1980114[19]English
16The ProphetKahlil Gibran1923108[20]English
17The Adventures of TintinHergé1929–197696[21] (not all volumes are available in all languages)French
18The Imitation of ChristThomas à Kempis141895[22]Latin
19Harry PotterJ. K. Rowling1997–200785[23]English
20Winnie-the-PoohA. A. Milne192674[24]English
21The Diary of a Young GirlAnne Frank194773[25]Dutch
22The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South SeasThor Heyerdahl1948>70[26]Norwegian
23Pippi LongstockingAstrid Lindgren194570[27]Swedish
24The AlchemistPaulo Coelho198870[28][29]Portuguese
25Sophie's WorldJostein Gaarder199165[30]Norwegian
26The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain188565[31]English
27Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell194965[32]English
28Through the Looking-GlassLewis Carroll187165[33]English
29Isha UpanishadVarious500 BCE64[34]Sanskrit
30The Upright Revolution: Or Why Humans Walk UprightNgũgĩ wa Thiong'o201663[35]Gikuyu
31KalevalaElias Lönnrot (compiler)1835/184961[36]Finnish
32Quo vadisHenryk Sienkiewicz189561[37][38]Polish
33Bhagavad GitaVyasa400 BCE59[39]Sanskrit
34The HobbitJ. R. R. Tolkien193759English
35The Good Soldier ŠvejkJaroslav Hašek192358[40]Czech
36The Lord of the RingsJ. R. R. Tolkien1954–195557[41] languages, with 87 translations totalEnglish
37Things Fall ApartChinua Achebe195857[42]English
38A Doll's HouseHenrik Ibsen187956[43]Norwegian
39Divine ComedyDante Alighieric. 1308-132152[44]Italian
40Seven Brief Lessons on PhysicsCarlo Rovelli201452[45]Italian
41Never Let Me GoKazuo Ishiguro200552English
42The Boy in the Striped PyjamasJohn Boyne200652English
43The House at Pooh CornerA. A. Milne192852[46] languages, with 97 translations in totalEnglish
44Autobiography of a YogiParamahansa Yogananda194650[47][48]English
45HeidiJohanna Spyri188050[49]German
46Out Stealing HorsesPer Petterson200350[50]Norwegian
47Cien Años de SoledadGabriel García Márquez196747[51]Spanish
48The Chronicles of NarniaC. S. Lewis1950–195747[52]English
49The Bridge on the DrinaIvo Andrić194547[53]Serbo-Croatian
50The Little WitchOtfried Preußler195747[54]German
51TirukkuralValluvarc. 300 BCE – c. 450 CE
See Dating the Tirukkural
46Tamil
52The Story of San MicheleAxel Munthe1929>45[55]English
53The General of the Dead ArmyIsmail Kadare196345[56]Albanian
54The StrangerAlbert Camus194245[57]French
55The Very Hungry CaterpillarEric Carle196945[58]English
56The Da Vinci CodeDan Brown200344[59]English
57The MoominsTove Jansson194543[60]Swedish
58The Robber HotzenplotzOtfried Preußler196243[61]German
59Das KapitalKarl Marx and Friedrich Engels1867>42 (The number 42 gives the number of other languages in 1967)[62]German
60Invisible CitiesItalo Calvino197242[63]Italian
61The English RosesMadonna200342[64]English
62AtonementIan McEwan200142English
63The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald192542[65]English
64The Kite RunnerKhaled Hosseini200342[66]English
65SolarisStanisław Lem196142[67][68][69]Polish
66A Series of Unfortunate EventsLemony Snicket1999–200641[70]English
67The EgyptianMika Waltari194541[71]Finnish
68The LeopardJo Nesbø200940[72]Norwegian
69Before I Go to SleepS. J. Watson201140[73]English
70MiffyDick Bruna195540[74]Dutch
71Paddington BearMichael Bond195840[citation needed]English
72The Tragedy of ManImre Madách186140[75]Hungarian
73AmsterdamIan McEwan199839English
74The Family of Pascual DuarteCamilo José Cela194239[76]Spanish
75A Song of Ice and FireGeorge R.R. Martin1996–present39[citation needed]English
76Dictionary of the KhazarsMilorad Pavić198439[77][78]Serbian
77The Time of the DovesMercè Rodoreda196238[79]Catalan
78Silence in the Age of NoiseErling Kagge201638[80]Norwegian
79The Bookseller of KabulÅsne Seierstad200238[81]Norwegian
80Mr. Peabody's ApplesMadonna200338[82]English
81DiscworldTerry Pratchett1983–201537[83] or 38[84]English
82Cold SkinAlbert Sánchez Piñol200237[85]Catalan
83The Book of MirrorsEugen Chirovici201737[86]English
84KrabatOtfried Preußler196237[87]German
85PerfumePatrick Süskind198537[88]German
86Anne of Green GablesLucy Maud Montgomery190836[89]English
87Norwegian WoodHaruki Murakami198736[90]Japanese
88White TeethZadie Smith199936[citation needed]English
89Dead Until DarkCharlaine Harris200135[91]English
90The Tale of Peter RabbitHelen Beatrix Potter190235[92]English
91Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the WindowTetsuko Kuroyanagi198135[93]Japanese
92Pan TadeuszAdam Mickiewicz183434[94]Polish
93The Paul Street BoysFerenc Molnár190733[citation needed]Hungarian
94Ender's GameOrson Scott Card198533[95]English
95Gone With the WindMargaret Mitchell193632[96]English
96Bambi: A Life in the WoodsFelix Salten192332[97]German
97Captain UnderpantsDav Pilkey1997–201531[citation needed]English
98'Art'Yasmina Reza199430[98]French
99BuddenbrooksThomas Mann190130[99]German
100Chasing VermeerBlue Balliett200330[100]English
101Isadora MoonHarriet Muncaster201630[101]English
102SpiderwickTony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black200330[102]English
103The No. 1 Ladies' Detective AgencyAlexander McCall Smith199830[103]English
104The Pillars of the EarthKen Follett198930[104]English
105The Tale of GenjiMurasaki Shikibu100130[105]Japanese
106Under the YokeIvan Vazov189330[106]Bulgarian


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