12 must-read literature books like Franz Kafka and Prague by Harald Salfellner

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Franz Kafka and Prague

By: Harald Salfellner

3.65

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely rega…

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Cover of Colazione da Tiffany by Truman Capote, Bruno Tasso

1. Colazione da Tiffany

By: Truman Capote , Bruno Tasso

3.72

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Holly Golightly, la protagonista di questo estroso romanzo breve, è una cover-girl di New York, att… read more

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  • literature
Cover of Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka, Aarno Peromies, Philip Boehm, Milena Jesenská

2. Letters to Milena

By: Franz Kafka , Aarno Peromies , Philip Boehm , Milena Jesenská

3.89

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

In no other work does Kafka reveal himself as in the Letters to Milena, which begin essentially as … read more

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  • literature
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"I can't hold enough of you in my hands."

-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

"Il sogno è l'ultima notizia che possiedo di te."

-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

"وهذه هي النهاية في الحقيقة, فلقد مضيت عني بعيدا."

-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

"I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it."

-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

Cover of The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Richard Pevear, John      Lee

3. The Three Musketeers

By: Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee

4.09

Format: 625 pages, Paperback

First published in 1844, The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas' historical nov… read more

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  • literature
"All for one and one for all."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

"Love is the most selfish of all the passions."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

Cover of In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2) by Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast, James Grieve

4. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)

By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Floweris Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolesc… read more

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  • literature
Cover of The Castle by Franz Kafka, Mark Harman, Regaip Minareci, None

5. 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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  • literature
Cover of Follia by Patrick McGrath, Matteo Codignola

6. Follia

By: Patrick McGrath , Matteo Codignola

3.96

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

«Le storie d’amore contraddistinte da ossessione sessuale sono un mio interesse professionale ormai… read more

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"Gli uomini gelosi sono intrinsecamente deboli. Hanno il terrore di essere abbandonati."

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

"these are precisely the conditions that killed love, after first blighting its growth: squalor, fear, uncertainty, overfamiliarity."

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

"Stella mi disse di aver capito in quel momento che in ciascuno di noi c'è come l'anelito a gridare al mondo la verità, a qualsiasi costo. O a distruggersi."

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

"For despite his confidence, and his apparent maturity, I suspected that there was in him a deep and childish need to elevate, and idealize, the love object. This is not uncommon in artists. The very …"

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

7. Amerika

By: Franz Kafka

3.67

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

Kafka's first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who,… read more

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  • literature
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8. Nine Stories

By: J.D. Salinger

3.67

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" (1948) "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" (1948) "Just Before the War wi… read more

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  • literature
Cover of Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa

9. Mornings in Jenin

By: Susan Abulhawa

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel that could do for Palestine what The Kite Runner did fo… read more

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Cover of The Trial by Franz Kafka, Max Brod, Edwin Muir, Willa Muir

10. 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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  • literature
"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

Cover of That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italo Calvino, William Weaver

11. That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana

By: Carlo Emilio Gadda , Italo Calvino , William Weaver

3.61

Format: 388 pages, Paperback

In a large apartment house in the center of Rome, two crimes are committed within a matter of days:… read more

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  • literature
"Senza amore, muori. Con l'amore, anche. Non tutte le morti sono uguali"

-Carlo Emilio Gadda, That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana

"Era una giornata meravigliosa: di quelle così splendidamente romane che perfino uno statale di ottavo grado, ma vicino a zompà ner settimo, be', puro quello se sente allacciasse ar core un nun socché…"

-Carlo Emilio Gadda, That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana

12. Corto Maltese: La ballade de la mer salée

By: Hugo Pratt

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

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13. 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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14. Corto Maltese en Sibérie (Corto Maltese #7)

By: Hugo Pratt

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Board book

A peine arrive en Chine, Corto Maltese est contacte par la societe secrete des Lanternes Rouges afi… read more

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15. Letter to His Father

By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Eithne Wilkins , Ernst Kaiser , Willem van Toorn , Gerda Meijerink

3.53

Format: 349 pages,

This is the bilingual edition with German verso, English recto. read more

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16. The Postcard

By: Anne Berest

4.37

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-cen… read more

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"It would be wrong to call them memories; they are moments of life, that man hat es erlebt - one has lived. They are inside me, part of me, branded into my skin, you might say - but they're not memori…"

-Anne Berest, The Postcard

"After the war, women in orthodox Jewish families had made it their mission to have as many children as possible to replenish the population -- and it seemed to me that the same was true for books. Th…"

-Anne Berest, The Postcard

Cover of Dalla stessa parte mi troverai by Valentina Mira

17. Dalla stessa parte mi troverai

By: Valentina Mira

4.01

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

Questa storia comincia una sera d’inverno, il 7 gennaio 1978. Davanti a una sede del Movimento soci… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami

18. Novelist as a Vocation

By: Haruki Murakami

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels. Haruki Mura… read more

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  • literature
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise"

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

"La experiencia nos enseña a los escritores lo duro que es seguir siendo escritor."

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta"

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta."

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

Cover of Philip Roth: The Biography by Blake Bailey

19. Philip Roth: The Biography

By: Blake Bailey

4.06

Format: 912 pages, Hardcover

The renowned biographer’s definitive portrait of a literary titan. Appointed by Philip Roth and … read more

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  • literature
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Franz Kafka and Prague by Harald Salfellner

20. Franz Kafka and Prague

By: Harald Salfellner

3.65

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely rega… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • literature
  • travel
  • nonfiction

5 Best nonfiction books like Franz Kafka and Prague by Harald Salfellner

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Letters to Milena

Franz Kafka , Aarno Peromies , Philip Boehm , Milena Jesenská

3.89

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Dalla stessa parte mi troverai

Valentina Mira

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Novelist as a Vocation

Haruki Murakami

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Philip Roth: The Biography

Blake Bailey

4.06

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The Skin

Curzio Malaparte , David Moore

4.06

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Uomini e no

Elio Vittorini

3.72

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Zeno's Conscience

Italo Svevo , William Weaver

4.25

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Conversations in Sicily

Ernest Hemingway , Elio Vittorini , Alane Salierno Mason

4.53

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