I have been on the hunt for more children's books written in Ukrainian since I'm learning the language currently. It's a far lower barrier to entry than full length stories!

The Count of Monte Cristo was a slog. Phenomenal book, I'm so glad I read it, and will never read it again. I'm a native English speaker with a fairly robust vocabulary and it was still painful for me at times, since I needed to look up words so often. Don't feel bad for needing a translation!

Mental fatigue is what I'm looking for. Thank you

Most books I read are in English, but some are in German, my native tongue.

I read in English and am learning Spanish, so I'm starting to read in Spanish also

If the original is in Portuguese, Italian or English, I'm probably reading the book in the original.

If it's in Latin or German, I try to read it in the original, and then if I feel like I'm not up to the task I revert back to one of the first three. (For example: I can read Caesar in Latin just fine, but I'm not reading Cicero.)

If it's in any other language, I'll read it in whichever language I found a good translation for.

English and spanish for me.

I usually try to stick to languages I'm learning, which now it'd be Japanese and Norwegian. But likewise, if it starts becoming too hard for me, in my case usually due to mental fatigue, I look for a version in languages I'm more comfortable with.

In my experience, many translations suck hard, to the point of, having on occasion compared different language versions of a novel, wondering how can readers of the translated version understand certain passages at all… So, I also try to read in the original if possible, if it is Portuguese, Spanish, French, English or Esperanto. I can kinda understand Italian as well but not enough to read a full-length novel… Still learning German…