If you liked the fiction plot in El globo by Donald Barthelme , here is a list of 14 books like this:
1. Oblivion: Stories
By: David Foster Wallace
4.07
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity wi… read more
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"She smelled of talcum powder and Big Red."-David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories
"The great myth is that the bad ones don't last long."-David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories
"Am I happy? is one of those questions that, if it has got to be asked, more or less dictates its own answer."-David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories
"It is a fact of life that certain people are corrosive to others' self esteem simply as a function of who and what they are."-David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories
2. Ecce Homo
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to c… read more
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3. This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
By: David Foster Wallace
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement a… read more
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- short stories
4. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
By: Nikolai Gogol
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
Hailed by Nabokov as "the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced," Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) … read more
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- fiction
7. King Lear
By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe
3.91
Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more
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- fiction
"Fortune love you."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"She is herself a dowry."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"All dark and comfortless."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"Nothing can come of nothing."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
8. In a Grove
By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
4.04
Format: 192 pages,
"In a Grove" (Sou noZhong , Yabu no Naka?) is a short story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, first appearing… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
9. Fantastic Mr. Fox
By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake
4.08
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Fantastic Mr. Fox is on the run! The three meanest farmers around are out to get him. Fat Boggis, s… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"I dare not do that, said Mr. Fox, because this place I am hoping to get is so marvelous that if I described it to you now you would go crazy with excitement"-Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox
10. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more
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- fiction
"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
11. The Vampyre; A Tale
By: John William Polidori
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Vampyreis a short story by John William Polidori. It is based on a fragment written by Lord Byr… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
12. The Swimmer
By: John Cheever
3.56
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Neddy Merrill decides to swim home from a friend's pool party, traveling from fashionable swimming … read more
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- fiction
13. The Brothers Karamazov
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.37
Format: 796 pages, Paperback
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more
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- fiction
"How good life is when one does something good and just!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
14. Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
By: D.T. Max
4.10
Format: 0 pages, Hardcover
The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace David Fo… read more
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15. Both Flesh and Not: Essays
By: David Foster Wallace
2.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nonfiction writings by "one of America's most daring an… read more
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16. Outline
By: Rachel Cusk
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more
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17. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writ… read more
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18. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
By: Ambrose Bierce
3.50
Format: 262 pages, ebook
The condemned man stands on a bridge, his hands bound behind his back. A noose is tied around his n… read more
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19. The Dharma Bums
By: Jack Kerouac
4.71
Format: None pages,
Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam… read more
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20. Oh, The Places You'll Go!
By: Dr. Seuss
4.33
Format: 57 pages, Hardcover
In this joyous ode to life, Dr. Seuss addresses graduates of all ages, from nursery school to medic… read more
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21. A Room with a View
By: E.M. Forster
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
'"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly,… read more
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22. Much Ado About Nothing
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Gail Kern Paster , None
3.92
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
The action is set in Sicily, where Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, has recently defeated his half-brot… read more
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24. Shakespeare's Sonnets
By: William Shakespeare , Katherine Duncan-Jones
4.45
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this… read more
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25. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.00
Format: 592 pages,
All the Pretty Horsestells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Acr… read more
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26. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
By: Michael Chabon
3.95
Format: None pages,
Joe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, h… read more
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27. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more
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"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
28. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
29. Mr Salary
By: Sally Rooney
3.78
Format: 33 pages, Paperback
My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him cl… read more
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- short stories
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"My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all."-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"He watched me at first but then looked away. "Would it be a major bereavement for you if I died?" I said. "The most major one I can think of, yeah." "Nobody else would grieve."-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river, ignoring the real living bodies all around m…"-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"Nothing inside my body was trying to kill me. Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river…"-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
30. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
By: Quentin Tarantino
3.88
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Quentin Tarantino’s long-awaited first work of fiction — at once hilarious, delicious, and brutal —… read more
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"What’s the secret?"-Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
"Sharon has such a sunny presence that whenever she blocks out the sun, the effect is chilling."-Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
"Due to Cliff's good looks, he'd been manipulating women to do things against their best interests his whole life."-Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
"Foreign films, Cliff thought, were more like novels. They didn't care if you liked the main character or not. And Cliff found that intriguing."-Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
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