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Stiller
Stiller is a 1954 novel by Swiss author Max Frisch that explores themes of identity, self-deception, and the impossibility of escaping one's past. The plot centers on a man who returns to Switzerland after living in America under the name Jim White. Upon his arrival, he is imprisoned because authori...
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The top alternative to Stiller in 2026 is Austerlitz with a score of 9.5/10, followed by The Man Without Qualities (9.2) and The Unnamable (9.1).
Austerlitz
Austerlitz is a 2001 novel by W. G. Sebald, written in German and narrated through the recollections of Jacques Austerli...
The Man Without Qualities
The Man Without Qualities is an unfinished novel by Austrian writer Robert Musil, published in installments beginning in...
The Unnamable
The Unnamable is a 1953 novel by Samuel Beckett, first published in French as L'Innommable and later translated into Eng...
Molloy
Molloy is a novel by Samuel Beckett, originally written in French and published in 1951. It is the first volume of a tri...
Conversation in the Cathedral
Mario Vargas Llosa's 1969 Peruvian novel set during the Odría dictatorship, using a fractured, interwoven narrative stru...
The Hour of the Star
The Hour of the Star is the final novel by Brazilian author Clarice Lispector, published posthumously in 1977. The narra...
Confessions of a Mask
Confessions of a Mask is the second novel by Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, first published in 1949. Written in the firs...
Man in the Holocene
Man in the Holocene is a 1979 novella by Swiss writer Max Frisch, originally published in German as Der Mensch erscheint...
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is a 1985 novel by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. It alternates betwee...
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand is a 1926 Italian novel by Luigi Pirandello, published as Uno, nessuno e centomila....
Ferdydurke
Ferdydurke is a 1937 novel by Polish author Witold Gombrowicz, widely considered a masterpiece of modernist and absurdis...
The Baron in the Trees
The Baron in the Trees is a 1957 novel by Italian author Italo Calvino. The protagonist, Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò, is a...
The Death of Artemio Cruz
Novel by Mexican author Carlos Fuentes (1962), told through three shifting narrative perspectives as a dying corrupt rev...
The Golden Notebook
Novel by Doris Lessing published in 1962, considered a landmark of feminist literature, following a writer who maintains...
All the Names
All the Names is a 1997 novel by Portuguese writer José Saramago. Its central character, Senhor José, is a low-ranking c...
The Loser
*The Loser* is a 1983 novel by Austrian author Thomas Bernhard that explores the destructive nature of artistic genius t...
The Late Mattia Pascal
The Late Mattia Pascal is the English title of Luigi Pirandello’s Italian novel Il fu Mattia Pascal, first published in...
The New York Trilogy
*The New York Trilogy* is a collection of three interconnected novellas—*City of Glass*, *Ghosts*, and *The Locked Room*...
Invitation to a Beheading
*Invitation to a Beheading* is a novel by Russian-American author Vladimir Nabokov, originally written in Russian and se...
Stiller (novel)
Max Frisch's 1954 Swiss novel in which a sculptor arrested at the border insists he is not who the authorities claim, a...
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