5 Best historical books like Babel by Kenah Cusanit

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Babel

By: Kenah Cusanit

2.96

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

1913, unweit von Bagdad. Der Archäologe Robert Koldewey leidet ohnehin schon genug unter den Ansich…

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1. Of Love and Other Demons

By: Gabriel García Márquez

3.96

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria, the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-c… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"<>, dijo."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

"Do not allow me to forget you"

-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

"Vivo espantado de estar vivo."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

"Ideas do not belong to anyone,"

-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

Cover of Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1) by Georges Simenon, David Bellos

2. Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1)

By: Georges Simenon , David Bellos

3.47

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

The first novel in the famous Inspector Maigret series. What Maigret sought, and what he waited … read more

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  • fiction
"Sono cose di cui non ci si vanta, cose che a parlarne farebbero sorridere e che pure richiedono una certa dose di eroismo."

-Georges Simenon, Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1)

"Arrivava solido come il granito, e da quel momento pareva che tutto dovesse spezzarsi contro di lui, sia che avanzasse, sia che restasse piantato sulle gambe leggermente divaricate."

-Georges Simenon, Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1)

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3. Der Richter und sein Henker

By: Friedrich Dürrenmatt , John J. Neumaier , William Gillis

3.70

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

«Dicevi che è da stupidi compiere un delitto, perché non è possibile muovere gli uomini come figure… read more

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  • german literature
  • fiction
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4. Die Physiker

By: Friedrich Dürrenmatt

4.38

Format: 613 pages, Paperback

Mobius, ein umworbener weil genialer Physiker, will eine gefahrliche Verstrickung von Wissenschaft … read more

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  • german literature
  • fiction
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5. The Swarm

By: None , Frank Schätzing

4.50

Format: 87 pages, Hardcover

For more than two years, one book has taken over Germany's hardcover and paperback bestseller lists… read more

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  • german literature
  • fiction
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6. Henry V

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

4.00

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Henry Vis Shakespeare's most famous "war play"; it includes the storied English victory over the Fr… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction

7. Der Fall Collini

By: Ferdinand von Schirach

3.73

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

Vierunddreissig Jahre hat der Italiener Fabrizio Collini als Werkzeugmacher bei Mercedes-Benz gearb… read more

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8. The Invincible

By: Stanisław Lem

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

An interstellar 2nd-class cruiser called Invincible, lands on Regis III which seems bleakly uninhab… read more

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9. Go, Went, Gone

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

4.13

Format: None pages,

One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe's biggest issue. Richard has spent h… read more

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10. You Should Have Left

By: Daniel Kehlmann , Ross Benjamin

3.44

Format: 113 pages, Kindle Edition

From the internationally best-selling author of Measuring the World and F, an eerie and supernatura… read more

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  • german literature
  • germany
  • fiction
"Ehe. Das Geheimnis ist, dass man sich ja doch liebt. Ich würde nicht ohne sie sein wollen - selbst ihr Schauspielerlachen würde mir fehlen. Und sie nicht ohne mich. Wenn man einander nur nicht unterd…"

-Daniel Kehlmann, You Should Have Left

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11. Inseparable

By: Simone de Beauvoir

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A never-before-published novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood fr… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"How old do you have to be to think: this is forever?"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"She was often late, not because she didn't care, but because she had too many contradictory cares."

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"I didn't understand: you don't believe what you believe on purpose. Could you be punished because certain ideas come into your mind?"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"to fight against time, against forgetting, against death, to do justice to this absolute presence of the instant, to this eternity of the instant, which will have been forever"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

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12. The Offing

By: Benjamin Myers

4.25

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

After all, there are only a few things truly worth fighting for: freedom, of course, and all that i… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I was neither old enough to have made myself a heron young enough to have escaped the newsreel images or the long dark shadows that the returning soldiers dragged behind them like empty coffins. For …"

-Benjamin Myers, The Offing

"At times like this, or when hoeing soil or sanding wood, or just sitting on a bench with my face turned to the sun, I appeared to slip out of the moment so entirely - or, conversely, perhaps was so d…"

-Benjamin Myers, The Offing

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13. La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

By: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

4.18

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Un magistral roman d'apprentissage, une saisissante enquête sur les traces d'un mystérieux auteur m… read more

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  • fiction
"Nunca intentes decir de qué habla un gran libro. O si lo haces, la única respuesta posible es: de nada."

