18 Top fiction books like Ryder by Djuna Barnes

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Ryder

By: Djuna Barnes

3.65

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

From the author of Nightwood Djuna Barnes has written a book that is all that she was, and must sti…

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Cover of The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library) by Virginia Woolf

1. The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

By: Virginia Woolf

3.75

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

Woolf’s first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • novels
"J'ai un faible pour les gens qui ne se décident pas à commencer quelque chose."

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

"I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say."

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

"I can’t imagine anything nicer than to sit out in the moonlight and listen to music—"

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

"Ce qu'on attend de l'être avec qui l'on vit c'est qu'il vous maintienne au niveau le plus élevé de vous-même."

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

Cover of The Recognitions by William H. Gass, William Gaddis

2. The Recognitions

By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Format: 976 pages, Paperback

The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • novels
"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

Cover of Rue des boutiques obscures by Patrick Modiano

3. Rue des boutiques obscures

By: Patrick Modiano

3.63

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Que reste-t-il de la vie d'un homme ? Une photo, au fond d'une boîte ou d'un tiroir, des papiers ad… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • 20th century
  • fiction
"One has to retire eventually, Guy."

-Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures

"The letters dance before my eyes. Who am I?"

-Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures

"Did you see her again in France?" I asked him."

-Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures

"Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away."

-Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures

Cover of Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein

4. Troubling Love

By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.26

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

Set in Naples, Italy, this debut novel by New York Times bestselling author Elena Ferrante (My Bril… read more

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  • literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • womens
  • novels
Cover of Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, Barry Miles, James Grauerholz

5. Naked Lunch

By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • novels
"Exterminate all rational thought"

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

Cover of In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, Richard Howard, None, Terence Kilmartin, D.J. Enright, Andreas Mayor

6. In Search of Lost Time

By: Marcel Proust , Richard Howard , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright , Andreas Mayor

4.34

Format: 4211 pages, Paperback

On the surface a traditional "Bildungsroman" describing the narrator’s journey of self-discovery, t… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • novels
"Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us."

-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

"Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter."

-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

"I had spent the New Year's Day of old men, who differ on that day from their juniors, not because people have ceased to give them presents but because they themselves have ceased to believe in the Ne…"

-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

"Only, we must allow time. But our demands as far as time is concerned are no less exorbitant than those which the heart requires in order to change. For one thing, time is the very thing that we are …"

-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

Cover of The Malady of Death by Marguerite Duras, Barbara Bray

7. The Malady of Death

By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray

4.25

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

A man hires a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea. The woman is no one in particular, … read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction

8. Ethan Frome

By: Edith Wharton

2.00

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his dif… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • american

9. Woodcutters

By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This controversial portrayal of Viennese artistic circles begins as the writer-narrator arrives at … read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • novels
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10. Nostalgia

By: Mircea Cărtărescu , Julian Semilian

3.69

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Mircea Cartarescu, born in 1956, is one of Romania's leading novelists and poets. This translation … read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of Night and Day by Virginia Woolf, Julia Briggs

11. Night and Day

By: Virginia Woolf , Julia Briggs

3.76

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • womens
  • novels
"She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine ..."

-Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

"The only truth which she could discover was the truth of what she herself felt."

-Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

"If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?"

-Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

"What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty?"

-Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

12. The Stars at Noon

By: Denis Johnson

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in Nicaragua in 1984, The Stars at Noonis a story of passion, fear, and betrayal told in the vo… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of As You Like It by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine

13. As You Like It

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

3.59

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

As You Like Itis a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or … read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction

14. Salt Houses

By: Hala Alyan

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. … read more

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15. All's Well That Ends Well

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

3.99

Format: 273 pages,

In the acclaimed BBC Radio Shakespeare series, each play is introduced by Richard Eyre, former Dire… read more

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16. The Savage Detectives

By: Roberto Bolaño , Natasha Wimmer

4.48

Format: 334 pages,

New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in p… read more

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17. The Tartar Steppe

By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood

3.80

Format: 25 pages,

Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more

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18. Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes

By: None

5.00

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

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19. Surfacing

By: Margaret Atwood

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacingis the story of a talented woman artist… read more

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20. The Merchant of Venice

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , None

3.78

Format: 247 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the … read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
"He will fence with his own shadow."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"i buy a thousand pound a year! i buy a rope!"

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

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21. Antarctica

By: Claire Keegan

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

22. Mason & Dixon

By: Thomas Pynchon , Jordi Fibla

3.97

Format: 480 pages,

The story of Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779)--the British surveyors best r… read more

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23. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

By: Robert A. Caro

3.25

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman pr… read more

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Cover of The Red and the Black by Stendhal, None

24. The Red and the Black

By: Stendhal , None

3.86

Format: 577 pages, Paperback

Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon re… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"A good book is an event in my life."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"Toute vraie passion ne songe qu'a elle."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"It seems that my destiny is to die dreaming."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

25. The Winter's Tale

By: William Shakespeare

4.75

Format: 14 pages, Paperback

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emph… read more

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26. King John

By: William Shakespeare , Paul Werstine

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

King John, a history play by William Shakespeare, dramatises the reign of John, King of England (ru… read more

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27. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
  • fiction
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

Cover of Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism by Stephen Breyer

28. Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism

By: Stephen Breyer

4.05

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A provocative, brilliant analysis by recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer that dec… read more

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Cover of Ryder by Djuna Barnes

29. Ryder

By: Djuna Barnes

3.65

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

From the author of Nightwood Djuna Barnes has written a book that is all that she was, and must sti… read more

Similar categories in Djuna Barnes's Ryder book and Djuna Barnes's Ryder

  • poetry
  • classics
  • american
  • female authors
  • literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • womens
  • novels
Cover of The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

30. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

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"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

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The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

Virginia Woolf

3.75

Transform Your Habits

The Recognitions

William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Rue des boutiques obscures

Patrick Modiano

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Troubling Love

Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.26

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The Glimpses of the Moon

Edith Wharton , Regina Barreca

3.86

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Precious Bane

Mary Webb

4.23

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The Return of the Soldier

Rebecca West , Verlyn Klinkenborg , None , Michelle Dean

3.70

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Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , None , John Bowen

3.72

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