The Mad Dog: Stories
By: Heinrich Böll
3.45
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature In this collect…
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1. The Glass Bees
By: Louise Bogan , Bruce Sterling , Ernst Jünger , Elizabeth Mayer
3.69
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
In The Glass Bees the celebrated German writer Ernst Jünger presents a disconcerting vision of the … read more
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- german literature
- germany
- fiction
"Every master has the servant he deserves."-Louise Bogan, The Glass Bees
"A great physicist is always a metaphysicist as well; he has a higher concept of his knowledge and his task."-Louise Bogan, The Glass Bees
"Unfortunately robots capable of manufacturing robots do not exist. That would be the philosopher's stone, the squaring of the circle."-Louise Bogan, The Glass Bees
"We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle."-Louise Bogan, The Glass Bees
2. Doctor Zhivago
By: Boris Pasternak , John Bayley , Manya Harari , Max Hayward
4.01
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family … read more
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- war
- fiction
"Only the superfluous is sordid"-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"And the strong are dominated by the weak and the ignoble."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
3. Waiting for the Barbarians
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.93
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny fr… read more
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- fiction
"Nothing is worse than what we can imagine"-J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
"Schmerz ist Wahrheit; alles andere wird angezweifelt."-J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
"A fool in love is laughed at but in the end always forgiven"-J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
"I am now no more than a pile of blood, bone and meat that is unhappy."-J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
4. Mrs. Dalloway
By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard
3.79
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more
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- fiction
"Life stand still here."-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
"What a lark! What a plunge!"-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
"To love makes one solitary."-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
5. Maldito karma
By: David Safier , None
3.63
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
La presentadora de televisión Kim Lange está en el mejor momento de su carrera cuando sufre un acci… read more
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- german literature
- fiction
"Una mujer hermosa no lo es por su aspecto, sino por su carácter."-David Safier, Maldito karma
"—Los dictadores se reencarnan en otra cosa —replicó Buda. —¿ En qué? —En bacterias intestinales."-David Safier, Maldito karma
"Casanova Emlékirataiból: Amikor Buddha, évszázadokkal ezeleőtt rávilágított, hogy hangyaalakban kell tovább élnem, a következő szörnyű gondolat nyomasztott leginkább: soha többé nem lehetek aktív rés…"-David Safier, Maldito karma
6. Cranford
By: Elizabeth Gaskell
3.81
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
'It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor...I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant thin… read more
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- fiction
7. Die Räuber
By: Friedrich Schiller
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Mit seinem 1781 erschienenen leidenschaftlichen Drama der Selbtstzerstorung einer Familie machte Sc… read more
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- german literature
- germany
- fiction
8. The New York Trilogy
By: Paul Auster , Art Spiegelman
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of … read more
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- fiction
9. Fil
By: Elio Vittorini
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Ozgun adi Il Sempione strizza l'occhio al Frejus (Semplon Frejus'a Goz Kirpiyor) olan ve Turkceye F… read more
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- fiction
10. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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- german literature
- germany
- fiction
"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
11. Faust: First Part
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more
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- german literature
- fiction
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- short stories
- fiction
13. An Officer and a Spy
By: Robert Harris
3.73
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This … read more
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14. Primeval and Other Times
By: Olga Tokarczuk , Antonia Lloyd-Jones
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Tokarczuk's third novel, Primeval and Other Timeswas awarded the Koscielski Foundation Prize in 199… read more
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15. As I Lay Dying
By: William Faulkner
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more
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- fiction
"vomiting the crying"-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"But peace is my heart: I know it is."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
16. Butcher's Crossing
By: John Williams , Michelle Latiolais
4.28
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
In his National Book Award-winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient R… read more
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17. Was man von hier aus sehen kann
By: Mariana Leky
4.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Von der unbedingten Anwesenheitspflicht im eigenen Leben Selma, eine alte Westerwalderin, kann den … read more
