7 Best historical books like Franz Kafka ne veut pas mourir by Laurent Seksik

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Franz Kafka ne veut pas mourir

By: Laurent Seksik

3.81

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

"Tuez-moi, sinon vous êtes un assassin." Telles sont les dernières paroles de Franz Kafka qui implo…

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1. The Golden Child

By: Penelope Fitzgerald

3.84

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

Penelope Fitzgerald's novel, The Golden Child, combines a deft comedy of manners with a classic mys… read more

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  • fiction
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2. Rain (Blackwater, #6)

By: Michael McDowell

4.16

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

The mysterious saga of the Caskey family concludes in Blackwater VI: Rain. Time heals old wound… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction

3. Amerika

By: Franz Kafka

3.67

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

Kafka's first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who,… read more

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  • fiction
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4. Death and the Penguin

By: Andrey Kurkov , George Bird

4.33

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although he would prefe… read more

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  • fiction

5. 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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6. Momentos estelares de la humanidad: Catorce miniaturas históricas

By: Stefan Zweig , Berta Vias Mahou

4.24

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Éste es probablemente el libro más famoso de Stefan Zweig. En él lleva a su cima el arte de la mini… read more

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  • historical
"Pero incluso con sus favoritos, el destino no siempre se muestra magnánimo. Rara vez conceden los dioses a los mortales más de una hazaña única e imperecedera."

-Stefan Zweig, Momentos estelares de la humanidad: Catorce miniaturas históricas

"Ama ne yazık ki tarihte hep aynı trajedi tekrarlanmaktadır, çünkü fikir adamları zamanı gelince, dava adamı olma sorumluluğunu üstlenmekte zorlanırlar ve pek nadir durumlarda harekete geçerler. Düşün…"

-Stefan Zweig, Momentos estelares de la humanidad: Catorce miniaturas históricas

"ich spüre wieder erschrocken, eine wie schwache, armselige und quallige Substanz das doch sein muß, was wir immer großspurig Seele, Geist, Gefühl, was wir Schmerzen nen- nen, da all dies selbst im äu…"

-Stefan Zweig, Momentos estelares de la humanidad: Catorce miniaturas históricas

7. Letter to His Father

By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Eithne Wilkins , Ernst Kaiser , Willem van Toorn , Gerda Meijerink

3.53

Format: 349 pages,

This is the bilingual edition with German verso, English recto. read more

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8. 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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  • fiction
"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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9. Bournville

By: Jonathan Coe

3.81

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
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10. Le Silence et la Colère

By: Pierre Lemaitre

4.23

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

Un ogre de béton, une vilaine chute dans l’escalier, le Salon des arts ménagers, une grossesse prob… read more

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  • fiction
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11. S'adapter

By: Clara Dupont-Monod

4.09

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

C’est l’histoire d’un enfant aux yeux noirs qui flottent, et s’échappent dans le vague, un enfant t… read more

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  • fiction
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12. Veiller sur elle

By: Jean-Baptiste Andrea

4.28

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

​Au grand jeu du destin, Mimo a tiré les mauvaises cartes. Né pauvre, il est confié en apprentissag… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
"Les mots ont un sens, nommer c'est comprendre"

-Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Veiller sur elle

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13. Au revoir là-haut

By: Pierre Lemaitre

4.20

Format: 567 pages, Paperback

Sur les ruines du plus grand carnage du XXe siècle,deux rescapés des tranchées, passablement abîmés… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
"Même les grandes joies vous laissent un peu de regret, il y a un fond de manque dans tout ce qu'on vit."

-Pierre Lemaitre, Au revoir là-haut

"Elle les avait démasqués de loin, les petits ambitieux qui la trouvait banale vue de face, mais très jolie vue de dot."

-Pierre Lemaitre, Au revoir là-haut

"Le pays tout entier était saisi d'une fureur commémorative en faveur des morts, proportionnelle à sa répulsion vis-à-vis des survivants."

