11 Top novels books like The Empress and the Cake by Jamie Bulloch, Linda Stift

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The Empress and the Cake

By: Jamie Bulloch , Linda Stift

4.33

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

Madness lurks behind the pretty facade of everyday life. An elderly lady offers a young woman a pie…

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1. Agnes Grey

By: Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau

3.71

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition can be found here. Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Bro… read more

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  • fiction
"Dakle,"

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"No one cares for the exterior."

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"But, God knows best, I concluded."

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"If you require perfection, you never will"

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

Cover of Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6) by Terry Pratchett

2. Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.18

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be a priest. He thought he'd come to the mountain kingd… read more

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  • fiction
"Bein’ human means judgin’ all the time,"

-Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)

"Do you understand what’s going on here?"

-Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)

"Everywhere I look, I see something holy."

-Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)

"Hah! The leopard does not change his shorts, my girl!"

-Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)

Cover of Small Gods (Discworld, #13) by Terry Pratchett

3. Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.32

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: "Hey, you!" For Brutha the novice is the Ch… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you."

-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

"Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off."

-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

"Thou shalt not submit thy god to market forces."

-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

"There’s no point in believing in things that exist."

-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

Cover of Monstrous Regiment (Discworld, #31; Industrial Revolution, #3) by Terry Pratchett

4. Monstrous Regiment (Discworld, #31; Industrial Revolution, #3)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

Polly Perks joins the Discworld army to find her brother Paul. "Ozzer" cuts off blonde braids, dons… read more

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  • fiction
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5. Déjame que te cuente

By: Jorge Bucay

3.14

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Demian es un muchacho inquieto y curioso: desea saber mas sobre si mismo. Esta busqueda le conduce … read more

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  • fiction
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6. The Empress and the Cake

By: Jamie Bulloch , Linda Stift

4.33

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

Madness lurks behind the pretty facade of everyday life. An elderly lady offers a young woman a pie… read more

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  • german literature
  • literary fiction
  • germany
  • fiction
  • 21st century
  • novels
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7. Autumn

By: Ali Smith

4.26

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning auth… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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8. The Brothers

By: Asko Sahlberg , Emily Jeremiah , Fleur Jeremiah

3.91

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

A Shakespearean drama from icy Finland. Finland, 1809. Henrik and Erik are brothers who fought on o… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels

9. Feet of Clay (Discworld, #19; City Watch, #3)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Sorry?' said Carrot. If it's just a thing, how can it commit murder? A sword is a thing' - he drew… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, None, None

10. Fathers and Sons

By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"Death's an old story, but new for each person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

11. L'orangeraie

By: Larry Tremblay

3.00

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Quand Amed pleure, Aziz pleure aussi. Quand Aziz rit, Amed rit aussi. Ces freres jumeaux auraient p… read more

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12. Les amantes

By: Elfriede Jelinek , Martin Chalmers

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Quel est le destin d'une ouvriere, ou plutot comment echapper a son destin quand on est ouvriere ? … read more

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13. Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.00

Format: 64 pages,

'Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That's why they're called revol… read more

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14. Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4)

By: Jasper Fforde

3.58

Format: None pages, Paperback

Can Thursday find a Shakespeare clone to stop the hostile takeover of Hamlet by Orphelia? Can Swind… read more

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15. The Silent Companions

By: Laura Purcell

4.46

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country e… read more

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16. The Gift of the Magi

By: O. Henry , Lisbeth Zwerger

4.11

Format: 26 pages, Hardcover

O. Henry's classic tale of the wisest gifts of Christmas is itself a gift to share and treasure. … read more

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  • fiction
"Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating."

-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

"There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl."

-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

"There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with snif…"

-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

"Единственное, что тут можно было сделать, это хлопнуться на старенькую кушетку и зареветь. Именно так Делла и поступила. Откуда напрашивается философский вывод, что жизнь состоит из слез, вздохов и у…"

-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

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17. Das Muschelessen

By: Birgit Vanderbeke

3.64

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Angespannt wartet die Familie am gedeckten Tisch auf den Vater. Mutter, Tochter und Sohn sitzen vor… read more

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  • german literature
  • literary fiction
  • germany
  • fiction
  • novels

18. LaRose

By: Louise Erdrich

3.15

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of the National Book Award-winn… read more

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19. Gilgi, eine von uns

By: Irmgard Keun

4.47

Format: None pages, Paperback

The stirring, never-before-translated story of a single, pregnant, and wickedly nervy young secreta… read more

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20. Winter (Seasonal, #2)

By: Ali Smith

3.82

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

The dazzling second novel in Ali Smith’s essential Seasonal Quartet—from the Baileys Prize-winning,… read more

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  • 21st century
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"Everywhere’s a here, isn’t it?"

-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)

"Are we at mercy of technology or is technology at mercy of us?"

-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)

"Mind and matter are mysterious and, when they come together, bounteous."

-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)

"You can’t expect to live in the world like the world’s your private myth."

-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)

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21. The Dry Heart

By: Natalia Ginzburg

4.00

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.”… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"I absorbed his every word and tried to see if there was any love in it."

-Natalia Ginzburg, The Dry Heart

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22. Earthlings

By: Sayaka Murata

3.60

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witc… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Sobreviver, haja o que houver."

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

"O senso comum é uma doença contagiosa e é difícil manter a infecção sozinho."

