10 must-read 20th century books like The Right to an Answer by Anthony Burgess

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The Right to an Answer

By: Anthony Burgess

3.66

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

“Mr. Burgess has invented complex, varying people, and he has moved them well, giving them much to …

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1. Heart of a Dog

By: Mikhail Bulgakov , Mirra Ginsburg , Michail Bulgakov

4.10

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

This satirical novel tells the story of the surgical transformation of a dog into a man, and is an … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • 20th century
"A dog's spirit dies hard."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

"One can find time for everything if one is never in a hurry."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

"Why bother to learn to read when you can smell meat a mile away?"

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

"İki ayağını bir pabuca sokmayan herkes, her şey için zaman bulabilir."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

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2. Alias Grace

By: Margaret Atwood

4.04

Format: 468 pages, Hardcover

It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her emp… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"The small details of life often hide a great significance."

-Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

"If they want a monster so badly they ought to be provided by one."

-Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

"[...] he often talked to himself and he was the best conversationalist he knew; [...]"

-Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

"I don’t know why it is, a girl of fifteen or sixteen is accounted a woman, but a boy of fifteen or sixteen is still a boy."

-Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

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3. A Town Like Alice

By: Nevil Shute

4.15

Format: 359 pages, Paperback

Nevil Shute's most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from the… read more

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  • fiction
"It was a gambler's action, but his whole life had probably been made up of gambles; it could hardly be otherwise in the outback."

-Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice

"Men's souls are naturally inclined to covetousness; but if ye be kind towards women and fear to wrong them, God is well acquainted with what ye do."

-Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice

"People who spent the war in prison camps have written a lot of books about what a bad time they had," she said quietly, staring into the embers. "They don't know what it was like, not being in a camp."

-Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice

"It was so beautiful', he said. 'the Three Pagodas Pass must be one of the loveliest places in the world. you've got this broad valley with the river running down it, and the jungle forest, and the mo…"

-Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice

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4. Nausea

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • 20th century
"It was true, I had always realized it—I hadn’t any “right"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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5. Solaris

By: Stanisław Lem

3.99

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem. When K… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?"

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

"If man had more of a sense of humour, things might have turned out differently."

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

"But what am I going to see? I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you."

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

"I was still a prisoner in my nightmares, and every morning the play began again."

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

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6. Women

By: Charles Bukowski

3.81

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slac… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • 20th century
"Are you anti-black? I'm anti-everything."

-Charles Bukowski, Women

"My cock was hard, but my spirit wasn't in it."

-Charles Bukowski, Women

"You're the most unknown famous man I ever met"

-Charles Bukowski, Women

"You're the most unknown famous man I ever met."

-Charles Bukowski, Women

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7. It's a Battlefield

By: Graham Greene

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

Drover, a Communist bus driver, is in prison appealing his death sentence for killing a policeman d… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • 20th century
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8. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien

4.22

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

One of the most influential works of this century, this is a crucial exposition of existentialist t… read more

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  • 20th century
"Créer, c'est vivre deux fois."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

"Existence is illusory and it is eternal."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

"There is scarcely any passion without struggle."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

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9. Don Quixote

By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a k… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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10. The Castle

By: Franz Kafka , Mark Harman , Regaip Minareci , None

3.90

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published unt… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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11. The Fountainhead

By: Ayn Rand , Leonard Peikoff

3.88

Format: 704 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking ph… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"This is pity,"

-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

"A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack"

-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

"Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea."

-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

"Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."

-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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12. A Many-Splendoured Thing

By: Han Suyin

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A Many-Splendoured Thingtells the story of a married British foreign correspondent called Mark Elli… read more

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  • fiction
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13. Eden

By: Stanisław Lem , None

3.49

Format: 16 pages, Paperback

A six-man crew crash-lands on Eden, fourth planet from another sun. The men find a strange world th… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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14. Nadja

By: André Breton , Richard Howard

3.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Nadja, originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance eve… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • 20th century
"I am the soul in limbo."

-André Breton, Nadja

"Le coeur humain, beau comme un sismographe."

-André Breton, Nadja

"Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all."

-André Breton, Nadja

"...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours."

-André Breton, Nadja

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15. Min kamp 1 (Min kamp #1)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

4.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Min kamp ar Karl Ove Knausgards maktiga sjalvbiografiska roman. Forsta delen inleds med en svepande… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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16. The Trial

By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir

3.95

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifyi… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • 20th century
"But I’m not guilty,"

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"Asking questions were the most important thing."

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"It was very learned, but it didn't actually say anything."

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"The way she sits on my lap as if it were her proper place!"

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

17. Ham on Rye

By: Charles Bukowski

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely … read more

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18. Franny and Zooey

By: J.D. Salinger

4.10

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The short story, Franny, takes place in an unnamed college town and tells the tale of an undergradu… read more

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19. 2666

By: Roberto Bolaño

4.21

Format: 1128 pages, Paperback

A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"Nothing is ever behind us."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"Reading is never a waste of time."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"Every hundred feet the world changes"

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

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20. 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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  • novels
  • fiction
  • 20th century
"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

21. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

By: Ludwig Wittgenstein

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Ph… read more

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22. On the Genealogy of Morals

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith

4.13

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more

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"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

23. Ask the Dust (Arturo Bandini, #3)

By: Charles Bukowski , John Fante

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ask the Dustis the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for … read more

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24. Cat's Cradle

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Told with deadpan humour & bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on o… read more

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25. White Noise

By: Don DeLillo

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • 20th century
"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

26. Civilization and Its Discontents

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay

4.02

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he … read more

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27. Pnin

By: Vladimir Nabokov , David Lodge

4.00

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pninfeatures his funniest and most heart-rending charact… read more

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28. The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

By: Albert Camus

4.01

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on … read more

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29. The Right to an Answer

By: Anthony Burgess

3.66

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

“Mr. Burgess has invented complex, varying people, and he has moved them well, giving them much to … read more

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  • fiction
  • 20th century

20 Best fiction books like The Right to an Answer by Anthony Burgess

Transform Your Habits

Heart of a Dog

Mikhail Bulgakov , Mirra Ginsburg , Michail Bulgakov

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Alias Grace

Margaret Atwood

4.04

Transform Your Habits

A Town Like Alice

Nevil Shute

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

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13 Top fiction books like Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander, Hayden Carruth

Transform Your Habits

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Transform Your Habits

White Nights

Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

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