perfume is an originally German book! And I think you would really enjoy his two shorter novels, The Pigeon and The Double Bass. For example, the Pigeon follows a man who completely unravels when he suddenly finds a pigeon in his hallway
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez is one of my faves! I love this story so much. It's beautifully written and just so weird and magical, I highly, highly recommend it, because I know that you love magical realism as well. I haven't read the Hunchback yet, but I did finish Les Miserables by Hugo this month, and omg, it was fantastic. I cannot put in words how much this book means to me. For other fiction, I'd say "Anna Karenina" and "The Master and Margarita" for Russian lit ... 😊
We have similar tastes - Tho' I did a PhD in French lit, and am constantly trying to catch up on English stuff! I love Japanese "quiet" literature too. I'd definitely recommend 'Love in the Time of Cholera' by Gabriel García Márquez if you haven't read it already...
Translated works are the best!! One author I think deserves more love in the english community is Luis Sepulveda, he's from Chile and writes really beautiful books. I love "The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly ", it's a children's classic but everyone should read it!!
You literally gave me more recommendations on japanese translated fictions 😍 I only read 7 Murakami books as my introduction to Japanese fiction and I love japan because of him
I have the same feelings about why I love translated works (and foreign films). I just love the chance to understand a culture or people from their own perspective.
I love Banana Yoshimoto she writes so simple yet so beautiful and atmosperic especially Kitchen and goodbye Tsugumi are amazing works of her. Also I recommend Herman Hesse, german author, Ive only read Demian by him but I was very touched by his more philisophical approach to youth nad growing up. I really enjoy your videos keep going :)
I needed a translated book for a readathon and I came to this video and decides to read Perfume. I literally just finished it. And WHAT FUCK WAS THAT ENDING????
Great recs! Also you're getting closer to 15k! I keep an eye on your subs because I genuinely think your underrated as a booktuber & deserve more but it's been great seeing you gain more followers recently 😊 well deserved!
You’ve helped expand my reading tastes so much! I’ve bought Drive Your Plow, Kim Jiyoung, and Breasts and Eggs recently. I’m reading Murakami in publication order now after I’ve already read After Dark, 1Q84 and Norwegian Wood. If you want a new horror book that has deer then you should totally check out The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones! It has elk in it not deer, but it’s an amazing own voices horror novel following four Native American men and it’s phenomenal!
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of the best. Marquez and Murakami both write magical realism and dull and quiet-part of why Murakami is my favorite. I recommend one hundred years of solitude and love in the time of cholera. It's sad he just died.
I tried reading The Idiot, the start was great, the small monologues are great were good, but it was so tedious to read it. It was just dialogues after dialogues and situation after situation that lead to nowhere. After being 25 percent into it, I gave up. I hope I read it again and maybe like it, but for now I am very demotivated to read any other Dostoevsky.
You would really like "Things we lost in the fire" by Mariana Enriquez. She's from Argentina, and its a short story compilation. It's horror but with a lot of social commentary.
I love translated works as well and agree that it can be an interesting view into a different culture. For a translated spanish recommendation, I recently read Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, an Argentinian author, and really enjoyed it. I believe it would be categorized as psychological horror, and is told in a very stream of consciousness style.
You should read some Portuguese literature, see if you like it :) I recommend Fernando Pessoa or José Saramago, althought I'm not sure if the translated works do the writers justice.
I would recommend “Stolen Lives : Twenty Years in a Desert Jail” by Malika Oufkir. It is a great Moroccan autobiography👍 not fiction but reads like one!
I really liked 'Como Agua Para Chocolate' by Laura Esquivel. And El amor en los tiempos de colera is still on my reading list. Really like Gabriel García Márquez writing, but love magical realism in general. Perhaps also up your alley: If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino. One of my favorite reads but very meta, very experimental, barely any story to it.
one of my favourite authors is Minh Tran Huy. i read her books in the original French, but i believe some of her novels have been translated to Italian and Spanish (not to English, tragically) so they'd count as translated literature if you read them in Spanish! La Princesse et le Pêcheur (La princesa i el pescador) is one of my favourite books.