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18. أولاد حارتنا
By: Naguib Mahfouz , نجيب محفوظ
4.09
Format: 600 pages, Paperback
رواية يجلس الجبلاوي في بيته الكبير المحاط بالحدائق واﻷسوار العالية ومن حوله أحفاده الذين يتنازعو… read more
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"لكن آفة حارتنا النسيان."-Naguib Mahfouz, أولاد حارتنا
"الناس يعبدون القوة، حتى ضحاياها!"-Naguib Mahfouz, أولاد حارتنا
"انه ينكر الحياة و لكنه لا يستحق الموت"-Naguib Mahfouz, أولاد حارتنا
"الخوف لا يمنع من الموت و لكنه يمنع من الحياة."-Naguib Mahfouz, أولاد حارتنا
19. Lisey's Story
By: Stephen King
3.96
Format: None pages,
Lisey Landon lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a twenty-five-year marriage of profound, s… read more
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20. Disgrace
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee's searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a… read more
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21. Life & Times of Michael K
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.86
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. … read more
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- fiction
"From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth ."-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
"There is no home left for universal souls, except perhaps in Antarctica or on the high seas."-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
"No papers, no money; no family, no friends, no sense of who you are. The obscurest of the obscure, so obscure as to be a prodigy."-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
"You have never asked for anything, yet you have become an albatross around my neck. Your bony arms are knotted behind my head, I walk bowed under the weight of you."-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
22. Seize the Day
By: Cynthia Ozick , Saul Bellow
4.34
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Deftly interweaving humor and pathos, Saul Bellow evokes in the climactic events of one day the ful… read more
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23. The Magic Mountain
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods
4.13
Format: 706 pages, Paperback
In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more
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- german literature
- germany
- fiction
"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
24. War and Peace
By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude , Henry Gifford
4.16
Format: 1392 pages, Paperback
In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Pe… read more
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- war
- fiction
"God is the same everywhere."-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Kings are the slaves of history."-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Everything depends on upbringing. "-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"We are asleep until we fall in Love!"-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
25. The Minority Report
By: Philip K. Dick
4.08
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In the world of The Minority Report, Commissioner John Anderton is the one to thank for the lack of… read more
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26. A Girl's Story
By: Annie Ernaux
3.89
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernau… read more
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"Un été immense comme ils le sont tous jusqu'à vingt-cinq ans"-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
"Everywhere on earth, with every day that dawns, a woman stands surrounded by men ready to throw stones at her."-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
"At this very moment, out in the streets, the open spaces, on the metro, in lecture halls, and inside millions of heads, millions of novels are being written chapter by chapter, erased and revised, an…"-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
"Aucun autre projet d’écriture ne me paraît, non pas lumineux, ni nouveau, encore moins heureux, mais vital, capable de me faire vivre au-dessus du temps. Juste « profiter de la vie » est une perspect…"-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
27. 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
28. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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- short stories
"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
29. Kaffee und Zigaretten
By: Ferdinand von Schirach
3.95
Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio
'One of the most distinctive voices in European literature' (Daily Telegraph)How does the legacy of… read more
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- german literature
- short stories
"Gott ist allgütig und allmächtig. Aber wenn er das Böse erschaffen hat, kann er kein gütiger Gott sein. Und wenn er das Böse nicht erschaffen hat, aber nicht verhindern konnte, dann ist er nicht allm…"-Ferdinand von Schirach, Kaffee und Zigaretten
"Die Würde des Menschen ist die strahlende Idee der Aufklärung, sie kann den Hass und die Dummheit lösen, sie ist lebensfreundlich, weil sie von unserer Endlichkeit weiß, und erst durch sie werden wir…"-Ferdinand von Schirach, Kaffee und Zigaretten
"Aber was bedeutet das? Hat das Leben tatsächlich keinen Richter über sich? Und wenn doch? Ist es nicht möglich, dass wir uns irren? Wir wissen es nicht. Wir müssen uns also damit abfinden, dass es ge…"-Ferdinand von Schirach, Kaffee und Zigaretten
30. The Years
By: Annie Ernaux
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more
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"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
31. The Mad Dog: Stories
By: Heinrich Böll
3.45
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature In this collect… read more
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- german literature
- germany
- war
- short stories
- fiction
