swap_horiz The Foundation Pit Alternatives

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Austerlitz

Austerlitz is a 2001 novel by W. G. Sebald, written in German and narrated through the recollections of Jacques Austerli...

German Memory Identity Novel

9.47 Excellent

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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...

Time Modern Memory Novel

9.20 Excellent

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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...

Modern Ethics Identity Novel

9.18 Excellent

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Gravity's Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, published in 1973, sets its sprawling narrative primarily in Europe near the end of...

Modern Novel Postmodern Determinism

9.12 Excellent

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The Unnamable

The Unnamable is a 1953 novel by Samuel Beckett, first published in French as L'Innommable and later translated into Eng...

Beckett Identity Novel Absurdism

9.07 Excellent

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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...

Modern Novel Mysticism Consciousness

8.90 Great

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The Autumn of the Patriarch

The Autumn of the Patriarch is a 1975 novel by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, originally published in Spanish...

Power Novel Colombian Marquez

8.88 Great

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Molloy

Molloy is a novel by Samuel Beckett, originally written in French and published in 1951. It is the first volume of a tri...

Modern Beckett Identity Novel

8.82 Great

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Cancer Ward

Cancer Ward is a novel by Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in Russian in 1966. Set mainly in a hos...

Russian Novel Suffering Mortality

8.81 Great

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Conversation in the Cathedral

Mario Vargas Llosa's 1969 Peruvian novel set during the Odría dictatorship, using a fractured, interwoven narrative stru...

Modern Identity Novel Political Philosophy

8.80 Great

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The Sleepwalkers

The Sleepwalkers is a trilogy of novels by Austrian writer Hermann Broch, published in German in three parts between 193...

Austrian Novel Trilogy Broch

8.80 Great

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Spring Snow

Spring Snow is a 1969 novel by Japanese writer Yukio Mishima and the first volume of his tetralogy The Sea of Fertility....

Japanese Novel Beauty Tradition

8.79 Great

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Malone Dies

Malone Dies is a 1951 novel by Irish writer Samuel Beckett and the second book in the trilogy that also includes Molloy...

Beckett Novel Absurdism Irish

8.77 Great

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The Hour of the Star

The Hour of the Star is the final novel by Brazilian author Clarice Lispector, published posthumously in 1977. The narra...

Modern Identity Novel Existentialism

8.74 Great

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Mist (Niebla)

Mist, published in Spanish as Niebla, is a 1914 novel by Miguel de Unamuno. Its protagonist, Augusto Pérez, becomes awar...

Spanish Novel Existentialism Uncertainty

8.72 Great

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Zeno's Conscience

Zeno's Conscience is a 1923 novel by Italian author Italo Svevo, originally published as La coscienza di Zeno. The book...

Modern Psychology Novel Self Deception

8.71 Great

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Confessions of a Mask

Confessions of a Mask is the second novel by Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, first published in 1949. Written in the firs...

Japanese Identity Novel Authenticity

8.70 Great

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Erewhon

"Erewhon" is a satirical novel written by Samuel Butler and published anonymously in 1872. The title is an anagram of "n...

19TH Century Satire Novel Utopian

7.58 Good

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News from Nowhere

News from Nowhere is a utopian novel written by William Morris, first published in 1890. The narrative follows a protago...

19TH Century Novel Utopian Socialism

7.52 Good

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Looking Backward

*Looking Backward: 2000–1887* is a utopian science fiction novel written by the American author Edward Bellamy and publi...

19TH Century Novel Utopian Socialism

6.95 Fair