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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# TitleAuthorDateNumber of languages with sourceOriginal language
1 The BibleSee Authorship of the BibleSee Dating the Bible4,007 (with at least some portions)
2,574 (at least New Testament)
776 (Old and New Testaments, including
the Protocanonical books)[1]		Biblical Hebrew,
Biblical Aramaic,
Koine Greek
2 The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1943 610[2][3] French
3 The Adventures of PinocchioCarlo Collodi1883240–260[4][5]Italian
4 Dao De JingLaozi400 BCE>250[6]Classical Chinese
5 The Pilgrim's ProgressJohn Bunyan1678>200[7]English
6 The Communist ManifestoKarl Marx and Friedrich Engels1848>200[8]German
7 Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll1865174[9]English
8 Grimms' Fairy TalesJacob and Wilhelm Grimm1812–1858170[10]German
9 Steps to ChristEllen G. White1892>160[11]English
10 Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra1615>140 (complete and portions)[12][13]Early Modern Spanish
11 Andersen's Fairy TalesHans Christian Andersen1835–1852129[14]Danish
12 The Book of MormonSee Origin of the Book of Mormon1830115[15]English, Golden plates said to be in Reformed Egyptian
13 AsterixRené Goscinny & Albert Uderzo1959–present115[16] (not all volumes are available in all languages)French
14 The QuranSee History of the Quran650>114[17][18]Classical Arabic
15 The Way to HappinessL. Ron Hubbard1980114[19]English
16 The Prophet Kahlil Gibran 1923 108[20] English
17 The Upright Revolution: Or Why Humans Walk UprightNgũgĩ wa Thiong'o2016100[21]Gikuyu
18 The Adventures of TintinHergé1929–197696[22] (not all volumes are available in all languages)French
19 Luther's Small CatechismMartin Luther152990+German
20 The Imitation of ChristThomas à Kempis141895[23]Latin
21 Harry PotterJ. K. Rowling1997–200785[24]English
22 Winnie-the-PoohA. A. Milne192674[25]English
23 The Diary of a Young GirlAnne Frank194773[26]Dutch
24 Das KapitalKarl Marx186772[27]German
25 The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South SeasThor Heyerdahl1948>70[28]Norwegian
26 Pippi LongstockingAstrid Lindgren194570[29]Swedish
27 The AlchemistPaulo Coelho198870[30]Portuguese
28 Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney 2007 69+ English
29 Sophie's World Jostein Gaarder 1991 65[31] Norwegian
30 The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain188565[32]English
31 Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell194965[33]English
32 Through the Looking-GlassLewis Carroll187165[34]English
33 The Isha UpanishadVarious500 BCE64[35]Sanskrit
34 The TirukkuralValluvarc. 300 BCE – c. 450 CE
See Dating the Tirukkural		63[36][37] languages, with 350 translations in totalOld Tamil
35 KalevalaElias Lönnrot (compiler)1835/184961[38]Finnish
36 Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of NeroHenryk Sienkiewicz189561[39][40]Polish
37 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë 1847 60+[41] English
38 Uncle Tom's CabinHarriet Beecher Stowe185260+[42]English
39 The Wonderful Adventures of NilsSelma Lagerlöf 190660[43]Swedish
40 The Bhagavad GitaVyasa400 BCE59[44]Sanskrit
41 The HobbitJ. R. R. Tolkien193759English
42 The Good Soldier ŠvejkJaroslav Hašek192358[45]Czech
43 The Lord of the RingsJ. R. R. Tolkien1954–195557[46] languages, with 87 translations in totalEnglish
44 Things Fall ApartChinua Achebe195857[47]English
45 A Doll's HouseHenrik Ibsen187956[48]Norwegian
46 The Divine ComedyDante Alighieric. 1308-132152[49]Italian
47 Seven Brief Lessons on PhysicsCarlo Rovelli201452[50]Italian
48 Never Let Me GoKazuo Ishiguro200552English
49 The Boy in the Striped PyjamasJohn Boyne200652English
50 The House at Pooh CornerA. A. Milne192852[51] languages, with 97 translations in totalEnglish
51 Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1946 50[52][53] English
52 HeidiJohanna Spyri188050[54]German
53 Little Red Book Mao Zedong 1964 50+ Chinese
54 Out Stealing Horses Per Petterson 2003 50[55] Norwegian
55 One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel García Márquez196747[56]Spanish
