12 Top fiction books like Jahrestage by Uwe Johnson

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Jahrestage

By: Uwe Johnson

4.33

Format: 1703 pages, Paperback

Die Johnson-Forschung befindet sich seit jeher in einem Kaum ein Schriftsteller muss so hart darum …

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1. Too Much Happiness: Stories

By: Alice Munro

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In these ten stories, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into st… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"It was comparable to getting sick from bad ventilation"

-Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories

"Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person."

-Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories

"It was a most insistent place but nobody seemed to be overwhelmed by all the insistence."

-Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories

"You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never."

-Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories

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2. Every Man Dies Alone

By: Hans Fallada , Michael Hofmann , Geoff Wilkes

4.26

Format: 543 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is the gripping tale of an ordinary man's … read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
  • literature
  • historical
  • germany
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Because it is written that you reap what you sow, and the boy had sown good corn."

-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone

"Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour."

-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone

"Qu'un seul être souffre injustement, et que, pouvant y changer quelque chose, je ne le fasse pas, parce que je suis lâche et que j'aime trop ma tranquillité..."

-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone

"Not that she's a political animal, she's just an ordinary woman, but as a woman she's of the view that you don't bring children into the world to have them shot."

-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone

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3. Giù la piazza non c'è nessuno

By: Dolores Prato

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

Giu la piazza non c'e nessunoracconta di un'infanzia primonovecentesca trascorsa ai bordi d'Italia … read more

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4. Little Man, What Now?

By: Hans Fallada

2.55

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Since its first publication in 1933, this novel has become a world classic. It provides a vivid, po… read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
  • germany
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
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5. Dime quién soy

By: Julia Navarro

3.66

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Una periodista recibe una propuesta para investigar la azarosa vida de su bisabuela, una mujer de l… read more

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  • historical
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. Hay. De geautoriseerde biografie van de grootste rockster die Nederland ooit heeft gekend

By: Sander Donkers

4.44

Format: None pages, Paperback

Barry Hay, leadzanger van de grootste rock-'n-rollband van Nederland: The Golden Earring. Zevenenze… read more

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7. Mensen zonder uitstraling

By: Jente Posthuma

4.25

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

De stuurloze hoofdpersoon van 'Mensen zonder uitstraling' leeft in de schaduw van haar moeder, een … read more

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8. La Superba

By: Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

3.74

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

Deze roman is een monument voor een stad zoals er maar één is, Genua, La Superba (de hoogmoedige). … read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction

9. Min kamp 3 (Min kamp #3)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

3.97

Format: 434 pages, Hardcover

MIN KAMP 3 er en roman om barndom. En familie pa fire, mor, far og to drenge flytter til et hus i e… read more

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10. Ulysses

By: James Joyce

3.75

Format: 925 pages, Paperback

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • novels
"Shite and onions!"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Let my country die for me."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Be just before you are generous."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

11. Dispara, yo ya estoy muerto

By: Julia Navarro

3.48

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

Hay momentos en la vida en los que la unica manera de salvarse a uno mismo es muriendo o matando. A… read more

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12. Binnen de huid

By: J.J. Voskuil

4.15

Format: 128 pages,

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13. Contempt

By: Alberto Moravia , Tim Parks , Angus Davidson

4.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

Contemptis a brilliant and unsettling work by one of the revolutionary masters of modern European l… read more

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14. 10:04

By: Ben Lerner

3.97

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

In the last year, the narrator of 10:04has enjoyed unlikely literary success, has been diagnosed wi… read more

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15. Der Trafikant

By: Robert Seethaler

4.34

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Osterreich 1937: Der 17-jahrige Franz Huchel verlasst sein Heimatdorf, um in Wien als Lehrling in e… read more

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16. Baumgartner

By: Paul Auster

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

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17. Luister

By: Sacha Bronwasser

3.95

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Het nieuws reisde snel, zoals dat soort nieuws doet. Ik wist dat het ook over jou ging zodra het ee… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
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18. Ordinary Human Failings

By: Megan Nolan

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

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19. Lichtspiel

By: Daniel Kehlmann

4.28

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

Einer der Größten des Kinos, vielleicht der größte Regisseur seiner Epoche: Zur Machtergreifung dre… read more

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  • german literature
  • literature
  • historical
  • germany
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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20. De kant van Ada

By: Peter Middendorp

3.60

Format: 115 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Alsof het gister is gebeurd, zo scherp. Dertien jaar had ik niet geweten dat ik het wist, maar toe… read more

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  • fiction
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21. Jahrestage

By: Uwe Johnson

4.33

Format: 1703 pages, Paperback

Die Johnson-Forschung befindet sich seit jeher in einem Kaum ein Schriftsteller muss so hart darum … read more

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  • german literature
  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • historical
  • germany
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels

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2.55

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3.66

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3.74

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3.90

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4.06

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