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. 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.

Title	Author	Date	Number of languages with source	Original language
The Bible	See Authorship of the Bible	See Dating the Bible	3,384 (at least one book) 2,191 (at least New Testament) 698 (Old and New Testaments, including the Protocanonical books)[1]	Hebrew, Aramaic, Koinḗ Greek
The Adventures of Pinocchio	Carlo Collodi	1883	>300[2][3]	Italian
The Little Prince	Antoine de Saint Exupéry	1943	382[4][5]	French
What Can the Bible Teach Us?	Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania	2015	368[6]	English
Dao De Jing	Laozi	400 BCE	>250[7]	Chinese
Pilgrim's Progress	John Bunyan	1678	200[8]	English
My Book of Bible Stories	Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania	1978, revised 2004	194[9]	English
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll	1865	174[10]	English
Andersen's Fairy Tales	Hans Christian Andersen	1835–1852	160[11]	Danish
Steps to Christ	Ellen G. White	1892	>160 [12]	English
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra	1615	>140 (complete and portions)[13][14]	Spanish
The Adventures of Asterix	René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo	1959–present	115[15] (not all volumes are not available in all languages)	French
Book of Mormon	See Origin of the Book of Mormon	1830	110[16]	English
The Adventures of Tintin	Hergé	1929–1976	96[17](not all volumes are not available in all languages)	French
The Upright Revolution: Or Why Humans Walk Upright	Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o	2016	95[18]	Gikuyu
The Imitation of Christ	Thomas à Kempis	1418	95[19]	Latin
Harry Potter	J. K. Rowling	1997–2007	80[20][21]	English
Bhagavad Gita	Vyasa	200 BCE	80[22]	Sanskrit
The Diary of a Young Girl	Anne Frank	1947	73[23]	Dutch
Winnie-the-Pooh	A. A. Milne	1926	72[24] languages, with 140 translations in total	English
The Way to Happiness	L. Ron Hubbard	1980	>70[25]	English
The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas	Thor Heyerdahl	1948	>70[26]	Norwegian
Pippi Longstocking	Astrid Lindgren	1945	70[27]	Swedish
The Alchemist	Paulo Coelho	1988	70[28][29]	Portuguese
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	1885	65[30]	English
Nineteen Eighty-Four	George Orwell	1949	65[31]	English
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There	Lewis Carroll	1871	65[32]	English
Isha Upanishad	Various	500 BCE	64[33]	Sanskrit
Kalevala	Elias Lönnrot (compiler)	1835/1849	61[34]	Finnish
Quo vadis	Henryk Sienkiewicz	1895	61[35][36]	Polish
The Hobbit	J. R. R. Tolkien	1937	59	English
Sophie's World	Jostein Gaarder	1991	59	Norwegian
The Good Soldier Švejk	Jaroslav Hašek	1923	58[37]	Czech
Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe	1958	57[38]	English
A Doll's House	Henrik Ibsen	1879	56[39]	Norwegian
The Lord of the Rings	J. R. R. Tolkien	1954–1955	57[40] languages, with 87 translations total	English
Never Let Me Go	Kazuo Ishiguro	2005	52	English
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas	John Boyne	2006	52	English
Autobiography of a Yogi	Paramahansa Yogananda	1946	50[41][42]	English
Heidi	Johanna Spyri	1880	50[43]	German
Out Stealing Horses	Per Petterson	2003	50[44]	Norwegian
Quran	See History of the Quran	650	50 (complete), 114 (portions)[45]	Classical Arabic
The House at Pooh Corner	A. A. Milne	1928	50[46] languages, with 93 translations in total	English
The Chronicles of Narnia	C. S. Lewis	1950–1957	47[47]	English
The Bridge on the Drina	Ivo Andrić	1945	47[48]	Serbo-Croatian
The Remains of the Day	Kazuo Ishiguro	1989	47	English
The Story of San Michele	Axel Munthe	1929	>45[49]	English
The Stranger	Albert Camus	1942	45[50]	French
The Very Hungry Caterpillar	Eric Carle	1969	45[51]	English
The Da Vinci Code	Dan Brown	2003	44[52]	English
The Moomins	Tove Jansson	1945	43[53]	Swedish
The English Roses	Madonna	2003	42[54]	English
Atonement	Ian McEwan	2001	42	English
The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	1925	42[55]	English
The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini	2003	42[56]	English
Solaris	Stanisław Lem	1961	42[57][58][59]	Polish
A Series of Unfortunate Events	Lemony Snicket	1999–2006	41[60]	English
Tirukkural	Valluvar	ca. 100 BCE–500 CE See Dating the Tirukkural	41[61]	Tamil
Before I Go to Sleep	S. J. Watson	2011	40[62]	English
Miffy	Dick Bruna	1955	40[63]	Dutch
Paddington Bear	Michael Bond	1958	40	English
The Tragedy of Man	Imre Madách	1861	40[64]	Hungarian
The Prophet	Kahlil Gibran	1923	40	English
Amsterdam	Ian McEwan	1998	39	English
The Family of Pascual Duarte	Camilo José Cela	1942	39[65]	Spanish
A Song of Ice and Fire	George R.R. Martin	1996 – present	39	English
Dictionary of the Khazars	Milorad Pavić	1984	39[66][67]	Serbian
The Bookseller of Kabul	Åsne Seierstad	2002	38[68]	Norwegian
Cold Skin	Albert Sánchez Piñol	2002	37[69]	Catalan
The Book of Mirrors	Eugen Chirovici	2017	37[70]	English
The General of the Dead Army	Ismail Kadare	2003	37[71]	Albanian
Perfume	Patrick Süskind	1985	37[72]	German
Anne of Green Gables	Lucy Maud Montgomery	1908	36[73]	English
Norwegian Wood	Haruki Murakami	1987	36[74]	Japanese
White Teeth	Zadie Smith	1999	36	English
Cien Años de Soledad	Gabriel García Márquez	1967	> 35[75]	Spanish
Dead Until Dark	Charlaine Harris	2001	35[76]	English
The Tale of Peter Rabbit	Helen Beatrix Potter	1902	35[77]	English
Totto-chan, the Little Girl at the Window	Tetsuko Kuroyanagi	1981	35[78]	Japanese
Pan Tadeusz	Adam Mickiewicz	1834	34[79]	Polish
The Time of the Doves	Mercè Rodoreda	1962	34[80]	Catalan
Ender's Game	Orson Scott Card	1985	33[81]	English
Gone With the Wind	Margaret Mitchell	1936	32[82]	English
Bambi: A Life in the Woods	Felix Salten	1923	32[83]	German
Captain Underpants	Dav Pilkey	1997–2015	31	English
'Art'	Yasmina Reza	1994	30[84]	French
Buddenbrooks	Thomas Mann	1901	30[85]	German
Chasing Vermeer	Blue Balliett	2003	30[86]	English
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency	Alexander McCall Smith	1998	30[87]	English
The Pillars of the Earth	Ken Follett	1989	30[88]	English
Spiderwick	Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black	2003	30[89]	English
The Tale of Genji	Murasaki Shikibu	1001	30[90]	Japanese
Under the Yoke	Ivan Vazov	1893	30[91]	Bulgarian