Ooh I’ve been wanting to get back into reading in Spanish - would it be accessible/easy enough for someone who hasn’t read in Spanish in like 8 years 😂
@@murakamireads hm, in that case i'd recommend coming back to it after getting some practice to get back into it, because Minh Tran Huy's language is quite formal, maybe not the most accessible. that said, i personally really love the style...
YT recommended this video. I saw the thumbnail and knew immediately that half face in the back was Mark Lee 😂 books and kpop 💕 NCT is one of my favorites groups along side EXO (utt) and GOT7. Thanks for the books recs! :)
@@CarolCabrita lol i've been into kpop for like 6 years now so I'm kinda a grandma in the kpop community - I'm glad book people are discovering kpop but I'm hoping they can discover it's a lot more than just bts or blackpink or nct 😅😅😅
@@murakamireads SAME! 😅 There are a lot of talent kpop artists out there and most people I talked to never heard of them. I used to like BoA in 2002/2003 but back then it was SO hard to have any access to the songs. I had to download it illegally, I had no idea if the song was really from BoA, or if it was a korean or japanese song (jpop was more popular!). There was no streaming service, not even UA-cam existed LOL and because of those difficults I drifted away from asian music scene in general. I remember watching Gee Gee MV and, of course, Gangnam Style but I only got really into kpop with EXO at the Olympics. I've always loved the Backstreet Boys so for me getting into a vocal group is easier. Since we book lovers love collecting, I get why the kpop album industry is so compelling hahaha
Carol Cabrita omg PREACH about the inaccessibility of old Kpop. My friend got into Kpop about 2 years ago now and I had to explain the torture of trying to find things on daily motion and bilibili 😂 new stans have no idea how good they have it😂😂
You have me sold at kim jiyoung! Added to my list, can't wait to get my hands at it I'm not that well versed in translated works to claim any favorite but I am currently reading crime and punishment by Dostoevsky and loving it immensely, it's really a page turner. Would love to see your review to the book. Also Really want to get to the idiot after seeing you praise it so much I've only read Love in the time of cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and found the way he portrays imagery through his words very fascinating
I have never read a translated work that I didn't like. Only best works get translated periodt. Plus India being multilingual (like we have 22 official languages), I get to see my own country in so many different ways through translated literature
@@murakamireads I still haven't read anything else from him, wish I could help with that! But if you do, I look forward to knowing your thoughts about it :)
sometimes! if i wasnt expecting to love a book, I'll usually just read it through once and then annotate upon reread. but with certain books, i know I'll want to annotate - such as classics or authors I've loved previously!
You're an amazing booktuber.
perfume is an originally German book! And I think you would really enjoy his two shorter novels, The Pigeon and The Double Bass. For example, the Pigeon follows a man who completely unravels when he suddenly finds a pigeon in his hallway
I love your videos😊.
Read something in german, in memory of your roots. Greatings from Germany🤗
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez is one of my faves! I love this story so much. It's beautifully written and just so weird and magical, I highly, highly recommend it, because I know that you love magical realism as well.
I haven't read the Hunchback yet, but I did finish Les Miserables by Hugo this month, and omg, it was fantastic. I cannot put in words how much this book means to me.
For other fiction, I'd say "Anna Karenina" and "The Master and Margarita" for Russian lit ... 😊
We have similar tastes - Tho' I did a PhD in French lit, and am constantly trying to catch up on English stuff! I love Japanese "quiet" literature too. I'd definitely recommend 'Love in the Time of Cholera' by Gabriel García Márquez if you haven't read it already...
Translated works are the best!! One author I think deserves more love in the english community is Luis Sepulveda, he's from Chile and writes really beautiful books. I love "The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly
", it's a children's classic but everyone should read it!!
I loved “Strange Weather in Tokyo “‘!
You literally gave me more recommendations on japanese translated fictions 😍 I only read 7 Murakami books as my introduction to Japanese fiction and I love japan because of him
I have the same feelings about why I love translated works (and foreign films). I just love the chance to understand a culture or people from their own perspective.
You have so much energy in this video 💕💕 I love itttt. I hope u keep this energy throughout the year
I love Banana Yoshimoto she writes so simple yet so beautiful and atmosperic especially Kitchen and goodbye Tsugumi are amazing works of her. Also I recommend Herman Hesse, german author, Ive only read Demian by him but I was very touched by his more philisophical approach to youth nad growing up.
