Every year thousands of new books are published and not all of them captivate readers to the point where they need to be translated. Today, we look at the top 50 of the worlds most translated books.

MARTIN: And one of those filters is Tales From Around The World. That includes a lot of books that have been translated into English. So let's start from there.

It’s therefore no wonder that his books continue to be translated and embraced all over the world. Info.10451//Wikimedia ...

Perhaps for this reason, the “Dao De Jing” is reputed to be the most translated book in the world after the Bible. In English alone there are more than 500 versions of it, by translators ...

Just 3%: that’s the number of books published in the U.S. that are works in translation. And only a fraction of those are fiction titles. Even fewer are books for children and teens.

Some in the book world worry as they see sales in English accelerate, especially among the young. “We neglect our language,” said Peter Hoomans, a bookseller at Scheltema, in Amsterdam.