12 Top classics books like Afrikanische Spiele by Ernst Jünger

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Afrikanische Spiele

By: Ernst Jünger

3.78

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

È il 1913. Ernst Jünger, diciottenne, fugge da scuola, acquista una rivoltella, attraversa in tren…

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1. The Elephant Vanishes

By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin , Alfred Birnbaum

3.83

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679750536 With the same deadpan mania and genius for disloca… read more

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  • fiction
"Memory is like fiction: or else it' fiction that's like memory."

-Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

"Sometimes when I think about entities—like in “separate entities"

-Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

"Memory is like fiction: or else it's fiction that's like memory."

-Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

"The moment I see her, there’s a rumbling in my chest, and my mouth is as dry as a desert."

-Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

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2. Niebla

By: Miguel de Unamuno

4.05

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

Esta obra de Miguel de Unamuno es uno de los ejemplos clásicos más eminentes de la novela moderna. … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Toda ley es una ley de ritmo, y el ritmo es el amor."

-Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla

"El amor precede al conocimiento, y éste mata a aquél."

-Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla

"Because Augustus was not a hiker, but a walker of life"

-Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla

"Hasta que se llora de veras no se sabe si se tiene o no alma."

-Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla

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3. The Professor and the Siren

By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

3.87

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In the last two years of his life, the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, in additio… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"…They're dangerous as all gifts from the sea are; the sea offers death as well as immortality."

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Professor and the Siren

"…And in truth, the sun, the seclusion, the nights passed beneath the wheeling stars, the silence, the scant nourishment, the study of remote subjects wove around me a spell that predisposed me to mar…"

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Professor and the Siren

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4. Being and Time

By: Martin Heidegger

4.05

Format: 589 pages, Hardcover

One of the most important philosophical works of our time, a work that has had tremendous influence… read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
  • germany
"But “nowhere"

-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

"El ente existente “se"

-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

"الترجمة ضرب من أدب الضيافة إزاء تراث ما"

-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

"Everyone is the other and no one is himself."

-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

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5. A Heart So White

By: Javier Marías , Margaret Jull Costa

4.02

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here. Javier Marías's A Heart So White chronicles w… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"No es fácil saber por qué se mata la gente, ni los más próximos, todo el mundo está trastornado, todo el mundo las pasa putas, a veces sin causa y casi siempre en secreto, la gente vuelve cara contra…"

-Javier Marías, A Heart So White

"Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears don’t have lids that can instinctively close against the words…"

-Javier Marías, A Heart So White

"Casi todo el mundo se avergüenza de su juventud, no es muy cierto que se añore como se dice, más bien se relega o rehúye y con facilidad o esfuerzo se confina el origen a la esfera de los malos sueño…"

-Javier Marías, A Heart So White

"I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance, even if it’s one of the innumerable languages I don’t know, even if …"

-Javier Marías, A Heart So White

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6. Wind/Pinball: Two Novels

By: Haruki Murakami , Ted Goossen

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The debut short novels--nearly thirty years out of print-- by the internationally acclaimed writer,… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt, Margaret Canovan

7. The Human Condition

By: Hannah Arendt , Margaret Canovan

3.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Conditionis a in many r… read more

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8. The Decay of the Angel

By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Yukio Mishima

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

As the dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility, 'The Decay of the Angel' brings together the domina… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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9. La familia de Pascual Duarte

By: Camilo José Cela , Alan Hoyle

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Family of Pascual Duarte is the story of Pascual Duarte--a Spanish peasant born into a brutal w… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli, Adolph Caso, Rufus Goodwin, Benjamin Martinez

10. The Prince

By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez

3.84

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more

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"Is it better to be loved or feared?"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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11. Hons and Rebels

By: Christopher Hitchens , Jessica Mitford

3.97

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Jessica Mitford, the great muckraking journalist, was part of a legendary English aristocratic fami… read more

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  • classics
Cover of A Happy Death by Albert Camus, Richard Howard, Jean Sarocchi

12. A Happy Death

By: Albert Camus , Richard Howard , Jean Sarocchi

4.15

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

Is it possible to die a happy death?This is the central question of Camus's astonishing early novel… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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13. The Shadow Over Innsmouth

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

"The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is a short novel about a weird hybrid race of humans and creatures rese… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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14. Bestiario

By: Julio Cortázar

3.70

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

In these eight masterpieces there is no room for the smallest sign of stumbling or youthful underto… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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15. The Quiet American

By: Graham Greene , Robert Stone

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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16. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

By: Yukio Mishima , John Nathan

3.85

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679750154 The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"إن الخطر، هو الحياة"

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"To Ryuji the smile seemed as brittle as fine glass crystal and very dangerous"

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast."

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"حتى وإن أبحرت سنوات عديدة، لن تعتاد يوماً على العواصف، وفي كل مرة تتساءل إن كنت ستودع الحياة"."

