17 must-read modern classics books like Leaving the Yellow House by Saul Bellow

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Leaving the Yellow House

By: Saul Bellow

3.25

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

She had lived by delays; she had meant to stop drinking; she had put off the time, and now she had …

If you liked the modern classics plot in Leaving the Yellow House by Saul Bellow , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of The Garden of Forking Paths by George Guidall, Jorge Luis Borges

1. The Garden of Forking Paths

By: George Guidall , Jorge Luis Borges

3.31

Format: None pages, Audiobook

"The Garden of Forking Paths" (original Spanish title: "El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan") is … read more

Similar categories in George Guidall's The Garden of Forking Paths book and Saul Bellow's Leaving the Yellow House

  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
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2. Africa's Tarnished Name

By: Chinua Achebe

4.40

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by others… read more

Similar categories in Chinua Achebe's Africa's Tarnished Name book and Saul Bellow's Leaving the Yellow House

  • classics
  • short stories
"Our humanity is contingent on the humanity of our fellows. No person or group can be human alone. We rise above the animal together, or not at all. If we learned that lesson even this late in the day…"

-Chinua Achebe, Africa's Tarnished Name

"People are wrong when they tell you that Conrad was on the side of Africans because his story showed great compassion towards them. Africans are not really served by his compassion, whatever it means…"

-Chinua Achebe, Africa's Tarnished Name

"The poor of the world may be guilty of this and that particular fault or foolishness, but if we are fair we will admit that nothing they have done or left undone quite explains all the odds we see st…"

-Chinua Achebe, Africa's Tarnished Name

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3. Dark Days

By: James Baldwin

4.40

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compo… read more

Similar categories in James Baldwin's Dark Days book and Saul Bellow's Leaving the Yellow House

  • classics
  • short stories
"A mob is not autonomous: it executes the real will of the people who rule the State."

-James Baldwin, Dark Days

"No curtain under heaven is heavier than that curtain of guilt and lies behind which white Americans hide."

-James Baldwin, Dark Days

"The question of color was but another detail, somewhere between being six feet tall and being six feet under."

-James Baldwin, Dark Days

"But the Irish became white when they got here and began rising in the world, whereas I became black and began sinking."

-James Baldwin, Dark Days

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4. Of Dogs and Walls

By: Yūko Tsushima

3.68

Format: 53 pages, Paperback

Two luminous, tender stories from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writers, showing how ch… read more

Similar categories in Yūko Tsushima's Of Dogs and Walls book and Saul Bellow's Leaving the Yellow House

  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
"Living right in the heart of Tokyo itself is quite like living in the mountains – in the midst of so many people, one hardly sees anyone."

-Yūko Tsushima, Of Dogs and Walls

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5. The Haunted Boy

By: Carson McCullers

3.92

Format: 60 pages, Mass Market Paperback

His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love. … read more

Similar categories in Carson McCullers's The Haunted Boy book and Saul Bellow's Leaving the Yellow House

  • fiction
  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
Cover of Piers of the Homeless Night by Jack Kerouac

6. Piers of the Homeless Night

By: Jack Kerouac

3.18

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

'See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart...'Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of li… read more

Similar categories in Jack Kerouac's Piers of the Homeless Night book and Saul Bellow's Leaving the Yellow House

  • fiction
  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
"The hobo has two watches you can't buy at Tiffany's, on one wrist the sun, on the other wrist the moon, both bands are made of sky."

-Jack Kerouac, Piers of the Homeless Night

Cover of The Dialogue of Two Snails (Penguin Modern) by Federico García Lorca

7. The Dialogue of Two Snails (Penguin Modern)

By: Federico García Lorca

3.33

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

My heartbrims with billowsand minnowsof shadows and silver Beautiful, brutal, strange and lovely… read more

Similar categories in Federico García Lorca's The Dialogue of Two Snails (Penguin Modern) book and Saul Bellow's Leaving the Yellow House

  • fiction
  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
"The evening, lacking intelligent relations, crumbles down into the haze of the horizon.)"

-Federico García Lorca, The Dialogue of Two Snails (Penguin Modern)

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8. The Gigolo

By: Françoise Sagan

3.61

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'The sap had dried up; the sap, the incentive, the fever, the desire to do, to act, to act the fool… read more

Similar categories in Françoise Sagan's The Gigolo book and Saul Bellow's Leaving the Yellow House

  • classics
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • modern classics
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9. The Skeleton’s Holiday

By: Leonora Carrington

3.66

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

'Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear h… read more

Similar categories in Leonora Carrington's The Skeleton’s Holiday book and Saul Bellow's Leaving the Yellow House

  • fiction
  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
"The hyena found it difficult to walk in my high-heeled shoes."

-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday

"The skeleton was as happy as a madman whose straitjacket had been taken off."

-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday

"Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear her face tonight instead of mine."

-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday

"The skeleton's lodgings had an ancient head and modern feet. The ceiling was the sky, the floor the earth. It was painted white and decorated with snowballs in which a heart beat. He looked like a tr…"

-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday

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10. New York City in 1979

By: Kathy Acker

3.11

Format: 47 pages, Paperback

"It is necessary to go to as many extremes as possible." A tale of art, sex, blood, junkies and … read more

Similar categories in Kathy Acker's New York City in 1979 book and Saul Bellow's Leaving the Yellow House

  • fiction
  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
"Intense sexual desire is the best thing in the world."

