Looking for something perhaps a little different?
How about trying a book that's been translated from another language?
Adult
- The original folk and fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm : the complete first edition / Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm ; translated and edited by Jack Zipes ; illustrated by Andrea Dezsö.
- Death is hard work / Khaled Khalifa ; translated from the Arabic by Leri Price.
- Crime and punishment : a novel in six parts with epilogue / by Fyodor Dostoevsky ; translated and annotated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
- A man called Ove / Fredrik Backman.
- Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy ; translated from the Russian by Louise and Aylmer Maude ; with an introduction by John Bayley.
- The Count of Monte-Cristo / Alexandre Dumas.
- The shadow of the wind / Carlos Ruiz Zafon ; translated by Lucia Graves.
- Renoir / by Bruno F. Schneider ; [translated by Desmond and Camille Clayton].
- A long petal of the sea / Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson.
- The Aosawa murders / Riku Onda ; translated from the Japanese by Alison Watts.
- Miss Iceland / Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir ; translated from the Icelandic by Brian FitzGibbon.
- The mutations / Jorge Comensal ; translated from the Spanish by Charlotte Whittle.
- The red address book / Sofia Lundberg ; translated by Alice Menzies.
- The memory police / Yoko Ogawa ; translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder.
- Baron Wenckheim's homecoming / László Krasznahorkai ; translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet.
- Things my son needs to know about the world / Fredrik Backman ; translated by Alice Menzies.
- The girl who lived twice / David Lagercrantz ; translated from the Swedish by George Goulding.
- Drive your plow over the bones of the dead / Olga Tokarczuk ; translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
- Walking : one step at a time / Erling Kagge ; translated from the Norwegian by Becky L. Crook.
- Once upon a time in France / written by Fabien Nury ; drawn by Sylvain Vallée ; colors by Delf ; translated by Ivanka Hahnenberger ; lettered by Haley Rose-Lyon.
- Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian lions / Mario Giordano ; translated by John Brownjohn.
- The beekeeper : rescuing the stolen women of Iraq / Dunya Mikhail ; translated from the Arabic by Dunya Mikhail and Max Weiss.
- Disoriental / Négar Djavadi ; translated from the French by Tina Kova.
- The emissary / Yoko Tawada ; translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani.
Tweens and Teens
- The beast player / Nahoko Uehashi ; illustrations by Yuta Onoda ; translated by Cathy Hirano.
- D N Angel / by Yukiru Sugisaki ; translator, Alethea Nibley, Athena Nibley ; English adaptation, Sarah Dyer.
- The librarian of Auschwitz / Antonio Iturbe ; translated by Lilit Žekulin Thwaites.
- Almost autumn / Marianne Kaurin ; translated from the Norwegian by Rosie Hedger.
- Guardians of the Louvre / Jirô Taniguchi ; translated from the Japanese by Kumar Sivasubramanian.
- The letter for the king / Tonke Dragt ; translated by Laura Watkinson.
- Fearless : a Mirrorworld novel / written by Cornelia Funke ; a story found and told by Cornelia Funke and Lionel Wigram ; translated by Oliver Latsch.
- Jane, the fox & me / written by Fanny Britt ; illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault ; translated by Christine Morelli and Susan Ouriou.
- Les miserables / Victor Hugo ; translated and with an introduction by Norman Denny.
- Reckless / written and illustrated by Cornelia Funke ; translated by Oliver Latsch.
- Neon genesis Evangelion. Angelic days. Vol. 6 / Fumino Hayashi ; based on an original story by Gainax ; [translator, Javier Lopez].
