16 Top fiction books like Zonal by Don Paterson

Cover of Zonal by Don Paterson

Zonal

By: Don Paterson

3.98

Format: None pages, ebook

Don Paterson's new collection of poetry starts from the premise that the crisis of mid-life may be …

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Cover of Howl and Other Poems by William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg

1. Howl and Other Poems

By: William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg

4.13

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

A beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotec… read more

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  • poetry
  • fiction
"You too must seek the sun..."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"America this is quite serious"

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"The beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

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2. Wide Sargasso Sea

By: Jean Rhys

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more

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  • fiction
"When trouble comes, close ranks"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"I thought I'd try to write her a life"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

Cover of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot, Edward Gorey

3. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

By: T.S. Eliot , Edward Gorey

4.29

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

T. S. Eliot's playful cat poems have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world ever since t… read more

Similar categories in T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats book and Don Paterson's Zonal

  • poetry
  • fiction
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4. The Woman in Black

By: Susan Hill , John Lawrence

3.85

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

What real reader does not yearn, somewhere in the recesses of his or her heart, for a really litera… read more

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  • fiction
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5. The Twits

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

3.97

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

How do you outwit a Twit? Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, ugliest people in the world. They ha… read more

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  • fiction
"Hey, my spaghetti’s moving!"

-Roald Dahl, The Twits

"No one who is good can ever be ugly."

-Roald Dahl, The Twits

"What a lot of hairy-faced men there are around nowadays."

-Roald Dahl, The Twits

"If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on their face"

-Roald Dahl, The Twits

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6. Closer

By: Dennis Cooper

3.72

Format: 395 pages, Paperback

Like Jean Genet and William Burroughs, Dennis Cooper assaults the senses as he engages the mind wit… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger

7. 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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  • fiction
Cover of The Atrocity Exhibition by William S. Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, V. Vale, Phoebe Gloeckner, Andrea Juno, Ana Barrado

8. The Atrocity Exhibition

By: William S. Burroughs , J.G. Ballard , V. Vale , Phoebe Gloeckner , Andrea Juno , Ana Barrado

4.11

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Easily one of the 20th century's most visionary writers, J. G. Ballard still lives far ahead of his… read more

Similar categories in William S. Burroughs's The Atrocity Exhibition book and Don Paterson's Zonal

  • science fiction
  • fiction

9. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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10. Felicity

By: Mary Oliver

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems "If I ha… read more

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11. The Witnesses Are Gone

By: Joel Lane , Conrad Williams

4.00

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The Witnesses Are Gone is a first-hand account of a journey into the underworld in all the wrong pl… read more

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12. Eugene Onegin

By: Alexander Pushkin , James E. Falen

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their lite… read more

Similar categories in Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin book and Don Paterson's Zonal

  • poetry
  • fiction
"He's happy now, he's almost sane."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"Habit is heaven's gift to us: a substitute for happiness."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you..."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"I'm only writing this to show That I stopped sinning long ago."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

13. The Waste Land and Other Poems

By: T.S. Eliot

3.62

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century… read more

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14. Tokyo Express

By: Seichō Matsumoto

3.68

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

In una cala rocciosa della baia di Hakata, i corpi di un uomo e di una donna vengono rinvenuti all’… read more

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  • fiction
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15. A Shining

By: Jon Fosse

3.49

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more

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  • fiction
"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

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16. The Order of Time

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explo… read more

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"Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"Before Newton, time for humanity was the way of counting how things changed. Before him, no one had thought it possible that a time independent of things could exist. Don't take your intuitions and i…"

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

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17. Brainwyrms

By: Alison Rumfitt

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Companion Piece by Ali Smith

18. Companion Piece

By: Ali Smith

3.82

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

A celebration of companionship in all its timeless and contemporary, legendary and unpindownable, s… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Termush by Sven Holm

19. Termush

By: Sven Holm

3.31

Format: 119 pages, Paperback

Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer, welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apoca… read more

Similar categories in Sven Holm's Termush book and Don Paterson's Zonal

  • science fiction
  • fiction
"An inspired lie could be preferred to a malignant truth."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"I must ask myself whether I am not colouring what I see with my own views."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"- I do have some faith in democracy, but I don't think that this vote can be regarded as a matter of course as democratic. The voters knew too little about the alternatives. - They are always Ill-inf…"

-Sven Holm, Termush

Cover of Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3) by Ali Smith

20. Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)

By: Ali Smith

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Spring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives, a hundred yea… read more

Similar categories in Ali Smith's Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3) book and Don Paterson's Zonal

  • fiction
"We move from one invisibility to another."

-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)

"..cruelty to animals will get you punished but cruelty to humans will get you promotion."

-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)

"You can’t just ask strangers to drive you up and down the country. This is the twenty first century. Strangers are more dangerous than ever; we’ve never been more dangerous."

-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)

"Then the three minutes of black and white are over and what's left is the story of human beings and air, something we hardly ever notice or think about, something we couldn't live without."

-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)

Cover of Zonal by Don Paterson

21. Zonal

By: Don Paterson

3.98

Format: None pages, ebook

Don Paterson's new collection of poetry starts from the premise that the crisis of mid-life may be … read more

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  • science fiction
  • poetry
  • fiction

18 Top science books like The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli

Transform Your Habits

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Neil deGrasse Tyson

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

Paul C.W. Davies , Werner Heisenberg

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

Sean Carroll

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe

Lee Smolin , Henry Reich

2.00

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