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The Joke
*The Joke* is the debut novel of Czech-French writer Milan Kundera, published in 1967. The narrative follows Ludvík Jahn, a young student whose life is systematically destroyed after he sends a sarcastic postcard mocking Marxist slogans to his girlfriend. Following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czecho...
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The top alternative to The Joke in 2026 is Austerlitz with a score of 9.47/10, followed by The Republic (9.20) and In Search of Lost Time (9.20).
Austerlitz
Austerlitz is a 2001 novel by W. G. Sebald, written in German and narrated through the recollections of Jacques Austerli...
The Republic
Written by Plato around 375 BCE, The Republic uses a Socratic dialogue to ask what justice means and whether a just life...
In Search of Lost Time
Published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time follows a narrator through Fren...
The Man Without Qualities
Robert Musil's unfinished novel The Man Without Qualities began appearing in 1930 and follows life in Vienna and the Aus...
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, published in 1973, sets its sprawling narrative primarily in Europe near the end of...
The Unnamable
The Unnamable is a 1953 novel by Samuel Beckett, first published in French as L'Innommable and later translated into Eng...
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...
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...
Cancer Ward
Cancer Ward is a novel by Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in Russian in 1966. Set mainly in a hos...
Conversation in the Cathedral
Mario Vargas Llosa's 1969 Peruvian novel set during the Odría dictatorship, using a fractured, interwoven narrative stru...
The Sleepwalkers
The Sleepwalkers is a trilogy of novels by Austrian writer Hermann Broch, published in German in three parts between 193...
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 Death of Artemio Cruz
Novel by Mexican author Carlos Fuentes (1962), told through three shifting narrative perspectives as a dying corrupt rev...
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
*The Book of Laughter and Forgetting* is a 1979 novel by Czech-French author Milan Kundera, written during his exile in...
The First Circle
*The First Circle* is a novel by Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, completed in the 1950s and first published abroa...
Man's Fate
*Man's Fate* (*La Condition Humaine*) is a 1933 novel by André Malraux that explores the psychological and existential d...
The War with the Newts
*The War with the Newts* is a 1936 satirical science fiction novel by Czech author Karel Čapek. The story details the di...
Submission
Submission is a 2015 political fiction novel by French author Michel Houellebecq that imagines a near-future France gove...
Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged is a 1957 novel by Russian-American writer and philosopher Ayn Rand. Set in a dystopian United States, it...
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| 9.47 Excellent | +1.29 | Compare | |
| 9.20 Excellent | +1.02 | Compare | |
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