7 must-read horror books like Toño the Infallible by Evelio Rosero

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Toño the Infallible

By: Evelio Rosero

3.51

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

An unforgettable yet humane novel that takes us into the heart of Colombia’s brutal society, by one…

If you liked the horror plot in Toño the Infallible by Evelio Rosero , here is a list of 7 books like this:

1. Solenoid

By: Mircea Cărtărescu

3.59

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

,,Vreau sa scriu o dare de seama despre anomaliile mele. In viata mea obscura, in afara oricarei is… read more

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2. Kappa

By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , Geoffrey Bownas

2.86

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

From the author of Rashomon comes a Swiftian satire of Japanese society thinly disguised as the fic… read more

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3. Melancholy

By: Jon Fosse , Damion Searls , None

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

"Melancholy" takes us deep inside a painter's fragile consciousness, vulnerable to everything but t… read more

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4. The Apple in the Dark

By: Clarice Lispector

4.23

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

Martin is convinced that he has murdered his wife. In a delirium of guilt and grief, he wanders thr… read more

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5. Un beso de Dick

By: Fernando Molano Vargas

4.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

En este extenso monologo Felipe relata su encuentro con el amor y la sexualidad. El es un muchacho … read more

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6. Beauty and Sadness

By: Yasunari Kawabata , Howard Hibbett

3.81

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

Beauty and Sadness (Japanese: Mei shisatoAi shimito Utsukushisa to kanashimi to) is a 1964 novel by… read more

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7. Wednesday's Child: Stories

By: Yiyun Li

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A new collection—about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life—by the awa… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. Septology

By: Jon Fosse

4.52

Format: 825 pages, Paperback

The celebrated Norwegian novelist’s magnum opus, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, pu… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"and what the picture is in reality is this spirit, that’s what a picture really is, neither matter nor soul but both parts at the same time and together they make up what I think of as spirit, and ma…"

-Jon Fosse, Septology

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9. A Shining

By: Jon Fosse

3.49

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

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10. 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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  • contemporary
  • novels
  • fiction
  • horror
"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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11. Pelea de gallos

By: María Fernanda Ampuero

4.15

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

Pelea de gallos narra desde diferentes voces el hogar, ese espacio que construye –­o destruye– a la… read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • horror
"There is nothing more perfect than Love. Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."

-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos

"No me gusta ser hombre. ¿No se puede ser otra cosa? No hay otro sitio en el que quisiera estar - ¿es el pasado un sitio? -, pero tampoco aqui."

-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos

"Volver, lo sabe todo el mundo, es imposible. Luego de los abrazos y las lágrimas viene el verdadero reencuentro, estar frente a frente a los mismos cuando nosotros ya somos otros, frente a ellos cuan…"

-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos

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12. Fulgentius

By: César Aira

3.88

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Una vuelta de tuerca a la novela de romanos protagonizada por un voluble general de la legión que c… read more

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  • fiction
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13. The Adventures of China Iron

By: Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

3.83

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

(* China. Pronounced ‘cheena’: designation for female, from the Quechua. Iron: The English word for… read more

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  • fiction
"Poverty yields cracked skin. It carves and slowly scrapes away at its young, and leaves them to fend for themselves in all weathers."

-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron

"It's difficult to know what you remember, is it what actually happened? Or is it the story that you've told and re-told and polished like a gemstone over the course of years, like something that has …"

-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron

"But the dragon aroused such passion in me, that beautiful beast made from horrible beasts: the eyes of a locust, the horns of a zebu, the snout of an ox, the nose of a dog, the whiskers of a catfish,…"

-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron

"Los pastizales se bamboleaban con el viento cuando salimos y parecía la pampa un mar de dos colores: cuando se dejaban vencer los tallos, era blanca y destellaba como espuma; cuando volvían a su posi…"

-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron

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14. 後遺症ラジオ 1 [Kouishou Radio 1] (PTSD Radio, #1)

By: Masaaki Nakayama

3.87

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

...ha...ir......hand hand and.. ..an..d......fire..... ....be...hin...d......blood......u... ...sh.… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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15. The Houseguest and Other Stories

By: Amparo Dávila

3.65

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

The first collection in English of an endlessly surprising, master storyteller Like those of Kafka,… read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • horror
"The daily exercise of suffering gives one the gaze of an abandoned dog and the colour of a ghost. - Fragment of a Diary [July to August] "

