List of literary works by number of translations

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.

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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) 		Hebrew,
Aramaic,
Koine Greek
The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1943 >500 French
The Adventures of Pinocchio Carlo Collodi 1883 240-260 Italian
Dao De Jing Laozi 400 BCE >250 Classical Chinese
The Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan 1678 >200 English
The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 1848 >200 German
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865 174 English
Grimm's Fairy Tales Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm 1812–1858 170 German
Steps to Christ Ellen G. White 1892 >160 English
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1615 >140 (complete and portions) Spanish
Andersen's Fairy Tales Hans Christian Andersen 1835–1852 129 Danish
Book of Mormon See Origin of the Book of Mormon 1830 115 English
The Adventures of Asterix René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo 1959–present 115 (not all volumes are available in all languages) French
The Way to Happiness L. Ron Hubbard 1980 114 English
The Prophet Kahlil Gibran 1923 108 English
Quran See History of the Quran 650 >102 Classical Arabic
The Adventures of Tintin Hergé 1929–1976 96 (not all volumes are available in all languages) French
The Imitation of Christ Thomas à Kempis 1418 95 Latin
Harry Potter J. K. Rowling 1997–2007 85 English
Winnie-the-Pooh A. A. Milne 1926 74 English
The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank 1947 73 Dutch
The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas Thor Heyerdahl 1948 >70 Norwegian
Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren 1945 70 Swedish
The Alchemist Paulo Coelho 1988 70 Portuguese
Sophie's World Jostein Gaarder 1991 65 Norwegian
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1885 65 English
Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell 1949 65 English
Through the Looking-Glass Lewis Carroll 1871 65 English
Isha Upanishad Various 500 BCE 64 Sanskrit
The Upright Revolution: Or Why Humans Walk Upright Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 2016 63 Gikuyu
Kalevala Elias Lönnrot (compiler) 1835/1849 61 Finnish
Quo vadis Henryk Sienkiewicz 1895 61 Polish
The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien 1937 59 English
The Good Soldier Švejk Jaroslav Hašek 1923 58 Czech
Bhagavad Gita Vyasa 400 BCE 59 Sanskrit
The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 1954–1955 57 languages, with 87 translations total English
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe 1958 57 English
A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen 1879 56 Norwegian
Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri c. 1308-1321 52 Italian
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics Carlo Rovelli 2014 52 Italian
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 2005 52 English
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne 2006 52 English
The House at Pooh Corner A. A. Milne 1928 52 languages, with 97 translations in total English
Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1946 50 English
Heidi Johanna Spyri 1880 50 German
Out Stealing Horses Per Petterson 2003 50 Norwegian
Cien Años de Soledad Gabriel García Márquez 1967 47 Spanish
The Chronicles of Narnia C. S. Lewis 1950–1957 47 English
The Bridge on the Drina Ivo Andrić 1945 47 Serbo-Croatian
The Little Witch Otfried Preußler 1957 47 German
Tirukkural Valluvar c. 300 BCE – c. 450 CE
See Dating the Tirukkural 		46 Tamil
The Story of San Michele Axel Munthe 1929 >45 English
The General of the Dead Army Ismail Kadare 1963 45 Albanian
The Stranger Albert Camus 1942 45 French
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle 1969 45 English
The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown 2003 44 English
The Moomins Tove Jansson 1945 43 Swedish
The Robber Hotzenplotz Otfried Preußler 1962 43 German
Das Kapital Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 1867 >42 (The number 42 gives the number of other languages in 1967) German
Invisible Cities Italo Calvino 1972 42 Italian
The English Roses Madonna 2003 42 English
Atonement Ian McEwan 2001 42 English
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925 42 English
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini 2003 42 English
Solaris Stanisław Lem 1961 42 Polish
A Series of Unfortunate Events Lemony Snicket 1999–2006 41 English
The Egyptian Mika Waltari 1945 41 Finnish
The Leopard Jo Nesbø 2009 40 Norwegian
Before I Go to Sleep S. J. Watson 2011 40 English
Miffy Dick Bruna 1955 40 Dutch
Paddington Bear Michael Bond 1958 40 English
The Tragedy of Man Imre Madách 1861 40 Hungarian
Amsterdam Ian McEwan 1998 39 English
The Family of Pascual Duarte Camilo José Cela 1942 39 Spanish
A Song of Ice and Fire George R.R. Martin 1996–present 39 English
Dictionary of the Khazars Milorad Pavić 1984 39 Serbian
The Time of the Doves Mercè Rodoreda 1962 38 Catalan
Silence in the Age of Noise Erling Kagge 2016 38 Norwegian
The Bookseller of Kabul Åsne Seierstad 2002 38 Norwegian
Mr. Peabody's Apples Madonna 2003 38 English
Discworld Terry Pratchett 1983–2015 37 or 38 English
Cold Skin Albert Sánchez Piñol 2002 37 Catalan
The Book of Mirrors Eugen Chirovici 2017 37 English
Krabat Otfried Preußler 1962 37 German
Perfume Patrick Süskind 1985 37 German
Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery 1908 36 English
Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami 1987 36 Japanese
White Teeth Zadie Smith 1999 36 English
Dead Until Dark Charlaine Harris 2001 35 English
The Tale of Peter Rabbit Helen Beatrix Potter 1902 35 English
Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window Tetsuko Kuroyanagi 1981 35 Japanese
Pan Tadeusz Adam Mickiewicz 1834 34 Polish
The Paul Street Boys Ferenc Molnár 1907 33 Hungarian
Ender's Game Orson Scott Card 1985 33 English
Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1936 32 English
Bambi: A Life in the Woods Felix Salten 1923 32 German
Captain Underpants Dav Pilkey 1997–2015 31 English
'Art' Yasmina Reza 1994 30 French
Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann 1901 30 German
Chasing Vermeer Blue Balliett 2003 30 English
Isadora Moon Harriet Muncaster 2016 30 English
Spiderwick Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black 2003 30 English
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Alexander McCall Smith 1998 30 English
The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett 1989 30 English
The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu 1001 30 Japanese
Under the Yoke Ivan Vazov 1893 30 Bulgarian

See also