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10 best books like Ratner's Star (Don DeLillo): Chariots of Fire, Mason & Dixon, In the Heart of the Country, The Life and Death of Harriett Frean, Billy Budd and Other Tales, For Whom the Bell Tolls (Sparknotes Literature Guides), The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady - Volume 1, Blind Man with a Pistol, Tom Jones: Volume 1

Chariots of Fire
AuthorWilliam J. Weatherby
ISBN0060692820
The story of two men—Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell—who run not to run but to prove something to the world. They will sacrifice anything to achieve their goals, except their honor.

Two men, Abrahams and Liddell, one a Jew who runs to triumph over bigotry, the other a Scots missionary who...
Mason & Dixon
AuthorThomas Pynchon
ISBN0312423209
The New York Times Best Book of the Year, 1997
Time Magazine Best Book of the Year 1997

Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon...
In the Heart of the Country
AuthorJ.M. Coetzee
ISBN0099465949
Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa, and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels shamed, this lurch across the racial divide marks the end of a tenuous feudal peace....
The Life and Death of Harriett Frean
AuthorMay Sinclair
ISBN0860681068
Harriett is the Victorian embodiment of all the virtues then viewed as essential to the womanly ideal: a woman reared to love, honour and obey. Idolising her parents, she learns from childhood to equate love with self-sacrifice, so that when she falls in love with the fiance of her closest friend, there...
Billy Budd and Other Tales
AuthorHerman Melville
ISBN0451526872

Unbelievably, Melville had a hard time making a living from his writing.

[That was sarcasm.]

His style is overly archaic. I read a fair amount of classic literature, but this is just ridiculous. In the mid to late 19th century, were people still saying "Hark!"? And "Blah, blah,...
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Sparknotes Literature Guides)
AuthorSparkNotes
ISBN1586638300
Spark Publishing’s Literature Guides are celebrating their 5th Anniversary!  To celebrate this, we’re giving our TOP 50 a revamp by adding some exciting new features.

There will be sixteen pages devoted to writing a literary essay including: Glossary of literary terms, Step by...
The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
AuthorDaniel Defoe
ISBN0809594625
Defoe was a prolific and versatile writer, producing more than five hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics, including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology, and the supernatural. We set out on the 5th of February from Ireland, and had a very fair gale of wind for some days....
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady - Volume 1
AuthorSamuel Richardson
2133 pages, consisting of 536 letters (plus conclusion and author's postscript) all cross-referenced - the author must have been a madman. A madman with an impressive filing system.

This is the kind of book that draws you in slowly but completely, with not much happening most of the time. So...
Blind Man with a Pistol
AuthorChester Himes
ISBN0394759982
At once grotesquely comic and unflinchingly violent, Blind Man With a Pistol is the final entry in Chester Himes's trailblazing Harlem Detectives series.
 
New York is sweltering in the summer heat, and Harlem is close to the boiling point. To Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones,...
Tom Jones: Volume 1
AuthorHenry Fielding
ISBN0460003550
Ισως το απολαυστικοτερο μυθιστορημα που εχω διαβασει. ενα βιβλιο γεματο αισιοδοξα μηνυματα,με τη γραφη του Φιλντινγκ να σε εντυπωσιαζει καθε λεπτο....
Main Street / Babbitt
AuthorSinclair Lewis
ISBN0940450615
In Main Street and Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis drew on his boyhood memories of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, to reveal as no writer had done before the complacency and conformity of middle-class life in America. The remarkable novels presented here in this Library of America volume combine brilliant satire...
ألف ليلة وليلة: المجلد الرابع
AuthorAnonymous
إن سير الأولين صارت عبرة للآخرين لكي يرى الإنسان العبر التي حصلت لغيره فيعتبر، ويطالع حديث الأمم السالفة وما جرى لهم فينزجر. فسبحان من جعل حديث الأولين عبرة...
Aaron's Rod
AuthorD.H. Lawrence
ISBN0140007555
Written in the years following World War I and set in postwar England and Italy, Aaron's Rod questions many of the accepted social and political institutions of Lawrence's generation, and raises issues as valid for our own time as they were for his. The novel's hero is an Everyman who flees the destruction...
You Bright and Risen Angels
AuthorWilliam T. Vollmann
ISBN0140110879
In the jungles of South America, on the ice fields of Alaska, the plains of the Midwest, and the streets of San Francisco, a fearsome battle rages. The insects are vying for world domination; the inventors of electricity stand in evil opposition. Bug , a young man, rebels against his own kind and joins...
Laura Warholic or, the Sexual Intellectual
AuthorAlexander Theroux
ISBN1560977981
Eugene Eyestones, an erudite sex columnist for a Boston cultural magazine, becomes enmeshed in the messy life of a would-be artist named Laura Warholic. Repulsing and fascinating him at the same time, she becomes a mirror in which he not only sees himself but through which he is forced to face his own...
Come Back, Dr. Caligari
AuthorDonald Barthelme
ISBN0316082546
In 1964, Barthelme collected his early stories in Come Back, Dr. Caligari, for which he received considerable critical acclaim as an innovator of the short story form. His style (fictional and popular figures in absurd situations, e.g., the Batman-inspired "The Joker's Greatest Triumph"), spawned...
Carpenter's Gothic
AuthorWilliam Gaddis
This story of raging comedy and despair centers on the tempestuous marriage of an heiress and a Vietnam veteran. From their "carpenter gothic" rented house, Paul sets himself up as a media consultant for Reverend Ude, an evangelist mounting a grand crusade that conveniently suits a mining combine...
The Pistoleer
AuthorJames Carlos Blake
ISBN0425154122
THE PISTOLEER is a fantastic work of historical fiction. James Carlos Blake does a superb job of chronicling the life of John Wesley Hardin. Part outlaw and part folk hero, "Wes" Hardin was a legendary figure in the history of Texas and the Old West. Much of Blake's book corroborates with the known facts...
The Floating Opera and The End of the Road
AuthorJohn Barth
ISBN0385240899
The Floating Opera and The End Of The Road are John Barth's first two novels.  Their relationship to each other is evident not only in their ribald subject matter but in the eccentric characters and bitterly humorous tone of the narratives.  Both concern strange, consuming love triangles and...
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