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The Man Without Qualities

The Man Without Qualities is an unfinished novel by Austrian writer Robert Musil, published in installments beginning in...

Modern Ethics Identity Novel

9.2 Excellent

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Young Törless

Young Törless, originally published in German as Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törless in 1906, is the debut novel of Au...

Austrian Ethics Coming Of Age Novel

8.5 Great

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By Night in Chile

By Night in Chile is a novella by Chilean author Roberto Bolaño, published in 2000. The book is presented as a single, u...

Contemporary Ethics Novel Bolano

8.4 Great

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Tree of Smoke

Tree of Smoke is a 2007 novel by American writer Denis Johnson about the Vietnam War and the people drawn into its intel...

American Ethics Novel War

8.4 Great

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The Book of Evidence

The Book of Evidence is a 1989 novel by Irish writer John Banville. It is presented through the account of Freddie Montg...

Ethics Novel Irish Guilt

8.4 Great

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The First Circle

*The First Circle* is a novel by Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, completed in the 1950s and first published abroa...

Modern Ethics Novel Political Philosophy

8.3 Great

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The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

*The Gospel According to Jesus Christ* is a 1991 novel by Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago that offers a radicall...

Contemporary Ethics Novel Theology

8.2 Great

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A Personal Matter

Kenzaburō Ōe's 1964 Japanese novel following a man who contemplates abandoning his brain-damaged newborn, a work of exis...

Modern Ethics Novel Existentialism

8.2 Great

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The Heart of the Matter

Graham Greene's 1948 novel set in British colonial West Africa, tracing a Catholic police officer's moral collapse under...

Modern Ethics Novel Theology

8.2 Great

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The Sea, the Sea

Iris Murdoch's 1978 Booker Prize-winning novel about a retired theatre director whose retreat to the seaside becomes an...

Modern Ethics Novel Obsession

8.2 Great

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A Heart So White

'A Heart So White' is a novel by Spanish author Javier Marías, published in 1992. The narrative follows Juan Ranz, an in...

Language Contemporary Ethics Novel

8.1 Great

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The Elective Affinities

'The Elective Affinities' is a novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1809. The narrative centers on a...

Ethics Novel Enlightenment Goethe

8.1 Great

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The Immoralist

"The Immoralist" is a 1902 novel by French author André Gide. The narrative follows Michel, a scholar who, after survivi...

Modern Ethics Novel Freedom

7.9 Good

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A Raw Youth

A Raw Youth, also translated as The Adolescent, is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky published in 1875. The st...

19TH Century Dostoevsky Ethics Identity

7.7 Good

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The Bell

The Bell is a novel written by the British author Iris Murdoch and published in 1958. Set in the grounds of a fictional...

Modern Ethics Novel Theology

7.7 Good

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Love in the Ruins

Love in the Ruins is a 1971 satirical novel by American author Walker Percy that explores moral and societal decay in a...

Modern Satire Ethics Novel

7.6 Good

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Elizabeth Costello

J.M. Coetzee's 2003 novel structured as a series of lectures by an aging Australian author, notable for embedding sustai...

Contemporary Ethics Novel Art

7.6 Good

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Eyeless in Gaza

Eyeless in Gaza is a 1936 novel by Aldous Huxley that abandons linear chronology, arranging its chapters in a deliberate...

Modern Ethics Novel Huxley

7.4 Good

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The Town Beyond the Wall

The Town Beyond the Wall is a novel by Elie Wiesel, published in English in 1964 by Atheneum in a translation from the F...

Ethics Novel Romanian Wiesel

7.4 Good

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Lila: An Inquiry into Morals

Lila: An Inquiry into Morals is a 1991 philosophical novel by Robert M. Pirsig and a thematic successor to Zen and the A...

Contemporary Ethics Novel Metaphysics

6.9 Fair