-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

"He alcanzado el estado terminal de la inmigración: simplemente ya no creo en la posibilidad del regreso."

-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

"Estuvo tanto tiempo en el exilio - medio siglo! - que nos decíamos que debía de haberse dejado una parte de sí mismo por el camino"

-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

"Nos apetece hablar de todo, menos del exilio. De todas formas, no hay nada que decir sobre el exilio. No conozco un tema más molesto en este mundo."

-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

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14. Die letzten Tage des Patriarchats

By: Margarete Stokowski

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Dürfen Männer nach der feministischen Revolution Frauen noch die Tür aufhalten? Und sind Kompliment… read more

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  • german literature
  • germany
"Ich kenne vielleicht fünf Leute, die so viel schlafen, wie sie gern würden, und drei davon sind Babys."

-Margarete Stokowski, Die letzten Tage des Patriarchats

"Wer für Menschenrechte und Empathie eine Speichelprobe braucht, bei dem läuft etwas grundlegend falsch."

-Margarete Stokowski, Die letzten Tage des Patriarchats

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15. Identitti

By: Mithu M. Sanyal

3.82

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Was für ein Skandal: Prof. Dr. Saraswati ist WEISS! Schlimmer geht es nicht. Denn die Professorin f… read more

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  • german literature
  • germany
  • fiction
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16. Tyll

By: Daniel Kehlmann

3.94

Format: 474 pages, Hardcover

Tyll, der neue Roman des Erfolgsautors Daniel Kehlmann – er veröffentlichte u.a. Die Vermessung der… read more

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  • german literature
  • historical
  • germany
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"What should he do if word went around that in his throne room hung a magic picture that only the highborn could see, but he couldn't? Of course there was no picture there, it had been one of the fool…"

-Daniel Kehlmann, Tyll

"Die Liebe zu den Kindern - besser, man kämpft gegen sie an. Man kommt ja auch nicht einem Hund zu nahe; sogar wenn er freundlich aussieht, kann er zuschnappen. Stets muss man einen Abstand lassen zwi…"

-Daniel Kehlmann, Tyll

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17. Anéantir

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.84

Format: 734 pages, Hardcover

Ce roman de Michel Houellebecq nous projette à la fin du second mandat du président à travers un ré… read more

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  • fiction
"La prise de vues donnait une étrange impression de neutralité."

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

"Les chrétiens ont du mal en général, avec l’absurde, ça n’entre pas vraiment dans leurs catégories."

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

"Certains lundis de la toute fin novembre, ou du début de décembre, surtout lorsqu'on est célibataire, on a la sensation d'être dans le couloir de la mort. Les vacances d'été sont depuis longtemps oub…"

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

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18. The Cafe on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life

By: John P. Strelecky

3.55

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

In a small cafe at a location so remote it stands in the middle of the middle of nowhere, John--a m… read more

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  • german literature
  • fiction
"Man schafft nicht alles. Niemand tut das. Deshalb sollte man sich über die Dinge freuen, zu denen man kommt."

-John P. Strelecky, The Cafe on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life

"Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now?"

-John P. Strelecky, The Cafe on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life

"As I was floating on the surface, I realized something: When the turtle was swimming, it linked its movements to the movements of the water. When a wave was coming at him, he would float, and paddle …"

-John P. Strelecky, The Cafe on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life

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19. Wo der spitzeste Zahn der Karawanken in den Himmel hinauf fletscht

By: Julia Jost

4.00

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Es ist das Jahr 1994. In einem Kärntner Dorf am Fuß der Karawanken sitzt die Erzählerin unter einem… read more

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  • german literature
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20. Going Zero

By: Anthony McCarten

3.89

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From four-time Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Anthony McCarten comes a breakneck, wickedly en… read more

