9 best-selling classics books like The Murderer by Roy A.K. Heath

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The Murderer

By: Roy A.K. Heath

3.45

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

When both his parents die, Galton Flood, a man raised in Guyana, leaves Georgetown for the township…

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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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"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

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2. The Waves

By: Virginia Woolf

4.15

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six chara… read more

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"Death is woven in with the violets,"

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

"Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing."

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

"But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing."

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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3. The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

By: Yōko Ogawa , Stephen Snyder , Stephen Snyder

3.69

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

From Akutagawa Award-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, fertil… read more

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"I couldn't reach him from here even if I tried."

-Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

"When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting everything into their tears, which they spread liberally about for the who…"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

"Since that time, I've had many similar moments, and I can never hear the words "family" and "home" without feeling that they sound strange, never simply hear them and let them go. When I stop to exam…"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

"I knew immediately that it was different from other photographs. The night sky in the background was pure and black, so dark it made you dizzy if you stared at it too long. The rain drifted through t…"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

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4. Someone at a Distance

By: Dorothy Whipple

4.21

Format: 413 pages, Paperback

'A very good novel indeed about the fragility and also the tenacity of love' commented the Spectato… read more

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"With love, you don't even need butter on your bread; without it, an elaborate feast is necessary to make you come to the table."

-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance

"But Mrs. Brockington, old, alone, almost crippled by rheumatism, had faith and courage. She had more. She had a warm serenity, and when Ellen was with her, she almost had it too. For goodness is catc…"

-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance

"All those books, all those prayers and she had got nothing from them. When everything went well for her she had been able to pray, she couldn't now. There was such urgency in her present situation th…"

-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance

"A loved husband is the companion of companions, the supreme sharer, and a happy wife often sounds trivial when she is really sampling and enjoying their mutual and unique confidence. But in doing it,…"

-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance

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5. The Driver's Seat

By: John Lanchester , Muriel Spark

3.61

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Alternative cover edition of ISBN 0141188340 Lise is thin, neither good-looking nor bad-looking.… read more

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"Sonra bu kumaş leke de tutmaz "diyor tezgahtar kız."

-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat

"It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up."

-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat

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6. The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)

By: Robert A. Caro

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill… read more

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7. Damage

By: Josephine Hart

4.09

Format: 296 pages, ebook

Damage is the gripping story of a man's desperate obsession and scandalous love affair. He is a man… read more

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  • fiction
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8. Verderame

By: Michele Mari

4.00

Format: 222 pages, Hardcover

La memoria di Felice si sta sbriciolando: per tutta la vita si e occupato della grande casa di camp… read more

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9. The Glass Pearls

By: Emeric Pressburger

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Karl Braun is a slight, grey-haired man who lodges in West London and works as a tuner for a firm o… read more

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10. Them: Adventures with Extremists

By: Jon Ronson

4.27

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industryand So Yo… read more

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11. The Ambassadors

By: Henry James , Harry Levin

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Graham Greene and E.M. Forster marvelled at it, but F.R. Leavis considered it to be 'not only not o… read more

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12. The Birds

By: Tarjei Vesaas , Michael Barnes , None

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

With spare simplicity, this story tells the tale of Mattis, a mentally disabled man cared for by hi… read more

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13. The Sheltering Sky

By: Paul Bowles

3.89

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans appr… read more

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"When I was young"

-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

"The soul is the weariest part of the body."

-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

"She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze."

-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

"La humanidad es todos salvo uno mismo. Entonces, ¿Qué interés puede tener para nadie?"

-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

14. Delta of Venus

By: Anaïs Nin

4.14

Format: None pages,

In Delta of VenusAnais Nin penned a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination pos… read more

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15. Always Coming Home

By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Margaret Chodos-Irvine , None

3.93

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

Ursula K. Le Guin's Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's mos… read more

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16. In a Lonely Place

By: Paula Rabinowitz , Dorothy B. Hughes

3.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside--and … read more

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17. 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

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18. A Horse at Night: On Writing

By: Amina Cain

4.03

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s … read more

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"For me, fiction is a space of plainness and excess."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

"Female solitude is weighted with a particular power in literature."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

"I want to leave a chain of images that remain in the reader's mind. I want to write what heightened experience feels like."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

"Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

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19. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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20. Close to Home

By: Michael Magee

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more

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21. The Fawn

By: Magda Szabó

4.18

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

Eszter Encsy, a now accomplished actress, finds herself thinking about her impoverished and frustra… read more

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22. 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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23. The Nenoquich

By: Henry Bean

3.72

Format: 208 pages, ebook

An unsung masterpiece squatting in the ashes of the sixties, The Nenoquich is the diary of a seduce… read more

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24. Evenings and Weekends

By: Oisín McKenna

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more

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25. The Wolves of Eternity (Morgenstjernen, #2)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

4.03

Format: 800 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a sprawling and deeply human novel… read more

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26. 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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27. Praiseworthy

By: Alexis Wright

3.91

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale… read more

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28. France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain

By: Julian T. Jackson

4.17

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twen… read more

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29. 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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  • fiction
"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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30. Rejection: Fiction

By: Tony Tulathimutte

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel… read more

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"Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become…"

-Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection: Fiction

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31. The Murderer

By: Roy A.K. Heath

3.45

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

When both his parents die, Galton Flood, a man raised in Guyana, leaves Georgetown for the township… read more

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22 best-selling fiction books like The Murderer by Roy A.K. Heath

Transform Your Habits

The Ice Palace

Tarjei Vesaas , Elizabeth Rokkan

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The Waves

Virginia Woolf

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

Yōko Ogawa , Stephen Snyder , Stephen Snyder

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Someone at a Distance

Dorothy Whipple

4.21

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20 must-read fiction books like Rejection: Fiction by Tony Tulathimutte

Transform Your Habits

All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

Transform Your Habits

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Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Transform Your Habits

My Friends

Hisham Matar

4.34

Transform Your Habits

The Safekeep

Yael van der Wouden

4.08

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