The Illusionist
By: Anita Mason
3.69
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
This is a novel about Simon Magus who was a Samaritan magus or religious figure and a convert to C…
Want to ReadIf you liked the fantasy plot in The Illusionist by Anita Mason , here is a list of 6 books like this:
1. A Dry White Season
By: André P. Brink
4.07
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
As startling and powerful as when first published more than two decades ago, André Brink's classic … read more
Want to Read $ 2.99Similar categories in André P. Brink's A Dry White Season book and Anita Mason's The Illusionist
- fiction
- historical fiction
"How dare I presume to say: He is my friend, or even, more cautiously, I think I know him? At the very most we are like two strangers meeting in the white wintry veld and sitting down together for a w…"-André P. Brink, A Dry White Season
"Happiness? It was one of the saddest nights of my life, an ageless sadness that insinuated itself into the very heart of this new world and deepened slowly into anguish and agony. There she was sleep…"-André P. Brink, A Dry White Season
2. The Van (The Barrytown Trilogy, #3)
By: Roddy Doyle
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The further misadventures of the Rabbitte family in working-class Dublin--from the author of The Co… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Roddy Doyle's The Van (The Barrytown Trilogy, #3) book and Anita Mason's The Illusionist
- fiction
3. Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
By: Flannery O'Connor , Robert Fitzgerald
4.23
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
Flannery O'Connor was working on Everything That Rises Must Converge at the time of her death. This… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Flannery O'Connor's Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories book and Anita Mason's The Illusionist
- fiction
"Remember what you won't get if you don't mind," her grandfather remarked."-Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
"Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away."-Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
"Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom."-Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
"She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true."-Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
4. The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
By: Janice Galloway
3.84
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
Janice Galloway's inventive first novel is about the breakdown of a 27-year-old drama teacher named… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Janice Galloway's The Trick Is to Keep Breathing book and Anita Mason's The Illusionist
- fiction
"It's asking for trouble to listen to music alone."-Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
"You would think there's a natural limit to tears: only so much the body can give at one sitting before it runs dry."-Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
"No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I don't do it if I can help it. Brightness disagrees with me: it hurts my eyes, wastes electricity and …"-Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
"I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in supermarkets and leaflets that come through the door, unsolicited mail. None …"-Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
5. Invisible Man
By: Ralph Ellison
3.91
Format: 581 pages, Paperback
First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man book and Anita Mason's The Illusionist
- fiction
- historical fiction
"When I discover who I am, I’ll be free."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"You're very insistent, but I'm very busy."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him"-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
6. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
By: André Maurois , Jorge Luis Borges , James E. Irby , Donald A. Yates
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in André Maurois's Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings book and Anita Mason's The Illusionist
- fantasy
- fiction
7. Child of God
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Cormac McCarthy's Child of God book and Anita Mason's The Illusionist
- fiction
8. The Keepers of the House
By: Shirley Ann Grau
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, The Keepers of the Houseis Shirley Ann Grau's masterwork, a m… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Shirley Ann Grau's The Keepers of the House book and Anita Mason's The Illusionist
- fiction
- historical fiction
9. The Melancholy of Resistance
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai
2.50
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in George Szirtes's The Melancholy of Resistance book and Anita Mason's The Illusionist
- fiction
10. Cloud Atlas
By: David Mitchell
3.90
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
Cloud Atlasbegins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to hi… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas book and Anita Mason's The Illusionist
- fantasy
- fiction
- historical fiction
11. Angel
By: Hilary Mantel , Elizabeth Taylor
3.76
Format: 6 pages, Paperback
Writing stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year old Angel retreats to a world of ro… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Hilary Mantel's Angel book and Anita Mason's The Illusionist
- fiction
- historical fiction
Similar categories in D.M. Thomas's The White Hotel book and Anita Mason's The Illusionist
- fantasy
- fiction
- historical fiction
13. Gabriel's Lament
By: Paul Bailey
3.68
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
Gabriel Harvey is happy until his father inherits a lot of money and becomes a snob and his beloved… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Paul Bailey's Gabriel's Lament book and Anita Mason's The Illusionist
