Electric Lit's 15 Novels in Translation You Should Be Reading This Summer and Fall

"The second half of the year always feels like a return: to darker evenings, introspection, and stories that ask bigger questions. It's also when quieter, stranger novels tend to rise to the surface—books that don't shout, but quietly haunt. Stories that ask us to reflect. Spanning decades and continents, from postwar Austria to contemporary Haiti and Turkish-occupied Kurdistan, from a haunted research institute in Korea to a Venus statue in Tokyo, each book on this list offers a powerful reframing of what fiction can teach us about the realities that we inhabit."-Linnea Gradin (she/her)