8 Best historical books like Sublunar by Harald Voetmann

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Sublunar

By: Harald Voetmann

3.59

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A great mind and a formidable personality, Brahe is also the world’s most illustrious noseless man …

If you liked the historical plot in Sublunar by Harald Voetmann , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Among Others

By: Jo Walton

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of … read more

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  • fiction
"I like her. She's restful."

-Jo Walton, Among Others

"I wish magic was more dramatic"

-Jo Walton, Among Others

"Trees are what paper was, and wants to be."

-Jo Walton, Among Others

"I'll take Heinlein over a headmistress any day."

-Jo Walton, Among Others

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2. The Writing Life

By: Annie Dillard

3.26

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Annie Dillard has written eleven books, including the memoir of her parents, An American Childhood;… read more

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3. Under Milk Wood

By: Dylan Thomas

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

A moving and hilarious account of a spring day in a small Welsh coastal town, Under Milk Woodis "ly… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
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4. 2666

By: Roberto Bolaño

4.21

Format: 1128 pages, Paperback

A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"Nothing is ever behind us."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"Reading is never a waste of time."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"Every hundred feet the world changes"

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

5. The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories

By: Denis Johnson

3.40

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

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6. Bone Dance

By: Emma Bull

3.00

Format: 1118 pages, Paperback

Sparrow's my name. Trader. Deal-maker. Hustler, some call me. I work the Night Fair circuit, buying… read more

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7. Train Dreams

By: Denis Johnson

3.67

Format: 272 pages,

Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more

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8. Wise Children

By: Angela Carter

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dora and Nora Chance are a famous song-and-dance team of the British music halls. Billed as The Luc… read more

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9. Kappa

By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , Geoffrey Bownas

2.86

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

From the author of Rashomon comes a Swiftian satire of Japanese society thinly disguised as the fic… read more

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10. The Hearing Trumpet

By: Leonora Carrington , Pablo Weisz Carrington

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordi… read more

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11. The Raw Shark Texts

By: Steven Hall

0.00

Format: 400 pages,

Eric Sanderson wakes up in a house one day with no idea who or where he is. A note instructs him to… read more

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12. The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

By: Mathias Énard

3.59

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from P… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
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13. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

By: Katherine Rundell

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more

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  • literature
"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."

-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

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14. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

By: Olga Ravn

3.67

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A workplace novel of the 22nd century The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth… read more

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  • novella
  • danish
  • fiction
  • denmark
"This is not a human, but a coworker."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Cada ação encerra em si um elemento de caos."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Tudo precisa atravessar enormes distâncias para se tornar o que é."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Eu também tenho em mim palavras apagadas que deveria ter dito e já não sei mais o que significam."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

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15. All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

By: Becca Rothfeld

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed debut author's glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in culture in favor of… read more

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16. 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
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical 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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17. No es un río

By: Selva Almada

3.95

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more

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  • literature
  • novella
  • fiction
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18. The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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19. My Death

By: Lisa Tuttle

3.98

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more

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  • novella
  • fiction
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20. A Dictator Calls

By: Ismail Kadare

3.14

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Using a sophisticated and literary version of the ever-popular game of telephone to examine the rel… read more

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  • literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"And a cursory glance at Karl Marx shows that a man who had dedicated his life to the violent overthrow of the world order never devoted half a page in any of his dozens of books to the trauma and rem…"

-Ismail Kadare, A Dictator Calls

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21. You Dreamed of Empires

By: Álvaro Enrigue

3.85

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more

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  • literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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22. Cleanness

By: Garth Greenwell

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deep… read more

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  • fiction
"Anything I am you have use for is yours."

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

"Even annoyance was part of the pleasure we took in each other, we were that early in love."

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

"Finally he laid his head on my chest. Don’t be like that, he said again as I put my arms around him. Do you see? You don’t have to be like that, he said. You can be like this."

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

"I wanted to root into him, even as the wind said all rootedness was a sham, there were only passing arrangements, makeshift shelters and poor harbors, I love you, I thought suddenly in that rush that…"

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

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23. Blue Ruin

By: Hari Kunzru

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, po… read more

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  • fiction
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24. 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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  • novella
  • fiction
"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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25. 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
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26. The Pastor

By: Hanne Ørstavik

3.48

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A major work of contemporary fiction from Norway by a National Book Award-nominated author, transla… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
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27. Declaración de las canciones oscuras

By: Luis Felipe Fabre

4.17

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

En agosto de 1592 arriban al monasterio de Úbeda un alguacil y sus dos ayudantes, con la secreta en… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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28. Gretel and the Great War

By: Adam Ehrlich Sachs

3.83

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A lean, seductive, and dazzlingly inventive novel that shows us the dark side of early twentieth-ce… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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29. Sublunar

By: Harald Voetmann

3.59

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A great mind and a formidable personality, Brahe is also the world’s most illustrious noseless man … read more

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  • literature
  • historical
  • novella
  • denmark
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • danish
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30. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

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  • fiction
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

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Jo Walton

3.71

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4.06

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4.21

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Mathias Énard

3.59

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Julio Cortázar , Gregory Rabassa

4.20

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William H. Gass , William Gaddis

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Thomas Pynchon

3.69

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