11 best-selling classics books like Hunger by Knut Hamsun, Sverre Lyngstad

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Hunger

By: Knut Hamsun , Sverre Lyngstad

3.98

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Never quite falling into the abuss of suicide, Knut Hamsun's narrator/antihero veers wildly from a …

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1. Nausea

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In… read more

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"It was true, I had always realized it—I hadn’t any “right"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

Cover of We'll to the Woods No More: Novel (New Directions Paperbook) by Leon Edel, Stuart Gilbert, Édouard Dujardin

2. We'll to the Woods No More: Novel (New Directions Paperbook)

By: Leon Edel , Stuart Gilbert , Édouard Dujardin

3.50

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

A delightful period piece of Paris in the late 1880’s, We’ll to the Woods No More ( Les lauriers so… read more

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  • 19th century
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3. Dead Souls

By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more

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"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

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4. Nokon kjem til å komme

By: Jon Fosse

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

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5. Death in Venice

By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim

3.74

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more

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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

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6. Min kamp 1 (Min kamp #1)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

4.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Min kamp ar Karl Ove Knausgards maktiga sjalvbiografiska roman. Forsta delen inleds med en svepande… read more

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7. Acido Lattico

By: Saverio Fattori

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Acido lattico e un romanzo noir d'ambiente sportivo: indaga il mistero di un suicidio e la faccia o… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Amtmannens døtre by Lise Fjeldstad, Camilla Collett

8. Amtmannens døtre

By: Lise Fjeldstad , Camilla Collett

3.75

Format: None pages, Audio Cassette

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9. Min kamp 6 (Min kamp #6)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

3.50

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

I det anmelderroste selvbiografiske romanvaerk, Min kamp, udforsker Karl Ove Knausgard nadelost og … read more

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10. The Trial

By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir

3.95

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifyi… read more

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"But I’m not guilty,"

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"Asking questions were the most important thing."

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"It was very learned, but it didn't actually say anything."

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"The way she sits on my lap as if it were her proper place!"

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

11. The Birds

By: Tarjei Vesaas , Michael Barnes , None

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

With spare simplicity, this story tells the tale of Mattis, a mentally disabled man cared for by hi… read more

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12. Steppenwolf

By: Hermann Hesse , Basil Creighton , کیکاووس جهانداری

4.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Steppenwolfis a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. Th… read more

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13. Journey to the End of the Night

By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim , William T. Vollmann

4.19

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of soci… read more

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"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"When you write, you should put your skin on the table."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"Sonuçta savaş dediğiniz şey, anlamadığınız ne varsa odur"

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

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14. Hunger

By: Knut Hamsun , George Egerton

4.05

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary … read more

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"Yoksul aydın, zengin aydından çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)"

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing."

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!"

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity."

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

Cover of Doppler (Doppler, #1) by Erlend Loe, Jozef Zelizňák

15. Doppler (Doppler, #1)

By: Erlend Loe , Jozef Zelizňák

3.91

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Otec dvoch detí jedného dňa spadne v lese z bicykla a zrazu zacíti pokoj a harmóniu. Už ho neotravu… read more

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"Orman hem veriyor hem alıyor. Ona gelenleri de kendine benzetiyor."

-Erlend Loe, Doppler (Doppler, #1)

"We're born alone and we die alone. It's just a question of getting used to both of them."

-Erlend Loe, Doppler (Doppler, #1)

"Люди вообще обладают одним поразительным свойством: как только они заполняют собой пространство, ты начинаешь видеть исключительно их, а не это самое пространство."

-Erlend Loe, Doppler (Doppler, #1)

"Год за годом меня вела по жизни бескомпромиссная первоклассность. В ней я просыпался, в ней я засыпал. Я дышал безупречностью. И как-то постепенно, незаметно упустил саму жизнь. Господи, не приведи д…"

-Erlend Loe, Doppler (Doppler, #1)

Cover of Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Norman Dietz, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, Boris de Schlœzer, Emanuela Guercetti, None, Donald Fanger, None, None, None

16. Notes from Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None

4.17

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more

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"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

17. The Fall

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien

4.01

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more

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18. Mañana y tarde

By: Jon Fosse

3.88

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

Un niño que se llamará Johannes llega al mundo. Fallece un anciano llamado Johannes. Entre estos do… read more

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"Ahora tú también estás muerto, Johannes, dice Peter Te moriste esta mañana, dice Y como yo era tu mejor amigo, me enviaron a recogerte, dice Pero ¿por qué hemos pescado cangrejos? dice Johannes Tenía…"

-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde

"Vart ska vi fara? säger Johannes Nej nu frågar du som om du fortfarande var vid liv, säger Peter Inte till någon plats? säger Johannes Nej dit vi nu ska, det är inte någon plats, och därför har den h…"

-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde

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19. Da vi var yngre

By: Oliver Lovrenski

4.27

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

Ivor vokser opp for raskt og savner det han aldri har hatt. Med seg har han Marco, Arjan og Jonas. … read more

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"de sier brødre? dere ække brødre, dere ikke er familie engang, men om vi ikke er familie, hvorfor er vi dem vi ringer hver gang ikke vi kan ringe noen andre, hvorfor er vi dem som er der når ingen an…"

-Oliver Lovrenski, Da vi var yngre

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20. The Other Name: Septology I-II

By: Jon Fosse

4.06

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

The Other Name follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway.… read more

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"...there inside the person is what will pass away and become one with what is invisible in everything..."

-Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II

"...what's beautiful in life turns out bad in a painting because it's like there's too much beauty, a good picture needs something bad in it in order to shine the way it should, it needs darkness in i…"

-Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II

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21. Synnøve Solbakken

By: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

3.27

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was cond… read more

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18 must-read fiction books like Hunger by Knut Hamsun, Sverre Lyngstad

Transform Your Habits

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Transform Your Habits

We'll to the Woods No More: Novel (New Directions Paperbook)

Leon Edel , Stuart Gilbert , Édouard Dujardin

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Nokon kjem til å komme

Jon Fosse

3.87

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13 Top fiction books like Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander, Hayden Carruth

Transform Your Habits

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Transform Your Habits

White Nights

Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

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