-Pierre Lemaitre, Au revoir là-haut

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14. 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

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15. Los ingratos

By: Pedro Simón

4.41

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

«Nos rezaban que cuatro esquinitas tenía mi cama y que cuatro angelitos nos la guardaban, pero mi c… read more

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  • fiction
"Se van marchando. Un día se marchan los siete años, pum. Otro día se marchan los coho, pum. Otro día se van los nueve, pum. Y después no los busque por ninguna parte, porque, si los encuentra, seguro…"

-Pedro Simón, Los ingratos

"Yo había estado en otros pueblos de los que me había ido sin parecer un lloricas. Así había sido varias veces: mi madre tenía una nueva plaza, hacíamos el equipaje y nos íbamos, sin más. Viajaba cont…"

-Pedro Simón, Los ingratos

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16. La conformista

By: Alba Dedeu

3.53

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

Eva y Pere venden pollos al ast y huelen a fritanga de pies a cabeza. Eva no se resigna: se lava el… read more

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"Al final lo dejamos estar, nos quedamos abrazados en la penumbra, cada uno con un zumbido de frustraciones secretas en la cabeza que quizá se parecían mucho"

-Alba Dedeu, La conformista

"Pero no te fustigues ahora, que aún no has hecho nada malo, ¿Por qué me parece, entonces, que voy a comprar 150 gramos de ibérico para hacerme perdonar algo?"

-Alba Dedeu, La conformista

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17. El ojo de Goliat

By: Diego Muzzio

4.15

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

A Edward Pierce; psiquiatra inglés; le piden que trate el caso de David Bradley; un ingeniero de la… read more

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  • fiction
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18. Le bureau d'éclaircissement des destins

By: Gaëlle Nohant

4.27

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

Au cœur de l’Allemagne, l’International Tracing Service est le plus grand centre de documentation s… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
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19. Julia

By: Sandra Newman

3.78

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia… read more

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  • fiction
"У цьому весь жах. Ти не маєш вибору, а все ж мусиш діяти точно так, ніби маєш."

-Sandra Newman, Julia

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20. Les Aérostats

By: Amélie Nothomb

3.65

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

"La jeunesse est un talent, il faut des années pour l'acquérir." Dans ce nouveau livre, la romanci… read more

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  • fiction
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21. La familia grande

By: Camille Kouchner

4.09

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

« Souviens-toi, maman : nous étions tes enfants. » C.K. C’est l’histoire d’une grande famille q… read more

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"Victime de la perversité. Pervertie, mais pas perverse, maman."

-Camille Kouchner, La familia grande

"It’s parents who make their children keep these things quiet. Not brothers."

-Camille Kouchner, La familia grande

"My silence is the result of your breakdown and the lack of trust at home, mum."

-Camille Kouchner, La familia grande

"Je suis interdite de passé. Quel chagrin d'être privée des souvenirs de son enfance, et des gens qu'on aimait."

-Camille Kouchner, La familia grande

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22. Die Enkelin

By: Bernhard Schlink

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Im Sommer 1964 verlieben sich eine Studentin aus dem Osten und ein Student aus dem Westen ineinande… read more

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  • fiction
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23. Le Barman du Ritz

By: Philippe Collin

4.14

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Juin 1940. Les Allemands entrent dans Paris. Partout, le couvre-feu est de rigueur, sauf au grand h… read more

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  • fiction
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24. Clara Reads Proust

By: Stéphane Carlier

3.59

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A tender and witty coming-of-age story about the power of literature to inspire new beginnings, pep… read more

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  • fiction
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25. La novela olvidada en la casa del ingeniero

By: Soledad Puértolas

2.94

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Una historia dentro de una historia dentro de una historia, en la que los mecanismos de la ficción … read more

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26. Nada más ilusorio

By: Marta Pérez-Carbonell

3.60

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

Una novela sobre el peligroso poder de contar historias Un fenómeno literario imparable vendido … read more

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27. Franz Kafka ne veut pas mourir

By: Laurent Seksik

3.81

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

"Tuez-moi, sinon vous êtes un assassin." Telles sont les dernières paroles de Franz Kafka qui implo… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
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28. 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
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29. Houris

By: Kamel Daoud

4.03

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

"Je suis la véritable trace, le plus solide des indices attestant de tout ce que nous avons vécu en… read more

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  • fiction
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30. Mémoire de soie

By: Adrien Borne

3.36

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Ce 9 juin 1936, Émile a vingt ans et il part pour son service militaire. Pourtant, rien ne vient bo… read more

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31. Mesopotamia

By: Olivier Guez

3.88

Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition

Vous ne la connaissez pas, pourtant elle a tenu le monde entre ses mains. Au lendemain de la Premiè… read more

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21 best-selling fiction books like Franz Kafka ne veut pas mourir by Laurent Seksik

Transform Your Habits

The Golden Child

Penelope Fitzgerald

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Rain (Blackwater, #6)

Michael McDowell

4.16

Amerika

Franz Kafka

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Death and the Penguin

Andrey Kurkov , George Bird

4.33

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

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Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

3.85

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Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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