5 Best novels books like Encyclopedia by Richard Horn

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Encyclopedia

By: Richard Horn

3.10

Format: 157 pages, Hardcover

This daring novel is structured as a series of alphabetical entries, complete with definitions, dat…

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Cover of Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke

1. Childhood’s End

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city—intellectually, technologically, and militarily sup… read more

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"...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"...no on of intelligence resents the inevitable."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"...no one of intelligence resents the inevitable."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

2. Solenoid

By: Mircea Cărtărescu

3.59

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

,,Vreau sa scriu o dare de seama despre anomaliile mele. In viata mea obscura, in afara oricarei is… read more

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Cover of The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Archibald Colquhoun

3. The Leopard

By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Archibald Colquhoun

4.01

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, h… read more

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"While there’s death there’s hope"

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

"Cambiare tutto perché niente cambi."

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

"La eternidad amorosa dura pocos años."

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

"Nothing could be decently hated except eternity."

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

Cover of Ulysses by James Joyce

4. Ulysses

By: James Joyce

3.75

Format: 925 pages, Paperback

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more

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"Shite and onions!"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Let my country die for me."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Be just before you are generous."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

Cover of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Seamus Deane

5. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane

3.64

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more

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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

6. Those Drinking Days: Myself and Other Writers

By: Donald Newlove

2.96

Format: 7 pages,

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Cover of Night Shift by Stephen        King, John D. MacDonald

7. Night Shift

By: Stephen King , John D. MacDonald

4.04

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

A collection of tales to invade and paralyse the mind as the safe light of day is infiltrated by th… read more

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"You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you."

-Stephen King, Night Shift

"She wasn't like a jukebox; you never had to put in a dime and she never came unplugged."

-Stephen King, Night Shift

"If seven hundred monkeys typed for seven hundred years, one of them would turn out the works of Shakespeare,"

-Stephen King, Night Shift

"There are spiritually noxious places, buildings where the milk of the cosmos has become sour and rancid. This church is such a place; I would swear to it."

-Stephen King, Night Shift

8. 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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9. Dubliners

By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more

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10. Finnegans Wake

By: James Joyce

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Experimental novel by James Joyce. Extracts of the work appeared as Work in Progress from 1928 to 1… read more

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11. Encyclopedia

By: Richard Horn

3.10

Format: 157 pages, Hardcover

This daring novel is structured as a series of alphabetical entries, complete with definitions, dat… read more

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Cover of A Tale of Five Cities & Other Memoirs by Joyce Elbert

12. A Tale of Five Cities & Other Memoirs

By: Joyce Elbert

4.78

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

A Tale of Five Cities & Other Memoirs is a collection of eight previously unpublished autobiographi… read more

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"The last time I saw Paris, my heart was definitely not young and gay. Bitter and disillusioned would be more like it."

-Joyce Elbert, A Tale of Five Cities & Other Memoirs

"I had never been productive in beautiful, serene settings. I needed noise, activity, some kind of external energy to get me going."

-Joyce Elbert, A Tale of Five Cities & Other Memoirs

"What saved us from becoming hard-nosed or callous was that we really liked each other, while remaining totally mystified by each other."

-Joyce Elbert, A Tale of Five Cities & Other Memoirs

"While it took much longer than I ever anticipated to see my writing efforts pay off, it finally happened so that at the age of forty-three I was my own woman, beholden to no one."

-Joyce Elbert, A Tale of Five Cities & Other Memoirs

11 Top 20th century books like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Seamus Deane

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To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

3.80

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A Passage to India

E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass

3.68

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The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

3.69

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Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

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