5 must-read novels books like Atlantis by John Cowper Powys

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Atlantis

By: John Cowper Powys

3.80

Format: 462 pages, Hardcover

Published in 1954, John Cowper Powys called this novel, a long romance about Odysseus in his extrem…

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Cover of The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories: The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka

1. The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories: The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka

By: Franz Kafka

4.09

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Col… read more

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  • classics
  • fantasy
"Ako te to toliko mami, a ti pokušaj da odeš tamo. Ali upamti; ja sam moćan. A ja sam samo posljednji po činu."

-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories: The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka

Cover of Descent into Hell by Charles  Williams, Charles               Williams

2. Descent into Hell

By: Charles Williams , Charles Williams

3.93

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

The key to Williams' mystically oriented theological thought, Descent into Hell (arguably Williams'… read more

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"It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else."

-Charles Williams, Descent into Hell

", Stanhope delayed a moment behind Miss Fox to add: "The substantive, of course, governs the adjective; not the other way round." "The substantive?" Pauline asked blankly. "Good. It contains terror, …"

-Charles Williams, Descent into Hell

". Nature's so terribly good. Don't you think so, Mr. Stanhope?" Stanhope was standing by, silent, while Mrs. Parry communed with her soul and with one or two of her neighbours on the possibilities of…"

-Charles Williams, Descent into Hell

3. Between the Acts

By: Virginia Woolf

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart o… read more

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4. Solenoid

By: Mircea Cărtărescu

3.59

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

,,Vreau sa scriu o dare de seama despre anomaliile mele. In viata mea obscura, in afara oricarei is… read more

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5. Many Dimensions

By: Charles Williams

4.06

Format: None pages,

...One of the most gifted and influential Christian writers England has produced this century.- Tim… read more

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Cover of Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

6. Bluebeard

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.06

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at ag… read more

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"It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard

"Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard

"Why should a real man stay home when he could be raping a virgin continent?"

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard

"We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard

7. The Death of the Moth and Other Essays

By: Virginia Woolf

3.19

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

A highly acclaimed collection of twenty-eight essays, sketches, and short stories presenting nearly… read more

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8. The Storyteller

By: Mario Vargas Llosa , None

4.24

Format: 185 pages,

At a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer happens upon a photograph of a tribal storyteller… read more

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9. Persian Letters

By: Montesquieu , None

3.92

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

This richly evocative novel-in-letters tells the story of two Persian noblemen who have left their … read more

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10. Hurricane Season

By: Fernanda Melchor

4.06

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book (2020) A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A Literary Hub Favorite Book of… read more

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"а разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"за разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"There's no reasoning with dog, two ferocious dogs who refuse to let go of their prey until they've been torn to shreds"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"момчето, щом порасна, се превърна в диво животно, което, пуснеха ли го на свобода, дори по никое време вечер, все го теглеше към гората, защото според баба ѝ този бил начинът да възпитават момчетата,…"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

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11. Fulgentius

By: César Aira

3.88

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Una vuelta de tuerca a la novela de romanos protagonizada por un voluble general de la legión que c… read more

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Cover of Atlantis by John Cowper Powys

12. Atlantis

By: John Cowper Powys

3.80

Format: 462 pages, Hardcover

Published in 1954, John Cowper Powys called this novel, a long romance about Odysseus in his extrem… read more

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5 must-read classics books like Atlantis by John Cowper Powys

Transform Your Habits

The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories: The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Descent into Hell

Charles Williams , Charles Williams

3.93

Between the Acts

Virginia Woolf

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Bluebeard

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.06

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19 must-read fiction books like Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor

Transform Your Habits

Las batallas en el desierto

José Emilio Pacheco

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Los recuerdos del porvenir

Elena Garro

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Things We Lost in the Fire

Mariana Enríquez , Megan McDowell

4.06

None

Juan Rulfo , Margaret Sayers Peden , Susan Sontag

None

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