22 must-read fiction books like Sender Prager by Israel J. Singer

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Sender Prager

By: Israel J. Singer

3.65

Format: 74 pages, Paperback

Sono tutte in lacrime, le cameriere ebree del Praga, alla vigilia delle nozze del padrone: certo, h…

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Cover of Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade (Auntie Mame, #1) by Michael Tanner, Patrick Dennis, Edward Everett Tanner III, Paul Rudnick

1. Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade (Auntie Mame, #1)

By: Michael Tanner , Patrick Dennis , Edward Everett Tanner III , Paul Rudnick

4.04

Format: 299 pages, Paperback

Wildly successful when it was first published in 1955, Patrick Dennis' Auntie Mame sold over two mi… read more

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  • fiction
"Life is a banquet and most poor s.o.b.'s are starving to death." Auntie Mame"

-Michael Tanner, Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade (Auntie Mame, #1)

"Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation. "

-Michael Tanner, Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade (Auntie Mame, #1)

"Within the last two years it had been called Tony's, Belle's Bar Sinister, The Ole Plantation, Tony's, Alt Wien, Paris Soir--or Sewer--Victor's Vesuvius, Chez Cocotte, York House, Gay Madrid, and Ton…"

-Michael Tanner, Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade (Auntie Mame, #1)

"She was built along the lines of a General Electric refrigerator and looked like a cross between Caligula and a cockatoo. Mother Burnside had beady little eyes, an imperious beak of a nose, sallow sk…"

-Michael Tanner, Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade (Auntie Mame, #1)

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2. A Strangeness in My Mind

By: Orhan Pamuk , Ekin Oklap

4.38

Format: 613 pages, Hardcover

A Strangeness In My Mindis a novel Orhan Pamuk has worked on for six years. It is the story of boza… read more

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  • fiction
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3. Fräulein Else

By: Arthur Schnitzler , F.H. Lyon

3.77

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

A young woman is contacted by her mother, begging her to save her father from debtor's jail by visi… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Crocodile by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Samuel D. Cioran

4. The Crocodile

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Samuel D. Cioran

3.18

Format: 183 pages,

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Lo strano caso di Maria Scartoccio: Un brutto fatto di cronaca a Sestri Ponente by Renzo Bistolfi

5. Lo strano caso di Maria Scartoccio: Un brutto fatto di cronaca a Sestri Ponente

By: Renzo Bistolfi

4.14

Format: None pages,

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  • fiction
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6. Dentro soffia il vento

By: Francesca Diotallevi

4.50

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

In un avvallamento tra due montagne della Val d'Aosta, al tempo della Grande Guerra, sorge il borgo… read more

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  • fiction
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7. The Lottery

By: Shirley Jackson

4.05

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

Cover of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli, Simon Carnell, Erica Segre

8. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

By: Carlo Rovelli , Simon Carnell , Erica Segre

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Hardcover

Everything you need to know about the beauty of modern physics in less than 100 pages. In seven bri… read more

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9. La simmetria dei desideri

By: Eshkol Nevo , Ofra Bannet , Raffaella Scardi

4.13

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

Quattro amici guardano in televisione la finale dei Mondiali di calcio del 1998. Non hanno ancora t… read more

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  • fiction
"Quando si viaggia con una persona per dei mesi, tutti i normali canali di conversazione, quelli forzosi, si esauriscono, e si arriva a comportarsi con la massima naturalezza. Si conversa con parsimon…"

-Eshkol Nevo, La simmetria dei desideri

"Si, ho pensato. Voglio salire. Certo che voglio salire. E già per le scale afferrarti i fianchi. Forte. E darti un piccolo bacio leggero sulla nuca. Proprio dove finisce la spina dorsale. E più tardi…"

-Eshkol Nevo, La simmetria dei desideri

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10. History

By: Elsa Morante , Lily Tuck

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Historywas written nearly thirty years after Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia spent a year in hidin… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Il più grande uomo scimmia del Pleistocene by Terry Pratchett, Carlo Brera, Roy  Lewis

11. Il più grande uomo scimmia del Pleistocene

By: Terry Pratchett , Carlo Brera , Roy Lewis

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

<>ha scritto Terry Pratchett. E vero, tanto tempo e passato, da quando vissero Ernest, il narratore… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Der Verdacht by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Zeyyat Selimoğlu

12. Der Verdacht

By: Friedrich Dürrenmatt , Zeyyat Selimoğlu

4.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

Kommissar Barlach liegt im Krankenhaus. Todkrank liest er in der Zeitschrift >Life< einen Artikel u… read more

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  • fiction

13. Lacci

By: Domenico Starnone

3.88

Format: 588 pages, Hardcover

Che cosa lasciamo, quando lasciamo qualcuno? Una casa, una famiglia, il passato, un'idea di futuro,… read more

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14. The Lady In The Van

By: Alan Bennett

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Life imitates art in The Lady in the Van, the story of the itinerant Miss Shepherd, who lived in a … read more

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15. Enemies: A Love Story

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

3.00

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Almost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World War II, has three wives: Ya… read more

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16. Shadows on the Hudson

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer , Joseph Sherman

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Serialized in the late 1950s, "Shadows on the Hudson" was translated from Yiddish and published pos… read more

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17. Soumission

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.65

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s’engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu mot… read more

