Electric Lit's 15 Translated Novels You Should Read This Winter and Spring

"The first half of 2026 is shaping up to be a particularly strong season for translated fiction. We move through queer Tokyo nightlife, militarized Estonian farmland, Parisian attics full of exiles, music festivals at the foot of Andean volcanoes, and even other galaxies. What links these books isn't geography or genre so much as their attention to people living at the edge of systems—trying to disappear, to belong, or to start over as the ground keeps shifting beneath them. Below is some of the most exciting fiction in translation being released in the months to come."-Linnea Gradin (she/her)List Image by Photo by Eliza Ari on Unsplash