swap_horiz Measuring the World Alternatives

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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a 2000 novel by Michael Chabon about Josef Kavalier, a Jewish refugee from...

American 21ST Century Historical Picaresque

9.18 Excellent

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Baltasar and Blimunda

Baltasar and Blimunda is a historical novel published in 1982 by the Portuguese author José Saramago. Set in the eightee...

20TH Century Episodic Historical Portuguese

9.11 Excellent

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True History of the Kelly Gang

True History of the Kelly Gang is a 2000 novel by Australian writer Peter Carey that won the 2001 Booker Prize. It prese...

Australian 21ST Century Historical Outlaw

9.04 Excellent

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The Kingdom of This World

"The Kingdom of This World" is a 1949 historical novel by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier that chronicles the Haitian Revo...

Cuban 20TH Century Episodic Historical

8.91 Great

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Tyll

*Tyll* is a 2017 historical novel by Austrian-German author Daniel Kehlmann that reimagines the medieval folkloric trick...

German 21ST Century Historical War

8.72 Great

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Soldiers of Salamis

Soldiers of Salamis is a 2001 novel by Spanish author Javier Cercas that blends historical fiction and metafiction to ex...

Quest Spanish 21ST Century Historical

8.58 Great

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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

"The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet" is a historical novel written by British author David Mitchell and published in...

Adventure 21ST Century Historical British

8.47 Great

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The Blue Flowers

"The Blue Flowers" is a comic novel by the French author Raymond Queneau, first published in 1965. The narrative alterna...

French Comic 20TH Century Episodic

8.44 Great

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The General in His Labyrinth

The General in His Labyrinth is a 1989 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez. It fictionalizes the final mont...

20TH Century Episodic Historical Journey

8.23 Great

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Washington Black

'Washington Black' is a 2018 novel by Canadian author Esi Edugyan. It follows George Washington Black, an eleven-year-ol...

Adventure Canadian 21ST Century Historical

8.19 Great

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The Madonna of Excelsior

The Madonna of Excelsior is a 2002 novel by South African author Zakes Mda, set against a real apartheid-era scandal in...

Community Satire 21ST Century Episodic

8.02 Great

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The Flounder

Günter Grass's The Flounder, published in German in 1977, is a historical novel built around a speaking flounder that re...

German 20TH Century Historical Feminist

7.42 Good

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Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts

Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts is an 1826 novella written by the German Romantic author Joseph von Eichendorff. The nar...

German Romantic Classic Comic

7.35 Good

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The Slaughterman's Daughter

"The Slaughterman's Daughter" is a historical adventure novel written by Israeli author Yaniv Iczkovits, originally publ...

Israeli Satire 21ST Century Historical

7.07 Good

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Das wunderbarliche Vogelnest, Part 2

Das wunderbarliche Vogelnest, Part 2 is the second volume of a German picaresque work associated with Hans Jakob Christo...

German Episodic Magic 17TH Century

6.91 Fair

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The Amazing Journey of Pomponius Flatus

The Amazing Journey of Pomponius Flatus is a comic historical novel by the Spanish writer Eduardo Mendoza, published in...

Spanish Comic Satire 21ST Century

6.89 Fair

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The Last Witchfinder

The Last Witchfinder is a 2006 historical fiction novel by the American writer James Morrow. Its protagonist, Jennet, is...

Quest American Satire 21ST Century

6.61 Fair

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The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim

The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim is the ninth novel by British author Jonathan Coe, first published in the United Kin...

Comic Satire 21ST Century British

6.40 Fair

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The Moosepath League

The Moosepath League is a series of comic historical novels by American writer Van Reid. The books are set in Maine duri...

Adventure American Comic 20TH Century

6.06 Fair

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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