List of literary works by number of translations

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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 self-published translations (real or automatic) via print-on-demand or websites, to avoid artificially inflated counts.

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#	Title	Author	Date	Number of languages with source	Original language
1	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)	Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Aramaic, Koine Greek
2	The Little Prince	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	1943	610	French
3	The Adventures of Pinocchio	Carlo Collodi	1883	240–260	Italian
4	Dao De Jing	Laozi	400 BCE	>250	Classical Chinese
5	The Pilgrim's Progress	John Bunyan	1678	>200	English
6	The Communist Manifesto	Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels	1848	>200	German
7	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll	1865	174	English
8	Grimm's Fairy Tales	Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm	1812–1858	170	German
9	Steps to Christ	Ellen G. White	1892	>160	English
10	Don Quixote	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra	1615	>140 (complete and portions)	Early Modern Spanish
11	Andersen's Fairy Tales	Hans Christian Andersen	1835–1852	129	Danish
12	The Book of Mormon	See Origin of the Book of Mormon	1830	115	English
13	Asterix	René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo	1959–present	115 (not all volumes are available in all languages)	French
14	The Quran	See History of the Quran	650	>114	Classical Arabic
15	The Way to Happiness	L. Ron Hubbard	1980	114	English
16	The Prophet	Kahlil Gibran	1923	108	English
17	The Upright Revolution: Or Why Humans Walk Upright	Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o	2016	100	Gikuyu
18	The Adventures of Tintin	Hergé	1929–1976	96 (not all volumes are available in all languages)	French
19	Luther's Small Catechism	Martin Luther	1529	90+	German
20	The Imitation of Christ	Thomas à Kempis	1418	95	Latin
21	Harry Potter	J. K. Rowling	1997–2007	85	English
22	Winnie-the-Pooh	A. A. Milne	1926	74	English
23	The Diary of a Young Girl	Anne Frank	1947	73	Dutch
24	Das Kapital	Karl Marx	1867	72	German
25	The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas	Thor Heyerdahl	1948	>70	Norwegian
26	Pippi Longstocking	Astrid Lindgren	1945	70	Swedish
27	The Alchemist	Paulo Coelho	1988	70	Portuguese
28	Diary of a Wimpy Kid	Jeff Kinney	1991	69+	English
29	Sophie's World	Jostein Gaarder	1991	65	Norwegian
30	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	1885	65	English
31	Nineteen Eighty-Four	George Orwell	1949	65	English
32	Through the Looking-Glass	Lewis Carroll	1871	65	English
33	The Isha Upanishad	Various	500 BCE	64	Sanskrit
34	The Tirukkural	Valluvar	c. 300 BCE – c. 450 CE See Dating the Tirukkural	63 languages, with 350 translations in total	Old Tamil
35	Kalevala	Elias Lönnrot (compiler)	1835/1849	61	Finnish
36	Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero	Henryk Sienkiewicz	1895	61	Polish
37	Uncle Tom's Cabin	Harriet Beecher Stowe	1852	60+	English
38	The Wonderful Adventures of Nils	Selma Lagerlöf	1906	60	Swedish
39	The Bhagavad Gita	Vyasa	400 BCE	59	Sanskrit
40	The Hobbit	J. R. R. Tolkien	1937	59	English
41	The Good Soldier Švejk	Jaroslav Hašek	1923	58	Czech
42	The Lord of the Rings	J. R. R. Tolkien	1954–1955	57 languages, with 87 translations in total	English
43	Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe	1958	57	English
44	A Doll's House	Henrik Ibsen	1879	56	Norwegian
45	The Divine Comedy	Dante Alighieri	c. 1308-1321	52	Italian
46	Seven Brief Lessons on Physics	Carlo Rovelli	2014	52	Italian
47	Never Let Me Go	Kazuo Ishiguro	2005	52	English
48	The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas	John Boyne	2006	52	English
49	The House at Pooh Corner	A. A. Milne	1928	52 languages, with 97 translations in total	English
50	Autobiography of a Yogi	Paramahansa Yogananda	1946	50	English
51	Heidi	Johanna Spyri	1880	50	German
