14 must-read novels books like Standing Heavy by Gauz

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Standing Heavy

By: Gauz

3.58

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Initially a little intrigued, all babies eventually return the security guard's smile. The securit…

If you liked the novels plot in Standing Heavy by Gauz , here is a list of 14 books like this:

1. Pyre

By: பெருமாள் முருகன் , Aniruddhan Vasudevan

3.91

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

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2. Boulder

By: Eva Baltasar

3.89

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more

Similar categories in Eva Baltasar's Boulder book and Gauz's Standing Heavy

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

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3. Time Shelter

By: Georgi Gospodinov

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more

Similar categories in Georgi Gospodinov's Time Shelter book and Gauz's Standing Heavy

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"There is no time machine except the human being."

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

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4. Study for Obedience

By: Sarah Bernstein

3.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"I try always to be good."

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

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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 Gauz's Standing Heavy

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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6. Is Mother Dead

By: Vigdis Hjorth

3.80

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middle-aged artis… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Den första sång jag höra fick, var mor som grät vid vaggan"

-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead

"Det händer att det som inte sker är det viktigaste som händer en dag"

-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead

"We all carry our mothers like a hole in our souls, small or big, living or dead."

-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead

"A mother can never be an ordinary human being to her children, and I am one of her children."

-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead

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7. Western Lane

By: Chetna Maroo

3.51

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more

Similar categories in Chetna Maroo's Western Lane book and Gauz's Standing Heavy

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. Pearl

By: Siân Hughes

3.91

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

A haunting debut novel inspired by the medieval poem of the same name Marianne is eight years ol… read more

Similar categories in Siân Hughes's Pearl book and Gauz's Standing Heavy

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. Still Born

By: Guadalupe Nettel

4.13

Format: 224 pages, ebook

Longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize! For readers of Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti, … read more

Similar categories in Guadalupe Nettel's Still Born book and Gauz's Standing Heavy

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Thoughts are like clouds moving in the sky, you know? Before you know it, they change shape or they just aren't there anymore."

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

"There is a word to describe someone who loses their spouse, and a word for children who are left without parents. There is no word, however, for a parent who loses their child."

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

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10. 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

Similar categories in Rodrigo Blanco Calderón's Simpatía book and Gauz's Standing Heavy

  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Whale

By: Cheon Myeong-Kwan

3.96

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

While "Whale" begins with Chunhee, a mysterious young brickmaker of imposing physicality who cannot… read more

Similar categories in Cheon Myeong-Kwan's Whale book and Gauz's Standing Heavy

  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv by Andrey Kurkov

12. Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv

By: Andrey Kurkov

3.57

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A hugely entertaining romp through the beautiful city of Lviv, by the author of Death and the Pengu… read more

Similar categories in Andrey Kurkov's Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv book and Gauz's Standing Heavy

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong

13. Mater 2-10

By: Hwang Sok-yong

3.67

Format: 486 pages, Paperback

International Booker–nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story — an epi… read more

Similar categories in Hwang Sok-yong's Mater 2-10 book and Gauz's Standing Heavy

  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. The Birthday Party

By: Laurent Mauvignier

3.75

Format: 454 pages, Paperback

A painter contends with the ghosts of the French countryside in a psychological literary thriller b… read more

Similar categories in Laurent Mauvignier's The Birthday Party book and Gauz's Standing Heavy

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • france
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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15. 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

Similar categories in Ismail Kadare's A Dictator Calls book and Gauz's Standing Heavy

  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • 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

Cover of What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma

16. What I'd Rather Not Think About

By: Jente Posthuma

3.77

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without t… read more

Similar categories in Jente Posthuma's What I'd Rather Not Think About book and Gauz's Standing Heavy

  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Cracks in the ground aren't always visible to the naked eye. Every movement has the potential to take you down."

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"This was shocking to me, because if the oldest person I knew understood even less about the world than I did, then how was it possible that other adults had all the answers? And what was the point of…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"To be a natural presence, you shouldn't take up too much space, which I always found easy at the beginning of a friendship. It felt nice to reshape myself into precisely the right format until the mo…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

Cover of Standing Heavy by Gauz

17. Standing Heavy

By: Gauz

3.58

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Initially a little intrigued, all babies eventually return the security guard's smile. The securit… read more

Similar categories in Gauz's Standing Heavy book and Gauz's Standing Heavy

  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • novels
  • literature
  • ivory coast
  • france
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • african literature
  • international
Cover of The Gospel According to the New World by Maryse Condé

18. The Gospel According to the New World

By: Maryse Condé

3.02

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A miracle baby is born on Easter Sunday, rumored to be the child of God. Award-winning Caribbean au… read more

Similar categories in Maryse Condé's The Gospel According to the New World book and Gauz's Standing Heavy

  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • france
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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19. Ett system så magnifikt att det bländar

By: Amanda Svensson

3.54

Format: 548 pages, Hardcover

Först kom Sebastian, sen kom Clara, sen kom Matilda. Sen kom kalabaliken när en pappa kände för att… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Svensson's Ett system så magnifikt att det bländar book and Gauz's Standing Heavy

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Ninth Building

By: Zou Jingzhi

3.69

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

"Ninth Building" is a fascinating collection of vignettes drawn from Zou Jingzhi’s experience growi… read more

Similar categories in Zou Jingzhi's Ninth Building book and Gauz's Standing Heavy

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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21. While We Were Dreaming

By: Clemens Meyer

3.97

Format: 597 pages, Paperback

Rico, Mark, Paul and Daniel were 13 when the Berlin Wall fell in autumn 1989. Growing up in Leipzig… read more

Similar categories in Clemens Meyer's While We Were Dreaming book and Gauz's Standing Heavy

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary

20 Top fiction books like Standing Heavy by Gauz

Transform Your Habits

Boulder

Eva Baltasar

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Time Shelter

Georgi Gospodinov

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Study for Obedience

Sarah Bernstein

3.05

Transform Your Habits

No es un río

Selva Almada

3.95

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21 must-read fiction books like Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein

Transform Your Habits

Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

3.85

Transform Your Habits

The Wren, the Wren

Anne Enright

3.55

Transform Your Habits

If I Survive You

Jonathan Escoffery

3.69

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