16 Top fiction books like Havana Year Zero by Karla Suárez

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Havana Year Zero

By: Karla Suárez

3.63

Format: 256 pages, None

It was as if we’d reached the minimum critical point of a mathematical curve. Imagine a parabola. Z…

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1. The Man Who Spoke Snakish

By: Andrus Kivirähk , Christopher Moseley

3.31

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

A bestseller in the author's native country of Estonia, where the book is so well known that a popu… read more

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  • historical
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. The Accusation

By: Bandi , Deborah Smith

3.91

Format: 360 pages,

The Accusationis a deeply moving and eye-opening work of fiction that paints a powerful portrait of… read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

3. Chicas muertas

By: Selva Almada

3.18

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

"Tres adolescentes de provincia asesinadas en los anos ochenta, tres muertes impunes ocurridas cuan… read more

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4. Our Lady of the Nile

By: Scholastique Mukasonga , None

3.71

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

For her most recent work and first novel - Notre-Dame du Nil, originally published in March 2012 wi… read more

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5. Aquí no es Miami

By: Fernanda Melchor

4.17

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Las crónicas de Fernanda Melchor dan cuenta de la degradación humana en uno de sus aspectos más sór… read more

Similar categories in Fernanda Melchor's Aquí no es Miami book and Karla Suárez's Havana Year Zero

  • spanish literature
"El estilo narrativo de Jorge me intrigaba: sabía entretejer el relato directo de lo sucedido con fragmentos de diálogo, con ademanes aferrados a su cuerpo, con sus propios pensamientos, los presentes…"

-Fernanda Melchor, Aquí no es Miami

"Siempre me ha parecido inquietante la contigüidad que existe entre la crónica de sociales y la nota roja, no sólo porque estas dos secciones suelen aparecer juntas en los diarios del puerto (a menudo…"

-Fernanda Melchor, Aquí no es Miami

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6. Elena Knows

By: Claudia Piñeiro

4.08

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

A unique tale that interweaves crime fiction with intimate tales of morality and search for individ… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
"¿Seguirá siendo madre ahora que no tiene hija?"

-Claudia Piñeiro, Elena Knows

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7. Enter Ghost

By: Isabella Hammad

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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8. Brotherless Night

By: V.V. Ganeshananthan

4.46

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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9. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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10. River East, River West

By: Aube Rey Lescure

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

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11. Rabbits for Food

By: Binnie Kirshenbaum

3.59

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

It’s New Year’s Eve, the holiday of forced gaiety, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart

By: Florentyna Leow

3.89

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart is a collection about the ways in which heartbreak can fill a place and… read more

Similar categories in Florentyna Leow's How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart book and Karla Suárez's Havana Year Zero

  • contemporary
Cover of Hit Parade of Tears by Izumi Suzuki

13. Hit Parade of Tears

By: Izumi Suzuki

3.43

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom. Izumi Suzuki had ideas abo… read more

Similar categories in Izumi Suzuki's Hit Parade of Tears book and Karla Suárez's Havana Year Zero

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Love isn't like a house you can just kick back and live in once its completed. No, it gets more worn and tattered day by day, unless you keep on making it up."

-Izumi Suzuki, Hit Parade of Tears

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14. Two Sherpas

By: Sebastián Martínez Daniell

3.62

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

A British climber has fallen from a cliffside in Nepal, and lies inert on a ledge below. Two sherpa… read more

Similar categories in Sebastián Martínez Daniell's Two Sherpas book and Karla Suárez's Havana Year Zero

  • spanish literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"One minute it represents the pinnacle of gregarious engineering, the most refined Apollonian mechanism of social regulation; the next it’s a groping homunculus spewing pus and other people’s blood on…"

-Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Two Sherpas

"Actions, thoughts, interpretations, dialogues and soliloquies, sufferings… are nothing more than intermittently surging projections, stamps on the surface of the knowable. Symptoms. The real is in th…"

-Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Two Sherpas

"Although it could be argued that every voyage already contains, in latent form, the possibility of its deviations. That they’re never random. That nor are they predestined. But they are larval, that …"

-Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Two Sherpas

"It’s a brief moment before the word is returned to the box of the irreversible, before it makes itself present with its flotilla of tragic predestinations. A regrettable loss, a true disaster. The li…"

-Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Two Sherpas

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15. Of Cattle and Men

By: Ana Paula Maia

3.97

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

Animals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Senhor Milo knows cattlemen, he's cut from the same cloth. No one goes unpunished. They're men of cattle and blood."

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"Two enclosures, one for cattle and one for men, standing side by side. Sometimes the smell is familiar. Only the voices on one side and the mooing on the other distinguish the men from the ruminants."

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"Edgar picks up the mallet. The steer comes up close to him. Edgar looks into the animal's eyes and caresses its forehead. The cow stomps one hoof, wags its tail and snorts. Edgar shushes the animal a…"

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"For a few moments, Edgar Wilson yields to the late afternoon sun that has not yet fully set, but that is rushing headlong into a moonless, starless night. He knows how to listen in silence, even when…"

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

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16. Fragile Animals

By: Genevieve Jagger

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

When an ex-catholic woman develops a sexual relationship with a vampire, she is forced to confront … read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Jagger's Fragile Animals book and Karla Suárez's Havana Year Zero

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Things I Have Withheld

By: Kei Miller

4.48

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In this moving and lyrical collection of essays, the award-winning poet and novelist Kei Miller exp… read more

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18. Havana Year Zero

By: Karla Suárez

3.63

Format: 256 pages, None

It was as if we’d reached the minimum critical point of a mathematical curve. Imagine a parabola. Z… read more

Similar categories in Karla Suárez's Havana Year Zero book and Karla Suárez's Havana Year Zero

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • mystery
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19. This Mournable Body

By: Tsitsi Dangarembga

3.34

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

A searing novel about the obstacles facing women in Zimbabwe, by one of the country’s most notable … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"How, with all your education, do you come to be more needy than your mother?"

-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body

"What we heard all the time is that you were not working. That's what was said, that that degree of yours was just a piece of paper sitting, silently rotting."

-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body

"You begin to suspect that Cousin-Brother-in-Law and Nyasha are not being honest, that they found each other because neither possesses the hardiness success requires, so they have dressed discourageme…"

-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body

"Christine has that layer under her skin that cuts off her outside from her inside and allows no communication between the person she once believed she could be and the person she has in fact become. …"

-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body

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20. Una cita con la Lady

By: Mateo García Elizondo

3.76

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

«Vine a Zapotal para morirme de una buena vez. En cuanto puse un pie en el pueblo me deshice de lo … read more

Similar categories in Mateo García Elizondo's Una cita con la Lady book and Karla Suárez's Havana Year Zero

  • spanish literature
  • novels
  • fiction
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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

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Private Rites book and Karla Suárez's Havana Year Zero

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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Bandi , Deborah Smith

3.91

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4.08

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4.09

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3.95

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4.06

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Adam S. Leslie

3.73

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3.58

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