15 Top contemporary books like The Book of All Loves by Agustín Fernández Mallo

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The Book of All Loves

By: Agustín Fernández Mallo

3.51

Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition

In the wake of the Great Blackout, faced with the near-extinction of humanity, a pair of lovers spe…

If you liked the contemporary plot in The Book of All Loves by Agustín Fernández Mallo , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. The Private Lives of Trees

By: Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell

3.66

Format: 259 pages,

The Private Lives of Trees tells the story of a single night: a young professor of literature named… read more

Similar categories in Alejandro Zambra's The Private Lives of Trees book and Agustín Fernández Mallo's The Book of All Loves

  • spanish literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Aliss at the Fire by Jon Fosse, Damion Searls

2. Aliss at the Fire

By: Jon Fosse , Damion Searls

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more t… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

3. Bonsai

By: Alejandro Zambra

3.49

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Winner of Chile's Literary Critics' Award for Best Novel" Now a Major Motion Picture Hailed as a g… read more

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4. The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

By: Mathias Énard

3.59

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from P… read more

Similar categories in Mathias Énard's The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild book and Agustín Fernández Mallo's The Book of All Loves

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of No es un río by Selva Almada

5. No es un río

By: Selva Almada

3.95

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more

Similar categories in Selva Almada's No es un río book and Agustín Fernández Mallo's The Book of All Loves

  • spanish literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. 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

Similar categories in Rachel Cusk's Parade book and Agustín Fernández Mallo's The Book of All Loves

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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7. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Perry's Enlightenment book and Agustín Fernández Mallo's The Book of All Loves

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

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8. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

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9. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

By: Anne de Marcken

3.82

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more

Similar categories in Anne de Marcken's It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over book and Agustín Fernández Mallo's The Book of All Loves

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"

-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

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10. Intervals

By: Marianne Brooker

4.38

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

What makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a harsh wave of austerity o… read more

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11. Mild Vertigo

By: Mieko Kanai

3.55

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and… read more

Similar categories in Mieko Kanai's Mild Vertigo book and Agustín Fernández Mallo's The Book of All Loves

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Tell

By: Jonathan Buckley

3.17

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, Tell is an exuberant, intensely fluid, and probing examination o… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Buckley's Tell book and Agustín Fernández Mallo's The Book of All Loves

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Brian

By: Jeremy Cooper

3.83

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

A tender meditation on friendship and the importance of community,  Brian  is also a tangential wor… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Cooper's Brian book and Agustín Fernández Mallo's The Book of All Loves

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Book of All Loves by Agustín Fernández Mallo

14. The Book of All Loves

By: Agustín Fernández Mallo

3.51

Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition

In the wake of the Great Blackout, faced with the near-extinction of humanity, a pair of lovers spe… read more

Similar categories in Agustín Fernández Mallo's The Book of All Loves book and Agustín Fernández Mallo's The Book of All Loves

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • love
  • spain
  • spanish literature
  • philosophy
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. The Observable Universe: An Investigation

By: Heather McCalden

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A moving memoir of a young woman's reckoning with her parents' absence, the virus that took them, a… read more

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16. Owlish

By: Dorothy Tse

3.39

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A professor falls in love with a mechanical ballerina in a mordant and uncanny fable of contemporar… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. 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

Similar categories in Anne Michaels's Held book and Agustín Fernández Mallo's The Book of All Loves

  • literary fiction
  • 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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18. Lublin

By: Manya Wilkinson

3.89

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Elya is the lad with the vision, and Elya has the map. Ziv and Kiva aren’t so sure. The water may r… read more

Similar categories in Manya Wilkinson's Lublin book and Agustín Fernández Mallo's The Book of All Loves

  • fiction
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19. The Son of Man

By: Jean-Baptiste Del Amo

3.71

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the “extraordinary” Animalia ( Sunday Times ), winner of the Republic of Conscio… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. The Singularity

By: Balsam Karam

3.81

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Lyrical and devastating, The Singularity is a breathtaking study of grief, migration, and motherhoo… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Living Things

By: Munir Hachemi

3.82

Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition

Living Things follows four recent graduates – Munir, G, Ernesto and Álex – who travel from Madrid t… read more

Similar categories in Munir Hachemi's Living Things book and Agustín Fernández Mallo's The Book of All Loves

  • literary fiction
  • spain
  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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