18 Top fiction books like El Sexto by José María Arguedas

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El Sexto

By: José María Arguedas

3.91

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Barcelona. 19 cm. 228 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Laia B', …

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Cover of Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

1. Uncle Tom’s Cabin

By: Harriet Beecher Stowe

3.91

Format: 438 pages, Paperback

The narrative drive of Stowe's classic novel is often overlooked in the heat of the controversies s… read more

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"Liberty! -- Electric word!"

-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

"Some jokes are less agreeable than others"

-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

"Still waters run deepest, they used to tell me."

-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

"What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear."

-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Cover of Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez

2. Of Love and Other Demons

By: Gabriel García Márquez

3.96

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria, the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-c… read more

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  • spanish literature
  • latin american literature
  • fiction
"<>, dijo."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

"Do not allow me to forget you"

-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

"Vivo espantado de estar vivo."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

"Ideas do not belong to anyone,"

-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

Cover of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Margaret Mauldon, Malcolm Bowie, Mark Overstall

3. Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The characte… read more

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  • fiction
"Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

Cover of Travesuras de la niña mala by Mario Vargas Llosa

4. Travesuras de la niña mala

By: Mario Vargas Llosa

3.55

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

?Cual es el verdadero rostro del amor? Ricardo ve cumplido, a una edad muy temprana, el sueno que e… read more

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  • spanish literature
  • latin american literature
  • fiction
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5. Immortality

By: Milan Kundera

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

This breathtaking, reverberating survey of human nature finds Kundera still attempting to work out … read more

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  • fiction
"The reign of imagology begins where history ends"

-Milan Kundera, Immortality

"واحسرتاه! ففي حالة الحب يكفي القليل جداً لزرع اليأس في النفس!."

-Milan Kundera, Immortality

"To be absolutely modern is to be the ally of one's grave diggers."

-Milan Kundera, Immortality

"I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them."

-Milan Kundera, Immortality

Cover of Un mundo para Julius by Alfredo Bryce Echenique

6. Un mundo para Julius

By: Alfredo Bryce Echenique

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Esta ha sido elegida la mejor novela peruana de todos los tiempos. Es el retrato de un sector feliz… read more

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  • spanish literature
  • fiction
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7. The Feast of the Goat

By: Mario Vargas Llosa , Edith Grossman

4.33

Format: 475 pages, Paperback

Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns… read more

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  • spanish literature
  • latin american literature
  • fiction
"باور نمی کردم که او به دوست قدیمی خودش نارو بزند. خب دیگر، سیاست یعنی همین، آدم روی جنازه دیگران جلو می رود."

-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat

"They had forgotten the abuses, the murders, the corruption, the spying, the isolation, the fear: horror had become myth. Everybody had jobs and there wasn't so much crime."

-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat

"миллионы людей, одурманенные пропагандой и отсутствием информации, отупевшие от догматизма и изоляции от внешнего мира, лишенные свободы и воли, а от страха—даже и любопытства, пришли к угодничеству …"

-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat

"Într-o clasificare după merite, pe primul loc se află militarii. Îşi fac datoria, se ţin foarte puţin de intrigi, nu pierd timpul. Apoi, tăranii. (…) Urmează funcţionarii, întreprinzătorii, comercian…"

-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat

8. Tengo Miedo Torero

By: Pedro Lemebel

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • spanish literature
  • fiction
Cover of The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, Seán Barrett, William Weaver

9. The Name of the Rose

By: Umberto Eco , Seán Barrett , William Weaver

4.14

Format: 552 pages, Paperback

The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother Willi… read more

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  • fiction
"الكتب ليست مجعولة كي نؤمن بما تقوله ولكن لكي نتحرّى فيها."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

Cover of Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa, None

10. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

By: Mario Vargas Llosa , None

3.54

Format: None pages,

Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth,… read more

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  • spanish literature
  • latin american literature
  • fiction
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11. Ollantay

By: Anonymous

3.92

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Version original quechua del codice conservado en el Archivo Nacional del Peru con el titulo espano… read more

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  • spanish literature
  • fiction
Cover of The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley

12. The Aleph and Other Stories

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley

4.33

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's mo… read more

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  • spanish literature
  • fiction
Cover of The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness by Epictetus, Sharon Lebell

13. The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness

By: Epictetus , Sharon Lebell

3.37

Format: None pages,

Epictetus was born into slavery about 55 C.E. in the eastern outreaches of the Roman Empire. Sold a… read more

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14. Ham on Rye

By: Charles Bukowski

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely … read more

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15. Platero y yo

By: Juan Ramón Jiménez , Antonio Frasconi

3.59

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Juan Ramon Jimenez escribe Platero y yo al volver a su pueblo natal, Moguer, despues de haber pasad… read more

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16. Death in the Andes

By: Mario Vargas Llosa , Edith Grossman

3.37

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

In an isolated community in the Peruvian Andes, a series of mysterious disappearances has occurred.… read more

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17. Los gallinazos sin plumas

By: Julio Ramón Ribeyro

4.16

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

En Los gallinazos sin plumas, primera publicacion del autor, desfilan seres marginales retratados m… read more

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18. Asfixia

By: Alex Mírez

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Planeta tierra. Poblacion: 1 No logramos entender como paso. El primero de septiembre de 2019, suce… read more

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19. La ciudad y los perros

By: Mario Vargas Llosa

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Mass Market Paperback

En 1962, La ciudad y los perros recibia el Premio Biblioteca Breve. Asi comenzaba la andadura liter… read more

