This study examines how Mo Yan’s works are interpreted in reader reviews on 1000Kitap and which interpretive frames are foregrounded by platform-specific visibility indicators. Its central research problem concerns the thematic and discursive patterns through which cross-cultural literary reception is constructed within a digital reading community. A corpus of 360 publicly available reviews posted under six Turkish translations of Mo Yan’s works was compiled. Employing an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design, the study first identified the thematic distribution of the reviews through multiple thematic coding and descriptive text analysis. It then analyzed highly liked reviews selected on the basis of interaction data using Fairclough’s three-dimensional model. The findings indicate that historical and social contexts and personal reading experiences are more prominent than aesthetic and translation-oriented evaluations. They also suggest that literary form does not disappear entirely in the reception of Mo Yan but becomes relatively secondary to representations of China and documentary readings of the works.