30 Top fiction books like Out of the Cage by Fernanda García Lao

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Out of the Cage

By: Fernanda García Lao

3.74

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Out of the Cage opens in 1956, in Argentina, with the freakish death of Aurora Berro, and descends …

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1. Desarticulaciones

By: Sylvia Molloy

4.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Como pelando una cebolla, capa a capa, el mal de Alzheimer avanza sobre ML., desalojando de su ment… read more

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2. Precoz

By: Ariana Harwicz

3.92

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

En Precoz, madre e hijo viven aislados en una casa con madera acumulada en la puerta, ranchos sin t… read more

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3. 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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4. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.16

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more

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"See the child."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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5. Greek Lessons

By: Han Kang

3.47

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more

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"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

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6. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

By: Olga Ravn

3.67

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A workplace novel of the 22nd century The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth… read more

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"This is not a human, but a coworker."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Cada ação encerra em si um elemento de caos."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Tudo precisa atravessar enormes distâncias para se tornar o que é."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Eu também tenho em mim palavras apagadas que deveria ter dito e já não sei mais o que significam."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

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7. Shy

By: Max Porter

3.63

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more

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"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."

-Max Porter, Shy

"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."

-Max Porter, Shy

"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"

-Max Porter, Shy

"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"

-Max Porter, Shy

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8. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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9. Cold Enough for Snow

By: Jessica Au

3.73

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more

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"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

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10. A Shining

By: Jon Fosse

3.49

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more

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"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

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11. Time Shelter

By: Georgi Gospodinov

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more

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"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"There is no time machine except the human being."

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

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12. Hurricane Season

By: Fernanda Melchor

4.06

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book (2020) A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A Literary Hub Favorite Book of… read more

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"а разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"за разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"There's no reasoning with dog, two ferocious dogs who refuse to let go of their prey until they've been torn to shreds"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"момчето, щом порасна, се превърна в диво животно, което, пуснеха ли го на свобода, дори по никое време вечер, все го теглеше към гората, защото според баба ѝ този бил начинът да възпитават момчетата,…"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

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13. A Little Luck

By: Claudia Piñeiro

4.29

Format: 211 pages, Paperback

After twenty years, a woman returns to the suburban Argentina she had fled to escape a dreadful acc… read more

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"Para escribir un diario hay que tener una seguridad del valor que tiene contar la vida propia que yo no tengo."

-Claudia Piñeiro, A Little Luck

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14. Paradais

By: Fernanda Melchor

3.64

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, l… read more

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"It was fatboy's fault, that's what he would tell them"

-Fernanda Melchor, Paradais

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15. Elena Knows

By: Claudia Piñeiro

4.08

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

A unique tale that interweaves crime fiction with intimate tales of morality and search for individ… read more

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"¿Seguirá siendo madre ahora que no tiene hija?"

-Claudia Piñeiro, Elena Knows

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16. Weasels in the Attic

By: Hiroko Oyamada

3.43

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

From the acclaimed author of The Hole and The Factory, a thrilling and mysterious work that explore… read more

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"We meet at school, or work, or maybe a store. Wherever it is, there's just a random group of individuals, right? Within that group, you find your mate. If you were in a different group, you' d end up…"

-Hiroko Oyamada, Weasels in the Attic

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17. Open Throat

By: Henry Hoke

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more

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18. Diary of a Void

By: Emi Yagi

3.51

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

A prizewinning, thrillingly subversive debut novel about a woman in Japan who avoids harassment at … read more

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"Having a baby isn't easy. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. It's been two thousand years, and it's the same old story, right?"

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"I'm always so alone. I guess I should be used to it by now. That's the way it is from the moment we come into this world, but I'm still not used to it - how alone we all are."

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"Maybe that's making a family is all about: creating an environment in which people make space for one another - maybe without even trying, just naturally, to make sure that nobody's forgotten."

