22 Top fiction books like Instadrama by C. Palis

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Instadrama

By: C. Palis

4.38

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

«Penso di aver innescato una piccola rivoluzione, una rivoluzione di uno squallore infinito, ma in …

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1. Vertige

By: Franck Thilliez

3.98

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

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  • fiction
Cover of La scuola cattolica by Edoardo Albinati

2. La scuola cattolica

By: Edoardo Albinati

3.20

Format: 1686 pages, Kindle Edition

Roma, anni Settanta: un quartiere residenziale, una scuola privata. Sembra che nulla di significati… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"El destino del amor es ser objeto de burla."

-Edoardo Albinati, La scuola cattolica

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3. 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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4. The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

By: Yōko Ogawa , Stephen Snyder , Stephen Snyder

3.69

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

From Akutagawa Award-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, fertil… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I couldn't reach him from here even if I tried."

-Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

"When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting everything into their tears, which they spread liberally about for the who…"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

"Since that time, I've had many similar moments, and I can never hear the words "family" and "home" without feeling that they sound strange, never simply hear them and let them go. When I stop to exam…"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

"I knew immediately that it was different from other photographs. The night sky in the background was pure and black, so dark it made you dizzy if you stared at it too long. The rain drifted through t…"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

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5. L'Arminuta

By: Donatella Di Pietrantonio

4.09

Format: 163 pages, Hardcover

Ci sono romanzi che toccano corde così profonde, originarie, che sembrano chiamarci per nome. È que… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"You talk shit because all you’re good for is buying your children day-old bread from the baker"

-Donatella Di Pietrantonio, L'Arminuta

"Nel tempo ho perso anche quell'idea confusa di normalita' e oggi davvero ignoro che luogo sia una madre. Mi manca come puo' mancare la salute, un riparo, una certezza. E' un vuoto persistente, che co…"

-Donatella Di Pietrantonio, L'Arminuta

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6. Things I Don't Want to Know

By: Deborah Levy

4.09

Format: 109 pages, Hardcover

'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more

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"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

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7. The Nose

By: Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me s… read more

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  • fiction
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8. We Were the Mulvaneys

By: Joyce Carol Oates

4.02

Format: 424 pages,

The Mulvaneys of High Point Farm in Mt. Ephraim, New York, are a large and fortunate clan, blessed … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. The Iraqi Christ

By: Jonathan Wright , Hassan Blasim

4.53

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A soldier with the ability to predict the future finds himself blackmailed by an insurgent into the… read more

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  • fiction
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10. 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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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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

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11. Poor Things

By: Alasdair Gray

3.94

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenste… read more

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  • fiction
"Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

12. Bellissime

By: Flavia Piccinni

3.79

Format: 208 pages,

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13. L'età fragile

By: Donatella Di Pietrantonio

3.73

Format: 192 pages, ebook

Non esiste un'età senza paura. Siamo fragili sempre, da genitori e da figli, quando bisogna ricostr… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Quando muori resta a me

By: Zerocalcare

4.57

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Un viaggio con suo padre verso il paesino tra le Dolomiti da cui proviene la famiglia paterna sareb… read more

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15. What Happens at Night

By: Peter Cameron

3.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An unnamed American couple travels to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby. It’s a diffic… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Parti e omicidi

By: Sayaka Murata

3.76

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Parti e omicidi è una raccolta di racconti ambientati in una Tokyo di un futuro non ben precisato, … read more

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  • fiction
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17. La vita intima

By: Niccolò Ammaniti

3.46

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

Maria Cristina Palma ha una vita all'apparenza perfetta, è bella, ricca, famosa, il mondo gira into… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Open Throat

By: Henry Hoke

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Rental Person Who Does Nothing

By: Shoji Morimoto

3.34

Format: 160 pages, ebook

Need a rental person who does nothing? Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lone… read more

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"– that people have a value even if they do nothing."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

"I felt comfortable in a community that existed just for the moment, with simple, temporary relationships uncomplicated by past or future."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

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20. Storia dei miei soldi

By: Melissa Panarello

3.46

Format: 197 pages, Kindle Edition

A raccontarci questa storia è una scrittrice, resa famosa quando era molto giovane da un audace rom… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Psychopompe by Amélie Nothomb

21. Psychopompe

By: Amélie Nothomb

3.48

Format: 147 pages, Kindle Edition

 "Ecrire, c'est voler." Amélie Nothomb read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. The Membranes

By: Chi Ta-wei

3.98

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all … read more

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  • fiction
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23. Ho paura delle suore: Fiabe per persone traumatizzate dalla vita

By: Edoardo Zaggia

4.01

Format: 172 pages, Kindle Edition

La gazzella Gabriella, la principessa Clotilde, la Fata Madrina spacciatrice, il giullare Gaio, Eug… read more

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24. Palepoli

By: Usamaru Furuya

3.83

Format: 178 pages, None

Palepoli goes beyond the framework of standard four-panel manga and views its structure in new ways… read more

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  • fiction
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25. The Forest Brims Over

By: Maru Ayase

3.47

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A woman turns herself into a forest after long being co-opted to serve as the subject of her husban… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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26. Il naufragio

By: Daniel Albizzati

4.00

Format: 211 pages, Paperback

In mezzo all’oceano Atlantico c’è una piccola isola dove confluiscono tutte le correnti trasportand… read more

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27. We'll Prescribe You a Cat

By: Syou Ishida

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A cat a day keeps the doctor away… Discover the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel that has… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Instadrama by C. Palis

28. Instadrama

By: C. Palis

4.38

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

«Penso di aver innescato una piccola rivoluzione, una rivoluzione di uno squallore infinito, ma in … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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29. Manifesto contro l’editoria

By: GOG

3.17

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Il mondo dell’editoria è al collasso. Le librerie chiudono una dopo l’altra. I lettori diminuiscono… read more

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30. Le avventure di Mercuzio

By: Daniel Albizzati

4.22

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

Mercuzio abita nel centro di Roma, in una mansarda non lontano da Campo de’ Fiori; non possiede com… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Il naufragio (Italian Edition) by Daniel Albizzati

31. Il naufragio (Italian Edition)

By: Daniel Albizzati

4.18

Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition

In mezzo all’oceano Atlantico c’è una piccola isola dove confluiscono tutte le correnti trasportand… read more

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Transform Your Habits

La scuola cattolica

Edoardo Albinati

3.20

Transform Your Habits

The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

Yōko Ogawa , Stephen Snyder , Stephen Snyder

3.69

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L'Arminuta

Donatella Di Pietrantonio

4.09

Transform Your Habits

We Were the Mulvaneys

Joyce Carol Oates

4.02

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She's Come Undone

Wally Lamb

4.02

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Frank Muller , C.J. Critt , Jane Hamilton

4.02

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Joyce Carol Oates

4.02

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Bret Lott

3.37

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