8 best-selling classics books like Pábitelé by Bohumil Hrabal

Pábitelé

By: Bohumil Hrabal

3.70

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

Dans Les Palabreurs, la connaissance du monde passe par la cellule de fou et le cercueil. Les perso…

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Cover of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by None, H.T. Willetts, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

By: None , H.T. Willetts , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

3.98

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"A couple of ounces ruled your life."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"Two roubles. Worn notes that didn't rustle."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"It's all so arty there's no art left in it."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"Гении не подгоняют трактовку под вкус тиранов!"

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Cover of Saturnin by Zdeněk Jirotka, Mark Adrian Corner

2. Saturnin

By: Zdeněk Jirotka , Mark Adrian Corner

4.38

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

Zdenek Jirotka's famous humorous novel was first published in 1942 and since then, there have been … read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • czech literature
"The river grew dark and on the boat a peaceful silence reigned. Some voices wafted over from the opposite bank and a stray canoe made its way to the boat-house. Saturnin disappeared for a while and r…"

-Zdeněk Jirotka, Saturnin

Cover of The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am by Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, Kerri A. Pierce

3. The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am

By: Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold , Kerri A. Pierce

3.67

Format: 147 pages, Hardcover

Mathea Martinsen has never been good at dealing with other people. After a lifetime, her only real … read more

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  • fiction
"The breeze is cold and refreshing, I draw the night into my lungs and try to calm myself down."

-Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am

"...van, hogy az ember maga kell hogy értelmet adjon az értelmetlenségnek. Rendszerint ez a helyzet."

-Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am

"Perhaps I should stop seeing myself as an individual and start identifying myself with the totality, but I just can't do that."

-Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am

"I've knitted myself a hat, it's plum red with an appealing lace pattern, I figured that a few air holes would be nice now that it's spring. I put it on and feel like a cranberry in the snow, and I wo…"

-Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am

Cover of The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim

4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being

By: Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • czech literature
"I want you to be weak. As weak as I am."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"Physical love is unthinkable without violence."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"Only the most naive of questions are truly serious."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Cover of Hordubal by Karel Čapek

5. Hordubal

By: Karel Čapek

3.69

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

L’Ulysse de Karel Capek s’appelle Hordubal. A son retour des Etats-Unis, son village ne le reconnaî… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • czech literature
Cover of Child of God by Cormac McCarthy

6. Child of God

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--… read more

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

7. 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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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • classics
  • czech literature
Cover of Rodrick Rules (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #2) by Jeff Kinney

8. Rodrick Rules (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #2)

By: Jeff Kinney

4.44

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The highly anticipated sequel to the #1 NEW YORK TIMESbestselling book! Secrets have a way of getti… read more

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  • fiction

9. The Grandmother

By: Božena Němcová

3.00

Format: 468 pages, Paperback

Set at the foot of the Giant mountains- is a grandmother, who embodies the ideal of motherliness wi… read more

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10. Shah of Shahs

By: Ryszard Kapuściński , None , None

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Shah of ShahsKapuscinski brings a mythographer's perspective and a novelist's virtuosity to bear… read more

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Cover of Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3) by Tove Ditlevsen

11. Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)

By: Tove Ditlevsen

4.37

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Called a masterpiece by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in… read more

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  • classics
"Every person has their own truth just as every child has their own childhood."

-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)

"My classmates find me unceasingly, overwhelmingly comical, and I've gotten used to the clown role and even find a sad comfort in it, because together with my confirmed stupidity, it protects me again…"

-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)

Cover of Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History by Lea Ypi

12. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

By: Lea Ypi

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more

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"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

Cover of Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au

13. 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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  • fiction
"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

Cover of Dschinns by Fatma Aydemir

14. Dschinns

By: Fatma Aydemir

4.58

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Dreißig Jahre hat Hüseyin in Deutschland gearbeitet, nun erfüllt er sich endlich seinen Traum: eine… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Les v domě by Alena Mornštajnová

15. Les v domě

By: Alena Mornštajnová

4.31

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Říkají jí Cácora a vypadá to, že je na světě nedopatřením a jakoby navíc. Otec kamsi zmizel při pov… read more

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  • fiction
  • czech literature
Cover of AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee

16. AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

By: Kai-Fu Lee

3.86

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

In a groundbreaking blend of science and imagination, the former president of Google China and a le… read more

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  • short stories
"Many people think smartphones and apps already know too much about us, but XR will take things to a whole new level."

-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

"Imagine, a $1,000 political assassin! And this is not a far-fetched danger for the future, but a clear and present danger."

-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

"autonomous weapons are already a clear and present danger, and will become more intelligent, nimble, lethal, and accessible at an unprecedented speed."

-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

"More data leads to better AI (artificial intelligence), more automation leads to greater efficiency, more usage leads to reduced cost, and more free time leads to greater productivity. All of these w…"

-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

Cover of Kde jsi, když nejsi by Radka Třeštíková

17. Kde jsi, když nejsi

By: Radka Třeštíková

3.80

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Toto je příběh o svobodě, závislosti, zbabělosti a statečnosti. O poslušnosti, laskavosti i lhostej… read more

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  • czech literature
Cover of Kwantechizm 2.0, czyli klatka dla ludzi. by Andrzej Dragan

18. Kwantechizm 2.0, czyli klatka dla ludzi.

By: Andrzej Dragan

4.16

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Wyobrażenia o wszechświecie formułowane od wieków okazały się zbiorem przybliżeń lub nonsensów. Mów… read more

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Cover of Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan by Michael Booth

19. Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan

By: Michael Booth

3.90

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Almost Nearly Perfect People, a lively tour through Japan, Korea, and China,… read more

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Cover of Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho

20. Veronika Decides to Die

By: Paulo Coelho

3.73

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

In his latest international bestseller, the celebrated author of The Alchemist addresses the fundam… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Am I cured?"

-Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

"Collective madness is called sanity .."

-Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

"Nothing in this world happens by chance."

-Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

"La conciencia de la muerte nos anima a vivir más"

-Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

21. Pábitelé

By: Bohumil Hrabal

3.70

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

Dans Les Palabreurs, la connaissance du monde passe par la cellule de fou et le cercueil. Les perso… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • classics
  • czech literature

13 Top fiction books like Pábitelé by Bohumil Hrabal

Transform Your Habits

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

None , H.T. Willetts , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Saturnin

Zdeněk Jirotka , Mark Adrian Corner

4.38

Transform Your Habits

The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am

Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold , Kerri A. Pierce

3.67

Transform Your Habits

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

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17 best-selling fiction books like Saturnin by Zdeněk Jirotka, Mark Adrian Corner

Transform Your Habits

Saturnin

Zdeněk Jirotka , Mark Adrian Corner

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Kytice

Karel Jaromír Erben

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Bílá nemoc

Karel Čapek , Michael Henry Heim

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Maryša

Alois Mrštík , Vilém Mrštík , Vladimír Vimr

3.43

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