12 must-read fiction books like Sor Monika by E.T.A. Hoffmann

Cover of Sor Monika by E.T.A. Hoffmann

Sor Monika

By: E.T.A. Hoffmann

2.79

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Más de ciento cincuenta años han empleado los filólogos y especialistas alemanes en dilucidar la au…

If you liked the fiction plot in Sor Monika by E.T.A. Hoffmann , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, Matthew Sweet

1. The Woman in White

By: Wilkie Collins , Matthew Sweet

4.01

Format: 672 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: Alternate covers can be found here and here. 'In one moment, every drop of blood… read more

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"I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!"

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

"... our endurance must end, and our resistance begin, to-day."

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

"You don’t have to speak at all— I know what you’d say… - Laura"

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

Cover of Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa

2. Chronicle of a Death Foretold

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa

3.97

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place twenty-seven years earlier, determined… read more

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  • fiction
"الشرف هو الحب" , هكذا كنت أسمع أمي تقول"

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

"Ningún lugar de la vida es más triste que una cama vacía"

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

"...ningún lugar de la vida es más triste que una cama vacía."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

"He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Cover of L'Œuvre au noir by Marguerite Yourcenar

3. L'Œuvre au noir

By: Marguerite Yourcenar

4.03

Format: 480 pages, Mass Market Paperback

En créant le personnage de Zénon, alchimiste et médecin du XVIe siècle, Marguerite Yourcenar, l'aut… read more

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  • fiction
"une once d'inertie pèse plus qu'un boisseau de sagesse (La conversation à Innsbruck)"

-Marguerite Yourcenar, L'Œuvre au noir

"On n'est bien que libre, et cacher ses opinions est encore plus gênant que de couvrir sa peau. (La conversation à Innsbruck)"

-Marguerite Yourcenar, L'Œuvre au noir

"Le souvenir n'est qu'un regard posé de temps en temps sur des êtres devenus intérieurs,mais qui ne dépendent pas de la mémoire pour continuer d'exister."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, L'Œuvre au noir

"L'homme est une entreprise qui a contre elle le temps, la nécessité, la fortune, et l'imbécile et toujours croissante primauté du nombre, dit plus posément le philosophe. Les hommes tueront l'homme. …"

-Marguerite Yourcenar, L'Œuvre au noir

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4. L'arte di essere felici

By: Seneca , Mario Scaffidi Abbate

3.85

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Una condizione di beatitudine così profonda che non si può nemmeno esprimere a parole, che si può s… read more

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5. The Castle of Otranto

By: Horace Walpole

3.18

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more

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  • fiction
"My soul abhors a falsehood"

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"This life is but a pilgrimage."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

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6. Bedbugs

By: Ben H. Winters

4.11

Format: None pages,

FOR RENT: Top two floors of beautifully renovated brownstone, 1300 sq. ft., 2BR 2BA, eat-in kitchen… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Burton Pike

7. The Sorrows of Young Werther

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly

8. Ten Days in a Mad-House

By: Nellie Bly

3.70

Format: 186 pages,

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9. Chirù

By: Michela Murgia

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

Quando Eleonora e Chiru s'incontrano, lui ha diciotto anni e lei venti di piu. Le loro vite sembran… read more

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  • fiction
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10. Le Colonel Chabert

By: Honoré de Balzac

3.59

Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Le Colonel Chabert est supposé avoir été tué sur le champ d'honneur dans l'une des batailles de Nap… read more

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  • fiction
"Morālās ciešanas, kas pārspēj fiziskās, allaž izraisa mazāku žēlumu, jo cilvēka acij nav saskatāmas."

-Honoré de Balzac, Le Colonel Chabert

11. The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.3)

By: Alexandre Dumas , Francine du Plessix Gray , Joachim Neugroschel

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

A swashbuckling novel of political intrigue. In the concluding installment of Alexandre Dumas's cel… read more

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12. Rocannon's World

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.32

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

Adapted & expanded from the short story "The Dowry of Angyar". A world shared by three native human… read more

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13. The Sound and the Fury

By: William Faulkner

3.86

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more

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  • fiction
"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

Cover of The Invention of Morel by Jorge Luis Borges, Suzanne Jill Levine, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Norah Borges de Torre, Ruth L.C. Simms

14. The Invention of Morel

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Suzanne Jill Levine , Adolfo Bioy Casares , Norah Borges de Torre , Ruth L.C. Simms

4.00

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn… read more

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  • fiction
"So I was dead! The thought delighted me."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

"The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

"To be sure, nothing created by man is perfect."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

"It is frightening to accept so much good fortune!"

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

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15. Songs of Innocence and of Experience

By: William Blake

4.09

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an collection of poems by William Blake. Note: For a com… read more

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  • fiction
"Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face;"

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

"Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door."

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

"And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires."

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

"Can I see anothers woe, And not be in sorrow too. Can I see anothers grief, And not seek for kind relief. - On Anothers Sorrow "

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

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16. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane

3.64

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more

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  • fiction
"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

17. L'incontro

By: Michela Murgia

4.36

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

Maurizio ha dieci anni e non vede l'ora che comincino le vacanze. Per lui l'estate significa stare … read more

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18. La lettrice scomparsa

By: Fabio Stassi

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

<>pensa il protagonista di questo romanzo. <>. Ma se e cosi che stanno le cose, puo un essere umano… read more

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19. The Buenos Aires Affair

By: Manuel Puig

1.75

Format: 134 pages,

Tercera novela del argentino Manuel Puig (1932-1990) y primera ambientada en la ciudad, particularm… read more

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20. Thérèse Philosophe

By: None

4.50

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

This first-person narrative by Therese is the charming tale of an innocent's initiation into sexual… read more

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21. Sor Monika

By: E.T.A. Hoffmann

2.79

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Más de ciento cincuenta años han empleado los filólogos y especialistas alemanes en dilucidar la au… read more

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  • erotica
  • fiction

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