-Kathy Acker, New York City in 1979

"The two main girlfriends he has had wanted him to support them in the manner to which they certainly weren't accustomed even though he couldn't put his flabby hands on a penny."

-Kathy Acker, New York City in 1979

"old people have to go to children's or most often to rest homes where they are shunted into wheelchairs and made as fast as possible into zombies cause it's easier to handle a zombie, if you have to …"

-Kathy Acker, New York City in 1979

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11. The Cracked Looking-Glass

By: Katherine Anne Porter

3.04

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'She only wished to prove to herself she was once more on a train going somewhere' A passionate,… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Anne Porter's The Cracked Looking-Glass book and Saul Bellow's Leaving the Yellow House

  • classics
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • modern classics
Cover of Madame du Deffand and the Idiots by Javier Marías

12. Madame du Deffand and the Idiots

By: Javier Marías

3.72

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'She was bored and fought against her boredom, which only bored her still more.' Five sparkling,… read more

Similar categories in Javier Marías's Madame du Deffand and the Idiots book and Saul Bellow's Leaving the Yellow House

  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
Cover of The Duke in His Domain by Truman Capote

13. The Duke in His Domain

By: Truman Capote

3.80

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Now Brando looked at people with assurance, and with what can only be called a pitying expression, … read more

Similar categories in Truman Capote's The Duke in His Domain book and Saul Bellow's Leaving the Yellow House

  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
Cover of Death the Barber by William Carlos Williams

14. Death the Barber

By: William Carlos Williams

3.39

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

'The alphabet ofthe treesis fading in thesong of the leaves' Filled with bright, unforgettable i… read more

Similar categories in William Carlos Williams's Death the Barber book and Saul Bellow's Leaving the Yellow House

  • fiction
  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
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15. Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch?

By: Hans Fallada

3.51

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

'It was what we call in the trade a potato...' Tales of low-lifes and grifters trying to make ends … read more

Similar categories in Hans Fallada's Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch? book and Saul Bellow's Leaving the Yellow House

  • fiction
  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
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16. The Survivor

By: Primo Levi

3.74

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'Back, away from here, drowned people, go. I haven't stolen anyone's place' A selection of poet… read more

Similar categories in Primo Levi's The Survivor book and Saul Bellow's Leaving the Yellow House

  • fiction
  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
"What is the number of your days? I've counted them: Few and brief, and each one heavy with cares; With anguish about the inevitable night, When nothing saves you from yourself; With fear of the dawn …"

-Primo Levi, The Survivor

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17. Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer

By: Wendell Berry

3.68

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

'Do I wish to keep up with the times? No. My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can' T… read more

Similar categories in Wendell Berry's Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer book and Saul Bellow's Leaving the Yellow House

  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
"I am not an optimist; I am afraid that I won't live long enough to escape my bondage to the machines."

-Wendell Berry, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer

"How, I am asking, can women improve themselves by submitting to the same specialization, degradation, trivialization, and tyrannization of work that men have submitted to? And that question is made l…"

-Wendell Berry, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer

"And yet language is the most intimately physical of all the artistic means. We have it palpably in our mouths; it is our langue, our tongue. Writing it, we shape it with our hands. Reading aloud what…"

-Wendell Berry, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer

"If you are already solving your problem with the equipment you have - a pencil, say- why solve it with something more expensive and more damaging? If you don't have a problem, why pay for a solution?…"

-Wendell Berry, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer

Cover of The Problem That Has No Name by Betty Friedan

18. The Problem That Has No Name

By: Betty Friedan

4.20

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

'What if she isn't happy - does she think men are happy in this world? Doesn't she know how lucky s… read more

Similar categories in Betty Friedan's The Problem That Has No Name book and Saul Bellow's Leaving the Yellow House

  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
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19. Letter to My Mother

By: Georges Simenon

3.74

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

'As you are well aware, we never loved each other in your lifetime. Both of us pretended.' Sime… read more

Similar categories in Georges Simenon's Letter to My Mother book and Saul Bellow's Leaving the Yellow House

  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
Cover of Leaving the Yellow House by Saul Bellow

20. Leaving the Yellow House

By: Saul Bellow

3.25

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

She had lived by delays; she had meant to stop drinking; she had put off the time, and now she had … read more

Similar categories in Saul Bellow's Leaving the Yellow House book and Saul Bellow's Leaving the Yellow House

  • classics
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • modern classics
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21. Glittering City

By: Cyprian Ekwensi

3.15

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

'"Forget all your fears now. Have a fling this night"' Untrustworthy, charming Fussy Joe spins s… read more

Similar categories in Cyprian Ekwensi's Glittering City book and Saul Bellow's Leaving the Yellow House

  • classics
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • modern classics

14 Best fiction books like Leaving the Yellow House by Saul Bellow

Transform Your Habits

The Garden of Forking Paths

George Guidall , Jorge Luis Borges

3.31

Transform Your Habits

Of Dogs and Walls

Yūko Tsushima

3.68

Transform Your Habits

The Haunted Boy

Carson McCullers

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Piers of the Homeless Night

Jack Kerouac

3.18

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14 Top fiction books like Death the Barber by William Carlos Williams

Transform Your Habits

The Garden of Forking Paths

George Guidall , Jorge Luis Borges

3.31

Transform Your Habits

Lance

Vladimir Nabokov

3.37

Transform Your Habits

Of Dogs and Walls

Yūko Tsushima

3.68

Transform Your Habits

The Haunted Boy

Carson McCullers

3.92

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