16 Best fiction books like Sei stato felice, Giovanni by Giovanni Arpino

Cover of Sei stato felice, Giovanni by Giovanni Arpino

Sei stato felice, Giovanni

By: Giovanni Arpino

3.69

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Italian

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1. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

By: David Foster Wallace

4.15

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more

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"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

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2. Complete Stories

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Jerome Klinkowitz , Dan Wakefield

4.41

Format: 911 pages, Hardcover

Featuring five never-before-published Vonnegut stories! Here for the first time is the complete … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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3. 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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  • italian literature
"... 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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4. Girl with Curious Hair

By: David Foster Wallace

3.62

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordina… read more

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  • fiction
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5. I Married a Communist (The American Trilogy, #2)

By: Philip Roth

3.74

Format: 296 pages,

I Married a Communistis the story of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Trilogia della città di K. by Ágota Kristóf, Armando Marchi, Giovanni Bogliolo, Virginia Ripa di Meana

6. Trilogia della città di K.

By: Ágota Kristóf , Armando Marchi , Giovanni Bogliolo , Virginia Ripa di Meana

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

<>. Rosetta Loy Il grande quaderno La prova La terza menzogna read more

Similar categories in Ágota Kristóf's Trilogia della città di K. book and Giovanni Arpino's Sei stato felice, Giovanni

  • classics
  • 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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  • classics
  • 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

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8. Bartleby the Scrivener

By: Herman Melville

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

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9. The Baron in the Trees

By: Italo Calvino , Archibald Colquhoun , Ana Goldstein

4.02

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

A landmark new translation of a Calvino classic, a whimsical, spirited novel that imagines a life l… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • italian literature
"Why d’you make me suffer?" “Because I love you."

-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees

"Mais je fais une chose tout à fait bonne: je vis dans les arbres"

-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees

"No puede haber amor si no se es uno mismo con todas sus fuerzas."

-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees

"Chi vuole guardare bene la terra deve tenersi alla distanza necessaria."

-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees

10. Le otto montagne

By: Paolo Cognetti

3.80

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Pietro e un ragazzino di citta, solitario e un po' scontroso. La madre lavora in un consultorio di … read more

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11. Journey to the End of the Night

By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim , William T. Vollmann

4.19

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of soci… read more

Similar categories in Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Journey to the End of the Night book and Giovanni Arpino's Sei stato felice, Giovanni

  • classics
  • fiction
"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"When you write, you should put your skin on the table."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"Sonuçta savaş dediğiniz şey, anlamadığınız ne varsa odur"

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

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12. La boutique del mistero

By: Dino Buzzati

4.15

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

La boutique del mistero è una raccolta di trentuno racconti pubblicati in diversi volumi e ordinati… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • italian literature
"Grandi sono le soddisfazioni di una vita laboriosa, agiata e tranquilla, ma ancora più grande è l'attrazione dell'abisso."

-Dino Buzzati, La boutique del mistero

"In questo caso il ricordo di lui mi ritornava, allora mi fermavo e nel silenzio della notte a voce alta chiedevo: Dormi? Ma lui non rispondeva. Effettivamente dormiva, però lontano, sotto le crode, i…"

-Dino Buzzati, La boutique del mistero

"Vorrei pure - lasciami dire - vorrei con te sottobraccio attraversare le grandi vie della città in un tramonto di novembre, quando il cielo è di puro cristallo. Quando i fantasmi della vita corrono s…"

-Dino Buzzati, La boutique del mistero

13. La camera azzurra

By: Georges Simenon , Marina di Leo

4.13

Format: None pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . "Sei cosi bello" gli aveva dett… read more

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14. The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

By: Melissa Bank

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

Hailed by critics as the debut of a major literary voice, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishingda… read more

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15. L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra

By: Michael Bible

3.60

Format: 135 pages, ebook

Mentre tutti sono raccolti in preghiera, dall’ultima fila Iggy avanza verso il centro della chiesa.… read more

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  • fiction
"Quegli anni sono così malinconici e bizzarri. Per effetto del vento sembrava che le azalee levitassero a una spanna da terra. I cani dei vicini, Sale e Pepe, abbaiavano come due innamorati durante un…"

-Michael Bible, L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra

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16. The Silence

By: Don DeLillo

2.66

Format: 117 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most dazzling and essential voices in American fiction, a timely and compelling nov… read more

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  • fiction
"What happens to people who live inside their phones?"

-Don DeLillo, The Silence

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17. La ricreazione è finita

By: Dario Ferrari

4.24

Format: 480 pages, ebook

Marcello è un trentenne senza un vero lavoro, resiste ai tentativi della fidanzata di rinsaldare il… read more

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  • fiction
  • italian literature
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18. Anéantir

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.84

Format: 734 pages, Hardcover

Ce roman de Michel Houellebecq nous projette à la fin du second mandat du président à travers un ré… read more

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  • fiction
"La prise de vues donnait une étrange impression de neutralité."

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

"Les chrétiens ont du mal en général, avec l’absurde, ça n’entre pas vraiment dans leurs catégories."

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

"Certains lundis de la toute fin novembre, ou du début de décembre, surtout lorsqu'on est célibataire, on a la sensation d'être dans le couloir de la mort. Les vacances d'été sont depuis longtemps oub…"

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

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19. Il fuoco che ti porti dentro

By: Antonio Franchini

3.90

Format: 224 pages, ebook

Il fuoco che ti porti dentro racconta la vita e la morte di Angela, una donna dal carattere impossi… read more

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  • fiction
  • italian literature
"Sua madre è esattamente come lei, odia molti e disprezza tutti."

-Antonio Franchini, Il fuoco che ti porti dentro

"Concorde con lo spirito del nostro tempo, non solo non teme la contraddizione ma disprezza la coerenza."

-Antonio Franchini, Il fuoco che ti porti dentro

"A chiedere scusa ci si educa - e adesso so che è un processo accidentato -, mentre a casa mia non ci si confronta, si grida e si aggredisce, o si sta zitti. Non siamo stati abituati a parlare tra noi…"

-Antonio Franchini, Il fuoco che ti porti dentro

"Conosco la rabbia che nasce dal senso di inferiorità, dall'inadeguatezza. Qualche volta sono stato preso da quella stessa frenesia, ho provato il desiderio di sfregiare con le parole coloro ai quali …"

-Antonio Franchini, Il fuoco che ti porti dentro

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20. 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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  • fiction
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21. Sei stato felice, Giovanni

By: Giovanni Arpino

3.69

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • italian literature

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Transform Your Habits

Complete Stories

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Jerome Klinkowitz , Dan Wakefield

4.41

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Trilogia della città di K.

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3.35

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Shirley Jackson

4.05

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Herman Melville

3.93

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3.77

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Nicoletta Verna

4.57

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L'età fragile

Donatella Di Pietrantonio

3.73

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Antonella Lattanzi

4.22

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