Challenging and satisfying works of fiction
Explore a curated list of challenging and satisfying works of fiction that will captivate your mind. Discover thought-provoking books perfect for avid readers seeking depth and fulfillment.
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In the Skin of a Lion
by Michael Ondaatje
Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and …
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Borderliners
by Peter Høeg
"Catcher in the Rye meets A Brief History of Time in Peter Hoeg's Borderliners" (Glamour)--a tightly-wound, stunningly original psychological drama about a young man at …
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The Transit of Venus
by Shirley Hazzard
"The Transit of Venus is one of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century." - The Paris Review Finalist for the National Book Award …
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Waiting for the Barbarians
by J. M. Coetzee
Allegory of the war between oppressor and oppressed.
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And the Ass Saw the Angel
by Nick Cave
Hidden away to escape the town's self-righteous rage, mute Euchrid Eucrow finds more compassion in the family's mule than in his fellow men. But it …
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Life, a User's Manual
by Georges Perec
One Of The Most Dazzling And Ingeniously Contrived Works Of Twentieth-Century Fiction, An Entire Microcosm Brought To Life In A Paris Apartment Block. Serge Val-Ne, …
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London Fields
by Martin Amis
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A blackly comic late 20th-century murder mystery set against the looming end of the millennium, in which a woman tries to orchestrate …
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A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
Ignatius Reilly, the hero, is a grotesque Gargantua, in violent revolt against the entire 20th century and what he takes to be the manifold excesses …