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"Until they arrived, while everyone else was transitioning to winter, putting on coats and sweaters, I was going to stick with my summer dress and my usual work blazer. Dressed in the dazzling flowers…"

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

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19. The Faces

By: Tove Ditlevsen

3.92

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

It's Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is becoming incr… read more

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"...and the fear came back like a faithful friend who doesn't care whether return his feelings or not."

-Tove Ditlevsen, The Faces

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20. My Death

By: Lisa Tuttle

3.98

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more

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21. Whale

By: Cheon Myeong-Kwan

3.96

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

While "Whale" begins with Chunhee, a mysterious young brickmaker of imposing physicality who cannot… read more

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22. My Annihilation

By: Fuminori Nakamura

3.34

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

What transforms a person into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion? Turn this … read more

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"Aristotle, the scholar from ancient times, supposedly said "Even gods cannot change the past." In which case, the gods are useless."

-Fuminori Nakamura, My Annihilation

"Take a look around the internet. The ditches into which all evil is eventually swept. People hide their faces and type away without a care, no self-awareness for how their words will be picked up by …"

-Fuminori Nakamura, My Annihilation

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23. My Work

By: Olga Ravn

4.01

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

In this radical, funny, and mercilessly honest novel about motherhood, Anna is utterly lost after g… read more

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24. Woman Running in the Mountains

By: Yūko Tsushima

3.86

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

Pregnant and unmarried, Takiko, who lives at home with her violent, alcoholic father and her hard-w… read more

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25. Moonbath

By: Yanick Lahens

3.43

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2014 Prix Fémina & 2015 French Voices Award After she is found washed up on shore, Cé… read more

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"Elle aurait écouté des heures durant cette parole arrachée à l'épaisseur des jours. Parce que le temps passé à se parler ainsi n'est pas du temps, c'est de la lumière. Le temps passé à se parler ains…"

-Yanick Lahens, Moonbath

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26. This World Does Not Belong to Us

By: Natalia García Freire

3.73

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A journey to the bowels of the earth After years away, Lucas returns uninvited to the home he wa… read more

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"Detrás del bosque de Polylepis, muere el sol. Está alto, tan alto que sus árboles parecieran haber tenido que inclinarse para no tocar las nubes. Los Polylepis son árboles de páramo. Sus troncos se d…"

-Natalia García Freire, This World Does Not Belong to Us

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27. Blood Red

By: Gabriela Ponce Padilla

3.59

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The exhilarating English-language debut from celebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Ponce Padilla, B… read more

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"Let the living fly. The machine must fall. The machine in the air must fail at some point, emptiness always prevails."

-Gabriela Ponce Padilla, Blood Red

"We felt as if we were just one body—bone, blood, flesh—that momentarily splits apart to come back together, pulled by the irremediable need for touch."

-Gabriela Ponce Padilla, Blood Red

"I try to understand, but everything I do is a surprise even to me, as if I were an unknowable amalgam full of errors, an open wound closing up and splitting open, always wavering between criticism an…"

-Gabriela Ponce Padilla, Blood Red

"I hated and loved understanding this is what happens, love gave way to hatred, forging love always meant forging hatred, fucking hell, but it isn’t so simple to differentiate the two in this amalgam,…"

-Gabriela Ponce Padilla, Blood Red

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28. FEM

By: Magda Cârneci

3.37

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Intr-o lunga scrisoare adresata barbatului care e pe cale sa o paraseasca, o femeie face o incursiu… read more

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29. The Book of Eve

By: Carmen Boullosa

3.42

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Carmen Boullosa ha sido galardonada con el Premio Excelencia en las Letras José Emilio Pacheco 2023… read more

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30. Out of the Cage

By: Fernanda García Lao

3.74

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Out of the Cage opens in 1956, in Argentina, with the freakish death of Aurora Berro, and descends … read more

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31. The Singularity

By: Balsam Karam

3.81

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Lyrical and devastating, The Singularity is a breathtaking study of grief, migration, and motherhoo… read more

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