12 Best fiction books like I divini mondani by Ottiero Ottieri

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I divini mondani

By: Ottiero Ottieri

2.79

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Da una festa a un’altra festa, da una cena a un’altra cena, da Londra a Madrid e poi a Milano, da u…

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1. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

By: David Foster Wallace

4.15

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more

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"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

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2. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

By: César Aira , Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

3.88

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German ar… read more

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"Were the “pampas,"

-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

"...the transformation would be accomplished not in the dimension of time but in that of meaning."

-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

"A drove of mules the size of ants appeared in silhouette on a ridgetop path, moving at a star's pace. The mules were driven by human intelligence and commercial interests, expertise in breeding and b…"

-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

"It was hard to believe that this was a route used virtually throughout the year by travelers, mule drivers and merchants. Anyone in their right mind would have regarded it as a means of suicide. Near…"

-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

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3. The Prone Gunman

By: Jean-Patrick Manchette , James Brook , None , None

3.61

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

Manchette at the height of his powers in a corrosive parody of "the success story." read more

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4. Il bosco degli urogalli

By: Mario Rigoni Stern

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Il bosco degli urogallie il secondo libro di Mario Rigoni Stern. Raccoglie storie di cacciatori, di… read more

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5. Walden

By: Henry David Thoreau

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Walden, or, Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David T… read more

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6. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

By: Carlo Rovelli , Simon Carnell , Erica Segre

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Hardcover

Everything you need to know about the beauty of modern physics in less than 100 pages. In seven bri… read more

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7. La bella estate

By: Cesare Pavese

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

"A quei tempi era sempre festa. Bastava uscire di casa e attraversare la strada, per diventare come… read more

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8. Gli occhiali d'oro: Il romanzo di Ferrara

By: Giorgio Bassani

4.05

Format: None pages, Paperback

In una Ferrara ricca, affascinante ma oppressa dal fascismo, un giovane studente ebreo, voce narran… read more

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9. Il bell'Antonio

By: Vitaliano Brancati

4.19

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

La storia di Antonio Magnano, incapace di consumare il proprio matrimonio con l'ereditiera Barbara,… read more

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10. Jakob von Gunten

By: Robert Walser , Christopher Middleton

4.30

Format: 503 pages,

The Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largel… read more

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11. A Gun for Sale

By: Samuel Hynes , Graham Greene

4.50

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. His cold-blooded killing of a European Minister of Wa… read more

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12. La malora

By: Beppe Fenoglio , Maria Antonietta Grignani

3.80

Format: 212 pages,

Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1954 nella collana dei <>, due anni dopo I ventitre giorni della … read more

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13. A Visit from the Goon Squad

By: Jennifer Egan

3.57

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging f… read more

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14. The Burnout Society

By: Byung-Chul Han

5.00

Format: 172 pages,

Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather… read more

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15. Patria

By: Fernando Aramburu

3.08

Format: 354 pages,

El dia en que ETA anuncia el abandono de las armas, Bittori se dirige al cementerio para contarle a… read more

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16. Una e una notte

By: Ennio Flaiano

4.43

Format: 85 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"I due racconti di questo libro sono le facce di una stessa medaglia ... Un po' di esperienza ci in… read more

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17. Die Panne

By: Friedrich Dürrenmatt

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

As told by Atkinson (NY Times): "Three retired men of law on a remote mountain in Switzerland amuse… read more

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18. Moby-Dick or, The Whale

By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco

3.55

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more

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"Call me Ishmael."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

19. Zone

By: Mathias Énard , Charlotte Mandell

3.50

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

Francis Servain Mirkovic, a French-born Croat who has been working for the French Intelligence Serv… read more

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20. Bruges-La-Morte

By: Georges Rodenbach , Will Stone

3.95

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Hugues Viane is a widower who has turned to the melancholy, decaying city of Bruges as the ideal lo… read more

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21. Storie naturali

By: Primo Levi

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

I mnemagoghi Censura in Bitinia Il Versificatore Angelica Farfalla <> L'ordine a buon mercato L'ami… read more

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22. Baumgartner

By: Paul Auster

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more

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"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

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23. What Happens at Night

By: Peter Cameron

3.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An unnamed American couple travels to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby. It’s a diffic… read more

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24. The Shards

By: Bret Easton Ellis

4.00

Format: 595 pages, Hardcover

A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that t… read more

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"Non investivo nel mondo reale – perché avrei dovuto? Non era fatto per me o per i miei bisogni o desideri."

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"Eravamo adolescenti, bambini superficialmente sofisticati, che non sapevano davvero nulla di come funzionava il mondo - lo stavamo sperimentando, immagino, ma senza averne cognizione. Almeno fino a q…"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being …"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

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25. Crossroads

By: Jonathan Franzen

4.06

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

Jonathan Franzen's gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision … read more

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"She seemed more pitiable than murderable."

-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads

"I’m the fat little humiliation he’s married to."

-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads

"How like a mental illness a nation’s economy was!"

-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads

"I think badness is the fundamental condition of humanity."

-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads

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26. Tasmania

By: Paolo Giordano

3.43

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

«Se proprio dovessi, sceglierei la Tasmania. Ha buone riserve di acqua dolce, si trova in uno stato… read more

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27. The World and All That It Holds

By: Aleksandar Hemon

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The World and All That It Holds--in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory--… read more

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28. Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate

By: Daniel Mendelsohn

3.90

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the myster… read more

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29. Gente nel tempo

By: Massimo Bontempelli

3.96

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

Incipit tra i più incalzanti della letteratura italiana, il romanzo si apre con la morte della Gran… read more

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"Nora ha voluto salvarmi." "Ti ha dato l'eternità?" "Cinque anni, abate Clementi, cinque anni". "Regalo orrendo. Non importa morire, importa non sapere quando. L'ignoranza è la giovinezza. Di mano in …"

-Massimo Bontempelli, Gente nel tempo

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30. I divini mondani

By: Ottiero Ottieri

2.79

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Da una festa a un’altra festa, da una cena a un’altra cena, da Londra a Madrid e poi a Milano, da u… read more

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31. Lo smeraldo

By: Mario Soldati

3.43

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

Questo sorprendente romanzo di Mario Soldati è il delirante resoconto di una immaginaria discesa ne… read more

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Transform Your Habits

The Elephant Tree

R.D. Ronald

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Baumgartner

Paul Auster

3.78

Transform Your Habits

No One Can Know

Kate Alice Marshall

3.68

Transform Your Habits

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Chiara Valerio

3.77

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