17 best-selling fiction books like A Death: Notes of a Suicide by Zalman Shneour

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A Death: Notes of a Suicide

By: Zalman Shneour

3.98

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

In a Yiddish take on Notes from Underground, a dark, expressionist love affair develops in a large,…

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1. Occultation and Other Stories

By: Laird Barron

4.08

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, … read more

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2. The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington

By: Leonora Carrington , Kathryn Davis , Kathrine Talbot

4.16

Format: 1342 pages, Paperback

Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a master of the macabre, of gorgeo… read more

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3. The Trouble with Being Born

By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran

4.53

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

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4. Invisible Cities

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

4.11

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more

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5. Întâmplări în irealitatea imediată

By: Max Blecher

3.29

Format: None pages, Hardcover

,,Ceea ce-l inrudeste structural pe Blecher cu Kafka, cu Bruno Schulz sau cu Robert Walser e mai al… read more

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6. Outline

By: Rachel Cusk

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more

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7. De avonden

By: Gerard Reve

3.98

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

De avonden is een van de belangrijkste boeken uit de Nederlandse literatuur; het is klassiek geword… read more

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8. The Lathe of Heaven

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.48

Format: 334 pages,

George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more

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9. Sklepy cynamonowe; Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą

By: Bruno Schulz

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

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10. On Strike Against God

By: Joanna Russ

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Joanna Russ's On Strike Against God is remarkable for its deft intertwining of many themes: not onl… read more

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11. A Balcony in the Forest

By: Richard Howard , Julien Gracq

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In the Ardennes Forest on the Belgian border the French guns point north-east, awaiting the German … read more

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12. The Monk

By: None

4.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, this is a violent tale of ambition, murde… read more

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13. District

By: Tony Duvert

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

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14. Down and Out in Paris and London

By: George Orwell

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more

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15. The Diary of Mr. Pinke

By: Ewald Murrer

4.32

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

The Diary of Mr. Pinkeis poet Ewald Murrer's first full length work of prose. Written as a compilat… read more

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16. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

By: Hunter S. Thompson , Ralph Steadman

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegasis the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good … read more

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17. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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18. Hurricane Season

By: Fernanda Melchor

4.06

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book (2020) A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A Literary Hub Favorite Book of… read more

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"а разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"за разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"There's no reasoning with dog, two ferocious dogs who refuse to let go of their prey until they've been torn to shreds"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"момчето, щом порасна, се превърна в диво животно, което, пуснеха ли го на свобода, дори по никое време вечер, все го теглеше към гората, защото според баба ѝ този бил начинът да възпитават момчетата,…"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

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19. The Memory Police

By: Yōko Ogawa

3.72

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, bird… read more

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"No one can erase the stories!"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

"Few people here have any need of novels"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

"It's the most beautiful disappearance ever."

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

"I stood in the middle of that emptiness, feeling myself on the verge of being drawn into its terrible depth"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

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20. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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21. The City of Unspeakable Fear

By: Jean Ray

3.60

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

Miss Marple meets H.P. Lovecraft in Ray’s genre-defying tale of ghostly intrigue and murder Publish… read more

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Cover of The Faces by Tove Ditlevsen

22. The Faces

By: Tove Ditlevsen

3.92

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

It's Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is becoming incr… read more

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"...and the fear came back like a faithful friend who doesn't care whether return his feelings or not."

-Tove Ditlevsen, The Faces

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23. My Death

By: Lisa Tuttle

3.98

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more

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24. Life for Sale

By: Yukio Mishima

3.72

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

'Life for sale. Use me as you wish. I am a twenty-seven-year-old male. Discretion guaranteed. Will … read more

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"It's only the desire to live as long as possible that makes everything seem complicated and mysterious."

-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale

"Když si rozsvítíš v malém pokoji modrou lampu, taky ti všechno zmodrá, ale tím se z toho pokoje ještě moře nestane."

-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale

"A dead body reminds me a bit of a bottle of whisky. If you drop the bottle and it cracks, what’s inside pours out. It’s only natural."

-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale

"To say human life had no meaning was the easy part. But Hanio was struck all over again by the huge amount of energy required to live a life filled with so much meaninglessness."

-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale

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25. Patricia Wants to Cuddle

By: Samantha Allen

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The contestants of a reality television dating show compete for love—and their lives—in this pulse-… read more

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26. The Twilight World

By: Werner Herzog

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a… read more

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27. Amygdalatropolis

By: B.R. Yeager

3.69

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

Amygdalatropolis is a work of brilliant neurorealism in which the city is a Computer, a libidinal p… read more

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"/1404er/ was born from video. His way into the threads. His eyes translating light from a stream. Before his eyes translated light from a stream he was only a person. Before the stream was a stream, …"

-B.R. Yeager, Amygdalatropolis

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28. The Die Is Cast

By: Robert Desnos

3.97

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Published in 1943 (just a year before its author was arrested by the Gestapo for his Resistance act… read more

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29. The Unyielding

By: Gary J. Shipley

4.00

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Something is horribly wrong with my wife. She doesn't move anymore. When I try to lift her I can't.… read more

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30. A Death: Notes of a Suicide

By: Zalman Shneour

3.98

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

In a Yiddish take on Notes from Underground, a dark, expressionist love affair develops in a large,… read more

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