I really enjoy your videos keep going :)
I’ve ALWAYS wanted to try Yoshimoto and Hesse! I’ve owned their books before but got rid of them during my big DNF purges :( definitely regret it
I needed a translated book for a readathon and I came to this video and decides to read Perfume. I literally just finished it. And WHAT FUCK WAS THAT ENDING????
Great recs! Also you're getting closer to 15k! I keep an eye on your subs because I genuinely think your underrated as a booktuber & deserve more but it's been great seeing you gain more followers recently 😊 well deserved!
You’ve helped expand my reading tastes so much! I’ve bought Drive Your Plow, Kim Jiyoung, and Breasts and Eggs recently. I’m reading Murakami in publication order now after I’ve already read After Dark, 1Q84 and Norwegian Wood.
If you want a new horror book that has deer then you should totally check out The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones! It has elk in it not deer, but it’s an amazing own voices horror novel following four Native American men and it’s phenomenal!
The Only Good Indians was on my wishlist for my bday - crossing my fingers one of my fam members got me it haha!
Drive Your Plough felt like a fairytale set in Poland! It's such a beautiful piece of literature.🥰 Can't wait to read Flights now.
Such a good description - it really is like a modern, polish fairy tale 🥰
The Perfume was originally written in German. A lot of kids in Germany have to read it for high-school ✌🏻
thank you for clearing that up! I did know a lot of European schools read it, but I wasn't sure the language it was originally in
@@murakamireads tbh, I also had to check my German copy if there's a translator and French title mentioned because I didn't know it for sure. :D
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of the best. Marquez and Murakami both write magical realism and dull and quiet-part of why Murakami is my favorite. I recommend one hundred years of solitude and love in the time of cholera. It's sad he just died.
I tried reading The Idiot, the start was great, the small monologues are great were good, but it was so tedious to read it. It was just dialogues after dialogues and situation after situation that lead to nowhere. After being 25 percent into it, I gave up. I hope I read it again and maybe like it, but for now I am very demotivated to read any other Dostoevsky.
You should read Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor, she's a Mexican author and that's a great book!
Atalia X my boyfriend recently read it and told me I should check it out! We have it on our bookshelf so hopefully I’ll get to it soon!!
@@murakamireads Great! It would be really nice to know your thoughts on it!
You would really like "Things we lost in the fire" by Mariana Enriquez. She's from Argentina, and its a short story compilation. It's horror but with a lot of social commentary.
I love translated works as well and agree that it can be an interesting view into a different culture. For a translated spanish recommendation, I recently read Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, an Argentinian author, and really enjoyed it. I believe it would be categorized as psychological horror, and is told in a very stream of consciousness style.
Just a little tip: the "u" in "Tokarczuk" is pronunced like the "oo" in "school".
You should read some Portuguese literature, see if you like it :) I recommend Fernando Pessoa or José Saramago, althought I'm not sure if the translated works do the writers justice.
Hello Annie I’ve read Jose saramago 👍🏻 wasn’t a huge fan tbh
I needed this video !
I would recommend “Stolen Lives : Twenty Years in a Desert Jail” by Malika Oufkir. It is a great Moroccan autobiography👍 not fiction but reads like one!
You have to read 100 years of solitude, the best book i ever read
I know you love it judging by your test in books and recommendations
I really liked 'Como Agua Para Chocolate' by Laura Esquivel. And El amor en los tiempos de colera is still on my reading list. Really like Gabriel García Márquez writing, but love magical realism in general. Perhaps also up your alley: If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino. One of my favorite reads but very meta, very experimental, barely any story to it.
Perfume you talking about it reminds me of an episode of Criminal Minds
Perfume is a German novel 🙊
one of my favourite authors is Minh Tran Huy. i read her books in the original French, but i believe some of her novels have been translated to Italian and Spanish (not to English, tragically) so they'd count as translated literature if you read them in Spanish! La Princesse et le Pêcheur (La princesa i el pescador) is one of my favourite books.
Ooh I’ve been wanting to get back into reading in Spanish - would it be accessible/easy enough for someone who hasn’t read in Spanish in like 8 years 😂
@@murakamireads hm, in that case i'd recommend coming back to it after getting some practice to get back into it, because Minh Tran Huy's language is quite formal, maybe not the most accessible. that said, i personally really love the style...
