18 Best fiction books like Bravura by Emmanuel Carrère

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Bravura

By: Emmanuel Carrère

2.78

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

De 1816 se dijo que fue «el año sin verano». La erupción de un volcán indonesio alteró la meteorolo…

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1. La ferocia

By: Nicola Lagioia

3.41

Format: 418 pages, Hardcover

In una calda notte di primavera, una giovane donna cammina nel centro esatto della strada statale. … read more

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  • fiction
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2. La carte et le territoire

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.95

Format: 428 pages, Paperback

Si Jed Martin, le personnage principal de ce roman, devait vous en raconter l’histoire, il commence… read more

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"Sexuality is a fragile thing: it is difficult to enter, and easy to leave."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

"Jed then realized that he was standing in a book, and wondered if this book told the story of his life."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

"Las flores son sólo órganos sexuales, vaginas abigarradas que adornan la superficie del mundo, entregadas a la lubricidad de los insectos."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

"Ciudată e uneori omenirea. Din nefericire, cel mai adesea era genul ciudată și respingătoare, și doar arareori de genul ciudat și încântător."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

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3. A Pale View of Hills

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

3.79

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: This a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780571225378. In his highly acclaim… read more

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  • fiction
"Sisters are supposed to be people you’re close to, aren’t they. You may not like them much, but you’re still close to them."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

"It doesn’t matter how old someone is, it’s what they’ve experienced that counts. People can get to be a hundred and not experience a thing."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

"I’ve come to appreciate cooking over the years. It’s an art, I’m convinced of it, just as noble as painting or poetry. It’s not appreciated simply because the product disappears so quickly"

-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

"The Americans, they never understood the way things were in Japan. Not for one moment have they understood. Their ways may be fine for Americans, but in Japan things are different, very different."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

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4. When We Were Orphans

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

3.54

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The maze of human memory--the ways in which we accommodate and alter it, deceive and deliver oursel… read more

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"أعرف أنه احيانًا يكون صعبًا وكأن العالم كله قد انهار من حولك"

-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans

"I was upset. But I'm not any more. You have to look forward in life."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans

"إن المجرم الحديث قد أصبح أكثر مهارة ، أكثر طموحا ، وأكثر جرأة ، والعلم قد وضع نظاما كاملا من الأدوات المعقدة تحت تصرفه"

-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans

"It's all right. I'm not upset. After all, they were just things . When you've lost your mother and your father, you can't care so much about things , can you?"

-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans

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5. The Possibility of an Island

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.80

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A worldwide phenomenon and the most important French novelist since Albert Camus, Michel Houellebec… read more

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  • fiction
"La solitude à deux est l'enfer consenti."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island

"Si la sincérité, en elle-même, n'est rien, elle est la condition de tout."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island

"Et l'amour, où tout est facile, Où tout est donné dans l'instant; Il existe au milieu du temps La possibilité d'une île."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island

"The dream of all men is to meet little sluts who are innocent but ready for all forms of depravity—which is what, more or less, all teenage girls are."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island

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6. The Sorrows of Young Werther

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more

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  • fiction
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7. Historia abreviada de la literatura portátil

By: Enrique Vila-Matas

3.73

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

El lector tiene en sus manos la obra mas emblematica, ya casi legendaria, de Enrique Vila-Matas. Pu… read more

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  • fiction
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8. From Hell

By: Alan Moore , Eddie Campbell , Pete Mullins

4.19

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

"I shall tell you where we are. We're in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"It would seem we are to suffer an apocalypse of cockatoos - William Gull"

-Alan Moore, From Hell

"I am not man so much as syndrome; as a voice that bellows in the human heart. I am rain. I cannot be contained"

-Alan Moore, From Hell

"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."

-Alan Moore, From Hell

"Where comes this dullness in your eyes? How has your century numbed you so? Shall man be given marvels only when he is beyond all wonder?"

