8 Best classics books like 2666 by Roberto Bolaño

Cover of 2666 by Roberto Bolaño

2666

By: Roberto Bolaño

4.21

Format: 1128 pages, Paperback

A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por…

"Nothing is ever behind us."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"Nothing is ever behind us."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"Reading is never a waste of time."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"Reading is never a waste of time."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

If you liked the classics plot in 2666 by Roberto Bolaño , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar, Gregory Rabassa

1. Hopscotch

By: Julio Cortázar , Gregory Rabassa

4.20

Format: 564 pages, Paperback

Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded… read more

Similar categories in Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch book and Roberto Bolaño's 2666

  • classics
  • literature
  • latin american
  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • novels
"Pero el amor, esa palabra..."

-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch

"Explanation is a well-dressed error."

-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch

"Pobre amor el que de pensamiento se alimenta."

-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch

"Hay ausencias que representan un verdadero triunfo"

-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch

Cover of The Recognitions by William H. Gass, William Gaddis

2. 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

Similar categories in William H. Gass's The Recognitions book and Roberto Bolaño's 2666

  • 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

Cover of The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

3. The Crying of Lot 49

By: Thomas Pynchon

3.69

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more

Similar categories in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 book and Roberto Bolaño's 2666

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • novels
"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

Cover of Underworld by Don DeLillo

4. Underworld

By: Don DeLillo

4.81

Format: 539 pages, Paperback

While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russi… read more

Similar categories in Don DeLillo's Underworld book and Roberto Bolaño's 2666

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of Austerlitz by Anthea Bell, W.G. Sebald

5. Austerlitz

By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more

Similar categories in Anthea Bell's Austerlitz book and Roberto Bolaño's 2666

  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction

6. Solenoid

By: Mircea Cărtărescu

3.59

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

,,Vreau sa scriu o dare de seama despre anomaliile mele. In viata mea obscura, in afara oricarei is… read more

Similar categories in Mircea Cărtărescu's Solenoid book and Roberto Bolaño's 2666

7. Libra

By: Don DeLillo

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K In this powerful, eer… read more

Similar categories in Don DeLillo's Libra book and Roberto Bolaño's 2666

8. Against the Day

By: Thomas Pynchon

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, … read more

Similar categories in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day book and Roberto Bolaño's 2666

9. JR

By: William Gaddis , Frederick R. Karl

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

J R is the long-awaited novel from William Gaddis, author of The Recognitions,that tremendous book … read more

Similar categories in William Gaddis's JR book and Roberto Bolaño's 2666

Cover of 2666 by Roberto Bolaño

10. 2666

By: Roberto Bolaño

4.21

Format: 1128 pages, Paperback

A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por… read more

Similar categories in Roberto Bolaño's 2666 book and Roberto Bolaño's 2666

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • latin american
  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
"Nothing is ever behind us."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"Reading is never a waste of time."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"Every hundred feet the world changes"

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

Cover of The Invention of Morel by Jorge Luis Borges, Suzanne Jill Levine, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Norah Borges de Torre, Ruth L.C. Simms

11. The Invention of Morel

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Suzanne Jill Levine , Adolfo Bioy Casares , Norah Borges de Torre , Ruth L.C. Simms

4.00

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn… read more

Similar categories in Jorge Luis Borges's The Invention of Morel book and Roberto Bolaño's 2666

  • classics
  • literature
  • latin american
  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • novels
"So I was dead! The thought delighted me."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

"The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

"To be sure, nothing created by man is perfect."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

"It is frightening to accept so much good fortune!"

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

12. Ficciones

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan

3.53

Format: 320 pages,

The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more

Similar categories in Jorge Luis Borges's Ficciones book and Roberto Bolaño's 2666

13. Gravity's Rainbow

By: Thomas Pynchon , Andrés Ibáñez , None

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustiv… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow book and Roberto Bolaño's 2666

14. Mason & Dixon

By: Thomas Pynchon , Jordi Fibla

3.97

Format: 480 pages,

The story of Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779)--the British surveyors best r… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon book and Roberto Bolaño's 2666

15. Infinite Jest

By: David Foster Wallace

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts' ha… read more

Similar categories in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest book and Roberto Bolaño's 2666

Cover of Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

16. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.16

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more

Similar categories in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West book and Roberto Bolaño's 2666

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels
"See the child."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

Cover of The Passenger (The Passenger #1) by Cormac McCarthy

17. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

Similar categories in Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger (The Passenger #1) book and Roberto Bolaño's 2666

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • novels
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

Cover of The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut

18. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

Similar categories in Benjamín Labatut's The Maniac book and Roberto Bolaño's 2666

  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

Cover of Realidades y ficciones, colores y sombras (Spanish Edition) by Diego Armando Arciniegas Malagón

19. Realidades y ficciones, colores y sombras (Spanish Edition)

By: Diego Armando Arciniegas Malagón

4.23

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

PRÓLOGO La imaginación construye sueños y fabrica realidades. Todas las cosas empezaron con una … read more

Similar categories in Diego Armando Arciniegas Malagón's Realidades y ficciones, colores y sombras (Spanish Edition) book and Roberto Bolaño's 2666

Cover of Del tiempo y sus demonios by Diego Armando Arciniegas Malagón

20. Del tiempo y sus demonios

By: Diego Armando Arciniegas Malagón

4.52

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

DEL TIEMPO Y SUS DEMONIOS: PERSIGUIENDO LA VERDAD Esta novela se desarrolla en un pequeño y mist… read more

Similar categories in Diego Armando Arciniegas Malagón's Del tiempo y sus demonios book and Roberto Bolaño's 2666

  • classics
  • latin american
  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • mystery

12 Top fiction books like 2666 by Roberto Bolaño

Transform Your Habits

Hopscotch

Julio Cortázar , Gregory Rabassa

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Recognitions

William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Underworld

Don DeLillo

4.81

View all the books

6 Top novella books like The Invention of Morel by Jorge Luis Borges, Suzanne Jill Levine, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Norah Borges de Torre, Ruth L.C. Simms

Transform Your Habits

The Invention of Morel

Jorge Luis Borges , Suzanne Jill Levine , Adolfo Bioy Casares , Norah Borges de Torre , Ruth L.C. Simms

4.00

Transform Your Habits

My Death

Lisa Tuttle

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Membranes

Chi Ta-wei

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Nothing but the Rain

Naomi Salman

3.88

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.