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20. Los perros hambrientos

By: Ciro Alegría

4.07

Format: None pages,

Deze roman schetst ons een beeld van het harde leven van een schaapsherder in de Andes. Het hoofdve… read more

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21. Conversation in the Cathedral

By: Gregory Rabassa , Mario Vargas Llosa

4.00

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

A Haunting tale of power, corruption, and the complex search for identity, Conversation in The Cath… read more

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22. The Green House

By: Gregory Rabassa , Mario Vargas Llosa

4.00

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Mario Vargas Llosa's classic early novel takes place in a Peruvian town, situated between desert an… read more

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23. Cien cuyes

By: Gustavo Rodríguez

4.14

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

Cuando Eufrasia Vela empieza a trabajar como cuidadora de ancianos, no sospecha que su oficio la ll… read more

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  • spanish literature
  • fiction
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24. Poeta chileno

By: Alejandro Zambra

4.39

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

En Santiago de Chile, a principios de los años noventa del pasado siglo, dos quinceañeros, Gonzalo … read more

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  • spanish literature
  • fiction
"fumar rabiosamente y aguantar las lágrimas, lo que no era fácil, porque fumar y llorar son actividades complementarias"

-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

"Decir que eso la felicidad: nunca sentir que sería mejor estar en otra parte, nunca sentir que sería mejor ser alguien más. Otra persona. Alguien más joven, más viejo. Alguien mejor."

-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

"El padre señala con sutileza y autoridad la forma correcta de patear la pelota, porque el padre sabe de esas cosas. El padre se deja ganar, porque para ser un buen padre hay que dejarse ganar. Ser pa…"

-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

"It is better to write than not to write. Poetry is subversive because it exposes you, tears you apart. You dare to distrust yourself. You dare to disobey. That's the idea, to disobey everyone. Disobe…"

-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

Cover of Goodbye, Eri by Tatsuki Fujimoto

25. Goodbye, Eri

By: Tatsuki Fujimoto

4.34

Format: 202 pages, None

With his mother dying, Yuta attempts to capture her last days on his phone. After her death, Yuta h… read more

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  • fiction
"It's missing a pinch of fantasy, don't you think?"

-Tatsuki Fujimoto, Goodbye, Eri

Cover of On Anger by Seneca

26. On Anger

By: Seneca

4.21

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Roma’nın belki de en tartışmalı imparatorlarından Nero’nun eğitmenliğini yapmış, Roma’nın o çetin v… read more

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"My anger is more likely to do me more harm than your wrong."

-Seneca, On Anger

"We often are angry," says our adversary, "not with men who have hurt us, but with men who are going to hurt us: so you may be sure that anger is not born of injury."

-Seneca, On Anger

"If any one is angry with you, meet his anger by returning benefits for it: a quarrel which is only taken up on one side falls to the ground: it takes two men to fight."

-Seneca, On Anger

"El mejor remedio para la ira es el tiempo. No le pidas al principio que perdone, sino que juzgue; si espera, se disipa. No trates de comprimirla de un solo golpe; su primer arrebato es demasiado enér…"

-Seneca, On Anger

Cover of The Houseguest and Other Stories by Amparo Dávila

27. The Houseguest and Other Stories

By: Amparo Dávila

3.65

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

The first collection in English of an endlessly surprising, master storyteller Like those of Kafka,… read more

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  • fiction
"The daily exercise of suffering gives one the gaze of an abandoned dog and the colour of a ghost. - Fragment of a Diary [July to August] "

-Amparo Dávila, The Houseguest and Other Stories

Cover of Donde viven las musas by Marianela Dos Santos

28. Donde viven las musas

By: Marianela Dos Santos

3.99

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

¿Qué tienen en común las historias más románticas de la mitología griega con tu propio dolor conver… read more

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"Siempre vivirás en esas almas que tocaste y marcaste con tu tinta"

-Marianela Dos Santos, Donde viven las musas

"Sé que no soy todo lo que esperás pero aspiro ser lo que mereces: un amor real, más allá de tu cuerpo, que hable tu mismo lenguaje"

-Marianela Dos Santos, Donde viven las musas

Cover of ¿De qué colegio eres?: La reproducción de la clase alta en el Perú (Spanish Edition) by Luciana Reátegui

29. ¿De qué colegio eres?: La reproducción de la clase alta en el Perú (Spanish Edition)

By: Luciana Reátegui

3.87

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

¿El éxito depende solo del mérito y el esfuerzo? El presente libro aborda esta interrogante a parti… read more

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30. El Sexto

By: José María Arguedas

3.91

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Barcelona. 19 cm. 228 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Laia B', … read more

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  • spanish literature
  • latin american literature
  • fiction
Cover of No me esperen en abril by Alfredo Bryce Echenique

31. No me esperen en abril

By: Alfredo Bryce Echenique

4.09

Format: 616 pages, Paperback

En el Perú de los años 50 Manongo Sterne vive su primera adolescencia entre colegios de los que es … read more

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  • fiction

11 must-read spanish literature books like El Sexto by José María Arguedas

Transform Your Habits

Of Love and Other Demons

Gabriel García Márquez

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Travesuras de la niña mala

Mario Vargas Llosa

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Un mundo para Julius

Alfredo Bryce Echenique

3.66

Transform Your Habits

The Feast of the Goat

Mario Vargas Llosa , Edith Grossman

4.33

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16 Top history books like The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness by Epictetus, Sharon Lebell

Transform Your Habits

L'arte di essere felici

Seneca , Mario Scaffidi Abbate

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Fragments

James Hillman , Heraclitus , Brooks Haxton

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus's Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior (Hoover Essays)

James B. Stockdale

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

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