20 must-read fiction books like Un bel morir by Álvaro Mutis

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Un bel morir

By: Álvaro Mutis

4.08

Format: 129 pages, Hardcover

Mutis, Álvaro. Un Bel Morir. First Edition. Madrid, Mondadori, 1989. 23 cm. 129 pages. Original har…

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1. The Threepenny Opera

By: Bertolt Brecht , Kurt Weill , John Willett , Ralph Manheim

3.89

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

The Threepenny Opera was Brecht's first and greatest commercial success, and it remains one of his … read more

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  • fiction
"He thought in other heads, and in his own, others besides himself thought"

-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera

"Mankind lives by its head Its head won't see him through Inspect your own. What lives off that? At most a louse or two."

-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera

"You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy, but till you feed us right and wrong can wait. Or is it only those who have the money who can enter the land of milk and honey?"

-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera

"1.Tanrı: Ne biçim dünya bu? Her yanda sefalet, bayağılık, pislik! Doğayı da katletmişler.Güzelim ağaçları tellerle idam etmişler.Dağların ötesinde duman bulutlarından göz gözü görmüyor. Gök gürültüsü…"

-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera

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2. La Prisonnière

By: Marcel Proust

4.29

Format: 496 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Albertine a renoncé à faire une croisière et lorsque, à la fin de l’été, elle rentre de Balbec avec… read more

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3. The Shape of Water (Inspector Montalbano, #1)

By: Andrea Camilleri , Stephen Sartarelli

3.75

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri's wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime se… read more

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  • fiction
"In grammar school he’d had an old priest as his religion teacher. “Truth is light,"

-Andrea Camilleri, The Shape of Water (Inspector Montalbano, #1)

"«Questo sta a lei scoprirlo, se ne ha voglia. Oppure può fermarsi alla forma che hanno fatto prendere all'acqua». «Non ho capito, mi scusi». «Io non sono siciliana, sono nata a Grosseto, sono venuta …"

-Andrea Camilleri, The Shape of Water (Inspector Montalbano, #1)

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4. Twelfth Night

By: William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays w… read more

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  • fiction
"a raven's heart within a dove."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"I pity you That's a degree to love"

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

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5. Everyman

By: Philip Roth

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. T… read more

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  • fiction
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6. Los enamoramientos

By: Javier Marías

4.49

Format: None pages, Paperback

<> Asi comienza Los enamoramientos, la nueva novela de Javier Marias, consagrado como uno de los me… read more

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  • spanish literature
  • fiction
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7. Sostiene Pereira

By: Antonio Tabucchi

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Lisboa, 1938. En una Europa recorrida por el fantasma de los totalitarismos, Pereira, un periodista… read more

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  • fiction
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8. A Viagem do Elefante

By: José Saramago

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

Em meados do seculo XVI o rei D. Joao III oferece a seu primo, o arquiduque Maximiliano da Austria,… read more

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9. I Married a Communist (The American Trilogy, #2)

By: Philip Roth

3.74

Format: 296 pages,

I Married a Communistis the story of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who… read more

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10. The Waste Land

By: T.S. Eliot , Michael North

3.80

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as … read more

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  • fiction
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11. The Walk

By: Robert Walser , Susan Bernofsky

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Walser's alternate, preferred version of his most famous tale. A pseudo-biographical "stroll" throu… read more

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  • fiction

12. Il birraio di Preston

By: Andrea Camilleri

4.37

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Si capisce, leggendo Camilleri, che il suo piacere letterario maggiore, raccontando vicende della p… read more

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13. The Aleph and Other Stories

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley

4.33

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's mo… read more

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  • spanish literature
  • fiction

14. Brodie's Report

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short sto… read more

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  • spanish literature
  • fiction
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15. Limonov

By: Emmanuel Carrère

4.27

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

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16. The Confusions of Young Törless

By: J.M. Coetzee , Shaun Whiteside , Robert Musil

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

Like his contemporary and rival Sigmund Freud, Robert Musil boldly explored the dark, irrational un… read more

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17. The Child in Time

By: Ian McEwan

4.06

Format: 663 pages, Paperback

Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children's books, is confronted with the unthinkable: his onl… read more

