5 best-selling 21st century books like Dark Satellites by Clemens Meyer

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Dark Satellites

By: Clemens Meyer

3.47

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

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

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1. The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy, #2)

By: Pankaj Mishra , J.G. Farrell

3.93

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

India, 1857--the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"The British could leave and half India wouldn't notice us leaving just as they didn't notice us arriving. All our reforms of administration might be reforms on the moon for all it has to do with them…"

-Pankaj Mishra, The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy, #2)

"And as he dug, he wept. He saw Hari's animated face, and numberless dead men, and the hatred on the faces of the sepoys . . . and it suddenly seemed to him that he could see clearly the basis of all …"

-Pankaj Mishra, The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy, #2)

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2. Pond

By: Claire-Louise Bennett

4.33

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Feverish and forthright, Pondis an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century
"If we have lost the knack of living, I thought, it is a safe bet to presume we have forfeited the magic of dying."

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond

"I only wish you could spend just five minutes beneath my skin and feel what it’s like. Feel the savage swarming magic I feel."

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond

"I haven't yet discovered what my first language is so for the time being I use English words in order to say things: I expect I will always have to do it that way; regrettably I don't think my first …"

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond

"Quite often I'm terribly disappointed by how things turn out, but it's usually my own fault for the simple reason that I'm too quick to conclude that things have turned out as fully as it is possible…"

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond

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3. Frog

By: Mo Yan , Howard Goldblatt

3.56

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Mo Yan chronicles the sweeping history of modern China through the lens of the nation's controversi… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
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4. Beyond A Boundary

By: C.L.R. James

3.32

Format: None pages, Paperback

C L R James, one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century, was devoted to the game of cric… read more

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5. Outline

By: Rachel Cusk

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more

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6. Arv og miljø

By: Vigdis Hjorth

3.95

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

At ingen av dere pa noe tidspunkt har spurt meg om min historie, har jeg opplevd og opplever jeg so… read more

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7. 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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8. Amulet

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

Amulet is a monologue, like Bolano's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is … read more

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9. Leaving the Atocha Station

By: Ben Lerner , Alva Dahl

4.54

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship i… read more

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10. Greek Lessons

By: Han Kang

3.47

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

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11. A Horse at Night: On Writing

By: Amina Cain

4.03

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s … read more

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  • literature
"For me, fiction is a space of plainness and excess."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

"Female solitude is weighted with a particular power in literature."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

"I want to leave a chain of images that remain in the reader's mind. I want to write what heightened experience feels like."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

"Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

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12. 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
  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • germany
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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13. Notes on Nationalism

By: George Orwell

4.01

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

In this essay, Orwell discusses the notion of nationalism, and argues that it causes people to disr… read more

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  • short stories
"Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism."

-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism

"For those who feel deeply about contemporary politics, certain topics have become so infected by considerations of prestige that a genuinely rational approach to them is almost impossible."

-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism

"Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of…"

-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism

"By ‘nationalism’ I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labelled…"

-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism

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14. Septology

By: Jon Fosse

4.52

Format: 825 pages, Paperback

The celebrated Norwegian novelist’s magnum opus, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, pu… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century
"and what the picture is in reality is this spirit, that’s what a picture really is, neither matter nor soul but both parts at the same time and together they make up what I think of as spirit, and ma…"

-Jon Fosse, Septology

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15. Cold Enough for Snow

By: Jessica Au

3.73

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

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16. Zur See

By: Dörte Hansen

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Die Fähre braucht vom Festland eine Stunde auf die kleine Nordseeinsel, manchmal länger, je nach We… read more

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  • german literature
  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • germany
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Der Glaube ist ein krankes Kind, die Liebe ist ein Biest. Die Hoffnung ist nicht tot zu kriegen. Die Sehnsucht auch nicht, jedenfalls nicht ganz."

-Dörte Hansen, Zur See

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17. Night Side of the River

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A captivating collection of ghost stories from “one of the most gifted writers working today” ( New… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
"That's the trouble with time. Never happens when it should."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"Nobody's looking at me. Nobody does look at middle-aged women."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"We're always roaming around in the past or the future. The present is a hard place to live."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"It's hard, you know, getting divorced.' Billy gave me a hug. 'Love is hard--whether you got it or you don't."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

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18. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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19. Summerwater

By: Sarah Moss

3.51

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

No dia mais longo do verão, a chuva cai fortemente sobre uma pequena aldeia rural nas Terras Altas … read more

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  • 21st century
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. My Phantoms

By: Gwendoline Riley

3.83

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Bridget's mother is dying. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong place… read more

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  • 21st century
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

By: Olivia Laing

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in th… read more

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  • short stories
  • contemporary
"Empathy is not something that happens to us when we read Dickens. It’s work. What art does is provide material with which to think: new registers, new spaces. After that, friend, it’s up to you."

