12 must-read fiction books like Det gode håb by William Heinesen

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Det gode håb

By: William Heinesen

3.98

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

Den tyskfødte Christoffer Gabel, Frederik III's rådgiver og protegé, hersker med hård hånd som lens…

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Cover of La carte et le territoire by Michel Houellebecq

1. La carte et le territoire

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.95

Format: 428 pages, Paperback

Si Jed Martin, le personnage principal de ce roman, devait vous en raconter l’histoire, il commence… read more

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  • fiction
"Sexuality is a fragile thing: it is difficult to enter, and easy to leave."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

"Jed then realized that he was standing in a book, and wondered if this book told the story of his life."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

"Las flores son sólo órganos sexuales, vaginas abigarradas que adornan la superficie del mundo, entregadas a la lubricidad de los insectos."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

"Ciudată e uneori omenirea. Din nefericire, cel mai adesea era genul ciudată și respingătoare, și doar arareori de genul ciudat și încântător."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

Cover of Barba Ensopada de Sangue by Daniel Galera

2. Barba Ensopada de Sangue

By: Daniel Galera

3.67

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

Neste quarto romance de Daniel Galera, um professor de educacao fisica busca refugio em Garopaba, u… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, Seán Barrett, William Weaver

3. The Name of the Rose

By: Umberto Eco , Seán Barrett , William Weaver

4.14

Format: 552 pages, Paperback

The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother Willi… read more

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  • fiction
"الكتب ليست مجعولة كي نؤمن بما تقوله ولكن لكي نتحرّى فيها."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

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4. The Underground Railroad

By: Colson Whitehead

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves but especiall… read more

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  • fiction

5. 84, Charing Cross Road

By: Helene Hanff

3.57

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

This charming classic love story, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspo… read more

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6. Fugletribunalet

By: Agnes Ravatn

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

TV-programleiaren Allis Hagtorn forlet mann og jobb etter ei offentleg sexskandale og byrjar som hu… read more

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7. Middlemarch

By: Michel Faber , George Eliot

4.02

Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more

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  • fiction
"After all, the true seeing is within."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I protest against any absolute conclusion."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

Cover of Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3) by Tove Ditlevsen

8. Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)

By: Tove Ditlevsen

4.37

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Called a masterpiece by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in… read more

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  • scandinavian literature
"Every person has their own truth just as every child has their own childhood."

-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)

"My classmates find me unceasingly, overwhelmingly comical, and I've gotten used to the clown role and even find a sad comfort in it, because together with my confirmed stupidity, it protects me again…"

-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)

Cover of The Girl in the Eagle's Talons (Millennium, #7) by Karin Smirnoff

9. The Girl in the Eagle's Talons (Millennium, #7)

By: Karin Smirnoff

3.40

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Lisbeth Salander returns, in a trailblazing new installment to the best-selling Millennium series. … read more

Similar categories in Karin Smirnoff's The Girl in the Eagle's Talons (Millennium, #7) book and William Heinesen's Det gode håb

  • fiction
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10. Trilogía

By: Jon Fosse

3.90

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Trilogía es un libro diferente. Es hipnótico. Para Jon Fosse escribir es como rezar y, para el lect… read more

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  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction
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11. Flights

By: Olga Tokarczuk

3.76

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on tra… read more

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  • fiction
"The truth is terrible: describing is destroying."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

"the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

"Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you’re looking at."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

"I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

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12. The Years

By: Annie Ernaux

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more

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"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

Cover of Przewalskis hest (Klimakvartetten, #3) by Maja Lunde

13. Przewalskis hest (Klimakvartetten, #3)

By: Maja Lunde

3.86

Format: 549 pages, Hardcover

Publisher's Summary Translated into 36 languages, winner of the Norwegian Bookseller’s Prize, and … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Blomsterdalen by Niviaq Korneliussen

14. Blomsterdalen

By: Niviaq Korneliussen

3.67

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

Hun oplevede det første selvmord, da hun var tretten. Selv vil hun begraves mellem de høje fjelde i… read more

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  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction
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15. Notes To Self

By: Emilie Pine

4.10

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

`The person who loves the addict exhausts and renews their love on a daily basis' In this vivid and… read more

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"He triat ser feliç. Aquesta felicitat no és perfecta ni exempta de dolor. A dins hi porta un dol. Però justament per això és més intensa."

-Emilie Pine, Notes To Self

"I like that I have ten things on the go, all at once. I like that I'm always planning for the next thing. I like that I bring a high energy to my life, that I see it as a challenge. I like that my fa…"

-Emilie Pine, Notes To Self

"I am fearful and hopeful and shameful. I worry that I am empty, or that I am full of the wrong things. I worry that I am disappearing, eroding, failing. I do not know what to do with all these feelin…"

-Emilie Pine, Notes To Self

"For three decades I have lived within a silence that declares periods too embarrassing, too unwanted, too female to talk about out loud. I have done this for so long that I almost no longer notice it…"

-Emilie Pine, Notes To Self

Cover of The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk

16. The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

By: Olga Tokarczuk

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors… read more

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  • fiction
"mitologię, jako zbiór pouczających opowieści, które pomagają żyć"

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

"Ojciec często powtarzał mu (...) że kobiety są z natury swojej zdradliwe i chwiejne. Rozmazane."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

"To proste - myślał Mieczyś Wojnicz, łykając łzy, które mieszały się z krwią zwierzęcia w jego wątłym ciele - być mężczyzną to nauczyć się ignorować to, co sprawia kłopot. Oto cała tajemnica."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

"Wojnicz już zauważył, że każda dyskusja, czy szło o demokrację, czy o piąty wymiar, czy o rolę religii socjalizm, Europę, wreszcie sztukę nowoczesną, wszystko w końcu sprowadzało się do kobiet"

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

Cover of Det gode håb by William Heinesen

17. Det gode håb

By: William Heinesen

3.98

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

Den tyskfødte Christoffer Gabel, Frederik III's rådgiver og protegé, hersker med hård hånd som lens… read more

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  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction

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Michael Bible

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3.73

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