List of literary works by number of translations

This is a list of 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 they have been translated into.

Title	Author	Year of Publication	Number of languages with source	Origin / Language
The Bible	See Authorship of the Bible	See Dating the Bible	2,932 (at least one book)[1] 1,333 (New Testament)[1] 554 (Old and New Testaments, including the Protocanonical books)[1]	Hebrew, Aramaic, Koinḗ Greek
Listen to God and Live Forever	Watch Tower Society	2011	>640[2]	English
Can the Dead Really Live Again?	Watch Tower Society	2013	>600[3]
Will Suffering Ever End?	Watch Tower Society	2013	>600[3]
Universal Declaration of Human Rights	United Nations Commission on Human Rights	1948	462[4]	English, French, Spanish
Would You Like to Know the Truth?	Watch Tower Society	2008	>400[5]	English
The Watchtower—Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom	Watch Tower Society	1879–present	297[6] (semi-monthly journal)	English
You Can Be God’s Friend!	Watch Tower Society	2000	278[7]	English
What Does the Bible Really Teach?	Watch Tower Society	2005	272[8]	English
Pinocchio	Carlo Collodi	1883	>260[9]	Italian
The Little Prince	Antoine de Saint Exupéry	1943	253[10]	French
Pilgrim's Progress	John Bunyan	1678	200[11]	English
My Book of Bible Stories	Watch Tower Society	1978, revised 2004	194[12]	English
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll	1865	174[13]	English
Steps to Christ	Ellen G. White	1892	165[14]	English
Andersen's Fairy Tales	Hans Christian Andersen	1835–1852	153[15]	Danish
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea	Jules Verne	1870	148	French
Am I small?	Philipp Winterberg	2013	120 and counting [16]	German
Sing to Jehovah	Watch Tower Society	2009	116[17]	English
The Secret of Family Happiness	Watch Tower Society	1996	115[18]	English
Examining the Scriptures Daily	Watch Tower Society	1986–present	114[19] (annual booklet)	English
Awake!	Watch Tower Society	1919–present	112[20] (bimonthly journal)	English
The Adventures of Asterix	René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo	1959–2010	112[21]	French
The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived	Watch Tower Society	1991	111[22]	English
Book of Mormon	See Origin of the Book of Mormon	1830	110[23]	English
Learn From the Great Teacher	Watch Tower Society	2003	>100[24]	English
Our Kingdom Ministry	Watch Tower Society	1982–2015	100[25] (monthly newsletter)	English
The Adventures of Tintin	Hergé	1929–1976	96[26]	French
The Imitation of Christ	Thomas à Kempis	ca. 1418	95[27]	Latin
Bhagavad Gita	Vyasa	3100BCE	80[28]	Sanskrit
The Way to Happiness	L. Ron Hubbard	1980	>70[29]	English
The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas	Thor Heyerdahl	1948	>70[30]	Norwegian
Pippi Longstocking	Astrid Lindgren	1945	70[31]	Swedish
Harry Potter	J. K. Rowling	1997	68[32]	English
The Alchemist	Paulo Coelho	1988	67[33]	Portuguese
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	1885	65[34]	English
Nineteen Eighty-Four	George Orwell	1949	65[35]	English
Isha Upanishad	Various	500BCE	64[36]	Sanskrit
Kalevala	Elias Lönnrot (compiler)	1835/1849	61[37]	Finnish
The Diary of a Young Girl	Anne Frank	1947	60[38]	Dutch
My Name Is Red	Orhan Pamuk	1998	60[39]	Turkish
Sherlock Holmes	Arthur Conan Doyle	1887	60[40]	English
Sophie's World	Jostein Gaarder	1991	59[41]	Norwegian
The Good Soldier Švejk	Jaroslav Hašek	1923	58[42]	Czech
The Message of the Cross	Jaerock Lee	2002	57[43]	Korean
A Doll's House	Henrik Ibsen	1879	56[44]	Norwegian
Perfect Questions, Perfect Answers	A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada	1977	55[45]	English
