Books similar like An Afghanistan Picture Show: Or, How I Saved the World

The Rings of Saturn

The Rings of Saturn — with its curious archive of photographs — records a walking tour along the east coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is a…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Recognitions

The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural critique, which, even if Heller and Pynchon hadn't read it while composing Catch-22 and V., managed to a…

Buy this book on Amazon

Train Dreams

Denis Johnson's Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. It is the story of Robert Grainier, a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twenti…

Buy this book on Amazon

By Night in Chile

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his l…

Buy this book on Amazon

Nazi Literature in the Americas

Buy this book on Amazon

Bubblegum

Buy this book on Amazon

The Loser

Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovation ranks with Beckett and Kafka, his outrageously cantankerous voice recalls Dostoevsky, but his gift …

Buy this book on Amazon

Butcher's Crossing

In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismant…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Street of Crocodiles

The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where recollections of Bruno Schulz's uncommon boyhood and of the eerie side of his merchant family's life a…

Buy this book on Amazon

Last Evenings on Earth

Buy this book on Amazon

10:04

In the last year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unlikely literary success, has been diagnosed with a potentially fatal medical condition, and has been asked by his best friend to help her conceive…

Buy this book on Amazon

Mason & Dixon

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 Lin…

Buy this book on Amazon

Ubik

Glen Runciter está muerto. ¿O lo están todos los demás? Lo que es seguro es que alguien ha muerto en una explosión organizada por los competidores de Runciter. De hecho, sus empleados asisten a un fun…

Buy this book on Amazon

Amulet

Buy this book on Amazon

The Voice Imitator

Buy this book on Amazon

White Noise

The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film starring Adam Driver, Don Cheadle, and Greta Gerwig

White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, his …

Buy this book on Amazon

The Tartar Steppe

Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life and a meditation on the human thirst for glory. It tells of young Giovanni Drogo, who is posted to a…

Buy this book on Amazon

Master of Reality

John Darnielle hears [Black Sabbath's Master of Reality] through the ears of Roger Painter, a young adult locked in a southern California adolescent psychiatric center in 1985; deprived of his Walkman…

Buy this book on Amazon

Distant Star

Buy this book on Amazon

The Savage Detectives

New Year’s Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished…

Buy this book on Amazon

An Afghanistan Picture Show: Or, How I Saved the World

Similar books (20)