10 Top literature books like The Singularity (New York Review Classics) by Dino Buzzati

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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 …

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Cover of Vadideki Zambak by Honoré de Balzac, Volkan Yalçıntoklu

1. Vadideki Zambak

By: Honoré de Balzac , Volkan Yalçıntoklu

3.72

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850): 19. yy Fransız edebiyatının büyük ismi. Edebi kariyerine oyun yazarak… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"Çok mutluyum, mutluluk benim için bir hastalık gibidir, beni yorar ve bir düş gibi silinip gitmesinden korkarım."

-Honoré de Balzac, Vadideki Zambak

"Les parvenus sont comme les singes, desquels ils ont l'adresse: on les voit en hauteur, on admire leur agilité pendant Tescalade; mais, arrivés à la cime, on n'aperçoit plus que leurs côtés honteux."

-Honoré de Balzac, Vadideki Zambak

"Pour un pauvre être écrasé par les différents despotismes qui, peu ou prou, pèsent sur toutes les jeunesses, le premier usage du libre arbitre, exercé même sur des riens, apportait à Tâme je ne sais …"

-Honoré de Balzac, Vadideki Zambak

"Hemen hepimiz her sabah, yüreğimiz aşka susamış, içimiz içimize sığmayarak yola çıkarız. Sonra, bütün varlığımız acı deneylerden geçtiği, insanların ve olayların içine düştüğümüz zaman her şey, yavaş…"

-Honoré de Balzac, Vadideki Zambak

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2. On the Marble Cliffs

By: Stuart Hood , George Steiner , Ernst Jünger

3.80

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

The peaceful and traditional people, located on the shores of a large bay, are surrounded by the ro… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
"The downfall of order brings good to none."

-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs

"Such are the cellars over which the proud castles of tyranny rise and above which the aromas of their feast swirl: putrid caves of a gruesome kind in which the depraved rabble regales itself with the…"

-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs

"We cannot count on seeing our work completed here below, and happy is the man whose will is not too painfully invested in his efforts. No house is built, no plan created, in which ruin is not the cor…"

-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs

"I had often doubted; now I was convinced: there were still noble beings among us in whose hearts knowledge of the higher order was preserved and perpetuated. A lofty example enjoins us to follow, and…"

-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs

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3. The Tremor of Forgery

By: Patricia Highsmith

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

Under the hot desert sun nothing is quite as it seems. Howard Ingham, an American writer, is sent t… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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4. Gli imperdonabili

By: Cristina Campo

4.02

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

Nella nota biografica che accompagnava un suo libro, Cristina Campo diceva di se stessa: <>. Quel p… read more

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  • italy
  • 20th century
  • literature
  • italian literature
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5. Fire

By: George R. Stewart , Ferol Egan

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Spitcat, a raging forest fire in the Sierra Nevada of California, had a lifespan of merely eleven d… read more

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  • fiction

6. A Strange And Sublime Address

By: Amit Chaudhuri

3.71

Format: 101 pages,

Sandeep is an only child living in a Bombay high-rise and in this book makes two long visits to his… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
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7. Colline

By: Jean Giono

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

Un debris de hameau ou quatre maisons fleuries d'orchis emergent des bles drus et hauts. Ce sont le… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • novels

8. Love Junkie

By: Robert Plunket

4.50

Format: None pages,

The critically acclaimed author of the cult favorite My Search for Warren Harding now writes a hila… read more

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9. The Skin of Dreams

By: Raymond Queneau

3.10

Format: None pages,

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10. My Death

By: Lisa Tuttle

3.98

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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11. Saint Sebastian's Abyss

By: Mark Haber

3.71

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

“What I wanted more than anything was to be standing beside Schmidt, in concert with Schmidt, at th… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"...Schmidt admitted in private that if were up to him he would've happily burned them, burned them with glee and without thinking twice and kept the ashes too, he'd said, in an urn that he'd place pr…"

-Mark Haber, Saint Sebastian's Abyss

Cover of Butterfly of Dinard (New York Review Classics) by Eugenio Montale

12. Butterfly of Dinard (New York Review Classics)

By: Eugenio Montale

3.60

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Fifty autobiographical short stories about childhood, life in Italy before and after World War II, … read more

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  • italy
  • fiction
  • italian literature
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13. In the Act

By: Rachel Ingalls

3.72

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Ingalls, the author of Mrs. Caliban , another delicious, highly improbable, and hilario… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"A woman, she thought, can get the eyes and everything else right without any trouble: her creative power is inherent. Men can never create; they only copy. That's why they're always so jealous."

-Rachel Ingalls, In the Act

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14. 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

Similar categories in Dino Buzzati's The Singularity (New York Review Classics) book and Dino Buzzati's The Singularity (New York Review Classics)

  • italy
  • classics
  • literature
  • technology
  • artificial intelligence
  • 20th century
  • italian literature
  • fiction
  • novels
  • science fiction
Cover of The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves

15. The Book of Elsewhere

By: Keanu Reeves

3.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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16. Our Philosopher

By: Gert Hofmann

3.80

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A powerful novel about prejudice, violence, and complicity in Nazi Germany, this spare and evocativ… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
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17. The Life of Tu Fu

By: Eliot Weinberger

4.51

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

A book-length poem by “our best living literary essayist” (Forrest Gander). For over fifty years El… read more

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18. A Chance Meeting : Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, 1854-1967

By: Rachel Cohen

4.11

Format: 388 pages, Paperback

Each chapter of "A Chance Meeting" takes up an actual encounter between two historical figures. As … read more

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  • literature
Cover of Concerning the Future of Souls by Joy Williams

19. Concerning the Future of Souls

By: Joy Williams

4.05

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

“Quite possibly America's best living writer of short stories.”—NPR“Williams is a writer for our b… read more

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  • fiction
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20. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

15 Best fiction books like The Singularity (New York Review Classics) by Dino Buzzati

Transform Your Habits

Vadideki Zambak

Honoré de Balzac , Volkan Yalçıntoklu

3.72

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On the Marble Cliffs

Stuart Hood , George Steiner , Ernst Jünger

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Tremor of Forgery

Patricia Highsmith

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Fire

George R. Stewart , Ferol Egan

4.11

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A Shining

Jon Fosse

3.49

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The Spoiled Heart

Sunjeev Sahota

3.82

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Open Throat

Henry Hoke

4.01

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Blackouts

Justin Torres

3.77

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