The Upright Revolution: Or Why Humans Walk Upright	Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o	2016	54[46]	Kikuyu
Beyond Birth and Death	A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada	1979	51[47]	English
Easy journey to other planets	A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada	1970	51[48]	English
Quo vadis	Henryk Sienkiewicz	1895	>50[49]	Polish
The Perfection of Yoga	A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada	1972	50[50]	English
Heidi	Johanna Spyri	1880	50[51]	German
Out Stealing Horses	Per Petterson	2003	50[52]	Norwegian
Qur'an	See Origin and development of the Qur'an	650	50 (complete), 114 (portions)[53]	Classical Arabic
The Purpose Driven Life	Rick Warren	2002	50[54]	English
Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe	1958	50[55]	English
Egbert Turns Red	Philipp Winterberg	2009	50 and counting [56]	German
Sleep Tight, Little Wolf	Ulrich Renz	2015	50 and counting [57]	German
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra	1615	48[58][59]	Spanish
The Bridge on the Drina	Ivo Andrić	1945	47[60]	Serbo-Croatian
The Story of San Michele	Axel Munthe	1929	>45[61]	English
The Stranger	Albert Camus	1942	45[62]	French
The Very Hungry Caterpillar	Eric Carle	1969	45[63]	English
The Da Vinci Code	Dan Brown	2003	44[64]	English
The Moomins	Tove Jansson	1945	43[65]	Swedish
The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	1925	42[66]	English
The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini	2003	42[67]	English
The Hobbit	J. R. R. Tolkien	1937	40[68]	English
Miffy	Dick Bruna	1955	40[69]	Dutch
Paddington Bear	Michael Bond	1958	40[70]	English
The Tragedy of Man	Imre Madách	1861	40[71]	Hungarian
The Family of Pascual Duarte	Camilo José Cela	1942	39[72]	Spanish
A Song of Ice and Fire	George R.R. Martin	1996–Present	39	English
The Bookseller of Kabul	Åsne Seierstad	2002	38[73]	Norwegian
The Book of Mirrors	E.O. Chirovici	2017	38	English
Cold Skin	Albert Sánchez Piñol	2002	37[74]	Catalan
The General of the Dead Army	Ismail Kadare	2003	37[75]	Albanian
Perfume	Patrick Süskind	1985	37[76]	German
Tirukkural	Thiruvalluvar	0012	37[77]	Tamil
Dictionary of the Khazars	Milorad Pavić	1984	37[78]	Serbian
Anne of Green Gables	Lucy Maud Montgomery	1908	36[79]	English
Norwegian Wood	Haruki Murakami	1987	36[80]	Japanese
Cien Años de Soledad	Gabriel García Márquez	1967	> 35[81]	Spanish
Dead Until Dark	Charlaine Harris	2001	35[82]	English
Freakonomics	Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner	2005	35[83]	English
My Life, My Faith	Jaerock Lee	2006	35[84][85]	Korean
The Tale of Peter Rabbit	Helen Beatrix Potter	1902	35[86]	English
Totto-chan, the Little Girl at the Window	Tetsuko Kuroyanagi	1981	35[87]	Japanese
Left Behind	Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins	1995	34[88]	English
The Time of the Doves	Mercè Rodoreda	1962	34[89]	Catalan
The Power of Now	Eckhart Tolle	1997	>33[90][91]	English
Ender's Game	Orson Scott Card	1985	33[92]	English
Alexander Trilogy	Valerio Massimo Manfredi	1998	32[93]	Italian
Gone With the Wind	Margaret Mitchell	1936	32[94]	English
Goosebumps	R. L. Stine	1992	32[95]	English
'Art'	Yasmina Reza	1994	30[96]	French
Buddenbrooks	Thomas Mann	1901	30[97]	German
Chasing Vermeer	Blue Balliett	2003	30[98]	English
Millennium Trilogy	Stieg Larsson	2005	30[99]	Swedish
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency	Alexander McCall Smith	1998	30[100]	English
The Pillars of the Earth	Ken Follett	1989	30[101]	English
Spiderwick	Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black	2003	30[102]	English
The Tale of Genji	Murasaki Shikibu	1001	30[103]	Japanese
Under the Yoke	Ivan Vazov	1893	30[104]	Bulgarian
In Defence of Global Capitalism	Johan Norberg	2001	28[105]	Swedish

