7 Top literature books like Go Back at Once by Robert Aickman

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Go Back at Once

By: Robert Aickman

3.33

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

Go Back at Once, completed by Robert Aickman in 1975, is a previously unpublished novel set in the …

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1. Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

By: William Gibson

4.01

Format: 312 pages, Mass Market Paperback

William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his m… read more

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"He'd grown up in white Jersey stringtowns where nobody knew shit about anything and hated anybody who did."

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

"está cambiando las cosas. Redistribuye el poder a su conveniencia. Información. Poder. Datos duros y puros. Pon la cantidad suficiente en manos de un solo hombre y..."

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

"in the blue-white flicker of freeway lights Mona had seen her own hand beside Angie's, and they weren't the same, not the same, not really the same shape, and that had made her glad."

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

"No,' [Angie] said, 'not like mine. Do you know anything about Africa religions, Porphyre?' He smirked, 'I'm not African.' 'But when you were a child...' 'When I was a child,' Porphyre said, 'I was wh…"

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

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2. Elizabeth Is Missing

By: Emma Healey

4.02

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this darkly riveting debut novel--a sophisticated psychological mystery that is also a heartbrea… read more

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  • fiction
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3. The Melancholy of Resistance

By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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4. Lucky Jim

By: Kingsley Amis , David Lodge

4.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jimremain… read more

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  • fiction

5. The Glass Pearls

By: Emeric Pressburger

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Karl Braun is a slight, grey-haired man who lodges in West London and works as a tuner for a firm o… read more

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  • fiction

6. Zero History (Blue Ant, #3)

By: William Gibson

4.30

Format: 237 pages,

Hollis Henry never intended to work for global marketing magnate Hubertus Bigend again. But now she… read more

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7. The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.47

Format: 1 pages, Hardcover

Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of langu… read more

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8. Housekeeping

By: Marilynne Robinson

3.94

Format: 450 pages,

A modern classic, Housekeepingis the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up hap… read more

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9. Comet in Moominland (The Moomins, #2)

By: Tove Jansson , Elizabeth Portch

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

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10. Bluebeard

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.06

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at ag… read more

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"It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard

"Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard

"Why should a real man stay home when he could be raping a virgin continent?"

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard

"We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard

11. Uncanny Stories

By: May Sinclair

4.25

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

May Sinclair was an innovator of modern fiction, a late Victorian who was also a precursor to Virgi… read more

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12. Inseparable

By: Simone de Beauvoir

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A never-before-published novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood fr… read more

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"How old do you have to be to think: this is forever?"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"She was often late, not because she didn't care, but because she had too many contradictory cares."

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"I didn't understand: you don't believe what you believe on purpose. Could you be punished because certain ideas come into your mind?"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"to fight against time, against forgetting, against death, to do justice to this absolute presence of the instant, to this eternity of the instant, which will have been forever"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

Cover of The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) by Malka Ann Older

13. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

By: Malka Ann Older

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more

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14. The Offing

By: Benjamin Myers

4.25

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

After all, there are only a few things truly worth fighting for: freedom, of course, and all that i… read more

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"I was neither old enough to have made myself a heron young enough to have escaped the newsreel images or the long dark shadows that the returning soldiers dragged behind them like empty coffins. For …"

-Benjamin Myers, The Offing

"At times like this, or when hoeing soil or sanding wood, or just sitting on a bench with my face turned to the sun, I appeared to slip out of the moment so entirely - or, conversely, perhaps was so d…"

-Benjamin Myers, The Offing

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15. The Memory Theater

By: Karin Tidbeck

3.74

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In a world just parallel to ours exists a mystical realm known only as the Gardens. It is a place w… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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16. Underland: A Deep Time Journey

By: Robert Macfarlane

4.22

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exi… read more

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17. How to Build a Boat

By: Elaine Feeney

3.78

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more

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"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

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18. Study for Obedience

By: Sarah Bernstein

3.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more

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  • fiction
"I try always to be good."

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

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19. Learned by Heart

By: Emma Donoghue

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains d… read more

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  • fiction
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20. The Gardener

By: Salley Vickers

3.57

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

The new novel from Salley Vickers, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian and Grandmother… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain by Victoria Mackenzie

21. For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

By: Victoria Mackenzie

3.85

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives … read more

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"Sometimes I reworked, with much crossing out and burning of papers; I had to sift through my thoughts for words that gleamed with truth. But other times the words came fast, and then I was an arrow, …"

-Victoria Mackenzie, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

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22. From the Abyss: Weird Fiction, 1907-1945

By: D.K. Broster

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

D K Broster was one of the great British historical novelists of the twentieth century, but her Wei… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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23. Isaac and the Egg

By: Bobby Palmer

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Heartbreaking and heart-stealing, this bestselling modern-day fable is an unforgettable novel about… read more

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  • fiction
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24. The Skeleton Key

By: Erin Kelly

3.78

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

THIS REUNION WILL TEAR A FAMILY APART... Summer, 2021. Nell has come home at her family's insist… read more

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  • horror
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25. On a Woman's Madness

By: Astrid H. Roemer

3.43

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

A classic of queer literature that’s as electrifying today as it was when it originally appeared in… read more

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26. The Men

By: Sandra Newman

2.92

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of The Heavens, a dazzling, mind-bending novel in which all men mysteriously disapp… read more

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  • fiction
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27. Spadework for a Palace

By: László Krasznahorkai

3.92

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Spadework for a Palace bears the subtitle “Entering the Madness of Others” and offers an epigraph: … read more

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  • fiction
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28. A Green Equinox

By: Elizabeth Mavor

3.54

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the 1973 Booker Prize, A Green Equinox is a beguilingly Rococo “study of love, cons… read more

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  • fiction
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29. The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths

By: Brad Fox

3.75

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeous account of William Beebe's 1930 Bathysphere expedition, the first-ever deep-sea voyage t… read more

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30. Collected Short Stories: Volume 2

By: W. Somerset Maugham

4.38

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Somerset Maugham's irony and cool detachment made him an acknowledged master of the short story. Th… read more

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  • fiction
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31. Go Back at Once

By: Robert Aickman

3.33

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

Go Back at Once, completed by Robert Aickman in 1975, is a previously unpublished novel set in the … read more

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24 must-read fiction books like Go Back at Once by Robert Aickman

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Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

William Gibson

4.01

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Elizabeth Is Missing

Emma Healey

4.02

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The Melancholy of Resistance

George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai

2.50

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Lucky Jim

Kingsley Amis , David Lodge

4.73

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

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The Future

Naomi Alderman

3.86

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No tocarás

Nuria Pérez

4.05

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2.92

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