12 must-read literature books like Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante

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Lies and Sorcery

By: Elsa Morante

4.16

Format: 800 pages, Paperback

Elsa Morante is one of the great writers of the twentieth century—Natalia Ginzburg said she was the…

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1. Don't Look at Me Like That

By: Diana Athill

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

It is the 1950s in England, where well-brought-up young women are meant to aspire to the respectabl… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

2. Una donna

By: Sibilla Aleramo , Maria Corti

3.84

Format: 640 pages,

Questo romanzo di Sibilla Aleramo e del 1906. La sua immediata fortuna in Italia e nei paesi in cui… read more

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3. Lessico famigliare

By: Natalia Ginzburg , Cesare Garboli

5.00

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Lessico famigliaree la storia di una famiglia ebrea, quella della stessa scrittrice, che si svolge … read more

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4. The Lost Daughter

By: Elena Ferrante

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more

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5. The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James , Patricia Crick

3.79

Format: 797 pages, Paperback

When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more

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  • italy
"She has only one fault; too many ideas."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

6. Gli indifferenti

By: Alberto Moravia , Eileen Romano , Edoardo Sanguineti , Tonino Tornitore

3.88

Format: 373 pages,

Gli indifferentie il primo romanzo scritto da Moravia appena diciottenne e pubblicato nel 1929. Tem… read more

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7. L'arte della gioia

By: Goliarda Sapienza

4.34

Format: None pages, Hardcover

L'arte della gioiae un libro postumo: giaceva da vent'anni abbandonato in una cassapanca e, dopo es… read more

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8. Baumgartner

By: Paul Auster

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

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9. L'età fragile

By: Donatella Di Pietrantonio

3.73

Format: 192 pages, ebook

Non esiste un'età senza paura. Siamo fragili sempre, da genitori e da figli, quando bisogna ricostr… read more

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  • italy
  • fiction
  • italian literature
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10. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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11. The Extinction of Irena Rey

By: Jennifer Croft

3.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

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12. The Fawn

By: Magda Szabó

4.18

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

Eszter Encsy, a now accomplished actress, finds herself thinking about her impoverished and frustra… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
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13. Forbidden Notebook

By: Alba de Céspedes

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

With a foreword by Jhumpa Lahiri, Quaderno Proibito is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cu… read more

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  • italy
  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • womens
  • fiction
  • italian literature
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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14. Missitalia

By: Claudia Durastanti

3.73

Format: 354 pages, ebook

Amalia Spada è un’avventuriera lontana dai tumulti che agitano la nazione che sta per nascere; una … read more

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  • italian literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. Nessuno torna indietro

By: Alba de Céspedes

3.86

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

224.copie, un film, innumerevoli critiche, trenta edizioni straniere, continuamente ristampate. "A … read more

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  • italy
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • italian literature
  • 20th century
  • womens
  • novels
"A casa, ormai, non si può più tornare. I genitori non dovrebbero mandarci in città. Dopo, anche se torniamo, siamo cattive figlie, cattive mogli. Chi può dimenticare di essere stata padrona di se ste…"

-Alba de Céspedes, Nessuno torna indietro

"Eppure era così; nulla può distruggere, annientare un passato: tu accuratamente lo nascondi, lo occulti, nessuno ha visto, nessuno ha saputo, fuorché te stessa, e tu non parlerai mai. E invece seguit…"

-Alba de Céspedes, Nessuno torna indietro

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16. Her Side of the Story

By: Alba de Céspedes

4.07

Format: 500 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Forbidden Notebook, Alba de Céspedes, a richly told novel she called “the story … read more

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  • italy
  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • womens
  • fiction
  • italian literature
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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17. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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  • womens
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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18. Simpatía

By: Rodrigo Blanco Calderón

3.49

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Rodrigo Blanco se ha consolidado como una de las grandes voces de la literatura latinoamericana y s… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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19. Lies and Sorcery

By: Elsa Morante

4.16

Format: 800 pages, Paperback

Elsa Morante is one of the great writers of the twentieth century—Natalia Ginzburg said she was the… read more

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  • italy
  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • womens
  • literature
  • fiction
  • italian literature
  • 20th century
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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20. The House on Via Gemito

By: Domenico Starnone

3.65

Format: 480 pages, ebook

Available in English for the first time, this extraordinary prize-winning novel confirms Domenico S… read more

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  • italy
  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • italian literature
  • historical fiction
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21. Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

By: Carla Lonzi

4.28

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

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  • italy
  • womens
  • italian literature
"El divorcio es un injerto en el matrimonio con el cual se refuerza dicha institución."

