swap_horiz Faserland Alternatives

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Simplicissimus

Simplicissimus, penned by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen in 1669, is a significant German picaresque novel. I...

German Satire 17TH Century Thirty Years War

9.15 Excellent

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The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

"The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis" is a novel by the Portuguese author and Nobel laureate José Saramago, originally...

Satire 20TH Century Historical Portuguese

9.06 Excellent

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Moscow to the End of the Line

"Moscow to the End of the Line" (Moskva-Petushki) is a Russian prose poem written by Venedikt Erofeev in 1969. The narra...

Travel Russian Satire 20TH Century

9.05 Excellent

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Money: A Suicide Note

"Money: A Suicide Note" is a 1984 satirical novel by British author Martin Amis. The narrative follows John Self, a hedo...

Satire 20TH Century Rogue British

9.02 Excellent

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Earthly Powers

"Earthly Powers" is a panoramic novel by British author Anthony Burgess, published in 1980. Narrated by the aging homose...

Satire 20TH Century Historical British

9.01 Excellent

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Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man

Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man is an unfinished novel by German writer Thomas Mann, published in 1954. Its n...

German 20TH Century Comedy Con Man

8.89 Great

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The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr

The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr is a two-volume German novel by E. T. A. Hoffmann, published in 1819 and 1821....

German 19TH Century Satire Metafiction

8.71 Great

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The Public Burning

The Public Burning is a 1977 novel by American author Robert Coover that fictionalizes the 1953 execution of Julius and...

American Satire 20TH Century Historical

8.63 Great

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Journey to the End of the Night

Louis-Ferdinand Celine’s *Journey to the End of the Night* chronicles the experiences of Bardamu, a former soldier adrif...

French Satire 20TH Century Dark

8.57 Great

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The Moor's Last Sigh

The Moor's Last Sigh is a novel written by British-Indian author Salman Rushdie, published in 1995. The narrative follow...

Family Indian Satire 20TH Century

8.51 Great

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Dog Years

Dog Years (Hundejahre) is a German-language novel by Günter Grass, published in 1963 as the third volume of his Danzig T...

German Satire 20TH Century War

8.34 Great

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Confessions of Felix Krull

Thomas Mann’s *Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man* is a German novel published in 1954. It tells the story of Fe...

German Classic Satire 20TH Century

7.69 Good

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The Dog of the South

"The Dog of the South" is a 1979 picaresque and comic novel by American author Charles Portis. The narrative follows Ray...

American Comic Satire 20TH Century

7.55 Good

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The Year of the Hare

The Year of the Hare is a 1975 picaresque novel by Finnish author Arto Paasilinna. The story follows a Helsinki journali...

Comic Satire 20TH Century Road

7.30 Good

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Raw Material

Raw Material is Jorg Fauser's 1984 West German autobiographical novel, a cult account of Harry Gelb's addiction and coun...

German Modern Satire 20TH Century

6.83 Fair

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The Flying Inn

The Flying Inn is a 1914 novel by the English writer Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Its plot follows Patrick Dalroy, an Irish...

Comic Satire 20TH Century British

6.52 Fair

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Mott the Hoople

Mott the Hoople is a comic picaresque novel by the American writer Willard Manus, published in 1966. It follows Norman M...

American Comic Satire 20TH Century

5.71 Mediocre

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Mitte 1

Mitte 1 is a German comic novel by Albrecht Behmel, published in 2013. It is the second episode in the Mitte series and...

German Contemporary Satire 21ST Century

5.35 Mediocre

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Mitte 2

Mitte 2 is a German comic novel by Albrecht Behmel, published in 2014. It is the third installment in the Mitte series a...

German Contemporary Satire 21ST Century

5.27 Mediocre

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Homo Sapiens Berliner Art

Homo Sapiens Berliner Art is Albrecht Behmel's 2012 German comic novel, opening his Mitte series about artists in post-r...

German Modern Satire 20TH Century

5.23 Mediocre