Books similar to Sabbath's Theater

Sabbath's Theater
3.86 avg. rating
· 8207 Ratings
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. At sixty-four Sabbath is still defiantly antagonistic…
Rate it:
Goodreads members who liked this book also liked:
Philip Roth: The Biography
3.96 avg. rating
· 512 Ratings
The renowned biographer’s definitive portrait of a literary titan.

Appointed by Philip Roth and granted independence and complete access, Blake Bailey spent years poring over Roth’s personal archive, i…
Rate it:
Rabbit Is Rich (Rabbit Angstrom, #3)
3.91 avg. rating
· 15132 Ratings
Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Ten years after Rabbit Redux, Harry Angstrom has come to enjoy prosperity as the Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors. The rest of the world may …
Rate it:
Rabbit Redux (Rabbit Angstrom, #2)
3.81 avg. rating
· 13772 Ratings
In this sequel to Rabbit, Run, John Updike resumes the spiritual quest of his anxious Everyman, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom. Ten years have passed; the impulsive former athlete has become a paunchy thirty…
Rate it:
Herzog
3.77 avg. rating
· 18411 Ratings
This is the story of Moses Herzog, a great sufferer, joker, mourner, and charmer. Although his life steadily disintegrates around him - he has failed as a writer and teacher, as a father, and has lost…
Rate it:
Humboldt's Gift
3.86 avg. rating
· 7761 Ratings
The novel, for which Bellow won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1976, is a self-described "comic book about death," whose title character is modeled on the self-destructive lyric poet Delmore Schwar…
Rate it:
Ferrovie del Messico
4.37 avg. rating
· 157 Ratings
Se cercate dell'avventura, in questo romanzo ne troverete a bizzeffe. Se cercate della letteratura, con questo romanzo ne farete una scorpacciata. I luoghi e i tempi: Asti, Repubblica Sociale Italiana…
Rate it:
Underworld
3.93 avg. rating
· 25164 Ratings
While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russian peoples, DeLillo offers a stunning, at times overwhelming, document of the twin forces of the Cold…
Rate it:
Mr. Sammler's Planet
3.75 avg. rating
· 3020 Ratings
“An enduring testament and prophecy.” –Chicago Sun-Times

Mr. Artur Sammler, Holocaust survivor, intellectual, and occasional lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a “registrar of …
Rate it:
Gargoyles
3.95 avg. rating
· 1075 Ratings
The playwright and novelist Thomas Bernhard was one of the most widely translated and admired writers of his generation, winner of the three most coveted literary prizes in Germany. Gargoyles, one of …
Rate it:
Seize the Day
3.56 avg. rating
· 9409 Ratings
Deftly interweaving humor and pathos, Saul Bellow evokes in the climactic events of one day the full drama of one man's search to affirm his own worth and humanity.
Rate it:
The Corrections
3.82 avg. rating
· 151907 Ratings
"The Corrections" is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century - a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes.
After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, …
Rate it:
Rabbit at Rest (Rabbit Angstrom, #4)
3.97 avg. rating
· 14225 Ratings
Winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In John Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a s…
Rate it:
Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
3.62 avg. rating
· 10386 Ratings
Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—or any other—generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star w…
Rate it:
Extinction
4.29 avg. rating
· 1370 Ratings
Thomas Bernhard is one of the greatest twentieth-century writers in the German language. Extinction, his last novel, takes the form of the autobiographical testimony of Franz-Josef Murau. The intellec…
Rate it:
The Names
3.64 avg. rating
· 3567 Ratings
Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast …
Rate it:
The Shards
3.99 avg. rating
· 2558 Ratings
A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles high school friends as a serial killer strikes across the …
Rate it:
Melancolia
4.02 avg. rating
· 344 Ratings
Ajunse la rond, unde îl aștepta Vasile Singurătate. Coborâse de pe soclul său și levita la o palmă deasupra aleii. În dreptul frunţii, al coastelor și-n josul pântecului piatra lui nobilă era spartă. …
Rate it:
Call It Sleep
3.83 avg. rating
· 7417 Ratings
When Henry Roth published Call It Sleep, his first novel, in 1934, it was greeted with critical acclaim. But in that dark Depression year, books were hard to sell, and the novel quickly dropped out of…
Rate it:
The Adventures of Augie March
3.84 avg. rating
· 15925 Ratings
Augie comes on stage with one of literature’s most famous opening lines. “I am an American, Chicago born, and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: …
Rate it:
Concrete
4.14 avg. rating
· 1894 Ratings
Instead of the book he's meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this tale of procrastination, failure, and despair, a dark and grotesquely funny story of small woes writ large and …
Rate it: