13 must-read fiction books like The Train Was on Time by Heinrich Böll, Leila Vennewitz

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The Train Was on Time

By: Heinrich Böll , Leila Vennewitz

3.88

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Heinrich Boll's taut and haunting first novel tells the story of twenty-four-year-old Private Andre…

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Cover of The Emigrants by Michael Hulse, W.G. Sebald

1. The Emigrants

By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald

4.17

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth… read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
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  • germany
  • fiction
  • novels
"It is hard, said Mme Landau, when I told her about those railway lessons, in the end it is hard to know what it is that someone dies of. Yes, it is very hard, said Mme Landau, one really doesn't know."

-Michael Hulse, The Emigrants

"The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the shimmering distance, and the Alpine panorama that occupied h…"

-Michael Hulse, The Emigrants

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2. The Passport

By: Herta Müller , Martin Chalmers

3.32

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

From the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature “[The Passport] has the same clipped prose… read more

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  • german literature
  • literature
  • germany
  • fiction
  • novels
"He's looking into the night, in case a shadow comes to listen and look."

-Herta Müller, The Passport

"Before the war an apple tree had stood behind the church. It was an apple tree that ate its own apples."

-Herta Müller, The Passport

"Windisch closes his eyes. He feels his eyes. He feels his eyeballs in his hands. His eyes without a face."

-Herta Müller, The Passport

"Jesus sleeps on the cross by the church door. When he wakes up, he'll be old. The air in the village will be brighter than his naked skin."

-Herta Müller, The Passport

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3. The View from Castle Rock

By: Alice Munro

3.71

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

A powerful new collection from one of our most beloved, admired, and honored writers. In stories th… read more

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  • fiction
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4. The Train Was on Time

By: Heinrich Böll , Leila Vennewitz

3.88

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Heinrich Boll's taut and haunting first novel tells the story of twenty-four-year-old Private Andre… read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
  • literature
  • germany
  • war
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of The Lady and the Little Fox Fur by Deborah Levy, Violette Leduc, Derek Coltman

5. The Lady and the Little Fox Fur

By: Deborah Levy , Violette Leduc , Derek Coltman

3.69

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Trapped in the depths of poverty, an old woman escapes into an existence where objects, streets, an… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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6. Cat and Mouse

By: Günter Grass , Ralph Manheim

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover for this isbn can be found . To compensate for his unusually large Adam's apple… read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
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  • germany
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore, Michelle Allen

7. Lorna Doone

By: R.D. Blackmore , Michelle Allen

3.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

First published in 1869, Lorna Dooneis the story of John Ridd, a farmer who finds love amid the rel… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Salammbô by Gustave Flaubert, A.J. Krailsheimer

8. Salammbô

By: Gustave Flaubert , A.J. Krailsheimer

3.71

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

An epic story of lust, cruelty, and sensuality, this historical novel is set in Carthage in the day… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Ein fliehendes Pferd by Martin Walser

9. Ein fliehendes Pferd

By: Martin Walser

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Helmut Halm, Lehrer an einem renommierten Stuttgarter Gymnasium, und seine Frau Sabine verbringen, … read more

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  • classics
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  • germany
  • fiction
  • novels

10. The Confusions of Young Törless

By: J.M. Coetzee , Shaun Whiteside , Robert Musil

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

Like his contemporary and rival Sigmund Freud, Robert Musil boldly explored the dark, irrational un… read more

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11. Una novelita lumpen

By: Roberto Bolaño

4.32

Format: 650 pages, Paperback

The Final Bolano Novella "Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of c… read more

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12. The Complete Stories of Truman Capote

By: Truman Capote , Reynolds Price

4.31

Format: 517 pages, Paperback

A landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote's life's work in the form he called his "g… read more

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13. Malone Dies

By: Samuel Beckett

4.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

Written and published in French in 1951, and in Samuel Beckett's English translation in 1956, Malon… read more

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14. 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei

By: Octavio Paz , Wang Wei , Eliot Weinberger

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Nineteen different translations of a single poem with comments on each version by Eliot Weinberger … read more

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15. The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts

By: David Lodge

3.90

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

The articles with which David Lodge entertained and delighted readers of the Independent on Sundaya… read more

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16. Femei

By: Mihail Sebastian

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

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17. The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea

By: Jack E. Davis

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind… read more

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18. A Dictator Calls

By: Ismail Kadare

3.14

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Using a sophisticated and literary version of the ever-popular game of telephone to examine the rel… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
"And a cursory glance at Karl Marx shows that a man who had dedicated his life to the violent overthrow of the world order never devoted half a page in any of his dozens of books to the trauma and rem…"

-Ismail Kadare, A Dictator Calls

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19. The Divorce

By: César Aira

3.85

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

With an enthusiastic foreword by Patti Smith, The Divorce is a delighful book of chance meetings, b… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
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20. Brat

By: Gabriel Smith

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more

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  • fiction
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."

-Gabriel Smith, Brat

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21. Rosarita

By: Anita Desai

3.30

Format: 71 pages, Kindle Edition

'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman RushdieFrom three times Booker-shortlisted author An… read more

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The Emigrants

Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald

4.17

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The Passport

Herta Müller , Martin Chalmers

3.32

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The Train Was on Time

Heinrich Böll , Leila Vennewitz

3.88

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Cat and Mouse

Günter Grass , Ralph Manheim

3.81

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Anna Kavan

3.67

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Point Omega

Don DeLillo

3.43

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Heinrich Böll , Leila Vennewitz

3.88

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By Night in Chile

Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

3.89

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