11 best-selling fiction books like Under the Glacier by Halldór Laxness, Magnus Magnusson

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Under the Glacier

By: Halldór Laxness , Magnus Magnusson

3.44

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness's Under the Glacieris aone-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocativ…

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1. The Recognitions

By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Format: 976 pages, Paperback

The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels
"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

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2. Cane

By: Jean Toomer , Darwin Turner

3.83

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evo… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
"Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream."

-Jean Toomer, Cane

"Her own glowing is too rich a thing to let her feel the slimness of his diluted passion."

-Jean Toomer, Cane

"There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them."

-Jean Toomer, Cane

"I like to feel that something deep in me responded to the trees, the young trees that whinnied like colts impatient to be let free…"

-Jean Toomer, Cane

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3. Icefields

By: Thomas Wharton

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Winner of: The Banff Grand National Prize for Literature The Writers Guild of Alberta Best First … read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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4. Sofia Petrovna

By: Lydia Chukovskaya , Aline Werth

4.04

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Sofia Petrovna is Lydia Chukovskaya's fictional account of the Great Purge. Sofia is a Soviet Every… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
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5. The Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950

By: T.S. Eliot

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This omnibus collection includes all of the author's early poetry as well as the Four Quartets, Old… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
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6. Au Pair

By: Willem Frederik Hermans

4.53

Format: 122 pages, Hardcover

Kunstgeschiedenis en Frans, dat wil de negentienjarige, 1 meter 92 lange Paulina uit Vlissingen stu… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
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7. Under the Glacier

By: Halldór Laxness , Magnus Magnusson

3.44

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness's Under the Glacieris aone-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocativ… read more

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  • nobel prize
  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels
  • scandinavian literature

8. Huasipungo

By: Jorge Icaza

4.39

Format: 288 pages,

Huasipungoes una pieza fundamental en el desarrollo de la narrativa indigenista andina. El indio qu… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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9. A Fan's Notes

By: Frederick Exley

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

This fictional memoir, the first of an autobiographical trilogy, traces a self professed failure's … read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels

10. The Blue Fox

By: Victoria Cribb , Sjón

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE NORDIC LITERARY PRIZE AND NOMINATED FOR THE ICELANDIC LITERATURE PRIZE The year is 18… read more

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11. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

By: John Ashbery

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

John Ashberry won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle… read more

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12. The Gift

By: Vladimir Nabokov , Michael Scammell , Dmitri Nabokov

3.33

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

The Giftis the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native Russian and the crowning achievement … read more

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13. Three Tales

By: Gustave Flaubert , Geoffrey Wall , Roger Whitehouse

4.03

Format: 325 pages,

First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness,… read more

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14. From the Mouth of the Whale

By: Victoria Cribb , Sjón

3.86

Format: None pages, Paperback

The year is 1635. Iceland is a world darkened by superstition, poverty and cruelty. Men of science … read more

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15. Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life

By: Alison Weir

3.88

Format: 192 pages,

Combining the pace and descriptive quality of a novel with the authority of a textbook, Alison Weir… read more

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16. Henderson the Rain King

By: Saul Bellow , Luciano Bianciardi

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Henderson has come to Africa on a spiritual safari, a quest for the truth. His feats of strength, h… read more

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17. Hour of the Wolf (Inspector Van Veeteren #7)

By: Håkan Nesser , Laurie Thompson

3.47

Format: 288 pages,

The master of Swedish crime fiction returns with this latest entry into the internationally acclaim… read more

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18. Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball

By: Luke Epplin

4.48

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of four men—Larry Doby, Bill Veeck, Bob Feller, and Satchel Paige—whose improbab… read more

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19. Snerting

By: Olaf Olafsson

4.05

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Kristófer hyggst loka veitingastað sínum í miðbæ Reykjavíkur vegna veirunnar, eftir áratuga farsæla… read more

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  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction
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20. The Bloater

By: Rosemary Tonks

3.47

Format: 158 pages, Hardcover

Min, married, but like a reckless little schoolgirl still unbroken, is being wooed by 'the Bloater'… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
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21. Food

By: Gertrude Stein

1.96

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

Sadder than salad. From apples to artichokes, these glittering, fragmented, painterly portraits … read more

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  • literature
  • classics

5 Top novels books like Under the Glacier by Halldór Laxness, Magnus Magnusson

Transform Your Habits

The Recognitions

William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Icefields

Thomas Wharton

3.54

Transform Your Habits

Sofia Petrovna

Lydia Chukovskaya , Aline Werth

4.04

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Under the Glacier

Halldór Laxness , Magnus Magnusson

3.44

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20 Top classics books like Food by Gertrude Stein

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Notes on Nationalism

George Orwell

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Veiled Woman (PENGUIN MODERN)

Anaïs Nin

3.48

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Create Dangerously

Albert Camus

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Three Electroknights

Stanisław Lem

3.33

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