See also

• List of best-selling books
• Index Translationum

References

1. (Figures correct as of October 2015.)
2. Awake, June 2016, page 6.
3. Who Are Doing Jehovah’s Will Today?, page 31.
4. Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Download at the official website.
5. Who Are Doing Jehovah’s Will Today?, page 31. Available online.
6. The Watchtower, No. 2, 2017, page 2. Available online.
7. Awake!, January, 2010, page 32. Available online.
8. The Watchtower, February 15, 2015, page 27. Available online.
9. http://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/pinocchios-journey-italy
10. "The Little Prince". www.lepetitprince.com. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
11. John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, W.R. Owens, ed., Oxford World's Classics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), xiii: "...the book has never been out of print. It has been published in innumerable editions, and has been translated into over two hundred languages."
12. Awake!, November 2007, page 18. Available online.
13. Alice in a World of Wonderlands.
14. What is Ellen White's most popular book? by The Ellen G. White Estate
15. Hans Christian Andersens Fairytales in 128 languages
16. http://www.philippwinterberg.com/projekte/am_i_small_languages.php
17. Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, 2013, page 24.
18. Awake!, December 22, 2000, page 5. Available online.
19. Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, 2001, page 17. Available online.
20. Awake!, 2017 #1, page 2. (Awake! was called The Golden Age between 1919 & 1937; then Consolation between 1937 & 1946.) Available online.
21. http://www.asterix-obelix.nl/index.php?page=manylanguages/collection.inc
22. The Watchtower, December 1, 2002, page 21. Available online.
23. https://www.lds.org/ensign/2015/05/news-of-the-church/book-of-mormon-in-110-languages?lang=eng
24. Awake!, March 2009, page 23. Available online.
25. Jehovah’s Witnesses — Proclaimers of God’s Kingdom, page 247. Available online.
26. Tintin Around the World
27. http://ftp.unesco.org/xtrans/a/openisis.a?a=THOMAS+A+KEMPIS&ns=/xtrans/stat/xTransList.a%3Flg&tie=and&t3=11&t4=10 Index Translationum for The Imitation of Christ
28. http://www.krishna.com/books/bhagavad-gita-as-it-is. Missing or empty |title= (help)
29. http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records-6000/most-translated-author-same-book/
30. "Thor Heyerdahl – Store norske leksikon". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved 2015-11-05.
31. Astrid Lindgren's Official Website astridlindgren.com (12 March 2015)
32. The Telegraph-Journal on Harry Potter (15 April 2008)
33. Paulo Coelho's Official Website PauloCoelho.com (28 March 2009)
34. Great Books: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Segment 11: The Popularity of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (06 August 2013)
35. John Rodden. The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of "St. George" Orwell
36. http://www.krishna.com/books/sri-isopanisad. Missing or empty |title= (help)
37. "National epic "The Kalevala" reaches the respectable age of 175". Retrieved 17 August 2010.
38. Deaf news around Europe and the world Article 2, European Union of the Deaf
39. "Orhan Pamuk's novels translated into 60 languages". Retrieved 19 November 2013.
40. The Fort Dodge Messenger on Sherlock Holmes: "The Holmes stories have been translated into more than 60 languages. " (13 April 2008)
41. "Sofies verden" (in Norwegian Bokmål).
42. http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ct24/regiony/224333-hasek-je-na-roztrhani-ma-vlastni-pomnik-z-osmi-kusu/
43. "Urim Books exhibits book by pastor at New Delhi Book Fair", The Korea Herald, 2014-02-26, retrieved 2014-02-27
44. Fauskanger, Kari. ""Lerkefuglen" tilbake på DNS". Bergens Tidende (in Norwegian). Bergens Tidende. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
45. http://www.krishna.com/books/perfect-questions-perfect-answers. Missing or empty |title= (help)
46. https://jalada.org/2016/03/22/jalada-translation-issue-01-ngugi-wa-thiongo/ Jalada Translation Issue 1
47. http://www.krishna.com/books/beyond-birth-and-death. Missing or empty |title= (help)
48. http://www.krishna.com/books/easy-journey-to-other-planets. Missing or empty |title= (help)
49. http://www.unesco.org/xtrans/bsresult.aspx?lg=0&a=Sienkiewicz&stxt=Quo%20vadis&fr=0 Index Translationum for Quo vadis
50. http://www.krishna.com/books/the-perfection-of-yoga. Missing or empty |title= (help)
51. Johanna Spyri – FREE Johanna Spyri Biography, Encyclopedia.com
52. "Petterson, Per / Oktober / Authors / Home - Aschehoug Agency". www.aschehougagency.no. Retrieved 2015-11-05.
53. According to the al-quran.info online quranic project, the complete Qur'an is listed as having been translated into 47 languages. But, according to another source that number is 50: Rana, Nabeel A. (3 September 1993). "Quran Translated into 114 Languages". Retrieved 23 August 2013.
54. Charisma News, charismanews.com
55. The Philadelphia Enquirer on Things Fall Apart (27 March 2008)
56. http://www.philippwinterberg.com/projekte/egbert_turns_red_languages.php#languages
57. http://childrens-books-bilingual.com/bilingual_childrens_book_1_languages.html
