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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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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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Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol’s *Dead Souls* is a 19th-century Russian picaresque novel centered around Pavel Chichikov’s bizarre scheme...

Russian Classic 19TH Century Satire

8.49 Great

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Portnoy's Complaint

Philip Roth’s *Portnoy’s Complaint* offers a candid, confessional narrative following Alexander Portnoy’s exploration of...

American Satire 20TH Century Confessional

8.45 Great

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Ways of Dying

Ways of Dying is a novel written by South African author Zakes Mda, first published in 1995. The narrative centers on To...

Satire 20TH Century South African Outsider

8.34 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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The Stone Raft

Originally published in Portuguese in 1986, The Stone Raft is a novel by Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago. The pl...

Satire 20TH Century Allegory Journey

8.28 Great

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The Truth on the Savolta Case

The Truth on the Savolta Case is a historical novel by Spanish author Eduardo Mendoza, published in 1975. Set in Barcelo...

Spanish Satire 20TH Century Crime

8.17 Great

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Kvachi

Kvachi Kvachantiradze is a picaresque novel by the Georgian writer Mikheil Javakhishvili, first published in 1924. The n...

Adventure Satire 20TH Century Georgian

8.11 Great

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The Interpreters

The Interpreters is the debut novel by Nigerian author Wole Soyinka, published in 1965. The narrative centers on a group...

Satire 20TH Century Nigerian Postcolonial

8.05 Great

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The Little Golden Calf

The Little Golden Calf is a satirical novel by the Soviet authors Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov, first published in 1931....

Russian Satire 20TH Century Sequel

7.90 Good

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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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Solomon Gursky Was Here

Solomon Gursky Was Here is a 1989 novel by Canadian author Mordecai Richler. The book traces the multi-generational stor...

Canadian Satire 20TH Century Family Saga

7.44 Good

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Kvachi Kvachantiradze

Kvachi Kvachantiradze is a 1924 picaresque novel by the Georgian writer Mikheil Javakhishvili. The narrative follows the...

Classic Satire 20TH Century Georgian

7.25 Good

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Piazza d'Italia

Piazza d'Italia is Antonio Tabucchi's first novel, published in 1975. Written in a picaresque and historically oriented...

Italian Satire 20TH Century Historical

6.69 Fair