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Onur De Balzac
Onur De Balzac wants to read: Looking for recommendation of authors who write like John Fante (Ask the Dust).

I'm looking for raw, passionate, vulnerable, and tragicomic prose — deeply honest characters struggling with ambition, poverty, and pride.

Please no Bukowski and no Beat Ge ...more
Aug 16, 2026 01:42PM  · 
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Books added: 200
Age: 46
Location: Samsun, Turkey


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Pan by Knut Hamsun
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Aug 16, 2026 02:17PM  · 
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Wait Until Spring, Bandini by John Fante
Wait Until Spring, Bandini (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #1)
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Aug 16, 2026 02:17PM  · 
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The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck
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Aug 16, 2026 02:18PM  · 
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Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
Miss Lonelyhearts
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Aug 16, 2026 02:18PM  · 
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Bread and Wine by Ignazio Silone
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The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth
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Aug 16, 2026 02:19PM  · 
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The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary
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Aug 16, 2026 02:19PM  · 
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
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Aug 16, 2026 02:20PM  · 
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Childhood by Nathalie Sarraute
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Dreams from Bunker Hill by John Fante
Dreams from Bunker Hill (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #4)
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A Far-Flung Life by M.L. Stedman
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