11 Top novels books like Spadework for a Palace by László Krasznahorkai

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Spadework for a Palace

By: László Krasznahorkai

3.92

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Spadework for a Palace bears the subtitle “Entering the Madness of Others” and offers an epigraph: …

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Cover of The Recognitions by William H. Gass, William Gaddis

1. The Recognitions

By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Format: 976 pages, Paperback

The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

Cover of Concrete by Thomas Bernhard, David McLintock

2. Concrete

By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Instead of the book he's meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this tale of pr… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of Agapē Agape by William Gaddis, Sven Birkerts, Joseph Tabbi

3. Agapē Agape

By: William Gaddis , Sven Birkerts , Joseph Tabbi

4.33

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

William Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped ina… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of Aliss at the Fire by Jon Fosse, Damion Searls

4. 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
  • literature
  • novella
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels

5. Solenoid

By: Mircea Cărtărescu

3.59

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

,,Vreau sa scriu o dare de seama despre anomaliile mele. In viata mea obscura, in afara oricarei is… read more

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6. JR

By: William Gaddis , Frederick R. Karl

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

J R is the long-awaited novel from William Gaddis, author of The Recognitions,that tremendous book … read more

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7. Kappa

By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , Geoffrey Bownas

2.86

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

From the author of Rashomon comes a Swiftian satire of Japanese society thinly disguised as the fic… read more

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8. The Rings of Saturn

By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more

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9. 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 László Krasznahorkai's Spadework for a Palace

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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10. A Shining

By: Jon Fosse

3.49

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

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11. The English Understand Wool

By: Helen DeWitt

4.10

Format: 69 pages, Hardcover

Maman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not … read more

Similar categories in Helen DeWitt's The English Understand Wool book and László Krasznahorkai's Spadework for a Palace

  • literary fiction
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
Cover of I Is Another: Septology III-V by Jon Fosse

12. I Is Another: Septology III-V

By: Jon Fosse

4.44

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"...I just keep the mistakes and let them be wrong, because it’s often the mistakes that eventually lead to something right..."

-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V

"...one of the most important things when it comes to painting is being able to stop at the right time, to know when a picture is saying what it can say, if you keep going too long then more often tha…"

-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V

"...a person comes from God and goes back to God, I think, for the body is conceived and born, it grows and declines, it dies and vanishes, but the spirit is a unity of body and soul, the way form and…"

-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V

"...everyone has a deep longing inside them, we always always long for something and we believe that what we long for is this or that, this person or that person, this thing or that thing, but actuall…"

-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V

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13. 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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14. Early Light

By: Osamu Dazai

3.71

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates hi… read more

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  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"A farmhouse was blazing away right before us. It took an incredibly long time to burn to the ground. One could almost see the history of that house going up in flames along with its roof and pillars."

-Osamu Dazai, Early Light

Cover of A New Name: Septology VI-VII by Jon Fosse

15. A New Name: Septology VI-VII

By: Jon Fosse

4.49

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"God is so far away that no one can say anything about him and that’s why all ideas about God are wrong, and at the same time he is so close that we almost can’t notice him, because he is the foundati…"

-Jon Fosse, A New Name: Septology VI-VII

Cover of The Road to the City by Natalia Ginzburg

16. The Road to the City

By: Natalia Ginzburg

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Delia is one of five children, growing up in a poor Italian village. She is seventeen, and dreams o… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of In the Act by Rachel Ingalls

17. 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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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • novella
  • short stories
  • 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

Cover of An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky

18. An Inventory of Losses

By: Judith Schalansky

3.36

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

Each disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger,… read more

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  • literature
  • short stories
  • contemporary
Cover of The Famous Magician by César Aira

19. The Famous Magician

By: César Aira

3.61

Format: 60 pages, Hardcover

A certain writer (“past sixty, enjoying ‘a certain renown’”) strolls through the old book market in… read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Spadework for a Palace by László Krasznahorkai

20. Spadework for a Palace

By: László Krasznahorkai

3.92

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Spadework for a Palace bears the subtitle “Entering the Madness of Others” and offers an epigraph: … read more

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  • new york
  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • novella
  • hungarian literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • hungary
  • novels
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21. 3 Streets

By: Yōko Tawada

3.23

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

The always astonishing Yoko Tawada here takes a walk on the supernatural side of the street. In “Ko… read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction

15 Top fiction books like Spadework for a Palace by László Krasznahorkai

Transform Your Habits

The Recognitions

William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Concrete

Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock

3.34

Transform Your Habits

Agapē Agape

William Gaddis , Sven Birkerts , Joseph Tabbi

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Aliss at the Fire

Jon Fosse , Damion Searls

3.99

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28 Best fiction books like In the Act by Rachel Ingalls

Transform Your Habits

A Shining

Jon Fosse

3.49

Transform Your Habits

The Spoiled Heart

Sunjeev Sahota

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Open Throat

Henry Hoke

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Blackouts

Justin Torres

3.77

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