-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

"La donna come soggetto non rifiuta l’uomo come soggetto, ma lo rifiuta come ruolo assoluto. Nella vita sociale lo rifiuta come ruolo autoritario."

-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

"It means the liberation of one half of humankind, which would make its voice heard, challenging, for the first time in history, not only bourgeois society but every society in which man is the protag…"

-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

"For a girl, the university is not the place where she will achieve her liberation by means of culture, but the place where, after having been carefully prepared by the family, her repression will be …"

-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

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22. A Dictator Calls

By: Ismail Kadare

3.14

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Using a sophisticated and literary version of the ever-popular game of telephone to examine the rel… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"And a cursory glance at Karl Marx shows that a man who had dedicated his life to the violent overthrow of the world order never devoted half a page in any of his dozens of books to the trauma and rem…"

-Ismail Kadare, A Dictator Calls

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23. Happiness, as Such

By: Natalia Ginzburg

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

At the heart of Happiness, as Such is an absence—an abyss that pulls everyone to its brink—created … read more

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  • italy
  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • italian literature
  • 20th century
  • novels
"This life now has nothing to equal to the places and moments we passed through to get here"

-Natalia Ginzburg, Happiness, as Such

"Ma è vero che a un certo punto della nostra vita i rimorsi li inzuppiamo nel caffè la mattina come biscotti."

-Natalia Ginzburg, Happiness, as Such

"Ma non si amano soltanto le memorie felici. A un certo punto della vita, ci si accorge che si amano le memorie."

-Natalia Ginzburg, Happiness, as Such

"So I wasn’t there when he died, which I regret. But after a certain point in life a person has to dunk her regrets in the morning coffee, just like biscuits."

-Natalia Ginzburg, Happiness, as Such

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24. Guerra di infanzia e di Spagna

By: Fabrizia Ramondino

3.47

Format: 504 pages, Paperback

Titita è una bambina curiosa e vivace che, a causa degli impegni diplomatici del padre, si trova a … read more

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25. Un inverno freddissimo

By: Fausta Cialente

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

È un inverno freddissimo quello del 1946 a Milano, un inverno molto duro tra le macerie. Una vecchi… read more

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  • fiction
  • italian literature
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26. Una minima infelicità

By: Carmen Verde

3.42

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"Una minima infelicità" è un romanzo vertiginoso. Una nave in bottiglia che non si può smettere di … read more

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  • fiction
  • italian literature
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27. The Singularity (New York Review Classics)

By: Dino Buzzati

3.53

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

In this prophetic allegory about artificial intelligence by a renowned figure of twentieth-century … read more

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  • italy
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • italian literature
  • 20th century
  • novels
Cover of Mina's Matchbox by Yōko Ogawa

28. Mina's Matchbox

By: Yōko Ogawa

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, here is a hypnotic, int… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Quant à l'endroit où se trouvait mon père, le jour de ses funérailles, ma mère me l'avait indiqué. C'est un peu loin, mais un jour ou l'autre nous irons le rejoindre, il n'y a pas à craindre de s'éga…"

-Yōko Ogawa, Mina's Matchbox

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29. L'università di Rebibbia

By: Goliarda Sapienza

4.12

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

"Ho rubato a una di queste pseudo-signore per punirla. O per punirmi?" Così, per una manciata di gi… read more

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  • italy
  • fiction
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30. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels

22 Best fiction books like Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante

Transform Your Habits

Don't Look at Me Like That

Diana Athill

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Baumgartner

Paul Auster

3.78

Transform Your Habits

L'età fragile

Donatella Di Pietrantonio

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Kairos

Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

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22 must-read fiction books like Un inverno freddissimo by Fausta Cialente

Transform Your Habits

عروسک فرنگی

بهمن فرزانه , Alba de Céspedes

3.45

Transform Your Habits

L'ora di tutti

Maria Corti

4.50

Transform Your Habits

History

Elsa Morante , Lily Tuck

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Canne al vento

Grazia Deledda , Angela Cerinotti

3.80

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