See also

• List of most translated individual authors
• List of best-selling books
• Index Translationum

References

1. Wycliffe Global Alliance Figures correct as of October 2019
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8. 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."
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10. Alice in a World of Wonderlands.
11. Hans Christian Andersens Fairytales in 128 languages
12. https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/2017.709
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16. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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18. The single most translated short story in the history of African writing, which was written by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o in 2012 and published in translation by various publishing houses around the world including Jalada Africa and Seagull Books
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20. J.K. Rowling on Harry Potter: "20 years after it was first published in the UK in 1997, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is to be translated into its 80th language – Scots!" (28 June 2017)
21. Despite sources that should know declaring Scots to be the '80th' language Harry Potter is available in, this is not the case. Scots was the 80th official translation—6 of which have been a second translation into the same language. It's also worth noting that not all 7 books are available in all 74 languages. Consequently, the number of languages the first Harry Potter book is available in is 74 + the original English:
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29. "The Alchemist > Editions". Goodreads. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
30. Great Books: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Segment 11: The Popularity of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (6 August 2013)
31. John Rodden. The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of "St. George" Orwell
32. Lindseth, Jon A.; Tannenbaum, Alan, eds. (2015). Alice in a World of Wonderlands: The Translations of Lewis Carroll's Masterpiece I. New Castle: Oak Knoll Press. p. 747. ISBN 978-1-58456-331-0.
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42. "Translations of Autobiography of a Yogi around the World". yssofindia.org. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
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44. "Petterson, Per / Oktober / Authors / Home – Aschehoug Agency". www.aschehougagency.no. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
45. According to the al-quran.info online quranic project, the complete Quran 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.
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47. Archived 3 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine Compiled by Glen H. GoodKnight in 2010 (3 August 2010)
48. Bibliography Archived 13 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine Compiled by the Ivo Andrić Foundation in 2011 (14 August 2015)
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51. The Very Hungry Birthday (ages 3–5) at Bayside Library
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55. Donahue, Deirdre (7 May 2013). "The Great Gatsby by the numbers". USA Today. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
56. 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)
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61. "37 translations"
62. Taylor, Drew (30 October 2014). "Review: Amnesia Thriller 'Before I Go to Sleep' Starring Colin Firth & Nicole Kidman". IndieWire. Retrieved 25 January 2018. It [Before I Go to Sleep] has been translated into 40 languages and racked up blockbuster numbers in France, Canada, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, and the United States. (And this was writer S.J. Watson's debut novel.)
63. 'I saw Matisse – and came up with Miffy' ,Telegraph.co.uk (12 September 2006)
64. Arcanum Adatbázis Kft Archived 13 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine
65. La familia de Pascual Duarte llega a Corea del Sur, La Voz Libre (6 November 2009)
66. In the year of Pavic's Jubilee, the Dictionary of the Khazar has been translated into 39th language – Tamil
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68. "Gjensyn med et radbrukket land". Aftenposten. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
69. 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)
70. "The Book of Mirrors by E.O. Chirovici". www.penguin.co.uk. Retrieved 3 July 2017. Already translated into 37 languages, The Book of Mirrors is the perfect novel for fans of psychological suspense and reading group fiction.
71. BBC (9 October 2003)
72. Obsessed with Scent ,GNN (30 October 2003)
73. 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)
74. Yomiuri Shimbun (31 July 2008) (Japanese language)
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78. 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 Archived 28 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine (Japanese language)
79. Stanisław Pigoń (1980). "Wstęp". Pan Tadeusz (in Polish). Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich. p. CXXXI–CXXXII. ISBN 83-04-00446-1.
80. 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)
81. Ender's Game#Translations
82. CNN Transcript – Sunday Morning News `Gone With the Wind' Translated Into Russian ,CNN (25 March 2001)
83. Felix Salten: A Preliminary Bibliography of His Works in Translation. Compiled by Markus Lång. Retrieved 8 December 2016. (Note: Serbocroatian is not included into the total count.)
84. The Idaho Statesman on Art: "Since then it has been translated into 30 languages." (15 April 2008)
85. 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)
86. 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)
87. 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)
88. Variety on The Pillars of the Earth (2 April 2008)
89. 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)
90. 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)
91. (29 April 2009)

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