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10 best books like Little Wilson and Big God (Anthony Burgess): The Stepford Wives, Pedro Páramo, 2666, The Little Drummer Girl, The Boys from Brazil, The Third Policeman, I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank the Irishman Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa, Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, Endgame, Pornografia

The Stepford Wives
AuthorIra Levin
ISBN0060080841
For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret—a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same.

At once a masterpiece of psychological...
Pedro Páramo
AuthorJuan Rulfo
ISBN0802133908
A classic of Mexican modern literature about a haunted village.

As one enters Juan Rulfo's legendary novel, one follows a dusty road to a town of death. Time shifts from one consciousness to another in a hypnotic flow of dreams, desires, and memories, a world of ghosts dominated by the figure...
2666
AuthorRoberto Bolaño
A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por la obra de Beno von Archimboldi, un enigmático escritor alemán cuyo prestigio crece en todo el mundo. La complicidad se vuelve vodevil intelectual y desemboca en un peregrinaje a Santa Teresa (trasunto...
The Little Drummer Girl
AuthorJohn le Carré
ISBN0671042785
John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim.

In this thrilling and thought-provoking novel of Middle Eastern intrigue,...
The Boys from Brazil
AuthorIra Levin
ISBN0394402677
Alive and hiding in South America, the fiendish Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele gathers a group of former colleagues for a horrifying project—the creation of the Fourth Reich. Barry Kohler, a young investigative journalist, gets wind of the project and informs famed Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman, but before...
The Third Policeman
AuthorFlann O'Brien
The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel follows him and his adventures in a two-dimensional police station where, through the theories of...
I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank the Irishman Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa
AuthorCharles Brandt
ISBN1586420895
The first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran were, "I heard you paint houses." To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the walls and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that...
Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
AuthorJohn Lydon
"I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die..." --John Lydon

Punk has been romanticized and embalmed in various media. An English class revolt that became a worldwide fashion statement, punk's idols were the Sex Pistols, and its sneering hero was Johnny Rotten.

Seventeen...
Endgame
AuthorSamuel Beckett
ISBN0571070671
Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories, and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. Endgame, originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is now considered...
Pornografia
AuthorWitold Gombrowicz
ISBN0714529885
Gombrowicz's strange, bracing final novel probes the divide between young and old while providing a grotesque evocation of obsession. While recuperating from wartime Warsaw in the Polish countryside, the unnamed narrator and his friend, Fryderyk, attempt to force amour between two local youths,...
Portrait Of An Artist, As An Old Man
AuthorJoseph Heller
That questionable comma aside, Heller’s last and posthumous novel is a winner—a bitterly candid portrait of an over-the-hill, clapped-out and confused senior novelist struggling to settle on one idea for his farewell feature. Heller’s Pota is a cranky soul who swoops down on various ideas,...
Balthazar
AuthorLawrence Durrell
ISBN1400000289
Balthazar, is the second volume of Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet, set in Alexandria, Egypt, during the 1940s. The events of each lush and sensuous novel are seen through the eyes of the central character L.G. Darley, who observes the interactions of his lovers, friends, and acquaintances. Balthazar,...
The Hare
AuthorCésar Aira
ISBN1852422912
An English naturalist roams the Argentine pampas in search of the most rare and elusive of animals: the Legibrian Hare. The Indians he meets report sightings of the hare but on investigation, Clarke finds in these sightings more than meets the eye. The Hare, the first novel by C?sar Aira to be translated...
The War against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
AuthorMartin Amis
ISBN0375727167
Is there anything that Martin Amis can’t write about? In this virtuosic, career-spanning collection he takes on James Joyce and Elvis Presley, Nabokov and English football, Jane Austen and Penthouse Forum, William Burroughs and Hillary Clinton. But above all, Amis is concerned with literature,...
The Future Chronicles: Special Edition
AuthorSamuel Peralta
The Future Chronicles has grown, from a single collection of robot stories, into a series whose unique take on major science fiction and fantasy themes – A.I., aliens, time travel, dragons, telepaths, zombies, immortality, galactic battles, cyborgs, doomsday – has made it one of the most acclaimed...
The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney
AuthorOkechukwu Nzelu
The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney is a comic novel about Nnenna, a half-Nigerian teenager living in modern-day Manchester with her mother Joanie. As Nnenna approaches womanhood she starts trying to connect with her Igbo-Nigerian culture. Her once close and tender relationship with her mother becomes...
On Earth and in Hell: Early Poems
AuthorThomas Bernhard
ISBN1941110231
The first English translation of the earliest poetry of brilliant and disruptive Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard, widely considered one of the most innovative and original authors of the twentieth century and often associated with fellow mavericks Beckett, Kafka and Dostoevsky. A master of language,...
Recycling
AuthorTadeusz Różewicz
ISBN1900072513
Tadeusz Różewicz - poet, playwright and novelist, was one of Poland's most versatile and pre-eminent modern writers.

Remarkable for his simultaneous mastery of poetry, prose and drama, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Tadeusz Różewicz has been translated into...
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