12 Best classics books like The Hotel by Elizabeth Bowen

The Hotel

By: Elizabeth Bowen

3.47

Format: None pages, Paperback

These were the balmy days of the 1920s. The Hotel was a comfortable hotel on the Italian Riviera, r…

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Cover of The Little Virtues by Dick Davis, Natalia Ginzburg

1. The Little Virtues

By: Dick Davis , Natalia Ginzburg

4.10

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

"As far as the education of children is concerned," states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection of h… read more

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  • italy
  • classics
"It seemed to me that I had discovered how people in books should be—funny and at the same time sad."

-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues

"What we must remember above all in the education of our children is that their love of life should never weaken."

-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues

"And perhaps even for learning to walk in worn-out shoes, it is as well to have dry, warm feet when we are children."

-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues

"Y los detalles se gastan, se echan a perder si uno los lleva consigo sin utilizarlos durante mucho tiempo. No sólo los detalles sino todo, todas las ocurrencias y las ideas."

-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues

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2. The Feast

By: Margaret Kennedy

3.93

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Initially was published in a shortened form in a 1949 Ladies Home Journal magazine under the title … read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
"She writes this biographical fiction, or fictional biography, whichever you like to call it. She takes some juicy scandal from the life of a famous person, and writes a novel round it. Any facts that…"

-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast

"MYSELF: You have never understood. My integrity means more to me than happiness. CHRISTINA: You have none. There is no such thing. You are not a whole person. Nobody is. We are members one of another…"

-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast

"[W]hen she was dying she asked me to promise never to leave Father. I couldn't refuse. It was the last thing she said. She was worried over what would happen to him. So you see!' 'How could she conde…"

-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast

"What kind of books do you like?' 'I like books about nice people. And a story where it all comes out right in the end.' 'But Nancibel, that's not true to life.' 'I daresay not. Why should it be?' 'Yo…"

-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast

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3. Voices in the Evening

By: Natalia Ginzburg

3.74

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

In a hushed Italian town after the Second World War, Elsa lives with her parents in the house where… read more

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  • italy
  • classics
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
Cover of Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Bailey

4. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

By: Elizabeth Taylor , Paul Bailey

4.00

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Librarian Note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here On a rainy Sunday in Januar… read more

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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
"Abrió el libro, pero ninguna página parecía ser lo bastante potente para borrar la soledad que sentía."

-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

"La catastrofe de la vejez residía en no atreverse a ir a cualquier parte, en resignarse a perder la libertad"

-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

"If you don't praise people just sometimes a little early on they die of despair, or turn into Hitlers, you know?"

-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

"...pensaba en el amor y en sus espantosas desigualdades. Siempre hay alguien que ofrece la mejilla y otro que la besa."

-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

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5. Mr Fortune's Maggot

By: Sylvia Townsend Warner

3.51

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Alternative cover editions for this ISBN can be found  The Reverend Timothy Fortune, ex-bank clerk… read more

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  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett, Frank Swinnerton

6. The Grand Babylon Hotel

By: Arnold Bennett , Frank Swinnerton

4.33

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

The Grand Babylon Hotel is an exclusive London establishment, and American millionaire Theodore Rac… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • 20th century
  • british literature

7. Hotel du Lac

By: Anita Brookner

3.93

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

"Impeccably written and suffused with pleasing wit."--Newsweek In the novel that won her the Booker… read more

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  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature

8. The Hotel

By: Elizabeth Bowen

3.47

Format: None pages, Paperback

These were the balmy days of the 1920s. The Hotel was a comfortable hotel on the Italian Riviera, r… read more

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  • italy
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
  • irish literature
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9. Voyage in the Dark

By: Jean Rhys , Carole Angier

3.78

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known,' says Anna Morgan, eighteen… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
"Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into my eyes."

-Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark

"It's funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girl's clothes cost more than the girl inside them?"

-Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark

"I was thinking it was funny I could giggle like that because in my heart I was always sad, with the same sort of hurt that the cold gave me in my chest."

-Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark

"But in the daytime it was all right. And when you'd had a drink you knew it was the best way to live in the world because anything might happen. I don't know how people live when they know exactly wh…"

-Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark

10. Lessico famigliare

By: Natalia Ginzburg , Cesare Garboli

5.00

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Lessico famigliaree la storia di una famiglia ebrea, quella della stessa scrittrice, che si svolge … read more

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11. Paradise

By: Toni Morrison

3.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

"They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time." So begins this visionary… read more

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12. Hotel World

By: Ali Smith

4.50

Format: 176 pages,

Five disparate voices inhabit Ali Smith's dreamlike, mesmerising Hotel World, set in the luxurious … read more

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13. All Our Yesterdays

By: Natalia Ginzburg , Angus Davidson

3.59

Format: 464 pages,

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14. The Good Soldier

By: Ford Madox Ford , None , Kenneth Womack

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

"A Tale of Passion," as its subtitle declares, The Good Soldierrelates the complex social and sexua… read more

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15. The Duchess of Malfi

By: John Webster

3.00

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of M… read more

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16. Richard II

By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill , None

3.91

Format: 385 pages, Paperback

Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be … read more

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17. God Help the Child

By: Toni Morrison

4.18

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child--the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current … read more

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18. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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19. Enter Ghost

By: Isabella Hammad

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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20. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

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  • novels
  • irish literature
  • fiction
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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21. Ordinary Human Failings

By: Megan Nolan

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more

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  • irish literature
  • fiction
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

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22. Brotherless Night

By: V.V. Ganeshananthan

4.46

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more

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  • fiction
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23. Her Side of the Story

By: Alba de Céspedes

4.07

Format: 500 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Forbidden Notebook, Alba de Céspedes, a richly told novel she called “the story … read more

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  • italy
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
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24. Sipsworth

By: Simon Van Booy

4.26

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
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25. River East, River West

By: Aube Rey Lescure

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more

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  • fiction
"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

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26. Butcher

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women’… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville

27. Restless Dolly Maunder

By: Kate Grenville

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more

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  • fiction
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28. How to Read a Book

By: Monica Wood

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A charming, deeply moving novel about second chances, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing p… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"Perhaps it's an oddity of human nature to judge women more harshly, or maybe we expect so little of men their transgressions don't register the same."

-Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

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29. Happiness, as Such

By: Natalia Ginzburg

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

At the heart of Happiness, as Such is an absence—an abyss that pulls everyone to its brink—created … read more

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  • italy
  • classics
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
"This life now has nothing to equal to the places and moments we passed through to get here"

-Natalia Ginzburg, Happiness, as Such

"Ma è vero che a un certo punto della nostra vita i rimorsi li inzuppiamo nel caffè la mattina come biscotti."

-Natalia Ginzburg, Happiness, as Such

"Ma non si amano soltanto le memorie felici. A un certo punto della vita, ci si accorge che si amano le memorie."

-Natalia Ginzburg, Happiness, as Such

"So I wasn’t there when he died, which I regret. But after a certain point in life a person has to dunk her regrets in the morning coffee, just like biscuits."

-Natalia Ginzburg, Happiness, as Such

Cover of Valentino and Sagittarius: Two Novellas by Natalia Ginzburg

30. Valentino and Sagittarius: Two Novellas

By: Natalia Ginzburg

3.99

Format: 134 pages, Hardcover

One of Italy's modern writers explores the theme of the break-up of families, with the subsequent d… read more

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  • italy
  • fiction
  • 20th century
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31. The Road to the City

By: Natalia Ginzburg

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Delia is one of five children, growing up in a poor Italian village. She is seventeen, and dreams o… read more

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  • italy
  • fiction
  • classics
  • 20th century

22 must-read fiction books like The Hotel by Elizabeth Bowen

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The Feast

Margaret Kennedy

3.93

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Voices in the Evening

Natalia Ginzburg

3.74

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Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

Elizabeth Taylor , Paul Bailey

4.00

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Mr Fortune's Maggot

Sylvia Townsend Warner

3.51

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The Vet's Daughter

Kathryn Davis , Barbara Comyns

3.90

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A Far Cry from Kensington

Muriel Spark

3.83

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The Tortoise and the Hare

Hilary Mantel , Elizabeth Jenkins

3.94

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Dorothy Whipple

4.21

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