12 best-selling picture books books like Discurso del oso by Julio Cortázar

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Discurso del oso

By: Julio Cortázar

4.24

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

Un oso que habita las tuberías de un edificio va descubriendo la extraña y solitaria vida de los se…

"En verano nado de noche en las cisterna picoteada de estrellas, me lavo la cara primero con una mano, después con la otra, después con las dos juntas, y eso me produce una grandísima alegría."

-Julio Cortázar, Discurso del oso

"En verano nado de noche en las cisterna picoteada de estrellas, me lavo la cara primero con una mano, después con la otra, después con las dos juntas, y eso me produce una grandísima alegría."

-Julio Cortázar, Discurso del oso

"En verano nado de noche en las cisterna picoteada de estrellas, me lavo la cara primero con una mano, después con la otra, después con las dos juntas, y eso me produce una grandísima alegría."

-Julio Cortázar, Discurso del oso

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1. Stupeur et tremblements

By: Amélie Nothomb

3.73

Format: 187 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition for isbn13: 9782253150718 Au début des années 90, la narratr… read more

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  • fiction
"هناك فهمت حقيقة مهمة: في اليابان، الحياة هي الشركة."

-Amélie Nothomb, Stupeur et tremblements

"كان يابانيا من بين آلاف آخرين، عبدا وجلادا في الوقت نفسه."

-Amélie Nothomb, Stupeur et tremblements

"أما فوبوكي فلم تكن لا إلها ولا شيطانا, كانت امرأة يابانية"

-Amélie Nothomb, Stupeur et tremblements

"Le donne che non hanno il diritto di sognare portano nomi che fanno sognare"

-Amélie Nothomb, Stupeur et tremblements

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2. Stuck

By: Oliver Jeffers

4.24

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

From the illustrator of the #1 smash The Day the Crayons Quit comes another bestseller--a giggle-in… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
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3. Lost and Found (The Boy, #2)

By: Oliver Jeffers

4.34

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

From the illustrator of the #1 smash hit The Day The Crayons Quit comes a humorously warm tale of f… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
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4. The Way Home in the Night

By: Akiko Miyakoshi

3.91

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A mother rabbit and her young bunny are on their way home in the dark night. "My mother carries me … read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
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5. Good Night, Planet

By: Liniers

3.31

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

When you go off to sleep, your toys go out to play! After a long day of jumping in leaves and readi… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
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6. Things We Lost in the Fire

By: Mariana Enríquez , Megan McDowell

4.06

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In these wildly imaginative, devilishly daring tales of the macabre, internationally bestselling au… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"El problema es que no nos creen."

-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

"Hace años que Lala decidió ser mujer y brasileña, pero había nacido varón y uruguayo."

-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

"Me acuerdo de la risa de mi madre, de lo joven que era esa tarde de verano, del olor a champú de limón de su pelo y de la carcajada de chicle de menta."

-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

"Apagábamos las luces y jugábamos en la oscuridad con inciensos encendidos; parecían luciérnagas y a mí me hacían llorar, me hacían acordar a una casa de tejas con parque lejos de la ciudad, una casa …"

-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

7. The Day the Crayons Quit

By: Oliver Jeffers , Drew Daywalt

3.53

Format: 39 pages, Hardcover

Poor Duncan just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all s… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
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8. Rules of Summer

By: Shaun Tan

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Combining humour and surreal fantasy, Shaun Tan pictures a summer in the lives of two boys. Each sp… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
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9. A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

By: Lydia Davis , Lucia Berlin , None

3.90

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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10. Gilead (Gilead, #1)

By: Marilynne Robinson

3.85

Format: 247 pages, Paperback

Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three gener… read more

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  • fiction
"How I wish you could have known me in my strength."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

"When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

"That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

11. How to Catch a Star (The Boy, #1)

By: Oliver Jeffers

3.95

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Once there was a boy, and that boy loved stars very much. So much so that he decided to catch one o… read more

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12. The Brooklyn Follies

By: Paul Auster

3.90

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

National Bestseller A New York Times Book ReviewEditors' Choice Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn t… read more

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13. I Want My Hat Back

By: Jon Klassen

4.35

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

A picture-book delight by a rising talent tells a cumulative tale with a mischievous twist. The … read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
"What if I never see it again? What if nobody ever finds it? My poor hat. I miss it so much."

