Browsing Books by Books Like Kafka on the Shore

Cloud Atlas (2004)
Recounts the connected stories of people from the past and the distant future, from a nineteenth-cen...

Crime and Punishment (1987)
A psychological study of the guilt one man finds after he murders an old woman. Raskolnikov, the fir...

Dance Dance Dance (1995)
This novel focuses on a man searching for a former lover who vanished mysteriously from a seedy hote...

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (1997)
Superimposes the collapse of a marriage over the investigation into recovered war memories and a man...

A Game of Thrones (1996)
The kingdom of the royal Stark family faces its ultimate challenge in the onset of a generation-long...

Guns, Germs, and Steel (1999)
Dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels ...

Netherland (2008)
Abandoned amid the offbeat inhabitants of the Chelsea Hotel when his English wife and son return to ...

Never Let Me Go (2006)
A reunion with two childhood friends draws Kathy and her companions on a nostalgic odyssey into thei...

Light in August (1985)
Joe Christmas does not know whether he is black or white. Faulkner makes of Joe's tragedy a powerful...

The Master and Margarita (1995)
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) From the Hardcover edition....

The Fall of Hyperion (1991)
Henry is generally well-behaved, but he is occasionally arrogant and vain. Henry is at heart a hard ...

Hyperion (1990)
A pilgrimage to the realm of the Shrike, a part-god/part-killing machine, provides the travellers th...

Atonement (2003)
In 1935 England, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses an event involving her sister Cecilia and...

Gilead (2004)
As the Reverend John Ames approaches the hour of his own death, he writes a letter to his son chroni...

Norwegian Wood (2000)
The tragic death of their best friend has a profound influence on the passionate relationship betwee...

Why it Does Not Have to be in Focus (2013)
This lively, informed defense of modern photography focuses on not focusing--and other unconventiona...