5 must-read historical fiction books like Quinx or The Ripper's Tale by Lawrence Durrell

If you liked the historical fiction plot in Quinx or The Ripper's Tale by Lawrence Durrell , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Similar categories in Iris Murdoch's The Black Prince book and Lawrence Durrell's Quinx or The Ripper's Tale

• literature
• fiction
• 20th century
• british literature

"Coming events do cast shadows."

-Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

"I've thought about nothing else but you."

-Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

"Sometimes one feels suddenly doomed by fate."

-Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

"I know people can be awful dooms for each other."

-Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

Similar categories in Michel Houellebecq's La carte et le territoire book and Lawrence Durrell's Quinx or The Ripper's Tale

• literature
• fiction

"Sexuality is a fragile thing: it is difficult to enter, and easy to leave."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

"Jed then realized that he was standing in a book, and wondered if this book told the story of his life."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

"Las flores son sólo órganos sexuales, vaginas abigarradas que adornan la superficie del mundo, entregadas a la lubricidad de los insectos."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

"Ciudată e uneori omenirea. Din nefericire, cel mai adesea era genul ciudată și respingătoare, și doar arareori de genul ciudat și încântător."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

Similar categories in Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot book and Lawrence Durrell's Quinx or The Ripper's Tale

• british literature
• literature
• fiction
• historical fiction
• 20th century

"How submerged does a reference have to be before it drowns?"

-Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

"Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all."

-Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

"Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar."

-Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

"Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity."

-Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

Similar categories in Hiromi Kawakami's The Nakano Thrift Shop: A Novel book and Lawrence Durrell's Quinx or The Ripper's Tale

• fiction

Similar categories in Javier Marías's A Heart So White book and Lawrence Durrell's Quinx or The Ripper's Tale

• literature
• fiction
• 20th century

"No es fácil saber por qué se mata la gente, ni los más próximos, todo el mundo está trastornado, todo el mundo las pasa putas, a veces sin causa y casi siempre en secreto, la gente vuelve cara contra…"

-Javier Marías, A Heart So White

"Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears don’t have lids that can instinctively close against the words…"

-Javier Marías, A Heart So White

"Casi todo el mundo se avergüenza de su juventud, no es muy cierto que se añore como se dice, más bien se relega o rehúye y con facilidad o esfuerzo se confina el origen a la esfera de los malos sueño…"

-Javier Marías, A Heart So White

"I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance, even if it’s one of the innumerable languages I don’t know, even if …"

-Javier Marías, A Heart So White

Similar categories in Nikolai Gogol's The Nose book and Lawrence Durrell's Quinx or The Ripper's Tale

• fiction

Similar categories in Susan Bernofsky's Visitation book and Lawrence Durrell's Quinx or The Ripper's Tale

• fiction
• historical fiction

Similar categories in Sándor Márai's Embers book and Lawrence Durrell's Quinx or The Ripper's Tale

Similar categories in Ágota Kristóf's L'analphabète: récit autobiographique book and Lawrence Durrell's Quinx or The Ripper's Tale

• literature

"You become a writer by writing with patience and obstinacy, without ever losing faith in what you write."

-Ágota Kristóf, L'analphabète: récit autobiographique

"في الغالب أكتفي بالكتابة في ذهني . ذلك اسهل . داخل الراس تجري الامور كلها بيسر . لكن ما ان نشرع في الكتابة حتى تتغير الأفكار .تتشوه.تصير خاطئة"

-Ágota Kristóf, L'analphabète: récit autobiographique

Similar categories in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North book and Lawrence Durrell's Quinx or The Ripper's Tale

• literature
• fiction
• 20th century
• historical fiction

"شفق المغيب ليس دماً ، ولكنه حناء في قدم المرأة"

-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North

"لا يعنيني أن كان للحياة معنى أو لم يكن لها معنى."

-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North

"You are entitled to wonder and to doubt - you're free."

-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North

"أشباح الليل تتبخر مع الفجر ، وحمى النهار تبرد مع نسيم الليل"

-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North

Similar categories in Susan Bernofsky's The End of Days book and Lawrence Durrell's Quinx or The Ripper's Tale

Similar categories in Julian Barnes's The Noise of Time book and Lawrence Durrell's Quinx or The Ripper's Tale

Similar categories in Veronica Raimo's Niente di vero book and Lawrence Durrell's Quinx or The Ripper's Tale

• fiction

"Quando finalmente arrivò la scoperta dei libri, non fu una forma di evasione, piuttosto una rasserenante coalescenza di noia. Riuscivo quasi a visualizzarla, bianca e melmosa: leggere era come sprofo…"

-Veronica Raimo, Niente di vero

Similar categories in Édouard Louis's Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme book and Lawrence Durrell's Quinx or The Ripper's Tale

"Why do I feel as though I'm writing a sad story, when my aim was to tell the story of a liberation?"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"I'd gotten so used to seeing her unhappy at home that the joy on her face seemed scandalous to me, a deceit, a lie that had to be exposed as soon as possible."

