15 Top literary fiction books like Infrarouge by Nancy Huston

Cover of Infrarouge by Nancy Huston

Infrarouge

By: Nancy Huston

3.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Artiste et reporter-photographe, Rena Greenblatt rejoint à Florence son père Simon et sa belle-mère…

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Cover of And Fire Falls (Frontier, #9) by Peter Watt

1. And Fire Falls (Frontier, #9)

By: Peter Watt

4.16

Format: 347 pages,

It is 1942 and the war in the Pacific is on Australia's doorstep, changing the lives of the Duffy a… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras, None, Diệp Anh

2. The Ravishing of Lol Stein

By: Marguerite Duras , None , Diệp Anh

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Lol Stein is a beautiful young woman, securely married, settled in a comfortable life--and a voyeur… read more

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  • novels
  • roman
  • fiction
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3. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Princesse de Clèves by Madame de La Fayette

4. The Princesse de Clèves

By: Madame de La Fayette

3.00

Format: 508 pages, Paperback

This new translation of The Princesse de Clevesalso includes two shorter works also attributed to M… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes, Richard Howard, Wayne Koestenbaum

5. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard , Wayne Koestenbaum

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented … read more

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6. Le Grand Meaulnes

By: Alain-Fournier , None

4.00

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

In a small village in the Sologne, Fifteen-year-old Francois Seurel narrates the story of his relat… read more

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  • fiction
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7. The World According to Garp

By: John Irving

4.10

Format: 610 pages, Hardcover

This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields—a feminist leader ahead o… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"...energy begets energy."

-John Irving, The World According to Garp

"Bonkie bit Garp!" Garp bit Bonkie"

-John Irving, The World According to Garp

"In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases"

-John Irving, The World According to Garp

"...the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar."

-John Irving, The World According to Garp

8. Hot Milk

By: Deborah Levy

3.94

Format: 489 pages, Hardcover

Sofia, a young anthropologist, has spent much of her life trying to solve the mystery of her mother… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. Colline

By: Jean Giono

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

Un debris de hameau ou quatre maisons fleuries d'orchis emergent des bles drus et hauts. Ce sont le… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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10. Midnight’s Children

By: Salman Rushdie

3.98

Format: 647 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"Life again refused to remain lifesized"

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

"What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust."

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

"For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake"

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

"Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence."

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

11. La fata carabina

By: Daniel Pennac , Yasmina Mélaouah

4.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Intenta ad attraversare la strada con tutta la circospezione dovuta all'eta avanzata, una vecchiett… read more

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12. Ultime notizie dalla famiglia

By: Daniel Pennac , Yasmina Mélaouah

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Ultime notizie dalla famiglia. Dalla famiglia Malaussene, si intende. Dalla tribu di Belleville che… read more

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13. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis

4.15

Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback

«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more

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  • art
  • literary fiction
"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

14. La première gorgée de bière et autres plaisirs minuscules

By: Philippe Delerm

4.12

Format: None pages,

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15. Skippy Dies

By: Paul Murray

4.67

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

A tragic comedy of epic sweep and dimension, Skippy Dies wrings every last drop of humour and hopel… read more

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16. Cyrano de Bergerac

By: Edmond Rostand , Lowell Bair , Eteel Lawson

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is Edmond Rostand's immortal play in which chivalry and wit, bravery and love are forever capt… read more

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17. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

Cover of Ce que je sais de toi by Éric Chacour

18. Ce que je sais de toi

By: Éric Chacour

4.43

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Dans le Caire des années 1980, un jeune médecin suit un destin tracé pour lui. Entre son dispensair… read more

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  • fiction
  • novels
  • roman
  • canada
"Le jour, ses mains en prolongement des tiennes sur le corps des patients. La nuit, son corps en prolongement du tien sous tes mains impatientes."

-Éric Chacour, Ce que je sais de toi

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19. August Blue

By: Deborah Levy

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"

-Deborah Levy, August Blue

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20. The Bee Sting

By: Paul Murray

3.96

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It is for love. You are doing this for love."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

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21. Paradais

By: Fernanda Melchor

3.64

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, l… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It was fatboy's fault, that's what he would tell them"

-Fernanda Melchor, Paradais

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22. The Fraud

By: Zadie Smith

3.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

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23. Hotline

By: Dimitri Nasrallah

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"

-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline

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24. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

Cover of Le Mariage de Figaro by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

25. Le Mariage de Figaro

By: Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

3.53

Format: 258 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Forcé de parcourir la route où je suis entré sans le savoir, comme j'en sortirai sans le vouloir, j… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Manam by Rima Elkouri

26. Manam

By: Rima Elkouri

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Léa est institutrice. Tous les mois de septembre, elle accueille la vingtaine d’enfants qu’elle acc… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • canada
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27. Hagstone

By: Sinéad Gleeson

3.63

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Thomas the Impostor by Jean Cocteau

28. Thomas the Impostor

By: Jean Cocteau

3.32

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Cocteau’s breakthrough novel on the horrors of World War I.   Too young to fight, Thomas assumes… read more

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  • novels
  • roman
  • fiction
"Čudo, ako potraje, prestaje da bude čudo.Zato priviđenja tako brzo i nestaju."

-Jean Cocteau, Thomas the Impostor

"Истински задълбоченият човек навлиза навътре, а не се изкачва. Дълго след смъртта му откриват забравената колона, одялана от цяла скала, или я изравят къс по къс. Докато посредствените величия, изтък…"

-Jean Cocteau, Thomas the Impostor

"Un homme vraiment profond s'enfonce, il ne monte pas. Longtemps après sa mort, on découvre sa colonne enfouie, d'un seul bloc ou, peu à peu, par morceaux. Tandis que ces grandes intelligences médiocr…"

-Jean Cocteau, Thomas the Impostor

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29. The Life Impossible

By: Matt Haig

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight L… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"And, like so many of life's fun things, it will begin with minimally invasive radiofrequency-based vein ablation surgery."

-Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

"When you grieve someone you see their message in everything. Even in the sunlight on a blade of grass. The whole world becomes their translator."

-Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

Cover of Infrarouge by Nancy Huston

30. Infrarouge

By: Nancy Huston

3.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Artiste et reporter-photographe, Rena Greenblatt rejoint à Florence son père Simon et sa belle-mère… read more

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  • art
  • literary fiction
  • roman
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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31. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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Samuel Beckett

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Ce que je sais de toi

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