12 must-read fiction books like Rave by Rainald Goetz

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Rave

By: Rainald Goetz

3.37

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

‘Meet girls. Take drugs. Listen to music.’ In  Rave , cult German novelist Rainald Goetz takes a he…

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1. Woodcutters

By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This controversial portrayal of Viennese artistic circles begins as the writer-narrator arrives at … read more

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  • german literature
  • novels
  • fiction
  • literature
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2. Planet Magnon

By: Leif Randt

3.46

Format: 103 pages, Hardcover

Ein kuhner, kunstvoller Gegenwartsroman aus einem anderen Sonnensystem In den unendlichen Weiten de… read more

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  • german literature
  • germany
  • fiction
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3. Aliss at the Fire

By: Jon Fosse , Damion Searls

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more t… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary

4. Drown

By: Junot Díaz

3.86

Format: 262 pages,

With ten stories that move from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban commu… read more

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5. Sun and Steel

By: Yukio Mishima , John Bester

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Paperback, Paper Dust Jacket

In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what migh… read more

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6. Faserland

By: Christian Kracht

4.48

Format: 334 pages,

Einmal durch die Republik, von Nord nach Sud: Christian Krachts namenloser Ich-Erzahler berichtet v… read more

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7. Against Interpretation and Other Essays

By: Susan Sontag

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Paperback

First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became … read more

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8. Schimmernder Dunst über Coby County

By: Leif Randt

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

Bald wird es Fruhling. Wim Endersson, Literaturagent und Melancholiker, fiebert der neuen Jahreszei… read more

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9. Biedermann und die Brandstifter

By: Max Frisch

4.32

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Das Stuck ist die Geschichte des Burgers Gottlieb Biedermann, der die Brandstifter in sein Haus ein… read more

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10. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

By: Cookie Mueller

4.49

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi… read more

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11. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

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  • german literature
  • literature
  • germany
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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12. The Appointment

By: Katharina Volckmer

3.53

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

In a well-appointed examination in London, a young woman unburdens herself to a certain Dr. Seligma… read more

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  • german literature
  • germany
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"I think that our bodies know things long before our minds, Dr. Seligman; they will have all the words written on them long before our tongues can find them and our teeth can pull them apart in the em…"

-Katharina Volckmer, The Appointment

"All that rubbish about souls is simply not true, that you can love a soul independent of the shape it comes in. Our brains are made so that we can only love a cat as a cat and not as a bird or an ele…"

-Katharina Volckmer, The Appointment

"For the first time in my life, I feel like I am being strong for the two of us, like I have broken free from those chains of lipstick and perfect hair and can take pride in my worn feet and the hair …"

-Katharina Volckmer, The Appointment

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13. I Is Another: Septology III-V

By: Jon Fosse

4.44

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"...I just keep the mistakes and let them be wrong, because it’s often the mistakes that eventually lead to something right..."

-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V

"...one of the most important things when it comes to painting is being able to stop at the right time, to know when a picture is saying what it can say, if you keep going too long then more often tha…"

-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V

"...a person comes from God and goes back to God, I think, for the body is conceived and born, it grows and declines, it dies and vanishes, but the spirit is a unity of body and soul, the way form and…"

-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V

"...everyone has a deep longing inside them, we always always long for something and we believe that what we long for is this or that, this person or that person, this thing or that thing, but actuall…"

-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V

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14. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

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15. Eurotrash

By: Christian Kracht

3.67

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

»I’ll see you in twenty-five years.« Laura Palmer. »Also, ich musste wieder auf ein paar Tage na… read more

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  • german literature
  • germany
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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16. 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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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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17. Mild Vertigo

By: Mieko Kanai

3.55

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Raving

By: McKenzie Wark

3.81

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

What is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world? In Raving McKenzie Wark takes reader… read more

Similar categories in McKenzie Wark's Raving book and Rainald Goetz's Rave

  • music
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19. Rave

By: Rainald Goetz

3.37

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

‘Meet girls. Take drugs. Listen to music.’ In  Rave , cult German novelist Rainald Goetz takes a he… read more

Similar categories in Rainald Goetz's Rave book and Rainald Goetz's Rave

  • german literature
  • music
  • literature
  • germany
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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20. Dark Satellites

By: Clemens Meyer

3.47

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

Booker International-longlisted author Clemens Meyer returns with DARK SATELLITES, a collection of … read more

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  • german literature
  • literature
  • germany
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Living Things

By: Munir Hachemi

3.82

Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition

Living Things follows four recent graduates – Munir, G, Ernesto and Álex – who travel from Madrid t… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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Aliss at the Fire

Jon Fosse , Damion Searls

3.99

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Kairos

Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

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The Appointment

Katharina Volckmer

3.53

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I Is Another: Septology III-V

Jon Fosse

4.44

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Pankaj Mishra , J.G. Farrell

3.93

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Claire-Louise Bennett

4.33

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Mo Yan , Howard Goldblatt

3.56

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Han Kang

3.47

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