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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorIn a Free State
V.S. Naipaul Β· 246 pages
Winner of the Booker Prize in 1971 this book comprises three novellas, set in three very different countries. The stories are about people surviving as best they can in states with varying levels of political, social and economic freedom.
Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction
Joseph Conrad Β· 261 pages
Zama
Antonio Di Benedetto Β· 242 pages
"First published in 1956, Zama is now universally recognized as one of the masterpieces of modern Argentinean and Spanish-language literature. Written in a style that is both precise and sumptuous, Zama takes place in the last decade of the eighteenth century and describes the solitary, suspended existence of Don Diego de Zama, a highly placed servant of the Spanish crown who has been posted to As
A Burnt-Out Case
Graham Greene Β· 248 pages
Querry is assigned to a leper colony on the upper reaches of the Congo, run by a doctor as lacking in faith as he is himself.
The Pearl
John Steinbeck Β· 118 pages
Based on a Mexican folktale, this is the story of a great pearl found by a poor fisherman, the sorrow it brought to his family, and how it was lost again.
The Guest
Albert Camus Β· 32 pages
An Algerian schoolteacher develops a strange alliance with the Arab prisoner temporarily left in his charge, giving him the chance to select his own destiny.
The Color Purple
Alice Walker Β· 274 pages
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. The novel has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000β2009 at number seventeenth because of the sometimes explicit content, particula
The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury Β· 222 pages
This is a collection of science fiction short stories, cleverly cobbled together to form a coherent and very readable novel about a future colonization of Mars. As the stories progress chronologically the author tells how the first humans colonized Mars, initially sharing the planet with a handful of Martians. When Earth is devastated by nuclear war the colony is left to fend for itself and the co
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Thomas Keneally Β· 178 pages
A short Australian novel telling the story of an aboriginal worker who rebels against his overbearing employer, wreaking a trail of destruction
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Herman Melville Β· 420 pages
A classic of the sea, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale who defied capture.
Waiting for the Barbarians
J.M. Coetzee Β· 165 pages
For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy for the victims, and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison.
The Grass is Singing
Doris Lessing Β· 245 pages
Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a beautifully understated social critique. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm work their slow poison, and Mary's despair pro
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy Β· 337 pages
An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west." Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indi
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Β· 448 pages
> With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works for Odenigbo, a university professor fu
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys Β· 189 pages
Jean Rhys's reputation was made upon publication of this passionate and heartbreaking novel, in which she brings into the light one of citsion's most mysterious characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre". A sensual and protected young woman, the narrator grows up in the lush, natural world of the Caribbean. She is sold into marriage to the cold-hearted and prideful R
A Clean, Well Lighted Place
Ernest Hemingway Β· 30 pages
As a Spanish cafeΜ closes for the night, two waiters and a lonely customer confront the concept of nothingness.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Leo Tolstoy, Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910 Gra Β· 142 pages