5 must-read novels books like Count Luna by Alexander Lernet-Holenia

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Count Luna

By: Alexander Lernet-Holenia

3.51

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

At the start of WWII, Alexander Jessiersky, an Austrian aristocrat, heads a great Viennese shipping…

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Cover of A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch

1. A Severed Head

By: Iris Murdoch

3.74

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

As macabre as a Jacobean tragedy, as frivolous as a Restoration comedy, Iris Murdoch's fifth novel … read more

Similar categories in Iris Murdoch's A Severed Head book and Alexander Lernet-Holenia's Count Luna

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels
"I could not see other human beings at present."

-Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head

"This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart..."

-Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head

"The trouble with people nowadays is they don't know how to do nothing."

-Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head

"I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture."

-Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head

Cover of Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig, Phyllis Blewitt, Trevor Blewitt

2. Beware of Pity

By: Stefan Zweig , Phyllis Blewitt , Trevor Blewitt

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Beware of… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Selected Poems of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound

3. Selected Poems of Ezra Pound

By: Ezra Pound

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

The verse and criticism which he produced during the early years of the twentieth century very larg… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Inspector Imanishi Investigates by Seichō Matsumoto, Beth Cary

4. Inspector Imanishi Investigates

By: Seichō Matsumoto , Beth Cary

4.08

Format: 234 pages,

In a police procedural by Japan's foremost master of mystery, Inspector Imanishi Eitaro, a typicall… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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5. The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies

By: John Langan

4.06

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

John Langan has, in the last few years, established himself as one of the leading voices in contemp… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Der Verdacht by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Zeyyat Selimoğlu

6. Der Verdacht

By: Friedrich Dürrenmatt , Zeyyat Selimoğlu

4.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

Kommissar Barlach liegt im Krankenhaus. Todkrank liest er in der Zeitschrift >Life< einen Artikel u… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

7. The Light of Day

By: Eric Ambler

2.65

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

The Light of Day was the basis for Jules Dassin's classic film, Topkapi. When Arthur Abdel Simpson … read more

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8. Obras completas

By: Augusto Monterroso

3.85

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

"Obras completas (y otros cuentos)" con este titulo de impasible ironia se dio a conocer un escrito… read more

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9. Sweet Days of Discipline

By: Tim Parks , Fleur Jaeggy

4.50

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enou… read more

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10. Badenheim 1939

By: Aharon Appelfeld , Dalya Bilu

4.75

Format: 14 pages, Paperback

It is the spring of 1939. In months Europe will be Hitler's, and Badenheim, a resort town vaguely i… read more

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11. Tokyo Express

By: Seichō Matsumoto

3.68

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

In una cala rocciosa della baia di Hakata, i corpi di un uomo e di una donna vengono rinvenuti all’… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Count Luna by Alexander Lernet-Holenia

12. Count Luna

By: Alexander Lernet-Holenia

3.51

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

At the start of WWII, Alexander Jessiersky, an Austrian aristocrat, heads a great Viennese shipping… read more

Similar categories in Alexander Lernet-Holenia's Count Luna book and Alexander Lernet-Holenia's Count Luna

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of Glorious Exploits by Ferdia  Lennon

13. Glorious Exploits

By: Ferdia Lennon

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

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14. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

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15. Hagstone

By: Sinéad Gleeson

3.63

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin

16. Scaffolding

By: Lauren Elkin

3.86

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
Cover of High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia’s Haunted Hinterland by Tom Parfitt

17. High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia’s Haunted Hinterland

By: Tom Parfitt

4.34

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

High Caucasus is Tom Parfitt's wonderfully atmospheric memoir-cum-travel narrative about the 1,000-… read more

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18. The Third Love

By: Hiromi Kawakami

3.36

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Having married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship that has … read more

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  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel by Yōko Tawada

19. Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel

By: Yōko Tawada

3.76

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A moving story about friendship, illness, and the poetry of Paul Celan, described as “bewitching” (… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Festival & Game of the Worlds by César Aira

20. Festival & Game of the Worlds

By: César Aira

4.03

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Oddly twinned masterpieces by one of the greatest fabulists of any age: past, present, or 40,000 ye… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
Cover of Private Rites by Julia Armfield

21. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

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4.17

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