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Murphy
Murphy is Samuel Beckett's first published novel, written in English and published in 1938. Its protagonist, Murphy, is an Irish outsider living in London who seeks withdrawal from ordinary social life, while the narrative follows his relationship with Celia and his involvement with a psychiatric ho...
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The top alternative to Murphy in 2026 is Austerlitz with a score of 9.5/10, followed by The Man Without Qualities (9.2) and In Search of Lost Time (9.2).
Austerlitz
Austerlitz is a 2001 novel by W. G. Sebald, written in German and narrated through the recollections of Jacques Austerli...
The Man Without Qualities
The Man Without Qualities is an unfinished novel by Austrian writer Robert Musil, published in installments beginning in...
In Search of Lost Time
In Search of Lost Time is a seven-volume novel by French writer Marcel Proust, published between 1913 and 1927. The work...
Gravity's Rainbow
Gravity's Rainbow is a novel by American writer Thomas Pynchon, published in 1973. Set primarily in Europe during the fi...
The Unnamable
The Unnamable is a 1953 novel by Samuel Beckett, first published in French as L'Innommable and later translated into Eng...
Krapp's Last Tape
Krapp's Last Tape is a one-act play by Irish writer Samuel Beckett, first performed in 1958 at the Royal Court Theatre i...
The Passion According to G.H.
The Passion According to G.H. is a novel by Brazilian author Clarice Lispector, published in 1964. The narrative consist...
Worstward Ho
Worstward Ho is a 1983 novella by Irish writer Samuel Beckett and one of his late prose works. Written in compressed, fr...
The Autumn of the Patriarch
The Autumn of the Patriarch is a 1975 novel by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, originally published in Spanish...
Molloy
Molloy is a novel by Samuel Beckett, originally written in French and published in 1951. It is the first volume of a tri...
Conversation in the Cathedral
Mario Vargas Llosa's 1969 Peruvian novel set during the Odría dictatorship, using a fractured, interwoven narrative stru...
Malone Dies
Malone Dies is a 1951 novel by Irish writer Samuel Beckett and the second book in the trilogy that also includes Molloy...
Spring Snow
Spring Snow is a 1969 novel by Japanese writer Yukio Mishima and the first volume of his tetralogy The Sea of Fertility....
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...
Watt
Watt is a novel by Irish writer Samuel Beckett, first published in English in 1953 by Olympia Press. Its protagonist, Wa...
How It Is
How It Is is a novel by Samuel Beckett, first published in French as Comment c'est in 1961. Its narrator moves through m...
Amerika
'Amerika' is an unfinished novel by Franz Kafka, written between 1911 and 1914 and published posthumously in 1927. The s...
Narziss und Goldmund
Hermann Hesse's 1930 German novel contrasting two medieval figures—the ascetic monk Narziss and the sensual wanderer Gol...
A Voyage to Arcturus
A Voyage to Arcturus is a science fiction and philosophical novel written by Scottish author David Lindsay, first publis...
Birchwood
Birchwood is John Banville's second novel, published in 1973 by Secker and Warburg. Narrated by Gabriel Godkin, it follo...
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