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"I started this book wanting to tell the story of a woman, but I've realized that yours is the story of a human being who fought for the right to exist as a woman, as opposed to the nonexistence impos…"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"A final memory. A few months ago, in the garden of a teahouse where I’d suggested we meet, she told me how she had once been called to the school by my teacher when I was six years old. The teacher w…"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

Similar categories in Ágota Kristóf's Da igual: Los veinticinco cuentos despiadados de Agota Kristof book and Lawrence Durrell's Quinx or The Ripper's Tale

• literature
• fiction

"È lì, accanto al letto , sul tappeto. Ha una scure piantata nella testa. Vuole visitarlo? Sì, lo visiti pure. Un incidente davvero stupido, non trova? È caduto dal letto nel sonno, ed è caduto su que…"

-Ágota Kristóf, Da igual: Los veinticinco cuentos despiadados de Agota Kristof

"– Allora a domani, Lucien, – dice. E prima di riattaccare aggiunge: – Trovo tutto ciò appassionante. Appassionante! C’è gente che usa certe parole con grande facilità. Io non potrei mai parlare così.…"

-Ágota Kristóf, Da igual: Los veinticinco cuentos despiadados de Agota Kristof

"Chiudete bene la porta. Io arrivo senza rumore, con le mani guantate di nero. Non sono il tipo brutale. E neppure vorace e stupido. Sulle mie tempie e sui polsi potreste ammirare il disegno delicato …"

-Ágota Kristóf, Da igual: Los veinticinco cuentos despiadados de Agota Kristof

"A quei tempi consumavo un'enorme quantità di gesso, per via di una carenza di calcio. La cosa mi causava un po' di febbre, ma non ne ho mai approfittato per trascurare la scuola, poiché – come dico s…"

-Ágota Kristóf, Da igual: Los veinticinco cuentos despiadados de Agota Kristof

Similar categories in Annie Ernaux's A Woman's Story book and Lawrence Durrell's Quinx or The Ripper's Tale

• literature

"Until I was twenty, I thought I was responsible for her growing old."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"With so much misery around, fighting for social advancement had lost all meaning."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"I believe I am writing about my mother because it is my turn to bring her into the world."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"Het beeld van haar wordt langzaam weer dat wat ik mij voorstel te hebben gehad van haar in mijn babytijd, een grote, blanke schaduw boven mij."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

Similar categories in Anthony Veasna So's Afterparties book and Lawrence Durrell's Quinx or The Ripper's Tale

• fiction

"Fuck everyone else, I want to say, for burdening the two of us with all their baggage. Let's go back to minding our own business, anything but this. Who cares about our family? What have they ever do…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

"Seeing a sloppy wet penis enter a sloppy wet vagina, from above, going in and out with the practiced tempo of professionals, strikes me as yet another drama for the ages I am meant only to witness, r…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

"The dream unfolds: Somaly and I are sitting at a dinner table. She wears a white sampot covered in jewels perfectly matching her necklace. She’s almost akin to an apsara in a painting—aggressively el…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

"We drove through a few more neighborhoods after that, searching for the lost truck, listening to a CD of old Khmer songs, the same CD that had been stuck in the stereo since the Honda had belonged to…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

Similar categories in Amina Cain's Indelicacy book and Lawrence Durrell's Quinx or The Ripper's Tale

• fiction

"I hated March more than any other month, with its promises of warmth that never came"

-Amina Cain, Indelicacy

"I would listen to a bird cry, or the cat and the dog scratching around. In those moments I felt like a giant ear."

-Amina Cain, Indelicacy

"In books I found even more strongly my desire to write, to write back to them and their jagged, perfect words. I found life that ran close to my own"

-Amina Cain, Indelicacy

"Why is empty space a comfort and a relief? It's not because I project myself there; it's because I can't. It shows me my projections, but they haven't left my mind. Empty space remains empty, always.…"

-Amina Cain, Indelicacy

Similar categories in Yūko Tsushima's Of Dogs and Walls book and Lawrence Durrell's Quinx or The Ripper's Tale

• fiction

"Living right in the heart of Tokyo itself is quite like living in the mountains – in the midst of so many people, one hardly sees anyone."

-Yūko Tsushima, Of Dogs and Walls

Similar categories in Lawrence Durrell's Quinx or The Ripper's Tale book and Lawrence Durrell's Quinx or The Ripper's Tale

• british literature
• literature
• fiction
• historical fiction
• 20th century

Similar categories in Han Kang's We Do Not Part book and Lawrence Durrell's Quinx or The Ripper's Tale

• fiction
• historical fiction