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

17. Sun and Steel

By: Yukio Mishima , John Bester

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Paperback, Paper Dust Jacket

In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what migh… read more

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18. H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life

By: Stephen King , Michel Houellebecq , None

4.11

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

In this prescient work, Michel Houellebecq focuses his considerable analytical skills on H. P. Love… read more

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19. Jamilia

By: Chingiz Aitmatov , James Riordan

3.87

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Jamilia is the first major novel by Chingiz Aytmatov, published originally in Russian in 1958. The … read more

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20. The Bridge of San Luis Rey

By: Thornton Wilder

5.00

Format: 36 pages,

Featuring a beautiful new cover and author biography, this novel, which brought Wilder his first Pu… read more

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21. Less Than Zero

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait o… read more

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22. Ficciones

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan

3.53

Format: 320 pages,

The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more

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23. Platform

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.80

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world… read more

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  • fiction
"Tout peut arriver dans la vie, et surtout rien."

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

"Anything can happen in life, especially nothing."

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

"L'absence d'envie de vivre, hélas, ne suffit pas pour avoir envie de mourir."

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

"Als ik de liefde niet heb begrepen, wat heb ik er dan aan om de rest te begrijpen?"

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

24. Runaway Horses

By: Yukio Mishima , Michael Gallagher

3.08

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

Isao is a young, engaging patriot, and a fanatical believer in the ancient samurai ethos. He turns … read more

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25. Soumission

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.65

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s’engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu mot… read more

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  • fiction
"It’s submission,"

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"There is no Israel for me."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"Intimacy isn’t something men talk about."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"I was about as political as a bath towel."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

26. Lygiosios trunka akimirką

By: Icchokas Meras

4.29

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

,,Lygiosios trunka akimirka"vaizduoja karo metu Vilniaus geta, taciau autoriui rupi ne istorine aut… read more

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27. Serotonin

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.58

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

»Es ist nicht die Zukunft, es ist die Gegenwart, die dich tötet, die wiederkommt, um an dir zu nage… read more

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  • fiction
"[...] chiaramente sto semplificando ma se non si semplifica non si conclude niente."

-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

"nic nas nie koi równie łatwo jak świadomość innych niż nasze dramatów, które nam zostały oszczędzone"

-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

"An atmosphere of general catastrophe always alleviates individual catastrophe- that's probably why suicides are so rare in wartime"

-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

"... it isn't the future but past that kills you, that comes back to torment and undermine you, and effectively ends up killing you."

-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

Cover of Bloodless (Pendergast, #20) by Douglas Preston

28. Bloodless (Pendergast, #20)

By: Douglas Preston

4.01

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In this latest installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling series, FBI agent Pendergast faces … read more

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  • fiction
"Coldmoon saw the early-morning glow of a café spilling onto the sidewalk and swerved toward it, not even bothering to ask his partner’s opinion. It was 6am and the café had apparently just opened. “M…"

-Douglas Preston, Bloodless (Pendergast, #20)

Cover of Anéantir by Michel Houellebecq

29. Anéantir

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.84

Format: 734 pages, Hardcover

Ce roman de Michel Houellebecq nous projette à la fin du second mandat du président à travers un ré… read more

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  • fiction
"La prise de vues donnait une étrange impression de neutralité."

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

"Les chrétiens ont du mal en général, avec l’absurde, ça n’entre pas vraiment dans leurs catégories."

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

"Certains lundis de la toute fin novembre, ou du début de décembre, surtout lorsqu'on est célibataire, on a la sensation d'être dans le couloir de la mort. Les vacances d'été sont depuis longtemps oub…"

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

Cover of La palabra del mudo by Julio Ramón Ribeyro

30. La palabra del mudo

By: Julio Ramón Ribeyro

4.37

Format: 1056 pages, Paperback

Los cuentos de Julio Ramón Ribeyro, a pesar de su versatilidad, configuran un mundo narrativo orgán… read more

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  • fiction
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31. Afrikanische Spiele

By: Ernst Jünger

3.78

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

È il 1913. Ernst Jünger, diciottenne, fugge da scuola, acquista una rivoltella, attraversa in tren… read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
  • germany
  • fiction

19 best-selling fiction books like Afrikanische Spiele by Ernst Jünger

Transform Your Habits

The Elephant Vanishes

Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin , Alfred Birnbaum

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Niebla

Miguel de Unamuno

4.05

Transform Your Habits

The Professor and the Siren

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

3.87

Transform Your Habits

A Heart So White

Javier Marías , Margaret Jull Costa

4.02

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Transform Your Habits

A Heart So White

Javier Marías , Margaret Jull Costa

4.02

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Un mundo para Julius

Alfredo Bryce Echenique

3.66

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Juan Rulfo , Margaret Sayers Peden , Susan Sontag

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Los ríos profundos

مصطفی مفیدی , José María Arguedas

3.78

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