Contemporary

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih

The youthful narrator in Season of Migration to the North returns to his village in Sudan's Nile Valley after spending years studying in Europe. He ...

The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat

The narrator is only capable of replaying the same images and scenes repeatedly, whether he is awake or asleep: a bruised morning glory flower, a ...

History by Elsa Morante

Nearly 30 years after Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia spent a year hiding away in isolated farming communities in the mountains south of Rome, ...

Mario and the Magician: & Other Stories by Thomas Mann

The narrative centers on a family vacation. In the 1920s, the narrator, his wife, and their two young children—all German—travel to Torre di Venere, ...

Dubliners by James Joyce

James Joyce's Dubliners, which is arguably the best collection of short stories ever written in English, paints a vivid and honest portrayal of ...

The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories by Bruno Schulz

The untimely death of Bruno Schulz at the hands of a Nazi is regarded as one of the major losses to modern literature. His work received little ...

Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor’s Son by Sholem Aleichem

The most famous characters in Jewish fiction are Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son. Tevye, a charming and Bible-quoting father of seven ...

A Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgaard

The father of Karl Ove Knausgaard drank himself to death over ten years ago. He is currently starting a new novel, vulnerable and beset by ...

Beatles by Lars Saabye Christensen

In this cerebral yet lighthearted story, four young Norwegians experience the first wave of Beatlemania in the spring of 1965. Gunnar, Ola, and Seb, ...

Shyness And Dignity by Dag Solstad

Nothing about Elias' logical life, his entire career as a literature professor, or his marriage to the "indescribably gorgeous" Eva foretold the ...

Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun

It concerns a man named Isak who emerges from the wilderness and starts to establish a farm. He weds Inger, a person who has a harelip. Isak is able ...

Saga and the Saga of the People of Eyri by Gisli Sursson

I would hardly consider these two sagas to be the best way to introduce someone to the great Icelandic "literary" of the Middle Ages. Other sagas, ...

Affiliate Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases from Amazon.com.
Copyright © 2025 LikeNovels.Com – All rights reserved.

LikeNovels
Logo