8 Top fiction books like The Oblate of St. Benedict by Joris-Karl Huysmans

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The Oblate of St. Benedict

By: Joris-Karl Huysmans

3.72

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge…

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Cover of La scuola cattolica by Edoardo Albinati

1. La scuola cattolica

By: Edoardo Albinati

3.20

Format: 1686 pages, Kindle Edition

Roma, anni Settanta: un quartiere residenziale, una scuola privata. Sembra che nulla di significati… read more

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"El destino del amor es ser objeto de burla."

-Edoardo Albinati, La scuola cattolica

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2. The Temptation of St. Antony

By: Gustave Flaubert , Lafcadio Hearn , Kitty Mrosovsky

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

A book that deeply influenced the young Freud & was the inspiration for many artists, The Temptatio… read more

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  • literature
  • french literature
  • fiction
Cover of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, Eugenio Montale, Allen Mandelbaum

3. The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature by Connie Zweig, Jeremiah Abrams

4. Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature

By: Connie Zweig , Jeremiah Abrams

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The author offers exploration of self and practical guidance dealing with the dark side of personal… read more

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5. Dagon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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  • classics
  • fiction

6. The Savage Detectives

By: Roberto Bolaño , Natasha Wimmer

4.48

Format: 334 pages,

New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in p… read more

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7. The Golem

By: Gustav Meyrink , Mike Mitchell

4.04

Format: 431 pages, Paperback

First published in serial form as Der Golemin the periodical Die weissen Blatterin 1913-14, The Gol… read more

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8. Mysteries

By: Knut Hamsun

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In a Norwegian coastal town, society's carefully woven threads begin to unravel when an unsettling … read more

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9. The Devil's Elixirs

By: E.T.A. Hoffmann , None

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

The charismatic monk Medardus becomes implicated in a deadly mystery against his will. As he travel… read more

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10. Three Tales

By: Gustave Flaubert , Geoffrey Wall , Roger Whitehouse

4.03

Format: 325 pages,

First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness,… read more

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11. A Confederacy of Dunces

By: John Kennedy Toole , Walker Percy

3.89

Format: 394 pages, Paperback

Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thom… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!"

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

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12. 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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  • french literature
  • 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

Cover of Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

13. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.16

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"See the child."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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14. The Oblate of St. Benedict

By: Joris-Karl Huysmans

3.72

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more

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  • classics
  • french literature
  • fiction

5 Best classics books like The Oblate of St. Benedict by Joris-Karl Huysmans

Transform Your Habits

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Dagon

H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Transform Your Habits

A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole , Walker Percy

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

Cormac McCarthy

4.16

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17 Best fiction books like The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, Eugenio Montale, Allen Mandelbaum

Transform Your Habits

The Song of Roland

Unknown , Dorothy L. Sayers

3.51

Transform Your Habits

Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

Transform Your Habits

The Iliad/The Odyssey

Homer , Robert Fagles , Bernard Knox

3.88

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