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  • fiction
"...I can’t approve of a private company that profits from algorithmic amplification, dissemination and micro targeting of corrupt information, much of it produced by coordinated schemes of disinforma…"

-Anthony McCarten, Going Zero

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21. Dschinns

By: Fatma Aydemir

4.58

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Dreißig Jahre hat Hüseyin in Deutschland gearbeitet, nun erfüllt er sich endlich seinen Traum: eine… read more

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  • german literature
  • germany
  • fiction
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22. Mimik

By: Sebastian Fitzek

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Ein winziges Zucken im Mundwinkel, die kleinste Veränderung in der Pupille reichen ihr, um das wahr… read more

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  • german literature
  • fiction
Cover of Auris (Auris, #1) by Vincent Kliesch

23. Auris (Auris, #1)

By: Vincent Kliesch

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Die kleinste Abweichung im Klang einer Stimme genügt dem berühmten forensischen Phonetiker Matthias… read more

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  • german literature
  • fiction
Cover of Die Farbe der Rache (Tintenwelt, #4) by Cornelia Funke

24. Die Farbe der Rache (Tintenwelt, #4)

By: Cornelia Funke

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Fünf Jahre sind seit den Geschehnissen in Tintentod vergangen. Fünf glückliche Jahre. Aber dann wir… read more

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  • german literature
  • fiction
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25. Concerning My Daughter

By: Hye-Jin Kim

3.71

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

When an ageing mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants fo… read more

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  • fiction
"Ir abrindo mão das coisas de que gostamos. Essa é a definição do verbo envelhecer."

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

"That child who sprang from my own flesh and blood is perhaps the creature I'm most distant from."

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

"Ela estudou tanto que, não tendo mais o que estudar, foi aprender o que não devia. Por exemplo: como negar o mundo, como ir contra o mundo."

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

"It's not my fault. It's not your fault. It's no one's fault. If we keep telling ourselves that, then who should all the victims of the world go to for their apology?"

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

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26. Civilizations

By: Laurent Binet

3.67

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Vers l’an mille  : la fille d’Erik le Rouge met cap au sud.1492  : Colomb ne découvre pas l’Amériqu… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Natürlich kann man hier nicht leben by Özge İnan

27. Natürlich kann man hier nicht leben

By: Özge İnan

4.29

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

Nilay will los. Am liebsten noch heute Nacht, von Berlin nach Istanbul. Seit Wochen verfolgt sie mi… read more

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  • german literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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28. Young Joseph

By: Thomas Mann

4.40

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

This is book two of the Joseph and His Brothers tetralogy. “In this volume Dr. Mann tells the stor… read more

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  • german literature
  • historical
  • germany
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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29. Views

By: Marc-Uwe Kling

4.10

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

Ein schockierendes Verbrechen – und alle werden es sehen Die 16-jährige Lena Palmer verschwindet… read more

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  • german literature
  • germany
  • fiction
"Ist falsche Hoffnung nicht ein Übel?"

-Marc-Uwe Kling, Views

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30. The Tales of Jacob

By: Thomas Mann

4.26

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

The first book of tetralogy Die Geschichten Jaakobs (1933; U.K. title The Tales of Jacob) Joseph a… read more

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  • german literature
  • germany
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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31. Babel

By: Kenah Cusanit

2.96

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

1913, unweit von Bagdad. Der Archäologe Robert Koldewey leidet ohnehin schon genug unter den Ansich… read more

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  • german literature
  • historical
  • germany
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

26 must-read fiction books like Babel by Kenah Cusanit

Transform Your Habits

Of Love and Other Demons

Gabriel García Márquez

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1)

Georges Simenon , David Bellos

3.47

Transform Your Habits

Der Richter und sein Henker

Friedrich Dürrenmatt , John J. Neumaier , William Gillis

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Die Physiker

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

4.38

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20 best-selling fiction books like You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann, Ross Benjamin

Transform Your Habits

Sour Candy

Kealan Patrick Burke

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Come Closer

Sara Gran

3.65

Transform Your Habits

A Short Stay in Hell

Steven L. Peck

4.22

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You Should Have Left

Daniel Kehlmann , Ross Benjamin

3.44

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