swap_horiz Mitte 2 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

9.2 Excellent

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Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex explores themes of identity and family through the life of Cal Stephanides, an American man...

American Satire 21ST Century Identity

8.7 Great

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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz’s *The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao* explores the complex experiences of an isolated Dominican-American m...

American Satire 21ST Century Diaspora

8.7 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

8.4 Great

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Till Eulenspiegel

Till Eulenspiegel is the German trickster of a chapbook printed around 1510, notable for exposing social folly through l...

German Classic Satire Trickster

8.0 Great

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Baudolino

Baudolino is Umberto Eco's 2000 Italian historical novel, following a 12th-century fabulist linked to Frederick Barbaros...

Italian Satire Medieval 21ST Century

7.8 Good

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The Slaughterman's Daughter

The Slaughterman's Daughter is Yaniv Iczkovits's 2015 Hebrew historical adventure, translated into English in 2020 and w...

Israeli Satire 21ST Century Historical

7.7 Good

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The Life of Courage

The Life of Courage is Grimmelshausen's 1670 German picaresque sequel about the rogue Courage, later a source for Brecht...

German Baroque Satire War

7.7 Good

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El roto

El roto is a 1920 Chilean novel by Joaquín Edwards Bello, notable for portraying Chilean society during the 1906-1915 er...

Satire 20TH Century Urban Rogue

7.4 Good

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Faserland

Faserland is Christian Kracht's 1995 German-language debut novel, often credited with launching a new wave of German pop...

German Contemporary Satire 20TH Century

7.4 Good

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Le Roman bourgeois

Le Roman bourgeois is Antoine Furetière's 1666 French satirical novel, notable for mocking Parisian bourgeois life and l...

Classic French Satire Urban

7.4 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

7.4 Good

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Quichotte

Quichotte is Salman Rushdie's 2019 Don Quixote-inspired metafiction, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and set on a road...

Satire 21ST Century British Road

7.3 Good

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The Last Witchfinder

The Last Witchfinder is James Morrow's 2006 historical novel about Jennet, who uses Enlightenment science to challenge E...

Quest American Satire 21ST Century

7.2 Good

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Divided Kingdom

Divided Kingdom is Rupert Thomson's 2005 dystopian picaresque, imagining Britain split into four temperament-based color...

Satire 21ST Century Dystopian British

7.1 Good

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Pym

Pym is Mat Johnson's 2011 satirical novel, using Edgar Allan Poe's only novel as a springboard for a comic Antarctic stu...

Quest American Satire 21ST Century

7.1 Good

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Letty Fox: Her Luck

Letty Fox: Her Luck is Christina Stead's 1946 sixth novel, a New York first-person account often described as both picar...

American Satire 20TH Century Urban

7.0 Good

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Un hijo de perra

Un hijo de perra is a 2017 story collection by Chilean writer José Baroja, listed among recent Latin American picaresque...

Contemporary Satire 21ST Century Rogue

6.2 Fair

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Mitte 1

Mitte 1 is Albrecht Behmel's 2013 German comic novel, the second Mitte episode satirizing post-reunification Berlin's bo...

German Contemporary Satire 21ST Century

5.8 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

5.7 Mediocre