-Amparo Dávila, The Houseguest and Other Stories

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16. 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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  • novels
  • fiction
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17. My Work

By: Olga Ravn

4.01

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

In this radical, funny, and mercilessly honest novel about motherhood, Anna is utterly lost after g… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Panics

By: Barbara Molinard

3.89

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A haunting, bizarre short story collection about violence, mental illness, and the warped contradic… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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19. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

By: Anne de Marcken

3.82

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more

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  • contemporary
  • novels
  • fiction
  • horror
"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"

-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

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20. In the Act

By: Rachel Ingalls

3.72

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Ingalls, the author of Mrs. Caliban , another delicious, highly improbable, and hilario… read more

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  • fiction
"A woman, she thought, can get the eyes and everything else right without any trouble: her creative power is inherent. Men can never create; they only copy. That's why they're always so jealous."

-Rachel Ingalls, In the Act

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21. Peregrino transparente

By: Juan Cárdenas

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Henry Price, pintor inglés al servicio de la Comisión Corográfica, una expedición científica que re… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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22. Esta herida llena de peces

By: Lorena Salazar Masso

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Una madre y su niño viajan en canoa por el caudaloso río Atrato. La madre es blanca, el niño es neg… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Tener un hijo es garantía de sufrimiento."

-Lorena Salazar Masso, Esta herida llena de peces

"Una madre es algo que duele. Es herida y cicatriz."

-Lorena Salazar Masso, Esta herida llena de peces

"Poesia e carrinhos, coisas a que dás corda uma vez e andam sozinhas pela casa durante um bocado."

-Lorena Salazar Masso, Esta herida llena de peces

"Parir amarga y cierra a las mujeres, las convierte en madres egoístas, cangrejos impenetrables que se esconden en un exoesqueleto desde el que atacan con tenazas afiladas."

-Lorena Salazar Masso, Esta herida llena de peces

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23. An Inventory of Losses

By: Judith Schalansky

3.36

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

Each disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger,… read more

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  • contemporary
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24. The Famous Magician

By: César Aira

3.61

Format: 60 pages, Hardcover

A certain writer (“past sixty, enjoying ‘a certain renown’”) strolls through the old book market in… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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25. Promises of Gold

By: José Olivarez

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, f… read more

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  • contemporary
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26. Solo un poco aquí

By: María Ospina Pizano

4.13

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

"Solo un poco aquí reclama la condición sagrada de estos seres cuyo sufrimiento y cuya curiosidad p… read more

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  • novels
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27. The Stone Face

By: William Gardner Smith

4.33

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

A roman à clef about racism, identity, and bohemian living amidst the tensions and violence of Alge… read more

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  • fiction
"The further north the bus moved, the more drab became the buildings, the streets and the people. Cheap stores selling clothes, furniture, kitchen utensils: “Easy terms, ten months to pay!"

-William Gardner Smith, The Stone Face

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28. Contradeseo

By: Gloria Susana Esquivel

3.48

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

«Una novela sobre la cara más oscura de la amistad, los complicados caminos del deseo y las miseria… read more

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29. Toño the Infallible

By: Evelio Rosero

3.51

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

An unforgettable yet humane novel that takes us into the heart of Colombia’s brutal society, by one… read more

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  • contemporary
  • novels
  • fiction
  • horror
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30. En agosto nos vemos

By: Gabriel García Márquez

3.63

Format: 142 pages, Hardcover

Un maravilloso regalo inesperado para los innumerables lectores de García Márquez   Cada mes de a… read more

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  • fiction
"Do you know how old I am?"

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

"The sea was an oasis of gold under the afternoon sun."

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

"They both lay listening intently to the sounds of their souls."

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

"It was always a joyful love where even madness was admissible."

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

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31. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

21 Top fiction books like Toño the Infallible by Evelio Rosero

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Wednesday's Child: Stories

Yiyun Li

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Septology

Jon Fosse

4.52

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A Shining

Jon Fosse

3.49

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Hurricane Season

Fernanda Melchor

4.06

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A Shining

Jon Fosse

3.49

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The Spoiled Heart

Sunjeev Sahota

3.82

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Henry Hoke

4.01

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Justin Torres

3.77

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