20 best-selling fiction books like The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild by Mathias Énard

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The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

By: Mathias Énard

3.59

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from P…

If you liked the fiction plot in The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild by Mathias Énard , here is a list of 20 books like this:

Cover of Possessed: The Secret of Myslotch by Witold Gombrowicz, J.A. Underwood

1. Possessed: The Secret of Myslotch

By: Witold Gombrowicz , J.A. Underwood

3.80

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

"Smuggling the most up-to-the-minute contraband in antiquated charabancs-that's what I like doing,"… read more

Similar categories in Witold Gombrowicz's Possessed: The Secret of Myslotch book and Mathias Énard's The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
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2. Verderame

By: Michele Mari

4.00

Format: 222 pages, Hardcover

La memoria di Felice si sta sbriciolando: per tutta la vita si e occupato della grande casa di camp… read more

Similar categories in Michele Mari's Verderame book and Mathias Énard's The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. Aliss at the Fire

By: Jon Fosse , Damion Searls

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more t… read more

Similar categories in Jon Fosse's Aliss at the Fire book and Mathias Énard's The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels

4. 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

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5. The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

By: Mathias Énard

3.59

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from P… read more

Similar categories in Mathias Énard's The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild book and Mathias Énard's The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • literature
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century
  • novels
  • fantasy
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6. Septology

By: Jon Fosse

4.52

Format: 825 pages, Paperback

The celebrated Norwegian novelist’s magnum opus, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, pu… read more

Similar categories in Jon Fosse's Septology book and Mathias Énard's The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century
  • novels
"and what the picture is in reality is this spirit, that’s what a picture really is, neither matter nor soul but both parts at the same time and together they make up what I think of as spirit, and ma…"

-Jon Fosse, Septology

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7. A Shining

By: Jon Fosse

3.49

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more

Similar categories in Jon Fosse's A Shining book and Mathias Énard's The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

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8. Scenes from a Childhood

By: Jon Fosse

3.67

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

One of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights, Jon Fosse is famed for the minimalist and … read more

Similar categories in Jon Fosse's Scenes from a Childhood book and Mathias Énard's The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century
Cover of The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone

9. The House on Via Gemito

By: Domenico Starnone

3.65

Format: 480 pages, ebook

Available in English for the first time, this extraordinary prize-winning novel confirms Domenico S… read more

Similar categories in Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito book and Mathias Énard's The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Mater 2-10

By: Hwang Sok-yong

3.67

Format: 486 pages, Paperback

International Booker–nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story — an epi… read more

Similar categories in Hwang Sok-yong's Mater 2-10 book and Mathias Énard's The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare

11. A Dictator Calls

By: Ismail Kadare

3.14

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Using a sophisticated and literary version of the ever-popular game of telephone to examine the rel… read more

Similar categories in Ismail Kadare's A Dictator Calls book and Mathias Énard's The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"And a cursory glance at Karl Marx shows that a man who had dedicated his life to the violent overthrow of the world order never devoted half a page in any of his dozens of books to the trauma and rem…"

-Ismail Kadare, A Dictator Calls

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12. You Dreamed of Empires

By: Álvaro Enrigue

3.85

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more

Similar categories in Álvaro Enrigue's You Dreamed of Empires book and Mathias Énard's The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
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13. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

By: Anne de Marcken

3.82

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more

Similar categories in Anne de Marcken's It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over book and Mathias Énard's The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"

-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

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14. Mild Vertigo

By: Mieko Kanai

3.55

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and… read more

Similar categories in Mieko Kanai's Mild Vertigo book and Mathias Énard's The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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15. Tell

By: Jonathan Buckley

3.17

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, Tell is an exuberant, intensely fluid, and probing examination o… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Buckley's Tell book and Mathias Énard's The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century
  • novels
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16. Brian

By: Jeremy Cooper

3.83

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

A tender meditation on friendship and the importance of community,  Brian  is also a tangential wor… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Cooper's Brian book and Mathias Énard's The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century
  • novels
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17. The Variations

By: Patrick Langley

3.35

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

Selda Heddle, a famously reclusive composer, is found dead in a snowy field near her Cornish home. … read more

Similar categories in Patrick Langley's The Variations book and Mathias Énard's The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century
Cover of The Book of All Loves by Agustín Fernández Mallo

18. The Book of All Loves

By: Agustín Fernández Mallo

3.51

Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition

In the wake of the Great Blackout, faced with the near-extinction of humanity, a pair of lovers spe… read more

Similar categories in Agustín Fernández Mallo's The Book of All Loves book and Mathias Énard's The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Cosas vivas

By: Munir Hachemi

3.81

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Cuatro jóvenes españoles (uno de ellos, el narrador, de origen argelino) viajan un verano hasta el … read more

Similar categories in Munir Hachemi's Cosas vivas book and Mathias Énard's The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • france
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
Cover of Blue Lard by Vladimir Sorokin

20. Blue Lard

By: Vladimir Sorokin

3.76

Format: 422 pages, Kindle Edition

The Russian master's most infamous novel, a dystopian fever dream about cloning, alternative histor… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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21. The Singularity

By: Balsam Karam

3.81

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Lyrical and devastating, The Singularity is a breathtaking study of grief, migration, and motherhoo… read more

Similar categories in Balsam Karam's The Singularity book and Mathias Énard's The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels

16 Best contemporary books like The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild by Mathias Énard

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Verderame

Michele Mari

4.00

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Jon Fosse , Damion Searls

3.99

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The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

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3.59

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4.52

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4.49

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Veronica Raimo

3.59

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Kairos

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3.46

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3.78

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