5 Top literature books like Give Me Your Heart by Joyce Carol Oates

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Give Me Your Heart

By: Joyce Carol Oates

4.29

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

An Otto Penzler Book In the suspenseful "Strip Poker," a reckless adolescent girl must find a way o…

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Cover of The Woman Who Stole My Life by Marian Keyes

1. The Woman Who Stole My Life

By: Marian Keyes

3.57

Format: 531 pages, Paperback

Stella Sweeney is back in Dublin. After living the dream in New York for a year - touring her self-… read more

Similar categories in Marian Keyes's The Woman Who Stole My Life book and Joyce Carol Oates's Give Me Your Heart

  • romance
  • fiction
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2. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

By: David Foster Wallace

4.15

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more

Similar categories in David Foster Wallace's A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments book and Joyce Carol Oates's Give Me Your Heart

  • literature
  • short stories
"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

Cover of Residenza Arcadia by Daniel Cuello

3. Residenza Arcadia

By: Daniel Cuello

4.09

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Un condominio, nella periferia di una grande città. Liti e battibecchi tra condomini, in un'escalat… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Cuello's Residenza Arcadia book and Joyce Carol Oates's Give Me Your Heart

  • fiction
Cover of Wake Not the Dead by Ludwig Tieck

4. Wake Not the Dead

By: Ludwig Tieck

3.87

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

Johann Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853) was a German poet, translator, editor, novelist, and critic, who wa… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of La preuve by Ágota Kristóf

5. La preuve

By: Ágota Kristóf

3.47

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Avec Le Grand Cahier nous etions dans un pays en guerre ou deux enfants, des jumeaux, apprenaient a… read more

Similar categories in Ágota Kristóf's La preuve book and Joyce Carol Oates's Give Me Your Heart

  • fiction
Cover of Give Me Your Heart by Joyce Carol Oates

6. Give Me Your Heart

By: Joyce Carol Oates

4.29

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

An Otto Penzler Book In the suspenseful "Strip Poker," a reckless adolescent girl must find a way o… read more

Similar categories in Joyce Carol Oates's Give Me Your Heart book and Joyce Carol Oates's Give Me Your Heart

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
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7. Splendore

By: Margaret Mazzantini

0.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Avremo mai il coraggio di essere noi stessi?si chiedono i protagonisti di questo romanzo. Due ragaz… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
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8. Accabadora

By: Michela Murgia

4.07

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

La Sardegna degli anni Cinquanta è un mondo antico sull’orlo del precipizio. Maria ha sei anni ed è… read more

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  • fiction
"Quan es té prou temps, fins i tot la ràbia s'organitza."

-Michela Murgia, Accabadora

"En la hora de la debilidad algunos prefieren hacerse creyentes que fuertes"

-Michela Murgia, Accabadora

"-¿Quieres juzgar el cómo sin entender el porqué? Siempre tienes prisa por dictar sentencias, Maria. (Bonaria Urria)"

-Michela Murgia, Accabadora

"Come gli occhi della civetta, ci sono pensieri che non sopportano la luce piena. Non possono nascere che di notte, dove la loro funzione è la stessa della luna, necessaria a smuovere maree di senso i…"

-Michela Murgia, Accabadora

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9. Yesterday

By: Ágota Kristóf

3.85

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In spare, elegant prose, this modern novella recounts a troubled young man's flight from a judgment… read more

Similar categories in Ágota Kristóf's Yesterday book and Joyce Carol Oates's Give Me Your Heart

  • literature
  • fiction

10. The Other

By: Thomas Tryon

4.09

Format: 315 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Holland and Niles Perry are identical thirteen-year-old twins. Holland is bold and mischievous, a b… read more

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11. The Fifth Child

By: Doris Lessing

3.96

Format: 433 pages, Paperback

Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story--centered on the birth of a baby who seems less th… read more

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12. Le grand cahier

By: Ágota Kristóf

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dans un pays ravage par la guerre, Claus Et Lucas font l'apprentissage de la vie, de l'ecriture et … read more

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13. 1Q84 #1-2 (1Q84, #1-2)

By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin

4.29

Format: 176 pages,

The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmati… read more

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14. Korku

By: Stefan Zweig , İlknur İgan

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

Rahat ve korunakli bir yasam suren saygin bir kadin, sekiz yillik evliliginden sikilmis, burjuva du… read more

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15. Grotesque

By: Natsuo Kirino , Rebecca Copeland

4.06

Format: None pages,

Tokyo prostitutes Yuriko and Kazue have been brutally murdered, their deaths leaving a wake of unan… read more

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16. Maeve Fly

By: C.J. Leede

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award! A Bram Stoker and Splatterpunk Award Nominee! … read more

Similar categories in C.J. Leede's Maeve Fly book and Joyce Carol Oates's Give Me Your Heart

  • fiction
  • horror
"Inside my room, I turn on Billy Holiday. There are only two kinds of music in my world. Billy Holiday and Halloween songs."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we expect an answer, a reason."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"I have tried the way of the misanthrope, the way of the deviant, the philosopher, the observer, the pretender. But there is one road I have not seriously considered walking down, have not permitted m…"

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

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17. Baumgartner

By: Paul Auster

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more

Similar categories in Paul Auster's Baumgartner book and Joyce Carol Oates's Give Me Your Heart

  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

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18. La asombrosa tienda de la señora Yeom

By: Kim Ho-yeon

4.04

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

La historia conmovedora, delicada, de un hombre que lo ha perdido todo, salvo la fuerza de encontra… read more

Similar categories in Kim Ho-yeon's La asombrosa tienda de la señora Yeom book and Joyce Carol Oates's Give Me Your Heart

