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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
Alvaro Mutis · 734 pages
"Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law and scrapes with death, and his enduring friendships and unlooked-for love affairs make him a Don Quixote for our day, driven from one place to another by a restless and irregular quest for the abso
The Tale of the Unknown Island
Jose Saramago · 46 pages
Twenty Four Hours in the Life of a Woman & The Royal Game
Stefan Zweig · 133 pages
The Pearl
John Steinbeck · 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 Little Paris Bookshop
Nina George · 392 pages
“There are books that are suitable for a million people, others for only a hundred. There are even remedies—I mean books—that were written for one person only…A book is both medic and medicine at once. It makes a diagnosis as well as offering therapy. Putting the right novels to the appropriate ailments: that’s how I sell books.” Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floa
So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away
Richard Brautigan · 129 pages
The Scorpio Races
Maggie Stiefvater · 435 pages
It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die. At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them. Puck Connolly is different. She
Bartleby and Benito Cereno
Herman Melville · 104 pages
On Chesil Beach
Ian McEwan · 176 pages
A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest young history student at University College of London, who unexpectedly wooed and won her heart. Newly married that morning, both virgins, Edward and
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46
Jack Kerouac · 280 pages
« «Eh bien, l'heure avait pour moi sonné d'incarner le marin ivre sur le front de mer, ou le vagabond sur la route, tout en continuant à étudier et à écrire dans la solitude. Je n'avais rien appris à l'université qui puisse m'aider à devenir un écrivain, et je ne pouvais apprendre mon métier ailleurs que dans mon propre esprit et par mes propres expériences.» Paru en 1968, Vanité de Duluoz est le
The Awakening
Kate Chopin · 190 pages
The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South. It is one of the earliest American novels that
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
Fredrik Backman · 96 pages
An exquisitely moving portrait of an elderly man’s struggle to hold on to his most precious memories, and his family’s efforts to care for him even as they must find a way to let go.
The Gracekeepers
Kirsty Logan · 306 pages
A lyrical and moving debut in the tradition of Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood, introducing an original and commanding new voice in fiction As a Gracekeeper, Callanish administers shoreside burials, laying the dead to their final resting place deep in the depths of the ocean. Alone on her island, she has exiled herself to a life of tending watery graves as penance for a long-ago mistake that sti
The Sound of Waves
Yukio Mishima · 182 pages
The Cat's Table
Michael Ondaatje · 296 pages
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table"--as far from the Captain's Table as can be--with a ragtag group of "insignificant" adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure
Thirteen Ways of Looking
Colum McCann · 264 pages
The Mermaid of Black Conch: A novel
Monique Roffey · 240 pages
Life of Pi
Yann Martel · 336 pages
After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan… and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary works of fiction in recent years.
A Separate Peace
John Knowles · 196 pages
Gene Forrester looks back fifteen years to a World War II year in which he and his best friend were roommates in a New hampshire boarding school.