-Jon Klassen, I Want My Hat Back

14. The Heart and the Bottle

By: Oliver Jeffers

3.68

Format: 189 pages,

Once there was a girl whose life was filled with all the wonder of the world around her. Then one d… read more

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15. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

By: None , Keith Gessen

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award On April 2… read more

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16. The Day I Became a Bird

By: Ingrid Chabbert , Raúl Nieto Guridi

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

The day he starts school, a young boy falls in love for the very first time. Sylvia sits in front o… read more

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17. Where the Wild Things Are

By: Maurice Sendak

3.00

Format: 81 pages, Paperback

One night Max puts on his wolf suit and makes mischief of one kind and another, so his mother calls… read more

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18. The Incredible Book Eating Boy

By: Oliver Jeffers

4.36

Format: 39 pages,

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19. The Summer Without Men

By: Siri Hustvedt

3.43

Format: 240 pages,

"And who among us would deny Jane Austen her happy endings or insist that Cary Grant and Irene Dunn… read more

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20. A Child of Books

By: Oliver Jeffers , Sam Winston

4.53

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

I am a child of books. I come from a world of stories. A little girl sails her raft across a sea of… read more

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21. When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

By: Terry Tempest Williams

3.07

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The beloved author of Refugereturns with a work that explodes and startles, illuminates and celebra… read more

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22. 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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  • short stories
  • fiction
"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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23. There’s a Ghost in This House

By: Oliver Jeffers

4.43

Format: 44 pages, Hardcover

A captivating new picture book with interactive transparent pages, from world-renowned artist Olive… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
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24. Las gratitudes

By: Delphine de Vigan

4.30

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

«Hoy ha muerto una anciana a la que yo quería. A menudo pensaba: "Le debo tanto." O: "Sin ella, pro… read more

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  • fiction
"A veces conviene aceptar el vacío que deja la pérdida. Renunciar a la distracción. Aceptar que ya no hay nada que decir. Permanecer sentado, a su vera. Cogiéndola de la mano."

-Delphine de Vigan, Las gratitudes

"Tras sus miradas borrosas, sus gestos inseguros, sus cuerpos encorvados o doblados por la mitad, busco al muchacho o a la muchacha que fueron como quien pretende descubrir el esbozo original de un di…"

-Delphine de Vigan, Las gratitudes

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25. My Heart

By: Corinna Luyken

4.26

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

My heart is a window. My heart is a slide. My heart can be closed...or opened up wide. Some days… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
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26. The White Book

By: Han Kang

3.81

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize From Booker Prize-winner and literary p… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Now and then, the passage of time seems acutely apparent. Physical pain always sharpens the awareness."

-Han Kang, The White Book

"This life needed only one of us to live it. If you had lived beyond those first few hours, I would not be living now. My life means yours is impossible."

-Han Kang, The White Book

"And she frequently forgot, That her body (all our bodies) is a house of sand. That it shattered and is shattering still. Slipping stubbornly through fingers."

-Han Kang, The White Book

"There is none of us whom life regards with any partiality. Sleet falls as she walks these streets, holding this knowledge inside her. Sleet that leaves cheeks and eyebrows heavy with moisture. Everyt…"

-Han Kang, The White Book

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27. Secreto de familia

By: Isol

4.29

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

La niña de esta historia tiene un serio problema: una mañana se levanta más temprano que de costumb… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Fiebre de carnaval by Yuliana Ortiz Ruano

28. Fiebre de carnaval

By: Yuliana Ortiz Ruano

4.22

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

La memoria musical y sensible del carnaval de Esmeraldas resucita en Ainhoa, una niña de la isla de… read more

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  • fiction
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29. Little Mouse and the Red Wall

By: Britta Teckentrup

3.90

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A simple, beautiful and timely picture book about facing our fears, discovering hope and welcoming … read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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30. Discurso del oso

By: Julio Cortázar

4.24

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

Un oso que habita las tuberías de un edificio va descubriendo la extraña y solitaria vida de los se… read more

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"En verano nado de noche en las cisterna picoteada de estrellas, me lavo la cara primero con una mano, después con la otra, después con las dos juntas, y eso me produce una grandísima alegría."

-Julio Cortázar, Discurso del oso

Cover of La promesa de mamá (Spanish Edition) by Rodol Pizano Monroy

31. La promesa de mamá (Spanish Edition)

By: Rodol Pizano Monroy

4.16

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

A little fox lives in the countryside with his Before she died, his mother made them a she would … read more

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19 best-selling fiction books like Discurso del oso by Julio Cortázar

Transform Your Habits

Stupeur et tremblements

Amélie Nothomb

3.73

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Stuck

Oliver Jeffers

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Lost and Found (The Boy, #2)

Oliver Jeffers

4.34

Transform Your Habits

The Way Home in the Night

Akiko Miyakoshi

3.91

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14 Top fiction books like A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lydia Davis, Lucia Berlin

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A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

Lydia Davis , Lucia Berlin , None

3.90

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Wound

Oksana Vasyakina

3.93

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Elolliset

Iida Turpeinen

4.38

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Tommi Kinnunen

4.24

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