  • fiction
Cover of What Happens at Night by Peter    Cameron

19. What Happens at Night

By: Peter Cameron

3.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An unnamed American couple travels to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby. It’s a diffic… read more

Similar categories in Peter Cameron's What Happens at Night book and Joyce Carol Oates's Give Me Your Heart

  • mystery
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. Parti e omicidi

By: Sayaka Murata

3.76

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Parti e omicidi è una raccolta di racconti ambientati in una Tokyo di un futuro non ben precisato, … read more

Similar categories in Sayaka Murata's Parti e omicidi book and Joyce Carol Oates's Give Me Your Heart

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis

21. The Shards

By: Bret Easton Ellis

4.00

Format: 595 pages, Hardcover

A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that t… read more

Similar categories in Bret Easton Ellis's The Shards book and Joyce Carol Oates's Give Me Your Heart

  • mystery
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
"Non investivo nel mondo reale – perché avrei dovuto? Non era fatto per me o per i miei bisogni o desideri."

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"Eravamo adolescenti, bambini superficialmente sofisticati, che non sapevano davvero nulla di come funzionava il mondo - lo stavamo sperimentando, immagino, ma senza averne cognizione. Almeno fino a q…"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being …"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

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22. Parmiddagen

By: Martin Österdahl

3.27

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

Det är tidig nyårsdagsmorgon när Nackapolisen möts av en makaber syn i ett av de ståtligare hemmen.… read more

Similar categories in Martin Österdahl's Parmiddagen book and Joyce Carol Oates's Give Me Your Heart

  • fiction
Cover of L'educazione delle farfalle by Donato Carrisi

23. L'educazione delle farfalle

By: Donato Carrisi

4.11

Format: 432 pages, ebook

La casa di legno brucia nel cuore della notte. Lingue di fuoco illuminano la vallata fra le montagn… read more

Similar categories in Donato Carrisi's L'educazione delle farfalle book and Joyce Carol Oates's Give Me Your Heart

  • fiction
Cover of Soif by Amélie Nothomb

24. Soif

By: Amélie Nothomb

3.59

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

« Pour éprouver la soif, il faut être vivant. On n’apprend des vérités si fortes qu’en ayant soif, … read more

Similar categories in Amélie Nothomb's Soif book and Joyce Carol Oates's Give Me Your Heart

  • fiction
"L’amore riunisce la certezza e il dubbio: si è sicuri di essere amati tanto quanto se ne dubita, e non a momenti alterni, ma in una simultaneità sconcertante. Provare a sbarazzarsi di questa sfumatur…"

-Amélie Nothomb, Soif

"In verità vi dico: ciò che sentite quando state morendo di sete, coltivatelo. Lo slancio mistico non è che questo. E non è una metafora. La fine della fame si chiama sazietà. La fine della stanchezza…"

-Amélie Nothomb, Soif

"Ho scelto? Così sembrerebbe. Come ho potuto scegliere di essere me? Per la ragione che presiede la stragrande maggioranza delle scelte: per incoscienza. Se fossimo consapevoli, sceglieremmo di non vi…"

-Amélie Nothomb, Soif

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25. Los divagantes

By: Guadalupe Nettel

3.87

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Ocho potentes relatos sobre personajes confrontados con lo desconocido y con sus propios miedos. En… read more

Similar categories in Guadalupe Nettel's Los divagantes book and Joyce Carol Oates's Give Me Your Heart

  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Fame d'aria by Daniele Mencarelli

26. Fame d'aria

By: Daniele Mencarelli

4.01

Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition

Tra colline di pietra bianca, tornanti, e paesi arroccati, Pietro Borzacchi sta viaggiando con il f… read more

Similar categories in Daniele Mencarelli's Fame d'aria book and Joyce Carol Oates's Give Me Your Heart

  • fiction
Cover of Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird by Agustina Bazterrica

27. Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

By: Agustina Bazterrica

3.14

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winnin… read more

Similar categories in Agustina Bazterrica's Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird book and Joyce Carol Oates's Give Me Your Heart

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"She was horrified by the traces of monstrosity in everyday life. The things that we look at but don't see, whose true essences are unknown to us."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

"Outside the secure space of the circle, vulgarity accumulates. Ada loathes vulgarity because it's there that misery hides. She knows that misery is destructive and, as such, ephemeral."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

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28. Le Grand Monde

By: Pierre Lemaitre

4.10

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

La famille Pelletier Trois histoires d’amour, un lanceur d’alerte, une adolescente égarée, deux pr… read more

Similar categories in Pierre Lemaitre's Le Grand Monde book and Joyce Carol Oates's Give Me Your Heart

  • fiction
Cover of Plunge by Joe Hill

29. Plunge

By: Joe Hill

3.84

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

There's something terribly wrong with them. And the storm closes in. The research ship Derleth d… read more

Similar categories in Joe Hill's Plunge book and Joyce Carol Oates's Give Me Your Heart

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of La hermana menor: Un retrato de Silvina Ocampo by Mariana Enríquez

30. La hermana menor: Un retrato de Silvina Ocampo

By: Mariana Enríquez

4.27

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

La escritora argentina Silvina Ocampo es una de las figuras más exquisitas, talentosas y extrañas d… read more

Similar categories in Mariana Enríquez's La hermana menor: Un retrato de Silvina Ocampo book and Joyce Carol Oates's Give Me Your Heart

  • literature
Cover of The Waiter (Kamil Rahman, #1) by Ajay Chowdhury

31. The Waiter (Kamil Rahman, #1)

By: Ajay Chowdhury

3.78

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Kamil Rahman, disgraced detective, turned waiter, is about to find himself embroiled in a case that… read more

Similar categories in Ajay Chowdhury's The Waiter (Kamil Rahman, #1) book and Joyce Carol Oates's Give Me Your Heart

  • mystery
  • fiction

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