Books like Night games by Arthur Schnitzler

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

In post‑war New York, Newland Archer faces a dilemma when his fiancée’s cousin, the rebellious Ellen Olenska, challenges his elite society’s expectations and his own loyalty.

Stephen Dedalus’s coming‑of‑age journey in Dublin frames his transformation from bullied youth to aspiring artist, as he distances himself from conventional life.

Henry Miller’s debut novel follows a lyrical, autobiographical monologue in which he recounts his early 1930s Parisian life, exploring sex, human behavior and bohemian culture with frankness and poetic intensity.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles follows Tess Durbeyfield, a rural woman from a poor family, as she confronts poverty, social injustice, and the rigid expectations of early 20th-century English society.

A woman's rise from poverty to political influence, inspired by stories told by a storyteller's daughter.

Tove Jansson's beloved collection of short stories, A Winter Book, translated into English and introduced by renowned author Ali Smith.

Continues the story of two siblings from a horror novel set in Stockholm.

San Francisco reporter Darien Hughes wakes up to a secret fantasy about a mysterious stranger—until that stranger, ‘Sam,’ appears in person, turning her daydreams into a thrilling, unexpected romance.

The tale is recounted by François Seurel, whose father heads the village school where Augustin Meaulnes comes to board. A tall, somber youth of 17, he instantly becomes the class ringleader, and is soon known as le grand Meaulnes. When the youth sets off on an impetuous errand of a few hours and doesn't return for several days, events take a darker turn. After Meaulnes's reappearance, Seurel notices his companion's unrest, and tries to uncover its source. He wakes in the midwinter nights to find Meaulnes pacing the room "like someone rummaging about in his memory, sorting out scraps." Meaulnes remains disconsolate, but finally reveals the nature of his travels, and the strange days of revelry at his unintended destination--the "lost domain" to which he is desperate to return and doesn't know how to find. Seurel rightly guesses that Meaulnes met a young woman there, and that he is in love. The two friends set about retracing Meaulnes's path, and their journeys take them into manhood, when Meaulnes finds at last a way to bring his quest full circle.

A collection of unsettling, thought-provoking short stories by Japanese author Taeko Kōno.

An elderly writer stays in Venice, becoming entranced by a young boy named Tadzio while a plague looms, forcing him to confront the tension between artistic longing and the harsh demands of reality.

A collection of short stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

An outstanding collection of stories from an acclaimed author, translated for a broader readership in both languages.

Erotic short stories exploring female sexuality in a world dominated by love, featuring Hungarian adventurer seducing wealthy women, veiled woman selecting strangers, and Parisian hatmaker Mathilde leaving her husband for opium dens.