21 must-read fiction books like 'Siddharta' by Hermann Hesse

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'Siddharta'

By: Hermann Hesse

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

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Cover of Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts by Joseph von Eichendorff, Konrad Nussbächer

1. Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts

By: Joseph von Eichendorff , Konrad Nussbächer

3.31

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

"Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts" (1826) gilt als beispielhaftes literarisches Dokument der Spätrom… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"And the world suddenly appeared to me as such an awfully large place, with I so totally alone in it that I could have cried from the bottom of my heart."

-Joseph von Eichendorff, Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts

"Everybody is so happy, and no one has a thought for you. And this is what happens to me everywhere and always. Everyone has marked out his own little spot on the Earth, his warm stove, his cup of cof…"

-Joseph von Eichendorff, Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts

"At last the gardener arrived, mumbling something about rascals and country bumpkins, and took me out into the park, giving me a lengthy lecture as he did so. I was instructed to be sober and industri…"

-Joseph von Eichendorff, Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts

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2. 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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  • classics
  • fiction
"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

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3. The Elementary Particles

By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–pa… read more

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  • fiction
"He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"J'aurais pu adhérer au Front National, mais à quoi bon manger de la choucroute avec des cons?"

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

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4. Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

By: John Steinbeck

4.06

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and p… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"He's got a can up there,' Richard said."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"Men all do about the same thing when they wake up."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

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5. Das Kind in dir muss Heimat finden. Der Schlüssel zur Lösung (fast) aller Probleme

By: Stefanie Stahl

3.68

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Jeder Mensch sehnt sich danach, angenommen und geliebt zu werden. Im Idealfall entwickeln wir wahre… read more

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6. The Spinoza Problem

By: Irvin D. Yalom

4.25

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

When sixteen-year-old Alfred Rosenberg is called into his headmaster’s office for anti-Semitic rema… read more

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  • fiction
"Dom nije mjesto - to je stanje svijesti."

-Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem

"Omul fiind in totalitate parte a naturii, este incorect sa credem ca omul mai degraba tulbura, decat sa respecte ordinea naturii."

-Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem

"…It seems impossible to overestimate their capacity for irrationality. Somewhere in this world, with every blink of the eye, a fool is born."

-Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem

"تمام قوم اسرائیل در نگرش محترمانه خود به تورات، در همان گناهی دخیل بودند که خدا به وسیله موسی به آنها هشدار داده بود: بت برستی. در همه جا یهودیان نه بت هایی طلایی بلکه بت هایی از «کاغذ و جوهر» را می …"

-Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem

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7. Survival in Auschwitz

By: Primo Levi , Philip Roth , Stuart J. Woolf

4.33

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Ausch… read more

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"... infin che un giorno senso non avrà più dire : domani" (...jusqu'à ce qu'un jour dire "demain" n'ait plus de sens)"

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"…in this place everything is forbidden, not for hidden reasons, but because the camp has been created for that purpose."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"...for a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"Qualcuno, molto tempo fa, ha scritto che anche i libri, come gli esseri umani, hanno un loro destino, imprevedibile, diverso da quello che per loro si desiderava e si attendeva."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

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8. Night Train to Lisbon

By: Pascal Mercier , Barbara Harshav

4.09

Format: 129 pages, Hardcover

A huge international best seller, this ambitious novel plumbs the depths of our shared humanity to … read more

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  • fiction
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9. Der Sandmann

By: E.T.A. Hoffmann

4.10

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Unter Hoffmanns Werken hat Der Sandmann das weitaus grosste Interesse gefunden. Sein Grundproblem i… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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10. L'Avare

By: Molière

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Harpagon est un vieillard odieux et avare. Avare jusqu'au ridicule, puisqu'il fait comparaitre en j… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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11. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

By: Heinrich Böll , Leila Vennewitz

3.88

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

In an era in which journalists will stop at nothing to break a story, Henrich Boll's The Lost Honor… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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12. Follia

By: Patrick McGrath , Matteo Codignola

3.96

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

«Le storie d’amore contraddistinte da ossessione sessuale sono un mio interesse professionale ormai… read more

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  • fiction
"Gli uomini gelosi sono intrinsecamente deboli. Hanno il terrore di essere abbandonati."

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

"these are precisely the conditions that killed love, after first blighting its growth: squalor, fear, uncertainty, overfamiliarity."

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

"Stella mi disse di aver capito in quel momento che in ciascuno di noi c'è come l'anelito a gridare al mondo la verità, a qualsiasi costo. O a distruggersi."

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

"For despite his confidence, and his apparent maturity, I suspected that there was in him a deep and childish need to elevate, and idealize, the love object. This is not uncommon in artists. The very …"

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

13. Amerika

By: Franz Kafka

3.67

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

Kafka's first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who,… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Martin Gardner

14. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

By: Lewis Carroll , John Tenniel , Martin Gardner

4.06

Format: 239 pages, Paperback

"I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir," said Alice, "Because I'm not myself, you see." When A… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Curiouser and curiouser."

-Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

"Go on till you come to the end; then stop."

-Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

"You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

"I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it."

-Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

15. The Children of Noisy Village

By: Astrid Lindgren , Ilon Wikland , Florence Lamborn

4.54

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Noisy Village! Go crayfishing in the summer at Nocken, "dipping in the pot" at Christmas… read more

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16. Mario and the Magician

By: Thomas Mann

3.88

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Mario and the Magician is one of Mann's most political stories. Mann openly criticizes fascism, a c… read more

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17. The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.22

Format: 402 pages, Hardcover

The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stori… read more

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18. Anthem

By: Ayn Rand

4.14

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Anthemhas long been hailed as one of Ayn Rand's classic novels, and a clear predecessor to her late… read more

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19. The Metamorphosis

By: Franz Kafka , Stanley Corngold

3.88

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0553213695 / 9780553213690 "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning fr… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Oh, God"

-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

"I only fear danger where I want to fear it."

-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

"What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream."

-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

"It was half past six and the hands were quietly moving forwards."

-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

20. One, None, and One Hundred Thousand

By: Luigi Pirandello , William Weaver

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

The novel had a rather long and difficult period of gestation. Pirandello began writing it in 1909.… read more

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21. Historien om Fru Berg

By: Ingvild H. Rishøi

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Gripende novellesamling fra Ingvild H. Rishoi Historien om Fru Berg inneholder fem nye noveller av … read more

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22. Homo Faber

By: Max Frisch

4.19

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Walter Faber, engineer, is a man for whom only the tangible, calculable, verifiable exists. Dubbed … read more

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23. Notes from Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None

4.17

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

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24. The Magic Mountain

By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods

4.13

Format: 706 pages, Paperback

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

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25. One Hundred Years of Solitude

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa

4.12

Format: 417 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicl… read more

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  • fiction
"Cease, cows, life is short."

-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

"There is always something left to love."

-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

"Children inherit their parents' madness."

-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

"بدأ يدرك كم يحب فى الواقع الأشخاص الذين كرههم أكثر من سواهم ."

-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

26. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more

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27. ‎22 Bahnen

By: Caroline Wahl

4.36

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Tildas Tage sind strikt durchgetaktet: studieren, an der Supermarktkasse sitzen, sich um ihre klein… read more

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  • fiction
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28. Jävla karlar

By: Andrev Walden

4.07

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

"En gång hade jag sju pappor på sju år. Det här är berättelsen om de åren. Om något låter påhittat … read more

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  • fiction
"Min pappa är indian och nu ska jag berätta det för blomma."

-Andrev Walden, Jävla karlar

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29. The Cafe on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life

By: John P. Strelecky

3.55

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

In a small cafe at a location so remote it stands in the middle of the middle of nowhere, John--a m… read more

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  • fiction
"Man schafft nicht alles. Niemand tut das. Deshalb sollte man sich über die Dinge freuen, zu denen man kommt."

-John P. Strelecky, The Cafe on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life

"Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now?"

-John P. Strelecky, The Cafe on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life

"As I was floating on the surface, I realized something: When the turtle was swimming, it linked its movements to the movements of the water. When a wave was coming at him, he would float, and paddle …"

-John P. Strelecky, The Cafe on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life

Cover of Em by Kim Thúy

30. Em

By: Kim Thúy

4.11

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Em, c'est le fil qui relie les ouvriers des plantations de caoutchouc et les femmes des salons de m… read more

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  • fiction
"När soldaterna återvänder till basen ordnar armén med läkemedel åt alla som fått med sig oönskade souvenirer mellan benen. Några åtgärder för att utrota de frön som såtts i somliga kvinnors kroppar h…"

-Kim Thúy, Em

"Tâm can describe in detail how the soldiers slipped the ace of spades into their helmet straps, sleeves rolled up above their elbows, the cuffs of their pant legs tucked into their boots. On the othe…"

-Kim Thúy, Em

"Operation Ranch Hand skulle sannolikt ha varit en hyllad militär strategi om det inte varit för alla amerikanska soldater som också de drabbades av växtgifterna. Meningen var att gravitationskraften …"

-Kim Thúy, Em

Cover of 'Siddharta' by Hermann Hesse

31. 'Siddharta'

By: Hermann Hesse

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • classics
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12 best-selling classics books like 'Siddharta' by Hermann Hesse

Transform Your Habits

Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts

Joseph von Eichendorff , Konrad Nussbächer

3.31

Transform Your Habits

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

John Steinbeck

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Der Sandmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann

4.10

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12 best-selling fiction books like The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll, Leila Vennewitz

Transform Your Habits

The Reader

Bernhard Schlink , Carol Brown Janeway

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Anna Göldin

Eveline Hasler

3.54

Transform Your Habits

Der Richter und sein Henker

Friedrich Dürrenmatt , John J. Neumaier , William Gillis

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Die Physiker

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

4.38

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