-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

"The Argonauts is about these small, miraculous domestic dramas, and the acts of readjustment and care that they require, but it is also a reconsideration of what the institutions established around s…"

-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

"Fiction can do that: can make a space for reflecting, for generating novel ways of responding and reacting to lies and guns and walls alike. The mere act of cracking open a book, Smith thinks, is cre…"

-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

"These narratives are interesting in and of themselves, but Nelson isn’t just airing her feelings out. She’s bent on using these experiences as ways of prying the culture open, of investigating what i…"

-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

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22. Ghost Music

By: An Yu

3.51

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative note… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"What brought me a touch of comfort was knowing not that my husband was there, asleep on the other side of the wall, but that there was a stranger, across the street, still awake and listening to the …"

-An Yu, Ghost Music

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23. The Third Realm (Morgenstjernen, #3)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

4.33

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a kaleidoscopic novel about human nature in the face o… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. Mjölk och människor

By: Matilda Josephson

3.79

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

Mjölk och människor är en rolig och kärleksfull serieskildring av alla de vanliga och udda människo… read more

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25. Herkunft

By: Saša Stanišić

4.17

Format: 365 pages, Hardcover

HERKUNFT ist ein Buch über den ersten Zufall unserer Biografie: irgendwo geboren werden. Und was da… read more

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  • german literature
  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • germany
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Träume sind etwas Lebendiges - und als solche vergänglich wie das Gedächtnis."

-Saša Stanišić, Herkunft

"Zoki walks into the classroom, puts a piece of paper down on the teacher’s desk, and shouts: “Everyone write your name."

-Saša Stanišić, Herkunft

"Otec tancoval a už nebol nazúrený, napokon to ani nejde dohromady, všetko ostatné sa dá robiť aj s hnevom, ale toto nie, nie objímanie."

-Saša Stanišić, Herkunft

"Ich verstehe nicht, dass Herkunft Eigenschaften mit sich bringen soll, und verstehe nicht, dass manche bereit sind, in ihrem Namen in Schlachten zu ziehen."

-Saša Stanišić, Herkunft

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26. Dead-End Memories: Stories

By: Banana Yoshimoto

3.90

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Japan's internationally celebrated master storyteller returns with five stories of women on their w… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"There was a candor about him I noticed in people whose parents had given them something unconditional and absolute growing up."

-Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories

"Time simply floated open and started to expand. Time held the two of us in light, inside a space so vast it might have reached the heavens, and turned eternal."

-Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories

"Anyone seeing us would have thought we were newlyweds, or a nice cohabiting couple. But we were only two people, a little regretful, and soon to part. We were having so much fun. It made me sad."

-Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories

"The words I read in books seemed to strike me more deeply, and with my senses sharpened by grief, I noticed the glittering transition of the seasons as clearly as if I held the grief in the palm of m…"

-Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories

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27. Intermezzo

By: Sally Rooney

4.34

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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28. Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare

By: Megan Kamalei Kakimoto

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From major new storytelling talent Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, a blazing, bodily, raucous journey throu… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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29. Nincshof

By: Johanna Sebauer

4.09

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

Nincshof, ein kleines Dorf an der österreichisch-ungarischen Grenze, soll vergessen werden. So der … read more

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  • german literature
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30. 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

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  • german literature
  • literature
  • germany
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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31. 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
  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • germany
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century

20 must-read fiction books like Dark Satellites by Clemens Meyer

Transform Your Habits

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Pankaj Mishra , J.G. Farrell

3.93

Transform Your Habits

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Claire-Louise Bennett

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Frog

Mo Yan , Howard Goldblatt

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Greek Lessons

Han Kang

3.47

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13 Top fiction books like The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy, #2) by Pankaj Mishra, J.G. Farrell

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Pankaj Mishra , J.G. Farrell

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Barry Unsworth

4.12

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Ben Okri

3.73

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John Berger

4.03

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