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18. Moon Palace

By: Paul Auster

3.90

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Marco Stanley Fogg is an orphan, a child of the sixties, a quester tirelessly seeking the key to hi… read more

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19. The Star Rover

By: Jack London , Lorenzo Carcaterra

3.89

Format: 704 pages, Paperback

The Star Rover, in the UK published as The Jacket, is a collection of short stories revolves around… read more

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20. The Autumn of the Patriarch

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa

3.87

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

One of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is … read more

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  • latin american literature
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"honeyed by the breezes of love"

-Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

"fear of death is the amber of happiness"

-Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

"...el miedo a la muerte es el rescoldo de la felicidad..."

-Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

"Sabía que estaba condenado sin remedio a no morir de amor."

-Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

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21. Kiss of the Spider Woman

By: Manuel Puig

4.01

Format: 281 pages, Paperback

Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glitt… read more

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  • latin american literature
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"¿Qué pasa que a veces alguien dice algo y conquista para siempre a otra persona?"

-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman

"--And the good thing about feeling happy, you know, Valentin? ...It's that you think it's forever, that one's never ever going to feel unhappy again."

-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman

"– Io non ci credo alla faccenda del godi e non pensare al domani, Molina. Nessuno gode senza pensare al domani. Va bene solo per il paradiso terrestre."

-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman

"—And what's so bad about being soft like a woman? Why is it men or whoever, some poor bastard, some queen, can't be sensitive, too, if he's got a mind to? —I don't know, but sometimes that kind of be…"

-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman

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22. The Passion According to G.H.

By: Clarice Lispector , None

4.13

Format: 173 pages, Paperback

G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in … read more

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"I don't want beauty, I want identity."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

"I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

"The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

"In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

23. El Jarama

By: Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio

4.14

Format: 438 pages, Paperback

Once amigos madrilenos deciden pasar un caluroso domingo de agosto a orillas del Jarama. A partir d… read more

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24. 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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"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

25. The Suitcase

By: Antonina W. Bouis , Sergei Dovlatov

3.99

Format: 240 pages,

Nella "Valigia" Dovlatov raccoglie tutti gli oggetti che, esule, porta via da Leningrado: a ogni og… read more

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26. Darkness at Noon

By: Arthur Koestler , Pınar Kür , Daphne Hardy

4.11

Format: 216 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Darkness at Noon is a fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an agi… read more

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"Truth is what is useful to humanity, falsehood what is harmful."

-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

"Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations."

-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

"History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes."

-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

"The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it."

-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

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27. El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo

By: Irene Vallejo

4.26

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

Este es un libro sobre la historia de los libros. Un recorrido por la vida de ese fascinante artefa… read more

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"Los libros nos convierten en herederos de todos los relatos: los mejores, los peores, los ambiguos, los problemáticos, los de doble filo. Disponer de todos ellos es bueno para pensar, y permite elegi…"

-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo

"Ler é um ritual que implica gestos, posições, objetos, espaços, materiais, movimentos, modulações de luz. Para imaginarmos como liam os nossos antepassados, precisamos de conhecer, em cada época, ess…"

-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo

"desde os primeiros séculos da escrita até à idade Média, a norma era ler em voz alta, para si próprio ou para os outros, e os escritores pronunciavam as frases à medida que as escreviam ouvindo assim…"

-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo

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28. Los alemanes

By: Sergio del Molino

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

PREMIO ALFAGUARA DE NOVELA 2024 Un acontecimiento poco conocido de la reciente historia de Españ… read more

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29. Un bel morir

By: Álvaro Mutis

4.08

Format: 129 pages, Hardcover

Mutis, Álvaro. Un Bel Morir. First Edition. Madrid, Mondadori, 1989. 23 cm. 129 pages. Original har… read more

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30. Borges, e altre storie d'amore

By: Antonio Skármeta

3.38

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

Con la consueta verve di scrittura che lo contraddistingue, e come sempre accompagnato da un genero… read more

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Los enamoramientos

Javier Marías

4.49

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Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley

4.33

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Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley

5.00

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3.87

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3.78

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Gustavo Rodríguez

4.14

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Fernando Aramburu

3.89

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