- fiction
14. Farther Away
By: Jonathan Franzen
4.13
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Jonathan Franzen's Freedomwas the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jonathan Franzen's Farther Away book and Anita Mason's The Illusionist
15. Steppenwolf
By: Hermann Hesse , Basil Creighton , کیکاووس جهانداری
4.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Steppenwolfis a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. Th… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf book and Anita Mason's The Illusionist
16. The Tartar Steppe
By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood
3.80
Format: 25 pages,
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Dino Buzzati's The Tartar Steppe book and Anita Mason's The Illusionist
17. Poor Things
By: Alasdair Gray
3.94
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenste… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Alasdair Gray's Poor Things book and Anita Mason's The Illusionist
- fantasy
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
18. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
By: Carson McCullers
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
With the publication of her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twe… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Carson McCullers's The Heart is a Lonely Hunter book and Anita Mason's The Illusionist
19. Ragnarok
By: A.S. Byatt
5.00
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
Recently evacuated to the British countryside and with World War Two raging around her, one young g… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in A.S. Byatt's Ragnarok book and Anita Mason's The Illusionist
20. 1982, Janine
By: Alasdair Gray
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
1982, Janine is a liberal novel of the most satisfying kind. Set over the course of one night insid… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Alasdair Gray's 1982, Janine book and Anita Mason's The Illusionist
21. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By: Timothy Snyder
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century book and Anita Mason's The Illusionist
22. Star Maker
By: Olaf Stapledon
4.33
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
Star Makeris a science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon, published in 1937. The book describes a his… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker book and Anita Mason's The Illusionist
23. Absolute Beginners
By: Colin MacInnes
3.69
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
London, 1958--Soho, Notting Hill... a world of smoky jazz clubs, coffee bars and hip hang-outs in t… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Colin MacInnes's Absolute Beginners book and Anita Mason's The Illusionist
24. The Doctor's Wife
By: Brian Moore
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
Awaiting her husband's arrival on holiday in France, Sheila Redden,quiet, middle-aged doctor's wife… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Brian Moore's The Doctor's Wife book and Anita Mason's The Illusionist
25. Nice Work
By: David Lodge
3.94
Format: 313 pages,
Nice Work(1988) is a novel by British author David Lodge. It won the Sunday Express Book of the Yea… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in David Lodge's Nice Work book and Anita Mason's The Illusionist
26. Sweet Tooth
By: Ian McEwan
3.97
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
Ian McEwan's mastery dazzles us in this superbly deft and witty story of betrayal and intrigue, lov… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Ian McEwan's Sweet Tooth book and Anita Mason's The Illusionist
27. The Cockroach
By: Ian McEwan
3.26
Format: 109 pages, Kindle Edition
That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself tr… read more
Want to Read $ 16.99Similar categories in Ian McEwan's The Cockroach book and Anita Mason's The Illusionist
- fantasy
- fiction
28. The Netanyahus
By: Joshua Cohen
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but … read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Joshua Cohen's The Netanyahus book and Anita Mason's The Illusionist
- fiction
- historical fiction
29. The End of the End of the Earth: Essays
By: Jonathan Franzen
3.48
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
The essayist, Jonathan Franzen writes, is like “a fire-fighter, whose job, while everyone else is f… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Jonathan Franzen's The End of the End of the Earth: Essays book and Anita Mason's The Illusionist
"Attempting to write an honest essay doesn't alter the multiplicity of my selves. What changes, if I take the time to stop and measure, is that my multi-selved identity acquires substance."-Jonathan Franzen, The End of the End of the Earth: Essays
"One reason that birds matter - ought to matter - is that they are our last, best connection to a natural world that is otherwise receding. They're the most vivid and widespread representatives of the…"-Jonathan Franzen, The End of the End of the Earth: Essays
"Invisible Facebook and Google algorithms steer you toward content you agree with, and nonconforming voices stay silent for fear of being flamed or trolled or unfriended. The result is a silo in which…"-Jonathan Franzen, The End of the End of the Earth: Essays
"The radical otherness of birds is integral to their beauty and their value. They are always among us but never of us. They’re the other world-dominating animals that evolution has produced, and their…"-Jonathan Franzen, The End of the End of the Earth: Essays
30. The Illusionist
By: Anita Mason
3.69
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
This is a novel about Simon Magus who was a Samaritan magus or religious figure and a convert to C… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Anita Mason's The Illusionist book and Anita Mason's The Illusionist
- fantasy
- fiction
- historical fiction
