These are book recommendations for writers, translators, and anyone interested in language, literature, linguistics, or translation. We’ll share books we found particularly interesting or inspiring, from a translator’s or a writer’s perspective. We hope you’ll find something here you like, too.
As we near the end of 2025, it is usual to reflect on what we have achieved so far. On this opportunity, I can’t help but contemplate everything I have read; so I curated a short list of books that really stood out, the books that made me stop and think, or simply be in awe of the craft behind them.
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In line with one of our recent posts, we present Why Translation Matters, a short yet fundamental piece by the late Edith Grossman. Interestingly enough, this book came to be thanks to three lectures she gave at Yale in 2008, with the chapter
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I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf (2020) by Grant Snider — originally appeared in The New Yorker’s Daily Shout – is a lovely and insightful collection of comics that humorously delves into the world of books, writing, reading and everything in between.
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How to Be a Writer – Conversations with Writers about Writing came out in 2016, as a sort of companion piece to David Quantick’s previous book How to Write Everything (2014). In his own words, David Quantick is an English “author, movie writer, television writer and radio broadcaster.”
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Sometimes, a book recommendation is not straightforward and can be subjective; what resonates with one reader might bore another. However, Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri is a profound exploration that translators, bilingual writers, writers who work with translators, and
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