52	Little Red Book	Mao Zedong	1964	50+	Chinese
53	Out Stealing Horses	Per Petterson	2003	50	Norwegian
54	One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel García Márquez	1967	47	Spanish
55	The Chronicles of Narnia	C. S. Lewis	1950–1957	47	English
56	The Bridge on the Drina	Ivo Andrić	1945	47	Serbo-Croatian
57	The Little Witch	Otfried Preußler	1957	47	German
58	The Story of San Michele	Axel Munthe	1929	>45	English
59	12 Rules for Life	Jordan Peterson	2018	45+	English
60	The General of the Dead Army	Ismail Kadare	1963	45	Albanian
61	The Stranger	Albert Camus	1942	45	French
62	The Very Hungry Caterpillar	Eric Carle	1969	45	English
63	The Da Vinci Code	Dan Brown	2003	44	English
64	The Moomins	Tove Jansson	1945	43	Swedish
65	The Robber Hotzenplotz	Otfried Preußler	1962	43	German
66	Invisible Cities	Italo Calvino	1972	42	Italian
67	The English Roses	Madonna	2003	42	English
68	Atonement	Ian McEwan	2001	42	English
69	The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	1925	42	English
70	The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini	2003	42	English
71	Solaris	Stanisław Lem	1961	42	Polish
72	A Series of Unfortunate Events	Lemony Snicket	1999–2006	41	English
73	The Egyptian	Mika Waltari	1945	41	Finnish
74	The Leopard	Jo Nesbø	2009	40	Norwegian
75	Before I Go to Sleep	S. J. Watson	2011	40	English
76	Hunger	Knut Hamsun	1890	40+	Norwegian
77	Miffy	Dick Bruna	1955	40	Dutch
78	Paddington Bear	Michael Bond	1958	40^{[citation needed]}	English
79	The Tragedy of Man	Imre Madách	1861	40	Hungarian
80	Amsterdam	Ian McEwan	1998	39	English
81	The Family of Pascual Duarte	Camilo José Cela	1942	39	Spanish
82	A Song of Ice and Fire	George R. R. Martin	1996–present	39^{[citation needed]}	English
83	Dictionary of the Khazars	Milorad Pavić	1984	39	Serbian
84	The Time of the Doves	Mercè Rodoreda	1962	38	Catalan
85	Silence in the Age of Noise	Erling Kagge	2016	38	Norwegian
86	The Bookseller of Kabul	Åsne Seierstad	2002	38	Norwegian
87	Mr. Peabody's Apples	Madonna	2003	38	English
88	Discworld	Terry Pratchett	1983–2015	37 or 38	English
89	Cold Skin	Albert Sánchez Piñol	2002	37	Catalan
90	The Book of Mirrors	Eugen Chirovici	2017	37	English
91	Krabat	Otfried Preußler	1962	37	German
92	Perfume	Patrick Süskind	1985	37	German
93	Anne of Green Gables	Lucy Maud Montgomery	1908	36	English
94	Norwegian Wood	Haruki Murakami	1987	36	Japanese
95	White Teeth	Zadie Smith	1999	36^{[citation needed]}	English
96	Dead Until Dark	Charlaine Harris	2001	35	English
97	The Tale of Peter Rabbit	Helen Beatrix Potter	1902	35	English
98	Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window	Tetsuko Kuroyanagi	1981	35	Japanese
99	Pan Tadeusz	Adam Mickiewicz	1834	34	Polish
100	The Paul Street Boys	Ferenc Molnár	1907	33^{[citation needed]}	Hungarian
101	Ender's Game	Orson Scott Card	1985	33	English
102	Gone With the Wind	Margaret Mitchell	1936	32	English
103	Bambi: A Life in the Woods	Felix Salten	1923	32	German
104	Atlas Shrugged	Ayn Rand	1957	31	English
105	Captain Underpants	Dav Pilkey	1997–2015	31^{[citation needed]}	English
106	'Art'	Yasmina Reza	1994	30	French
107	Buddenbrooks	Thomas Mann	1901	30	German
108	Chasing Vermeer	Blue Balliett	2003	30	English
109	Isadora Moon	Harriet Muncaster	2016	30	English
110	The Spiderwick Chronicles	Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black	2003	30	English
111	The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency	Alexander McCall Smith	1998	30	English
112	The Pillars of the Earth	Ken Follett	1989	30	English
113	The Tale of Genji	Murasaki Shikibu	1001	30	Early Middle Japanese
114	Under the Yoke	Ivan Vazov	1893	30	Bulgarian
115	The Fountainhead	Ayn Rand	1943	30+	English
116	The Doll	Bolesław Prus	1890	28	Polish
117	Les Misérables	Victor Hugo	1862	20+	French
118	The Road to Serfdom	Friedrich Hayek	1944	20+	English
119	The Wealth of Nations	Adam Smith	1776	19	English
120	Mein Kampf	Adolf Hitler	1925	18	German
121	Progress and Poverty	Henry George	1879	14+	English

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