Lots of love from india!😍😍😍
Sold on Kim Jiyoung born 1982! Sounds really good!
I think Delirio By Laura Restrepo is one of the best pieces of Colombian literature i've ever read
I’m currently reading A Luminous Republic by Andres Barba, a Spanish writer
I loved the list .
YT recommended this video. I saw the thumbnail and knew immediately that half face in the back was Mark Lee 😂 books and kpop 💕 NCT is one of my favorites groups along side EXO (utt) and GOT7.
Thanks for the books recs! :)
Carol Cabrita I swear mark has gotten my more new subscribers than anything else 🤣 glad to have my books and Kpop community grow!!
Kate Pfeil the power of Mark Lee 😂 yeah, I’m glad as well that more book lovers are getting into kpop
@@CarolCabrita lol i've been into kpop for like 6 years now so I'm kinda a grandma in the kpop community - I'm glad book people are discovering kpop but I'm hoping they can discover it's a lot more than just bts or blackpink or nct 😅😅😅
@@murakamireads SAME! 😅 There are a lot of talent kpop artists out there and most people I talked to never heard of them. I used to like BoA in 2002/2003 but back then it was SO hard to have any access to the songs. I had to download it illegally, I had no idea if the song was really from BoA, or if it was a korean or japanese song (jpop was more popular!). There was no streaming service, not even UA-cam existed LOL and because of those difficults I drifted away from asian music scene in general. I remember watching Gee Gee MV and, of course, Gangnam Style but I only got really into kpop with EXO at the Olympics. I've always loved the Backstreet Boys so for me getting into a vocal group is easier.
Since we book lovers love collecting, I get why the kpop album industry is so compelling hahaha
Carol Cabrita omg PREACH about the inaccessibility of old Kpop. My friend got into Kpop about 2 years ago now and I had to explain the torture of trying to find things on daily motion and bilibili 😂 new stans have no idea how good they have it😂😂
you'e making me crave some victor hugo
You have me sold at kim jiyoung! Added to my list, can't wait to get my hands at it
I'm not that well versed in translated works to claim any favorite but I am currently reading crime and punishment by Dostoevsky and loving it immensely, it's really a page turner. Would love to see your review to the book. Also Really want to get to the idiot after seeing you praise it so much
I've only read Love in the time of cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and found the way he portrays imagery through his words very fascinating
Crime and punishment will definitely be my next Dostoyevsky!!
Weird question but where did you get your copy of the idiot? I just have the Barnes classics edition and it’s kinda... ugly
Schy Bux Amazon! The Wordsworth classic editions are literally like $3-5. They’re also on thriftbooks(.com) if you don’t want to support amazon
Te recomiendo "como agua para chocolate" de laura esquivel si quieres leer mas autores de México, uno de mis libros favoritos.
I have never read a translated work that I didn't like. Only best works get translated periodt. Plus India being multilingual (like we have 22 official languages), I get to see my own country in so many different ways through translated literature
So true - if you read translated WIRKS you KNOW they’re the best of the best lol
@@murakamireads my favorite literature translated from Spanish is The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Besides Peter Pan retellings, haven't you mentioned some other retellings in translated literature before....or am I remembering wrong?
Loveee your vidoes! Also since you like messed up books, you should totally read Verity, if you haven’t already. It’s SO MESSED UP
Oooh whose the author??
Kate Pfeil Colleen Hoover! Do check it out, because I still think about the end🙆🏻♀️
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100 years of solitude is great, but it is a generational story. So you might not like it "^^
Liliana F ooooh ive never heard that - thank you for the heads up! Maybe I’ll try his other book first?
@@murakamireads I still haven't read anything else from him, wish I could help with that! But if you do, I look forward to knowing your thoughts about it :)
Please recommend a book in which a protagonist is a sociopath.
THE ONE by John Marrs has a psycho/sociopath main character
do you read through your books once then annotate them on a second read?
sometimes! if i wasnt expecting to love a book, I'll usually just read it through once and then annotate upon reread. but with certain books, i know I'll want to annotate - such as classics or authors I've loved previously!
@@murakamireads thanks for sharing