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

"I thought that when I grew up society would brainwash me, but it didn't work."

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

"Até quando eu teria de sobreviver? Será que algum dia poderia apenas viver e não sobreviver?"

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

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23. Blutbuch

By: Kim de l'Horizon

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Die Erzählfigur in ›Blutbuch‹ identifiziert sich weder als Mann noch als Frau. Aufgewachsen in eine… read more

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  • german literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"Ich wollte kein Gegenstand sein, ich wollte ein Mensch sein und gross; und gross zu sein, bedeutete, ein Geschlecht zu haben, ein männliches. Als Frau drohte einem, ein Gegenstand zu bleiben oder ein…"

-Kim de l'Horizon, Blutbuch

"Ich wollte dir meine konstante Angst vor meinem Körper erzählen: Mit dem schrecklichsten Monster unterm Bett unter einer Decke zu stecken. Nur ist das keine Decke, sondern meine Haut. Eine Angst, wie…"

-Kim de l'Horizon, Blutbuch

"Und so ass ich meine erste koschere Zimtschnecke mit Dina, es war Anfang Sommer, die Sommerferienekstase der Kinder diffundierte in unsere trägen Glieder rüber, wir sassen vor der Bäckerei, und es wa…"

-Kim de l'Horizon, Blutbuch

Cover of The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1) by Seishi Yokomizo

24. The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

3.66

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

One of Japan's greatest classic murder mysteries, introducing their best loved detective, translate… read more

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  • fiction
"What was Kenzo's reaction to all this criticism? His approach was to stay completely silent. He made no move whatsoever to respond to any of it. And, of course, water eventually wins over fire. One b…"

-Seishi Yokomizo, The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)

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25. Elena Knows

By: Claudia Piñeiro

4.08

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

A unique tale that interweaves crime fiction with intimate tales of morality and search for individ… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"¿Seguirá siendo madre ahora que no tiene hija?"

-Claudia Piñeiro, Elena Knows

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26. Pod

By: Laline Paull

3.63

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing and immersive new novel, Pod takes the reader into the depths of the ocean—and into … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"To spin like everyone else was the key to fitting in, and if she could only hear the music of the ocean like everyone else, she too would be able to tune in and do it."

-Laline Paull, Pod

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27. Milk Fed

By: Melissa Broder

3.57

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"This interplay between hope and reality was also a part of the mourning."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

"There are emanations of god we can’t even see. What’s important is that you feel it."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

"Life was a lot less bleak when you were staring straight down the barrel of a burrito."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

"I wanted a love contingent on nothing finite. I wanted a love without end. Everyone was always saying you had to give it to yourself. Self-love, self-love."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

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28. The Corset

By: Laura Purcell

4.15

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Is prisoner Ruth Butterham mad or a murderer? Victim or villain? Dorothea and Ruth. Prison visit… read more

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  • fiction
"Notoriety is by no means a death sentence in the world of art."

-Laura Purcell, The Corset

"Grief is a violent emotion, a sort of acid that eats away at the best parts of us."

-Laura Purcell, The Corset

"You'll call me heartless for thinking such thoughts. Maybe I was: a cavity yawned in my ribs, where once I'd felt a heart beat back."

-Laura Purcell, The Corset

"I don’t mean to sound ungrateful, miss. Charitable people like yourself saved my life. But I wish they’d thought a bit more about what I was to do with it, once it was safe."

-Laura Purcell, The Corset

Cover of Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin

29. Winter in Sokcho

By: Elisa Shua Dusapin

3.56

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

As if Marguerite Duras wrote Convenience Store Woman - a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut F… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"The rain hammered down, the sea rising beneath it in spikes like the spines of a sea urchin."

-Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho

"How do you know when a story is done?" "My character reaches a point when I know he has a life of his own. I can let him go."

-Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho

"How do you know when a story is done?’ ‘My character reaches a point when I know he has a life of his own. I can let him go."

-Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho

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30. Sin Eater

By: Megan Campisi

3.61

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

For the crime of stealing bread, fourteen-year-old May receives a life sentence: she must become a … read more

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  • fiction
"It's always women who eat sins, since it was Eve who first ate a sin: the Forbidden Fruit."

-Megan Campisi, Sin Eater

"The Sin Eater walks among us, unseen, unheard Sins of our flesh become sins of Hers Following Her to the grave, unseen, unheard The Sin Eater Walks Among Us."

-Megan Campisi, Sin Eater

"With how you came into the world and what you've seen lately you should know, the more you live, the more the sinner and the saint can't be pulled apart. All of us just getting by."

-Megan Campisi, Sin Eater

"Don’t I know by now that folk see their sins in the way they choose? There’s always a reason as to why selfishness is not really selfish and crimes are honest and waiting safely by while somefolk els…"

-Megan Campisi, Sin Eater

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

31. 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

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  • 21st century
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"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)

24 Best fiction books like The Empress and the Cake by Jamie Bulloch, Linda Stift

Transform Your Habits

Agnes Grey

Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)

Terry Pratchett

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

Terry Pratchett

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Monstrous Regiment (Discworld, #31; Industrial Revolution, #3)

Terry Pratchett

4.12

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17 Top fiction books like Winter (Seasonal, #2) by Ali Smith

Hot Milk

Deborah Levy

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Winter (Seasonal, #2)

Ali Smith

3.82

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