7 best-selling literature books like Old Love by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Old Love

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

4.03

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

This classic collection explores the varieties of wisdom gained with age and especially those that …

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Cover of Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez

1. Of Love and Other Demons

By: Gabriel García Márquez

3.96

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria, the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-c… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"<>, dijo."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

"Vivo espantado de estar vivo."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

"Do not allow me to forget you"

-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

"Ideas do not belong to anyone,"

-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

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2. Things I Don't Want to Know

By: Deborah Levy

4.09

Format: 109 pages, Hardcover

'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more

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"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

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3. Open Heart

By: Elie Wiesel

4.16

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

Translated by Marion Wiesel A profoundly and unexpectedly intimate, deeply affecting summing up of … read more

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  • jewish
Cover of Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera, حسین کاظمی‌یزدی, Suzanne Rappaport

4. Laughable Loves

By: Milan Kundera , حسین کاظمی‌یزدی , Suzanne Rappaport

3.91

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

Laughable Lovesis a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but w… read more

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  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
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5. The Power of Myth

By: Joseph Campbell , Bill Moyers

4.26

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

The Power Of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work.… read more

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"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy."

-Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

"Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before."

-Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

"Lo que el creativo saca a la luz es algo que estaba esperando ser extraído en todos."

-Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

"Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss."

-Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

6. Out of the Easy

By: Ruta Sepetys

3.00

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

With characters as captivating as those in her internationally bestselling novel Between Shades of … read more

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7. Ocean Sea

By: Alessandro Baricco , Alastair McEwen

4.36

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

This haunting, suspenseful tale of love and vengeance by the author of the international bestseller… read more

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8. Death in the Andes

By: Mario Vargas Llosa , Edith Grossman

3.37

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

In an isolated community in the Peruvian Andes, a series of mysterious disappearances has occurred.… read more

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9. The Hearing Trumpet

By: Leonora Carrington , Pablo Weisz Carrington

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordi… read more

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10. La felicidad conyugal

By: Leo Tolstoy , Selma Ancira

4.20

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

En esta bellisima historia, Tolstoi nos habla del amor y del matrimonio a traves de la historia de … read more

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11. Simple Passion

By: Annie Ernaux

3.93

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more

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  • literature
  • nobel prize
  • fiction
"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

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12. 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

Cover of Snow (St. John Strafford, #2) by John Banville

13. Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

By: John Banville

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder.… read more

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  • fiction
"It's an actual fucking library, and there's a body in it!"

-John Banville, Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

"I'm a priest for Christ's sake - how can this be happening to me?"

-John Banville, Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

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14. The Overstory

By: Richard Powers

4.12

Format: 502 pages, Paperback

The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning ev… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"Human history was the story of increasingly disoriented hunger."

-Richard Powers, The Overstory

"The confirmation of others: a sickness the entire race will die of."

-Richard Powers, The Overstory

"Civilized yards are all alike. Every wild yard is wild in its own way."

-Richard Powers, The Overstory

"Trees fall with spectacular crashes. Planting is silent and growth invisible."

-Richard Powers, The Overstory

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15. Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

By: Mick Herron

4.13

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

At last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, including the never-before-publishe… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Well don't talk to me when I'm not listening. It's a waste of everyone's time."

-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

"Shut up. Now, ordinarily the reason I make you run up those stairs is I don't like you and I want you to die. But today, as it happens, I've a job for you."

-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

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16. Slough House (Slough House, #7)

By: Mick Herron

4.41

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Brexit is in full swing. And due to mysterious accidents, the Slough Houses ranks continue to thin.… read more

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  • fiction
"Funny thing. When I hear the words "trust me", I get the feeling someone's pissing in my shoe."

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

"Treat those you despise with humanity, especially if the reason you despise them is that they have none."

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

"Most great ideas, or a lot of them anyway, were thought at the time to be rubbish, and you were reckoned an idiot for having them. This was true of stupid ideas too. Telling them apart was the tricky…"

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

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17. Bad Actors (Slough House, #8)

By: Mick Herron

4.37

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A governmental think-tank, whose remit is to curb the independence of the intelligence service, has… read more

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  • fiction
"Time, date, place, courtesy of social media. The old days, when you just rocked up to a car park near the stadium a few hours before kick-off, all of that was buried in history books and Channel 5 do…"

-Mick Herron, Bad Actors (Slough House, #8)

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18. Checkout 19

By: Claire-Louise Bennett

3.17

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people she meets--and dream… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"Mimicry can be unkind, but at least it acknowledges that you’re there."

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19

"Yet in my heart I was bereft, grieving – homesick for a place I had never seen. For a place that doesn't exist, yet I belonged there nonetheless. Ridiculous really. Ridiculous, yet so acute and abidi…"

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19

"…the impulse for transgression and a taste for abasement is not so difficult to locate and arouse. Because of course it is thrilling to be astutely defiled. To have every revered trait and inimitable…"

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19

"an unbearably tense and disorienting paradox that underscores everyday life in a working-class environment—on the one hand it’s an abrasive and in-your-face world, yet, at the same time, much of it s…"

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19

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19. Old Love

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

4.03

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

This classic collection explores the varieties of wisdom gained with age and especially those that … read more

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  • nobel prize
  • jewish
  • literature
  • poland
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • judaica
Cover of The Collected Works of Willa Cather (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) by Willa Cather

20. The Collected Works of Willa Cather (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics)

By: Willa Cather

4.42

Format: 1568 pages, Kindle Edition

This collection contains the most celebrated works of Willa AntoniaO PioneersOne of OursAlexander'… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"The air is of silver and pearl, the night is liquid with moonlight."

-Willa Cather, The Collected Works of Willa Cather (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics)

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21. Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

By: Mick Herron

4.30

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die.   In Slough House, the … read more

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  • fiction
"The voice meant well, but should fuck off."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"Deniability was next to godliness in Westminster's corridors, and godliness itself second only to an unassailable majority."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"You built a life the way you’d build a wall, one brick on top of the other, but sooner or later, those first bricks were taken away."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"it’d be like choosing between Jeremy Clarkson and Piers Morgan in a bare-knuckle death match. There ought to be a way both could lose."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

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3.91

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Simple Passion

Annie Ernaux

3.93

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Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

John Banville

3.53

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John Le Carré

3.94

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David McCloskey

4.21

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Anthony Horowitz

4.18

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