5 must-read fantasy books like Mobius Dick by Andrew Crumey

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Mobius Dick

By: Andrew Crumey

3.54

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Mobius Dick is a dazzlingly inventive story that blends techno-thriller, historical fantasy, philos…

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Cover of Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche, Michael Tanner, R.J. Hollingdale

1. Ecce Homo

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

3.00

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to c… read more

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2. The Castle

By: Franz Kafka , Mark Harman , Regaip Minareci , None

3.90

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published unt… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
Cover of Trilogia della città di K. by Ágota Kristóf, Armando Marchi, Giovanni Bogliolo, Virginia Ripa di Meana

3. Trilogia della città di K.

By: Ágota Kristóf , Armando Marchi , Giovanni Bogliolo , Virginia Ripa di Meana

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

<>. Rosetta Loy Il grande quaderno La prova La terza menzogna read more

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  • literature
  • fiction

4. The Inverted World

By: Christopher Priest

4.07

Format: 213 pages,

The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be fr… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction

5. Spies

By: Michael Frayn

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

There is very little evidence of the war where Keith and Stephen live. But the two friends suspect … read more

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6. The Caravaners

By: Elizabeth von Arnim

4.00

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

For the Major and his wife Edelgard, the idea of a holiday touring Southern England seems perfect. … read more

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7. Soul

By: John Berger , Andrei Platonov , Robert Chandler , None

3.60

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

A New York Review Books Original The Soviet writer Andrey Platonov saw much of his work suppressed … read more

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8. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

By: None

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I see [Raworth] as the John Maynard Keynes of the 21st Century: by ref… read more

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9. Chromos

By: Felipe Alfau

4.09

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

Chromos is one of the true masterpieces of post-World War II fiction. Written in the 1940s but left… read more

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10. Nazi Literature in the Americas

By: Roberto Bolaño

4.14

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

Nazi Literature in the Americas was the first of Roberto Bolano's books to reach a wide public. Whe… read more

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11. The North Water

By: Ian McGuire

3.98

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

A ship sets sail with a killer on board . . . 1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arcti… read more

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  • fiction
"The redundancy of flesh, he thinks, the helplessness of meat, how can we conjure spirit from a bone?"

-Ian McGuire, The North Water

"Oh, the others will talk and plan and make oaths and promises, but there are precious few fuckers who will do."

-Ian McGuire, The North Water

"Cleverness, he thinks, will get you nowhere; it is only the stupid, the brilliantly stupid, who will inherit the earth."

-Ian McGuire, The North Water

"Death, he believes, is a kind of making, a kind of building up. What was one thing, he thinks, is become something else."

-Ian McGuire, The North Water

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12. Austral

By: Carlos Fonseca

3.77

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Una deslumbrante novela las huellas que dejamos, las huellas que borramos y las huellas que buscamo… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
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13. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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  • literature
  • physics
  • fiction
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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14. Time Shelter

By: Georgi Gospodinov

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more

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  • literature
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"There is no time machine except the human being."

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

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15. The Books of Jacob

By: Olga Tokarczuk

4.02

Format: 965 pages, Hardcover

The Nobel Prize-winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"A thing that is not talked about ceases to exist."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

"Literatura to szczególny rodzaj wiedzy, to... (...) ... doskonałość form nieprecyzyjnych."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

"Gdy przepisujemy i cytujemy, budujemy gmach wiedzy i rozmnażamy ją jak moje warzywa czy jabłonki. Przepisywanie jest jak szczepienie drzewa; cytowanie – jak wysiewanie nasion."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

"If human beings had only known how to truly preserve their knowledge of the world, if they had just engraved it into rock, into crystals, into diamond and in so doing, passed it on to their descendan…"

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

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16. Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, #2)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.20

Format: 596 pages, ebook

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the second novel in an extr… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

17. Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.19

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space oper… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop

18. At Night All Blood is Black

By: David Diop

3.82

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself fighting a… read more

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  • fiction
"La nuit, tous les sangs sont noirs."

-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black

"Temporary madness, in war, is bravery's sister."

-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black

"Laughter brings laughter and smiles bring smiles."

-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black

"God's truth, each thing carries its opposite within."

-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black

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19. The Reunion

By: Guillaume Musso

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An elite prep school frozen in the snow Three friends linked by a tragic secret One girl taken by… read more

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  • fiction
"It does not always work, but sometimes, for a few hours, fiction is genuinely more powerful than life."

-Guillaume Musso, The Reunion

"La vie me fait moins peur.Vous pouvez m'attaquer, vous pouvez me juger, vous pouvez me ruiner. J'aurau toujours à portée de main un vieux bic mâchouillé et un bloc-notes froissé. Mes seules armes. A …"

-Guillaume Musso, The Reunion

"It is futile to deny the complexity of human emotions. Our lives are sometimes inscrutable, often disrupted by conflicting desires. Our lives are fragile, at once precious and insignificant, sometime…"

-Guillaume Musso, The Reunion

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20. The Factory

By: Hiroko Oyamada

3.34

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

The English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamada—one of the most powerfully strange young voices in Jap… read more

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  • literature
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"As I opened the basement-level door, I thought I could smell birds."

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory

"I didn’t have to answer any weird questions about what I was reading, or hear anyone’s thoughts about which 7-Eleven bento they liked best."

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory

"All I could see was a meaningless arrangement of squiggles and dots, symbols and patterns, running on endlessly. Words are such unstable things."

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory

"Life has nothing to do with work and work has no real bearing on life. I used to think they were connected, but now I can see there’s just no way."

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory

Cover of Mobius Dick by Andrew Crumey

21. Mobius Dick

By: Andrew Crumey

3.54

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Mobius Dick is a dazzlingly inventive story that blends techno-thriller, historical fantasy, philos… read more

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  • fantasy
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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14 Top fiction books like Mobius Dick by Andrew Crumey

Transform Your Habits

The Castle

Franz Kafka , Mark Harman , Regaip Minareci , None

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Trilogia della città di K.

Ágota Kristóf , Armando Marchi , Giovanni Bogliolo , Virginia Ripa di Meana

3.35

The Inverted World

Christopher Priest

4.07

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3.98

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Födelsedagen

Sofie Sarenbrant

3.36

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Elolliset

Iida Turpeinen

4.38

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Jakob (Hildur, #3)

Satu Rämö

3.32

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Virginie Grimaldi

4.21

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