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View submission: Best Books of 2024 MEGATHREAD
"best non English fiction" is a really weird category. Most people will at most know 1-2 languages apart from English, so there's basically no basis for comparison and everyone will just vote for whatever book happens to be in their native language.
If you want to highlight books from outside the Anglosphere, why not make a "best translated book" category instead? That way, everyone gets the chance to read the winning book, and people can still nominate books they've read in a non-english language, if an English translation exists.
Comment by thnkurluckystars at 14/12/2024 at 19:19 UTC*
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I agree with both you, especially considering many new works aren’t necessarily translated in their publication year. One of my recommendations in that thread was snubbed because of this, but I’d make the case that a translated work is every bit as much of a novel as the work it is translated from.
I also understand that reddit lists on r/books aren’t that deep, but just my 2 cents.
Comment by TheOriginalDog at 17/12/2024 at 08:19 UTC
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If a book has no translation it has no chance of winning here anyway.
Comment by gonegonegoneaway211 at 14/12/2024 at 18:32 UTC
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I like that idea, although having just looked at the nominations it looks like that's already how people are using the thread already.