WHO’S AFRAID OF
FRANZ KAFKA?

When a book is translated into another language, or just offered for sale in other countries, publishers may give it a new title to appeal to local tastes. Sometimes they’re weird, sometimes they’re silly, and sometimes they’re completely baffling.

US: Where’s Waldo (Martin Hanford) Image UK: Where’s Wally
Sweden: Men Who Hate Women (Stieg Larsson) Image US: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
US: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Jeff Kinney) Image Mexico: Diary of Greg the Toad
US: The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) Image Sweden: A Man without Scruples
US: The Fault in Our Stars (John Green) Image Macedonia: The World Is Not a Factory for Fulfilling Wishes
US: The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) Image Japan: The Angry Raisins
US: The Hobbit (J. R. R. Tolkien) Image Sweden: Hompen
US: Twilight (Stephenie Meyer) Image France: Fascination
UK: Animal Farm (George Orwell) Image France: Animals Everywhere!
US: Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) Image Italy: Subsection 22
US: The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger) Image Russia: Over the Abyss in Rye
US: Outlander (Diana Gabaldon) Image UK: Cross Stitch
US: To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) Image Germany: Who Disturbs a Nightingale
US: The Horse Whisperer (Nicholas Evans) Image France: The Man Who Murmured Into Horses’ Ears
US: Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) Image France: The Best of All Worlds
UK: Northern Lights (Philip Pullman) Image US: The Golden Compass
US: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Edward Albee) Image Czechoslovakia: Who’s Afraid of Franz Kafka?
US: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Dave Eggers) Image Croatia: A Heartbreaking Work of Insecure Genius
US: The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay (Suzanne Collins) Image Germany: Deadly Games, Dangerous Love, and Flaming Fury
US: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J. K. Rowling) Image Spain: Harry Potter and the Relics of the Dead
US: Little Women, Part II (Louisa May Alcott) Image UK: Good Wives
UK: Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie) Image US: Murder on the Calais Coach
US: The Man in the High Castle (Philip K. Dick) Image Germany: The Oracle from the Mountain

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Switzerland has enough fallout shelters to house its entire population.

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“If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.”

Philip K. Dick

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That puppy with 28 teeth will have 42 by the time it is fully grown.