58. Although, according to some Spanish sources (Institute Cervantes), this is the book with the most translations after the Bible.
59. Catálogo de Traducciones del Quijote, Instituto Cervantes
60. Bibliography Compiled by the Ivo Andrić Foundation in 2011 (14 August 2015)
61. Translationum
62. The Outsider – Albert Camus – Penguin Classics
63. The Very Hungry Birthday (ages 3–5) at Bayside Library
64. Turan, Kenneth (17 May 2006). "The Da Vinci Code". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 8 May 2010.
65. Oy Moomin Characters Ltd
66. Donahue, Deirdre (7 May 2013). "The Great Gatsby by the numbers". USA Today. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
67. The Independent on The Kite Runner: "It's been published in 38 countries, translated into 42 languages, turned into an Oscar-nominated movie – and sold more than 10 million copies." (15 April 2008)
68. The Telegraph on The Hobbit: "It was published in 1937 and has sold more than 100 million copies worldwide in 40 languages. " (23 March 2008)
69. 'I saw Matisse – and came up with Miffy' ,Telegraph.co.uk (12 September 2006)
70. Bear with us – Paddington celebrates 50th with a new book ,Daily Mail (2 June 2008)
71. Arcanum Adatbázis Kft
72. La familia de Pascual Duarte llega a Corea del Sur, La Voz Libre (6 November 2009)
73. "Gjensyn med et radbrukket land". Aftenposten. Retrieved 2015-11-05.
74. Institut Ramon Llull (Press Releases) on Cold Skin: "The novel, first published in Catalan by La Campana in 2002, has now been translated into 37 languages." (8 December 2009)
75. ,BBC (9 October 2003)
76. Obsessed with Scent ,GNN (30 October 2003)
77. "37 translations"
78. Dictionary of the Khazars. A lexicon-novel in 100.000 words (14 August 2015)
79. The Nashua Telegraph on Anne of Green Gables: "First published in Boston, the book has been translated into 36 languages and sold more than 50 million copies. " (20 March 2008)
80. Yomiuri Shimbun (31 July 2008) (Japanese language)
81. , El Mundo, Reportaje en La Revista: "70 Años de García Márquez"
82. , Awfulagent.com (author's agency) (26 April 2011)
83. http://www.freakonomics.com/
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85. "South Korean Christian author's Books meet Mexican Readers", ANS, 2014-12-26, retrieved 2014-12-26
86. "Peter Rabbit gets hieroglyph tale". BBC News. 31 December 2004. Retrieved 8 May 2010.
87. トットちゃんとカマタ先生の「ずっとやくそく」 :著者プロフィール (Japanese language)
88. , People Magazine (26 April 2004)
89. El Periódico on The Time of the Doves: "The novel has been translated into 34 languages. In honor of this feat, the Gràcia district opens today an exhibition about it." (26 September 2012)
90. Eckhart Tolle Biography. New York Times (2008-03-05). Times Topics.
91. "KALIMA publishes Eckhart Tolle's 'A New Earth and the Power of Now' in Arabic as well.". WAM: Emirates News Agency. 2010-04-01. Retrieved 2010-05-24.
92. Ender's Game#Translations
93. Reuters on the Alexander trilogy: "Manfredi gained international acclaim in 1998 with his trilogy on Alexander the Great, which was translated into 32 languages." (2 April 2008)
94. CNN Transcript – Sunday Morning News `Gone With the Wind' Translated Into Russian ,CNN (25 March 2001)
95. The Rocky Mountain News on Goosebumps: "That formula has brought fame and fortune to Stine, whose 87 Goosebumps books have sold more than 300 million copies and been translated into 32 languages." (13 April 2008)
96. The Idaho Statesman on Art: "Since then it has been translated into 30 languages." (15 April 2008)
97. The Los Angeles Times on Buddenbrooks: "Buddenbrooks, which has been translated into over 30 languages, has long been Thomas Mann's most popular book." (27 June 1993)
98. Publishers Weekly on Chasing Vermeer: "Chasing Vermeer, which was published in 2004, has sold more than a million copies for Scholastic, and has been translated into more than 30 languages." (17 March 2008)
99. AFP on Millennium Trilogy: "They have been translated into some 30 languages and a first film adaptation is under way in Sweden." (19 March 2008)
100. The Independent on 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency': "Award-winning author Alexander McCall Smith, whose best-selling books about a Botswanan female detective are printed in more than 30 languages, is accused by human rights campaigners of stereotyping tribal groups in Africa." (16 March 2008)
101. Variety on The Pillars of the Earth (2 April 2008)
102. The New Zealand Herald on Spiderwick: "After all, the books had sold millions and had been translated into 30 languages, so it seemed like a good idea." (9 April 2008)
103. Washington University, Saint Louis on The Tale of Genji: "Now a central pillar of the Japanese literary canon, the book has inspired writers and artists working in every conceivable genre and medium, and has been translated into more than 30 languages." (4 April 2008)
104. (29 April 2009)
105. Lindgren, Martin (2009), "Vi är inte alls eniga om stimulanspaket", Realtid.se

External links

• Translated works' and authors' database at the UNESCO website
• '50 of The World's Most Translated Books', infographic prepared by The Translation Company Group (full list of sources included)
• The Most Translated Authors in the World