19 must-read fiction books like Riacho doce: Romance (Portuguese Edition) by José Lins do Rego

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Riacho doce: Romance (Portuguese Edition)

By: José Lins do Rego

3.64

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Portugese

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1. Morangos Mofados

By: Caio Fernando Abreu

4.14

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Morangos mofados é uma das mais importantes obras de Caio Fernando Abreu. Com este livro, o autor t… read more

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"This light that could be either enlightenment or madness fills my head."

-Caio Fernando Abreu, Morangos Mofados

"The truth is, there was no one else around. Months later, not at first, one of them would say that the office was a “desert of souls."

-Caio Fernando Abreu, Morangos Mofados

"I think that I also don’t know what possibility and obligation are, but I know very clearly what need is. Desire? … Desire, we make up."

-Caio Fernando Abreu, Morangos Mofados

"I’ve read everything, man, I’ve tried macrobiotics psychoanalysis drugs acupuncture suicide yoga dance swimming jogging astrology roller-skating Marxism Candomblé gay clubs ecology, all that’s left i…"

-Caio Fernando Abreu, Morangos Mofados

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2. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (The Neapolitan Novels #3)

By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.84

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrante's … read more

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3. How Fiction Works

By: James Wood

4.16

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? The… read more

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4. Possession

By: A.S. Byatt , None

3.89

Format: 555 pages, Paperback

Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarat… read more

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"To a dusty shelf we aspire."

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

"I wanted to be a Poet and a Poem."

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

"Randolph Henry Ash: “What is it? My dear?"

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

"Outside our small safe place flies mystery."

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

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5. Palestine

By: None , Joe Sacco

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Prior to Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995--Joe Sacco's breakthrough novel of … read more

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6. Eva Luna

By: Isabel Allende , Margaret Sayers Peden

3.02

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meet New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende's most enchanting creation, Eva Luna: a lover… read more

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7. The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton , Maureen Howard

2.64

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocenceis Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of des… read more

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8. La ridícula idea de no volver a verte

By: Rosa Montero

4.30

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

<>ROSA MONTERO. Una narracion a medio camino entre el recuerdo personal y la memoria de todos, entr… read more

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9. The Story of the Lost Child (The Neapolitan Novels, #4)

By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

4.67

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable L… read more

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10. Lady Chatterley’s Lover

By: D.H. Lawrence

3.50

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Lawrence's frank portrayal of an extramarital affair and the explicit sexual explorations of its ce… read more

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"We fucked a flame into being."

-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

"She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte."

-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

"It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said."

-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

"A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it."

-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

11. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

3.90

Format: 216 pages,

If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more

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12. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

By: Alison Bechdel

4.08

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more

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"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

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13. The Passion According to G.H.

By: Clarice Lispector , None

4.13

Format: 173 pages, Paperback

G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in … read more

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"I don't want beauty, I want identity."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

"I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

"The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

"In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

14. Sagarana

By: João Guimarães Rosa

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Apresentando a paisagem e o homem de sua terra numa linguagem ja entao exclusiva, por meio de conto… read more

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15. The Story of a New Name (The Neapolitan Novels #2)

By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.33

Format: 75 pages, Paperback

The second book, following last year's My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elen… read more

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16. Bad Girls

By: Camila Sosa Villada

4.43

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman’s coming-of-age tale… read more

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"Nosotras habíamos nacido ya expulsadas del armario,esclavas de nuestra apariencia."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

"Cuando una puerta se cierra, se abre una ventana, pero hay que ser muy ágil para entrar o salir por la ventana"

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

"La infancia y las travestis son incompatibles. La imagen de una travesti con un niño en brazos es pecado para esa gentuza."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

"A las travestis no nos nombra nadie, salvo nosotras. El resto de la gente ignora nuestros nombres, usa el miso para todas: putos."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

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17. Chain-Gang All-Stars

By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

4.14

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far… read more

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"They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"My brother-in-law is an alien. I have a bunch of alien friends. I can't be racist," Randy Mac continued."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"An absurd thing for the murderous state to plead for, but, as always, the massive violence of the state was “justice,"