-Alan Moore, From Hell

9. No and Me

By: Delphine de Vigan

2.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The international award-winning story of two girls from different backgrounds, united in friendship… read more

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10. The Blade Artist

By: Irvine Welsh

3.72

Format: 134 pages, Hardcover

Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life - and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A succ… read more

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11. The Sound of Waves

By: Yukio Mishima , Meredith Weatherby

4.57

Format: 270 pages,

Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Wavesis a timeless story of first love. It t… read more

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12. The Savage Detectives

By: Roberto Bolaño , Natasha Wimmer

4.48

Format: 334 pages,

New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in p… read more

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13. The World of Yesterday

By: Stefan Zweig , Harry Zohn

3.72

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expre… read more

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14. Vernon Subutex, 2 (Vernon Subutex, #2)

By: Virginie Despentes

3.10

Format: None pages,

QUI EST VERNON SUBUTEX ? Une legende urbaine. Un ange dechu. Un disparu qui ne cesse de ressurgir. … read more

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15. Reflections in a Golden Eye

By: Carson McCullers

3.77

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

A powerful and passionate tale is set on a southern army post --a human hell inhabited by a sexuall… read more

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16. La lunga estate calda del commissario Charitos (Kostas Charitos, #4)

By: Petros Markaris , Andrea Di Gregorio

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Quando un gruppo di nazionalisti greci si impossessa di un traghetto con trecento passeggeri a bord… read more

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17. Soumission

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.65

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s’engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu mot… read more

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"It’s submission,"

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"There is no Israel for me."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"Intimacy isn’t something men talk about."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"I was about as political as a bath towel."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

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18. Tokyo Express

By: Seichō Matsumoto

3.68

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

In una cala rocciosa della baia di Hakata, i corpi di un uomo e di una donna vengono rinvenuti all’… read more

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19. Serotonin

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.58

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

»Es ist nicht die Zukunft, es ist die Gegenwart, die dich tötet, die wiederkommt, um an dir zu nage… read more

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"[...] chiaramente sto semplificando ma se non si semplifica non si conclude niente."

-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

"nic nas nie koi równie łatwo jak świadomość innych niż nasze dramatów, które nam zostały oszczędzone"

-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

"An atmosphere of general catastrophe always alleviates individual catastrophe- that's probably why suicides are so rare in wartime"

-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

"... it isn't the future but past that kills you, that comes back to torment and undermine you, and effectively ends up killing you."

-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

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20. When We Cease to Understand the World

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.14

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more

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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

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21. Trilogía

By: Jon Fosse

3.90

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Trilogía es un libro diferente. Es hipnótico. Para Jon Fosse escribir es como rezar y, para el lect… read more

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  • fiction
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22. 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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  • 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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23. La llamada: Un retrato

By: Leila Guerriero

4.49

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Esta es una historia real, llena de aristas y sombras, sobre la condición humana. A fines de los s… read more

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24. A Shining

By: Jon Fosse

3.49

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more

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  • fiction
"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

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25. 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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26. El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo

By: Irene Vallejo

4.26

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

Este es un libro sobre la historia de los libros. Un recorrido por la vida de ese fascinante artefa… read more

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"Los libros nos convierten en herederos de todos los relatos: los mejores, los peores, los ambiguos, los problemáticos, los de doble filo. Disponer de todos ellos es bueno para pensar, y permite elegi…"

-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo

"Ler é um ritual que implica gestos, posições, objetos, espaços, materiais, movimentos, modulações de luz. Para imaginarmos como liam os nossos antepassados, precisamos de conhecer, em cada época, ess…"

-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo

"desde os primeiros séculos da escrita até à idade Média, a norma era ler em voz alta, para si próprio ou para os outros, e os escritores pronunciavam as frases à medida que as escreviam ouvindo assim…"

-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo

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27. Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

By: Agustina Bazterrica

3.14

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winnin… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"She was horrified by the traces of monstrosity in everyday life. The things that we look at but don't see, whose true essences are unknown to us."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

"Outside the secure space of the circle, vulgarity accumulates. Ada loathes vulgarity because it's there that misery hides. She knows that misery is destructive and, as such, ephemeral."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

Cover of Solo è il coraggio. Giovanni Falcone, il romanzo by Roberto Saviano

28. Solo è il coraggio. Giovanni Falcone, il romanzo

By: Roberto Saviano

4.44

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Questa è la storia di un uomo che resiste, che prova a fare la differenza, che non voleva essere un… read more

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29. Dysphoria Mundi

By: Paul B. Preciado

4.26

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

« Puisque mon désir de vivre en dehors des prescriptions normatives de la société binaire hétéro-pa… read more

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"Esas cajas que contienen mi biblioteca constituyen mi biografía. Hay muchas maneras de narrar una vida. Es posible decir, como suele hacerse, la fecha de nacimiento, la nacionalidad, el estado civil,…"

-Paul B. Preciado, Dysphoria Mundi

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30. Bravura

By: Emmanuel Carrère

2.78

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

De 1816 se dijo que fue «el año sin verano». La erupción de un volcán indonesio alteró la meteorolo… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enríquez

31. A Sunny Place for Shady People

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.81

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror

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