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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorA Sentimental Journey
Laurence Sterne · 176 pages
Mr Norris Changes Trains
Christopher Isherwood · 240 pages
"On a train to Berlin in late 1930, William Bradshaw locks eyes with Arthur Norris, an irresistibly comical fellow Englishman wearing a rather obvious wig and nervous about producing his passport at the frontier. So begins a friendship conducted in the seedier quarters of the city, where Norris runs a dubious import-export business and lives in excited fear of his bullying secretary, his creditors
The Acceptance World
Anthony Powell · 240 pages
The Zone: A Prison Camp Guard's Story
Sergei Dovlatov · 176 pages
Snapper
Brian Kimberling · 227 pages
Working as a birdwatching guide to scrape together enough money to survive, Nathan Lochmueller performs nature research in backwater Indiana, where he falls in love with a heartbreaking free spirit named Lola and confronts the accidental turns of his life.
Billy Liar
Keith Waterhouse · 188 pages
A Working Theory of Love
Scott Hutchins · 332 pages
When Neill's father committed suicide ten years ago, he left behind thousands of pages of secret journals, journals that are stunning in their detail, and, it must be said, their complete banality. But their spectacularly quotidian details, were exactly what artificial intelligence company Amiante Systems was looking for, and Neill was able to parlay them into a job, despite a useless degree in bu
Memoirs Of A Master Forger
William Heaney · 308 pages
"William Heaney is a fraud. A charming fraud, but a fraud nevertheless. He writes poetry so that a more attractive friend can pass it off as his own, he produces fake Jane Austen first editions so that he can fleece foolish and greedy book collectors. He can see demons. He drinks rather too much wine. This is his story. The story of a man who is living with regret. The story of a man who is prey t
The Pyramid
William Golding · 217 pages
Set in the superficially placid English village of Stillbourne, The Pyramid represents three episodes in the life of Oliver-as a schoolboy, an undergraduate, and a mature young man. A compelling tale about Oliver's increasing awareness of the deeper meanings of the relationships and events of his youth.
Bartleby & Co.
Enrique Vila-Matas · 192 pages
Tells the story of a hunchback who is a failed writer that has no luck with women. He is a self-described "Bartleby", named after the Herman Melville character; someone who, when asked to reveal information about themselves, will respond that they "would prefer not to."
The Blue Guitar
John Banville · 255 pages
Oliver Otway Orme, a semi-famous artist and petty thief, despairing of limits in his talents, flees when his latest theft is discovered and sequesters himself in his childhood home, where he struggles to understand how he reached his current state.
Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim, The
Jonathan Coe
Good Faith
Jane Smiley · 417 pages
New Jersey realtor Joe Stratford is 40 years old, divorced, and ready for a fresh start. Enter Marcus Burns, a former IRS agent who believes the old rules are meant to be broken. Marcus is enthusiastic about his get-rich-quick plans, but are they the right plans for Joe? And why is the local savings and loan so eager to lend Joe and Marcus the money they need to complete a huge feal estate transac
A Patchwork Planet
Anne Tyler · 288 pages
One of five Anne Tyler novels reissued in stunning new jacketsBarnaby Gaitlin is a loser - just short of thirty he's the black sheep of a philanthropic Baltimore family. Once upon a time he had a home, a loving wife, a little family of his own; now he has an ex-wife, a 9-year old daughter with attitude, a Corvette Sting Ray that's a collector's item but unreliable, and he works as hired muscle for
Submission
Michel Houellebecq · 251 pages
In a near-future France, François, a middle-aged academic, is watching his life slowly dwindle to nothing. His sex drive is diminished, his parents are dead, and his lifelong obsession--the ideas and works of the novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans--has led him nowhere. In a late-capitalist society where consumerism has become the new religion, François is spiritually barren, but seeking to fill the vacu
A Wild Sheep Chase
Haruki Murakami · 299 pages
It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company's advertisement. What he doesn't realize is that included in the pastoral scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man in black who offers a menacing ultimatum
The Brooklyn Follies
Paul Auster · 320 pages
Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, estranged from his only daughter, the retired life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity. Then Nathan finds his long-lost nephew, Tom Wood, working in a local bookstore - a far cry from the brilliant academic career he'd begun when Nathan saw him last. Tom's boss is the charismatic Harry Brightman, whom fate has also brought to the
Zeno's Conscience
Italo Svevo · 450 pages
Women
Charles Bukowski · 297 pages
Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that woul
The Pleasure of My Company
Steve Martin · 163 pages
Leaving the Atocha Station
Ben Lerner · 186 pages