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  • fiction
"It’s submission,"

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"There is no Israel for me."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"Intimacy isn’t something men talk about."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"I was about as political as a bath towel."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

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18. Happening

By: Annie Ernaux

4.32

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plag… read more

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"There is no such thing as a lesser truth."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"I was intoxicated, wrapped up in wordless intelligence."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"People judged according to the law, they didn't judge the law."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"love children are the most beautiful of all.' What a terrible statement."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

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19. Baumgartner

By: Paul Auster

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more

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  • fiction
"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

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20. The Eighth Life

By: Nino Haratischwili

4.52

Format: 944 pages, Hardcover

Six romances, one revolution, the story of the century. 'That night Stasia took an oath, swearin… read more

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  • fiction
"And if you don’t know who you are, then look at all the possible versions of you, find the most impossible one, and become that."

-Nino Haratischwili, The Eighth Life

"and you asked me where people keep their childhood, and I remember telling you that we keep it hidden, between our ribs, in little liver spots and moles, in the roots of our hair, above our heart, in…"

-Nino Haratischwili, The Eighth Life

"Love was slow, creeping poison, loge was treacherous and insincere, love was a veil thrown over the misery of the world, love was sticky and indigestible, it was a mirror in which one could be what o…"

-Nino Haratischwili, The Eighth Life

Cover of Niente di vero by Veronica Raimo

21. Niente di vero

By: Veronica Raimo

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Prendete lo spirito dissacrante che trasforma nevrosi, sesso e disastri famigliari in commedia, da … read more

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  • fiction
"Quando finalmente arrivò la scoperta dei libri, non fu una forma di evasione, piuttosto una rasserenante coalescenza di noia. Riuscivo quasi a visualizzarla, bianca e melmosa: leggere era come sprofo…"

-Veronica Raimo, Niente di vero

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22. Oliva Denaro

By: Viola Ardone

4.41

Format: 299 pages, Paperback

«Io non lo so se sono favorevole al matrimonio. Per questo in strada vado sempre di corsa: il respi… read more

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  • fiction
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23. Forbidden Notebook

By: Alba de Céspedes

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

With a foreword by Jhumpa Lahiri, Quaderno Proibito is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cu… read more

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  • fiction
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24. La strega

By: Shirley Jackson

3.34

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

Tre dei racconti qui riuniti hanno come protagoniste quelle creaturine infide, pericolose, enigmati… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of La città dei vivi by Nicola Lagioia

25. La città dei vivi

By: Nicola Lagioia

4.20

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

Nel marzo 2016, in un anonimo appartamento della periferia romana, due ragazzi di buona famiglia di… read more

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"Ci sono le città dei vivi, popolate da morti. E poi ci sono le città dei morti, le uniche dove la vita abbia ancora un senso."

-Nicola Lagioia, La città dei vivi

"Distruggere il più debole. Oppure indebolire il più forte per poi distruggerlo. L'aggressione come garanzia per la sopravvivenza. Colpire per sottrarsi alla paura di essere colpiti. Sentirsi impotent…"

-Nicola Lagioia, La città dei vivi

"«A questo punto mi pare evidente che il problema siamo noi, – fece uno degli scrittori, – intendo noi romani, la classe dirigente è lo specchio del nostro marciume, tutto è marcio, anche i turisti. I…"

-Nicola Lagioia, La città dei vivi

Cover of Fiore di roccia by Ilaria Tuti

26. Fiore di roccia

By: Ilaria Tuti

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

«Quelli che riecheggiano lassù, fra le cime, non sono tuoni. Il fragore delle bombe austriache scuo… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Vita meravigliosa by Patrizia Cavalli

27. Vita meravigliosa

By: Patrizia Cavalli

4.16

Format: 119 pages, Paperback

Fosse vissuta sei o sette secoli fa, nelle terre umbre dov’è nata, Patrizia Cavalli sarebbe stata s… read more

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"Tenersi all'apparenza, forse descrivere / soltanto cose in mutua tenerezza."

-Patrizia Cavalli, Vita meravigliosa

Cover of Paradiso by Michele Masneri

28. Paradiso

By: Michele Masneri

3.27

Format: 187 pages, Hardcover

Nel «giorno più caldo di una delle estati più calde che si ricordino», Federico Desi­deri, giovane … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Sender Prager by Israel J. Singer

29. Sender Prager

By: Israel J. Singer

3.65

Format: 74 pages, Paperback

Sono tutte in lacrime, le cameriere ebree del Praga, alla vigilia delle nozze del padrone: certo, h… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Bébi, il primo amore by Sándor Márai

30. Bébi, il primo amore

By: Sándor Márai

3.91

Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition

«A ben vedere, nella mia vita non è suc­cesso nulla» annota nel suo diario il prota­gonista, e narr… read more

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  • fiction
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31. Ucronia

By: Emmanuel Carrère

2.92

Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition

Nel romanzo di Sarban «Il richiamo del corno», un ufficiale della Marina britannica sperimenta l’in… read more

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22 must-read fiction books like Paradiso by Michele Masneri

Transform Your Habits

La ferocia

Nicola Lagioia

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Chi dice e chi tace

Chiara Valerio

3.77

Transform Your Habits

I giorni di Vetro

Nicoletta Verna

4.57

Transform Your Habits

L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra

Michael Bible

3.60

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