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"...despite how hard it was, she wasn't afraid with love. She knew how to wield it, how to grow it, and how to receive it."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

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18. A pediatra

By: Andréa del Fuego

3.95

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Com humor mordaz, o novo romance de Andréa del Fuego apresenta a história de uma personagem muito p… read more

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19. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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20. A palavra que resta

By: Stênio Gardel

4.05

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Uma carta guardada por mais de cinquenta anos — e jamais lida. É essa a relíquia que Raimundo leva … read more

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21. Não fossem as sílabas do sábado

By: Mariana Salomão Carrara

4.31

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

Uma tragédia acaba com uma família, um amor, uma história. Mas outra história também pode começar n… read more

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"Como somos imbecis tentando aplicar a lógica patética dos vivos aos que não conseguem mais, qual a importância de um brigadeiro numa língua inteira amarga num estômago dobrado de desgosto."

-Mariana Salomão Carrara, Não fossem as sílabas do sábado

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22. Celestial Bodies

By: Jokha Alharthi

3.41

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after a heartbre… read more

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"Laughter looks so disgusting sometimes."

-Jokha Alharthi, Celestial Bodies

"Como nos sentimos livres, quando já não nos limitamos a ser uma extensão ou uma personificação da fantasia de outra pessoa, mesmo que essa pessoa seja o nosso pai."

-Jokha Alharthi, Celestial Bodies

"I could not believe how much pain was crackling through the air, generated simply by Mayya's being there. Haloes of light embraced that presence. If I were to just put my hand out, I felt, I could to…"

-Jokha Alharthi, Celestial Bodies

"Não tinhas a mínima noção do que é o amor, Mayya? Não sentiste nada do que eu passei enquanto andava à volta da tua casa como um peregrino em volta da Caaba, uma, duas, sete vezes? Como pôde a casa t…"

-Jokha Alharthi, Celestial Bodies

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23. Gay de família

By: Felipe Fagundes

4.34

Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition

"De cair o c* das calças! Gay de família acerta nas referências, no humor e no frescor delicioso da… read more

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24. Animal

By: Lisa Taddeo

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Honestly, sometimes I think it’s the only recourse. Killing men in times like these.Joan has spent … read more

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"Let me tell you something, he said, looking into my eyes like an asshole."

-Lisa Taddeo, Animal

"When someone suffocates you with what they believe is love, even as you feel your air supply being cut off, you at least feel embraced."

-Lisa Taddeo, Animal

"The men noticed I'd stopped playing. Men are never okay when you stop. I had the fear of angering a man. Of not being an amenable woman. I had the fear of being murdered."

-Lisa Taddeo, Animal

"He looked a little wounded, and I realized that true power came from not caring about anyone. That was the last time I would sleep with a man. I was through with the gender."

-Lisa Taddeo, Animal

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25. Obra Completa

By: Murilo Rubião

3.99

Format: 227 pages, Paperback

Sucesso de vendas na década de 1970, Murilo Rubião se aventurou no universo do fantástico mesmo sem… read more

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26. O fantasma de Cora

By: Fernanda Castro

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Um livro para os amantes de histórias de fantasmas, novelas, moda e literatura brasileira Em Por… read more

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27. O púlpito: fé, poder e o Brasil dos evangélicos (Portuguese Edition)

By: Anna Virginia Balloussier

3.75

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Em 1987, o Congresso formou sua primeira bancada evangélica, um forte indicativo da disposição dess… read more

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28. Riacho doce: Romance (Portuguese Edition)

By: José Lins do Rego

3.64

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

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29. A Coleção Privada de Acácio Nobre (Portuguese Edition)

By: Patrícia Portela

3.72

Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition

Fui recolhendo, ao longo de 16 anos, cartas, diarios, testemunhos, maquetas de jogos e armadilhas d… read more

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30. Pobrefobia: Vivências das Ruas com Padre Júlio Lancellotti

By: Rogério Faria

3.82

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

"Pobrefobia - Vivências das Ruas com Padre Júlio Lancellotti" é um quadrinho inspirado em histórias… read more

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