14 best-selling fiction books like A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, Walker Percy

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A Confederacy of Dunces

By: John Kennedy Toole , Walker Percy

3.89

Format: 394 pages, Paperback

Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thom…

"Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!"

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!"

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

If you liked the fiction plot in A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, Walker Percy , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Moviegoer

By: Walker Percy

3.65

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

When "The Moviegoer" was first published in 1961, it won the National Book Award and established Wa… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • literature
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"Peklo nemůže být plné ohně - existují daleko horší věci."

-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

"Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?"

-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

"I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen."

-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

"This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground."

-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

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2. 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

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  • classics
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  • literature
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  • contemporary
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"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

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3. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

By: Junot Díaz

3.89

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghet… read more

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  • literature
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  • contemporary
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  • audiobook
"You can't regret the life you didn't lead."

-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

"Like they say: los que menos corren, vuelan."

-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

"It's never the changes we want that change everything."

-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

"I might have no one in the world, but at least I’m free."

-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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4. On the Road

By: Jack Kerouac

3.61

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years… read more

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  • american
  • literature
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  • novels
"We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301)."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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5. Slaughterhouse-Five

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2.60

Format: None pages,

Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Fiveintroduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who beco… read more

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  • fiction
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6. Breakfast of Champions

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Breakfast of Champions,one of Kurt Vonnegut's most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore … read more

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  • humor
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7. In Cold Blood

By: Truman Capote

4.01

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were… read more

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  • classics
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8. The Sound and the Fury

By: William Faulkner

3.86

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more

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  • classics
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"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

9. Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Short, Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of A Confederacy of Dunces

By: None

4.46

Format: 170 pages,

The long-awaited biography of John Kennedy Toole, whose fascinating life and tragic death is one of… read more

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10. A Confederacy of Dunces

By: John Kennedy Toole , Walker Percy

3.89

Format: 394 pages, Paperback

Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thom… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • american
  • literature
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!"

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

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11. Catch-22

By: Joseph Heller

3.99

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature a… read more

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  • american
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  • humor
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"Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family."

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective."

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"They’re not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?"

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

12. 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

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13. The Grapes of Wrath

By: John Steinbeck

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles… read more

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14. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

By: Hunter S. Thompson , Ralph Steadman

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegasis the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good … read more

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15. The Road

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.99

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece. A father and … read more

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  • literature
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"Carry the fire."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"If only my heart were stone."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"You have my whole heart. You always did."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"There is no God and we are his prophets."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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16. One Hundred Years of Solitude

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa

4.12

Format: 417 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicl… read more

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"Cease, cows, life is short."

-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

"There is always something left to love."

-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

"Children inherit their parents' madness."

-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

"بدأ يدرك كم يحب فى الواقع الأشخاص الذين كرههم أكثر من سواهم ."

-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

17. Cat's Cradle

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Told with deadpan humour & bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on o… read more

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18. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

By: Michael Chabon

3.95

Format: None pages,

Joe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, h… read more

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19. 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

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"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

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20. The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.79

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemin… read more

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"Never be daunted"

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"I am always in love."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"Oh, darling, I've been so miserable."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"You'll lose it, if you talk about it"

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

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21. Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)

By: John Updike

3.58

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—… read more

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"You were never in Texas,"

-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)

"They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him."

-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)

"If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price."

-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)

"The only way to get somewhere, you know, is to figure out where you’re going before you go there."

-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)

5 Top contemporary books like A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, Walker Percy

Transform Your Habits

The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

3.69

Transform Your Habits

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz

3.89

Transform Your Habits

A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole , Walker Percy

3.89

Transform Your Habits

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

3.99

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7 Top classics books like In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Transform Your Habits

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

3.61

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Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2.60

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The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

3.80

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In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

4.01

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