15 must-read fiction books like A Tale of One January by Albert Maltz

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A Tale of One January

By: Albert Maltz

4.37

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Poland, January 1945. Two women and four men escape from a Nazi death march. Each is from a differe…

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Cover of The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas, Elizabeth Rokkan

1. The Ice Palace

By: Tarjei Vesaas , Elizabeth Rokkan

3.86

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Commonly seen as the legendary Norwegian writer's masterpiece, this story tells the tale of Siss an… read more

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  • fiction
"The promise was a strong tie, hard, but I knew where I stood. If it's gone, I don't know where I am. When there's a strong scent in the spring twilight, I know least of all."

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

"The darkness at the sides of the road. It possesses neither form nor name, but whoever passes here knows when it comes out and follows after and sends shudders like rippling streams down his back."

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

"Lovnad i djupaste snøen frå Siss til Unn: Det lovar eg deg at eg ikkje vil tenke på noko anna enn deg. Tenke på alt eg veit om deg. Tenke på deg heime og på skolen, og på skolevegen. Tenke på deg hei…"

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

"Four eyes full of gleams and radiance beneath their lashes, filling the looking-glass. Questions shooting out and then hiding again. I don't know: Gleams and radiance, gleaming from you to me, from m…"

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

Cover of Little Scarlet (Easy Rawlins #9) by Walter Mosley

2. Little Scarlet (Easy Rawlins #9)

By: Walter Mosley

4.00

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author comes his most riveting and provocative Easy Rawlins nov… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)

By: Jane Gardam

4.10

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction

4. The Financier (Trilogy of desire, #1)

By: Theodore Dreiser

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

A master of literary naturalism, Dreiser is known for his great intensity and keen journalistic eye… read more

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5. Mother of 1084

By: Mahasweta Devi , None

3.22

Format: 402 pages, Paperback

Mahasweta Devi is one of India's foremost literary figures, a prolific and best-selling author in B… read more

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6. Thoreau the Land Surveyor

By: Patrick Chura

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"An insightful study of how Thoreau's profession as a surveyor impacts his environmental sensibilit… read more

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7. The Artificial Silk Girl

By: Irmgard Keun , None , None

3.82

Format: 4 pages,

In 1931, a young woman writer living in Germany was inspired by Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blond… read more

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8. The Dead Lake

By: Andrew Bromfield , Hamid Ismailov

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A haunting Russian tale about the environmental legacy of the Cold War. Yerzhan grows up in a remot… read more

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9. Long Live the Post Horn!

By: Vigdis Hjorth

3.67

Format: 240 pages, ebook

Ellinor, a 35-year-old media consultant, has not been feeling herself; she's not been feeling much … read more

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  • fiction
"A letter is practically a gift."

-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!

"What do we do with our despair if our lives are too small to contain it?"

-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!

"What do we do with our despair if our lives are too small to contain it?’ . . . .accept that there’s so much we’ll never understand intellectually and try to live with things which don’t add up, that…"

-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!

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10. The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets

By: Dawn French

3.87

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last s… read more

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11. Black Butterflies

By: Priscilla Morris

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Silver Bone (The Kyiv Mysteries, #1) by Andrey Kurkov

12. The Silver Bone (The Kyiv Mysteries, #1)

By: Andrey Kurkov

3.43

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the Ukrainian Andrey Kurkov, a perplexing mystery from a world-renowned literary master that i… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. Frankenstein

By: Junji Ito

4.01

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Junji Ito meets Mary Shelley! The master of horror manga bends all his skill into bringing the a… read more

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  • fiction
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14. One of Our Own

By: Lucinda Berry

3.93

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

A suicide prevention hotline volunteer answers a call that turns her world upside down in this edge… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue

15. You Dreamed of Empires

By: Álvaro Enrigue

3.85

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. Hera

By: Jennifer Saint

3.75

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hera, immortal goddess and daughter of the ancient Titan Cronos, helped her brother Zeus to overthr… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"She has been alone for a very long time."

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"All she knows is that he leaves a trail of broken women in his wake, and she is the most broken of them all."

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"But as he looms over her, blocking out the sky, it seems that he is everything in the world, that he is bigger than that sky. He is too immense and too strong. There is nothing that Hera, the warrior…"

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"She can be anyone. Vengeful Hera, wrathful Hera, the queen of the heavens, most long-suffering of wives and cruellest of punishers, will continue without her. She can slip away from the tethers of wh…"

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

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17. Midnight on Beacon Street

By: Emily Ruth Verona

2.88

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A suspenseful and entertaining debut thriller—and love letter to vintage horror movies—in which a t… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. The Glassmaker

By: Tracy Chevalier

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

Cover of A Tale of One January by Albert Maltz

19. A Tale of One January

By: Albert Maltz

4.37

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Poland, January 1945. Two women and four men escape from a Nazi death march. Each is from a differe… read more

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  • fiction
  • american
  • holocaust
  • historical fiction
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20. The Unraveling

By: Vi Keeland

4.00

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

This chilling, sizzling, and addictive thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Vi Keelan… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Brzezina  i inne opowiadania ekranizowane by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz

21. Brzezina i inne opowiadania ekranizowane

By: Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz

3.79

Format: 491 pages, Unknown Binding

Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz's work is familiar to every Polish reader, yet remains unknown to the outside… read more

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  • fiction

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