12 Best fiction books like Suddenly Last Summer and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams

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Suddenly Last Summer and Other Plays

By: Tennessee Williams

3.92

Format: 250 pages, Mass Market Paperback

These three dramatic works by Tennessee Williams explore the darker side of human nature and are ha…

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1. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus

4.27

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Under the seams runs the pain."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"There is no person without a world."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Don't want to be free want to be with you."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

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2. Nineteen Seventy Seven (Red Riding, #2)

By: David Peace

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Half-decent copper Bob Fraser and burnt-out hack Jack Whitehead would be considered villains in mos… read more

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  • fiction
"Women, eh? Can’t live with them, can’t kill ‘em. ‘Cept round Chapeltown."

-David Peace, Nineteen Seventy Seven (Red Riding, #2)

"Battering down doors, battering down people, kicking in doors, kicking in people, searching for her, searching for me."

-David Peace, Nineteen Seventy Seven (Red Riding, #2)

"We all laughed and I remembered back when I thought I could live forever, back when I wanted to, back before I knew what a curse it really was."

-David Peace, Nineteen Seventy Seven (Red Riding, #2)

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3. Nineteen Seventy Four (Red Riding, #1)

By: David Peace

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

It's winter, 1974, Yorkshire, and Ed Dunford's got the job he wanted. Crime correspondent for the E… read more

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"Reckless talk costs lives."

-David Peace, Nineteen Seventy Four (Red Riding, #1)

"Devil triumphs when good men do nowt"

-David Peace, Nineteen Seventy Four (Red Riding, #1)

"Never had the urge to deliver us from evil?"

-David Peace, Nineteen Seventy Four (Red Riding, #1)

"Leeds United had won but I didn’t care. I had lost."

-David Peace, Nineteen Seventy Four (Red Riding, #1)

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4. Orientalism

By: None , Edward W. Said

4.12

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more

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  • classics
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."

-None, Orientalism

"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."

-None, Orientalism

"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."

-None, Orientalism

"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."

-None, Orientalism

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5. The Wretched of the Earth

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more

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  • classics
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

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6. The Rediscovery of Man

By: Cordwainer Smith

3.65

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

This is the 1999 British edition from Gollancz that includes 12 of the most famous short stories fr… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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7. The Bacchae

By: Euripides , Kenneth McLeish , None

3.92

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Euripides' classic drama about the often mortifying consequences of the unbridled--and frequently h… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • classics
  • fiction
"Cleverness is not wisdom."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"He who believes needs no explanation."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!"

-Euripides, The Bacchae

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8. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Nineteen Eighty (Red Riding, #3) by David Peace

9. Nineteen Eighty (Red Riding, #3)

By: David Peace

3.91

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

December 1980, the Yorkshire Ripper murders his thirteenth victim, while Assistant Chief Constable … read more

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  • fiction

10. Nineteen Eighty Three (Red Riding, #4)

By: David Peace

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • fiction
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11. A Month in the Country

By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd

3.76

Format: None pages,

In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction

12. Resurrection

By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude

4.00

Format: None pages,

Resurrection (1899) is the last of Tolstoy's major novels. It tells the story of a nobleman's attem… read more

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13. The Turn of the Screw

By: Henry James

3.39

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"When I'm bad I am bad !"

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"He fairly glittered in the gloom."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"There was something between them." "There was everything."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

14. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

By: Carson McCullers

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

With the publication of her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twe… read more

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15. A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts

By: Arthur Miller

4.36

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

America's greatest playwright weaves "a vivid, crackling, idiomatic psychosexual horror tale." --Fr… read more

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16. 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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17. Reflections in a Golden Eye

By: Carson McCullers

3.77

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

A powerful and passionate tale is set on a southern army post --a human hell inhabited by a sexuall… read more

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18. Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong

By: Paul A. Offit

3.21

Format: 192 pages,

What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with… read more

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19. An Oresteia

By: Euripides , Sophocles , Aeschylus , Anne Carson

3.68

Format: 113 pages, Hardcover

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20. The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books)

By: Carlos Ruiz Zafón

3.97

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Return to the mythical Barcelona library known as the Cemetery of Forgotten Books in this posthumou… read more

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  • fiction
"En un instante infinito la lluvia quedó suspendida en el aire, un millón de lágrimas de cristal flotando en el vacío, y vi al ángel besarla en la frente, sus labios marcando su piel como hierro cande…"

-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books)

"Era entonces cuando la gran silueta oscura aparecía a la puerta de la casa, un gran ángel con rostro de mármol que me miraba y sonreía como un lobo, desplegando sus alas negras sobre Blanca y envolvi…"

-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books)

"Siempre he envidiado la capacidad de olvidar que tienen algunas personas para las cuales el pasado es como una muda de temporada o unos zapatos viejos a los que basta condenar en el fondo de un armar…"

-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books)

"Siempre he envidiado la capacidad de olvidar que tienen algunas personas par alas cuales el pasado es como una muda de temporada o unos zapatos viejos a los que basta condenar en el fondo de un armar…"

-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books)

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21. Suddenly Last Summer and Other Plays

By: Tennessee Williams

3.92

Format: 250 pages, Mass Market Paperback

These three dramatic works by Tennessee Williams explore the darker side of human nature and are ha… read more

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9 Best classics books like Suddenly Last Summer and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams

Transform Your Habits

Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

Anne Carson , Stesichorus

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Orientalism

None , Edward W. Said

4.12

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Transform Your Habits

The Rediscovery of Man

Cordwainer Smith

3.65

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24 Top fiction books like A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr, Michael Holroyd

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The Pumpkin Eater

Penelope Mortimer

4.02

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The Summer Book

Tove Jansson , Esther Freud , Thomas Teal , Sophia Jansson

2.50

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A Month in the Country

J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd

3.76

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