5 Best literature books like New Selected Stories by Thomas Mann

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New Selected Stories

By: Thomas Mann

4.19

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Sparkling new translations highlight the humor and poignancy of Mann’s best stories―including his m…

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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright

4.39

Format: 957 pages, Paperback

The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
"...every social class has its own pathology..."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

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2. Selected Poems of Ezra Pound

By: Ezra Pound

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

The verse and criticism which he produced during the early years of the twentieth century very larg… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Baudolino by Umberto Eco, William Weaver, R.C.S. Libri

3. Baudolino

By: Umberto Eco , William Weaver , R.C.S. Libri

3.79

Format: 527 pages, Paperback

It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
"Tüm aşıklar gibi Baudlino da kibirli olmuştu."

-Umberto Eco, Baudolino

"Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges."

-Umberto Eco, Baudolino

"And so it was that the Poet, through an excess of theological refinement, was unable to satisfy his coarse carnal passion."

-Umberto Eco, Baudolino

"There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A bit with the help of wine, and a bit with that of the g…"

-Umberto Eco, Baudolino

4. The Tin Drum

By: Günter Grass

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wield… read more

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5. The Glass Bead Game

By: Theodore Ziolkowski , Hermann Hesse , Richard Winston , Clara Winston

4.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, 'The Gla… read more

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6. The Periodic Table

By: Primo Levi , Raymond Rosenthal

4.18

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi's transportation fr… read more

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7. The Essays: A Selection

By: Michel de Montaigne , M.A. Screech

4.89

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

A survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, TheEssays: A Selection collects some of Miche… read more

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8. Lord of Light

By: Roger Zelazny , Sönmez Güven

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made … read more

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9. How to Be Both

By: Ali Smith

4.10

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like … read more

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10. A Brief History of Seven Killings

By: Marlon James

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Wome… read more

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11. Our Enemies Will Vanish

By: Yaroslav Trofimov

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian people… read more

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12. frank: sonnets

By: Diane Seuss

4.50

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more

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"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"

-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets

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13. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

By: Mary Beard

4.11

Format: 493 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more

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  • classics
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14. 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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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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15. The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

By: Simon Winchester

4.14

Format: 416 pages, ebook

The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industr… read more

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"From a book talk in Palo Alto for "The Perfectionists"; He pulled out his new iphone and told us that its Apple-designed chipset has 8 billion[!] transistors, and that someone at Intel told him that …"

-Simon Winchester, The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

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16. My Friends

By: Hisham Matar

4.34

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

Cover of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

17. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

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18. The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing

By: Adam Moss

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From former editor of New York magazine Adam Moss, a collection of illuminating conversations exami… read more

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19. New Selected Stories

By: Thomas Mann

4.19

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Sparkling new translations highlight the humor and poignancy of Mann’s best stories―including his m… read more

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  • german literature
  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • germany
  • short stories
  • fiction
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20. 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
"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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21. Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up With the Universe

By: Ken Krimstein

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

“Clever, charming, amusing, and just plain brilliant. Ken Krimstein is the most inventive graphic b… read more

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4.17

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3.79

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4.14

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Susan Magsamen

3.91

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Bianca Bosker

4.16

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