56 The Chronicles of NarniaC. S. Lewis1950–195747[57]English
57 The Bridge on the DrinaIvo Andrić194547[58]Serbo-Croatian
58 The Little WitchOtfried Preußler195747[59]German
59 The Story of San MicheleAxel Munthe1929>45[60]English
60 12 Rules for Life Jordan Peterson201845+[61]English
61 The General of the Dead ArmyIsmail Kadare196345[62]Albanian
62 The StrangerAlbert Camus194245[63]French
63 The Very Hungry CaterpillarEric Carle196945[64]English
64 The Da Vinci CodeDan Brown200344[65]English
65 The Governance of ChinaXi Jinping2014-202544[66]Chinese
66 The MoominsTove Jansson194543[67]Swedish
67 The Robber HotzenplotzOtfried Preußler196243[68]German
68 Invisible CitiesItalo Calvino197243[69]Italian
69 The English RosesMadonna200342[70]English
70 AtonementIan McEwan200142English
71 The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald192542[71]English
72 The Kite RunnerKhaled Hosseini200342[72]English
73 SolarisStanisław Lem196142[73][74]Polish
74 A Series of Unfortunate EventsLemony Snicket1999–200641[75]English
75 The EgyptianMika Waltari194541[76]Finnish
76 The Leopard Jo Nesbø 2009 40[77] Norwegian
77 Before I Go to SleepS. J. Watson201140[78]English
78 HungerKnut Hamsun189040+[79]Norwegian
79 MiffyDick Bruna195540[80]Dutch
80 Paddington BearMichael Bond195840[citation needed]English
81 The Tragedy of ManImre Madách186140[81]Hungarian
82 AmsterdamIan McEwan199839English
83 The Family of Pascual DuarteCamilo José Cela194239[82]Spanish
84 A Song of Ice and FireGeorge R. R. Martin1996–present39[citation needed]English
85 Dictionary of the KhazarsMilorad Pavić198439[83][84]Serbian
86 The Time of the DovesMercè Rodoreda196238[85]Catalan
87 Silence in the Age of Noise Erling Kagge 2016 38[86] Norwegian
88 The Bookseller of Kabul Åsne Seierstad 2002 38[87] Norwegian
89 Mr. Peabody's ApplesMadonna200338[88]English
90 Discworld Terry Pratchett 1983–2015 37[89] or 38[90] English
91 The White GuardMikhail Bulgakov1923–192437[91]Russian
92 Cold SkinAlbert Sánchez Piñol200237[92]Catalan
93 The Book of MirrorsEugen Chirovici201737[93]English
94 KrabatOtfried Preußler196237[94]German
95 PerfumePatrick Süskind198537[95]German
96 Anne of Green GablesLucy Maud Montgomery190836[96]English
97 Norwegian WoodHaruki Murakami198736[97]Japanese
98 White TeethZadie Smith199936[citation needed]English
99 Dead Until DarkCharlaine Harris200135[98]English
100 The Tale of Peter RabbitHelen Beatrix Potter190235[99]English
101 Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the WindowTetsuko Kuroyanagi198135[100]Japanese
102 Pan TadeuszAdam Mickiewicz183434[101]Polish
103 The Paul Street BoysFerenc Molnár190733[citation needed]Hungarian
104 Ender's GameOrson Scott Card198533[102]English
105 Gone With the WindMargaret Mitchell193632[103]English
106 Bambi: A Life in the WoodsFelix Salten192332[104]German
107 Atlas ShruggedAyn Rand195731[105]English
108 Captain UnderpantsDav Pilkey1997–201531[citation needed]English
109 'Art'Yasmina Reza199430[106]French
110 BuddenbrooksThomas Mann190130[107]German
111 Chasing VermeerBlue Balliett200330[108]English
112 Isadora MoonHarriet Muncaster201630[109]English
113 The Spiderwick ChroniclesTony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black200330[110]English
114 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective AgencyAlexander McCall Smith199830[111]English
115 The Pillars of the EarthKen Follett198930[112]English
116 The Tale of GenjiMurasaki Shikibu100130[113]Early Middle Japanese
117 Under the YokeIvan Vazov189330[114]Bulgarian
118 The FountainheadAyn Rand194330+[115]English
119 The Capitalist ManifestoJohan Norberg202330+English
120 MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot1871-187229English
121 The DollBolesław Prus189028Polish
122 Les MisérablesVictor Hugo186220+French
123 The Road to SerfdomFriedrich Hayek194420+[116]English
124 Water MarginShi Nai'anbefore 152420[117]Chinese
125 The Wealth of NationsAdam Smith177619[118]English
126 Mein KampfAdolf Hitler192518[119]German
127 Progress and PovertyHenry George187914+English
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