15 Top fiction books like The Short Reign of Pippin IV by John Steinbeck

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The Short Reign of Pippin IV

By: John Steinbeck

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Steinbeck's only work of political satire turns the French Revolution on its head, as amateur astro…

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1. Across the River and into the Trees

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Liev Schreiber! A poignant tale of a revitalizing love … read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Ma che cosa posso raccontare a questa ragazza, ora, in questa fredda mattina ventosa al Gritti Palace Hotel? “Che cosa vorresti sapere, Figlia?"

-Ernest Hemingway, Across the River and into the Trees

"In America, they make such things of wire and of sponge-rubber, such as you use in the sets of tanks. You never know there, whether there is any truth in the matter, unless you are a bad boy as I am."

-Ernest Hemingway, Across the River and into the Trees

"I don't know. I guess the cards we draw are those we get. You wouldn't like to re-deal would you, dealer? No. They only deal to you once and then you pick them up and play them. I can play them, if I…"

-Ernest Hemingway, Across the River and into the Trees

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2. Soldiers' Pay

By: William Faulkner

3.41

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

A group of soldiers travel by train across the United States in the aftermath of the First World Wa… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Who gathers the withered rose?"

-William Faulkner, Soldiers' Pay

"Sex and death: the front door and the back door of the world."

-William Faulkner, Soldiers' Pay

"Wanton stars galloped neighing like unicorns in blue meadows."

-William Faulkner, Soldiers' Pay

"Freedom comes with the decision: it does not wait for the act."

-William Faulkner, Soldiers' Pay

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3. Flags in the Dust

By: William Faulkner , Douglas Day

3.90

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The complete text of Faulkner's third novel, published for the first time in 1973, appeared with hi… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Nowadays he drove the car into town to fetch his grandfather from habit alone, and though he still considered forty five miles an hour merely cruising speed, he no longer took cold and fiendish pleas…"

-William Faulkner, Flags in the Dust

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4. Shadows on the Rock

By: Willa Cather

4.00

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

Set in seventeenth-century Canada, an evocation of North American origins highlights the men and … read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The mind, too, has a kind of blood; in common speech we call it hope."

-Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock

"You must pray for him, my child. It is to such as he that our Blessed Mother comes nearest."

-Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock

"Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything."

-Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock

"The Law is to protect property, and it thinks too much of property. A couple of brass pots, an old saddle, are reckoned worth more than a poor man’s life."

-Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock

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5. Deadeye Dick

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.38

Format: 613 pages, Paperback

Deadeye Dickis Kurt Vonnegut's funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a t… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • humor
  • fiction
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6. Player Piano

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.38

Format: 613 pages, Paperback

Kurt Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way t… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • humor
  • fiction
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7. The Short Reign of Pippin IV

By: John Steinbeck

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Steinbeck's only work of political satire turns the French Revolution on its head, as amateur astro… read more

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  • nobel prize
  • classics
  • literature
  • politics
  • humor
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. The Actual : A Novella

By: Saul Bellow

3.26

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The Nobel Prize and National Book Award-winning novelist introduces Harry Trellman, an aging busine… read more

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  • literature
  • nobel prize
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, Patricia Ingham

9. Martin Chuzzlewit

By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Patricia Ingham

3.64

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

Set partly in the United States, this novel includes a searing satire on mid-nineteenth-century Ame… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

10. The Garden Party

By: Katherine Mansfield

3.62

Format: None pages, ebook

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more

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11. The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder

By: Patricia Highsmith

3.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

Nowhere is Patricia Highsmith's affinity for animals more apparent than in The Animal-Lover's Book … read more

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12. La Comtesse de Cagliostro (Arsène Lupin, #12)

By: Maurice Leblanc

3.46

Format: None pages,

C'est ici la premiere aventure d'Arsene Lupin, et sans doute eut-elle ete publiee avant les autres … read more

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13. The Torrents of Spring

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.11

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

First published in 1926, The Torrents of Spring is a hilarious parody of the Chicago school of lite… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
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14. Bluebeard

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.06

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at ag… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • humor
  • fiction
"It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard

"Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard

"Why should a real man stay home when he could be raping a virgin continent?"

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard

"We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard

15. The Cat Who Went Underground (Cat Who... #9)

By: Lilian Jackson Braun

4.18

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Jim Qwilleran packs up his old kit bag and his two Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum, for a sun-and-fu… read more

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16. 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
  • historical fiction
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17. A Dictator Calls

By: Ismail Kadare

3.14

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Using a sophisticated and literary version of the ever-popular game of telephone to examine the rel… read more

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  • literature
  • politics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"And a cursory glance at Karl Marx shows that a man who had dedicated his life to the violent overthrow of the world order never devoted half a page in any of his dozens of books to the trauma and rem…"

-Ismail Kadare, A Dictator Calls

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18. The Cat Who Sniffed Glue (Cat Who... #8)

By: Lilian Jackson Braun

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Living in the peaceful city of Pickax may be restful, but it certainly isn't dull. At least not for… read more

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  • fiction
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19. Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck

By: William Souder

4.09

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A resonant biography of America’s most celebrated novelist of the Great Depression. The first fu… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
Cover of Året med 13 månader by Åsa Linderborg

20. Året med 13 månader

By: Åsa Linderborg

3.62

Format: 494 pages, Hardcover

Året med 13 månader är en dagbok från hösten 2017 till hösten 2018. Det är ett dramatiskt år i Sver… read more

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  • politics
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21. Lady Susan & The Watsons (AmazonClassics Edition)

By: Jane Austen

3.76

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

Lady Susan has just arrived uninvited at the country home of her brother-in-law, Charles, and his u… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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Ernest Hemingway

3.31

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Soldiers' Pay

William Faulkner

3.41

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Flags in the Dust

William Faulkner , Douglas Day

3.90

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Willa Cather

4.00

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4.49

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Veronica Raimo

3.59

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Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

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3.78

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