Books like Big blondes by Jean Echenoz

An ancient Greek tale of transformation and magic in the form of a classic novel and translation.

A philosophical novel set in a Parisian apartment building where an autodidact concierge and a teenage resident secretly discover each other's intellect, exploring class, friendship, and hidden genius.

Primo Levi’s *The Periodic Table* is a memoir that traces his life before and after fugitive transport to Auschwitz, detailing his Piedmontese Jewish roots, early chemistry studies, and explorations of the material world.

Joyce Carol Oates gives a biographical fiction portrait of Marilyn Monroe, tracing her life from birth to death against the backdrop of Hollywood's glittering yet tragic world.

Twelve short stories by Tobias Wolff exploring the characters' lives and search for the 'right path'.

With the announcement of Juan Carlos Etchepare's death, an unusual tale of love unfolds.

Day after day Russian asylum-seekers sit across from the interpreter and Peter--the Swiss officers who guard the gates to paradise--and tell of the atrocities they've suffered, or that they've invented, or heard from someone else.The reader lives inside the nameless interpreter's head, with the narratives combining throughout.

Over five novels and two collections of stories Tessa Hadley has earned a reputation as a fiction writer of remarkable gifts, and been compared with Elizabeth Bowen and Alice Munro. In her new novel three sisters and a brother meet up in their grandparents' old house for three long, hot summer weeks. The house is full of memories of their childhood and their past - their mother took them there when she left their father - but now they may have to sell it. And under the idyllic surface, there are tensions. Roland has come with his new wife and his sisters don't like her. Kasim, the twenty-year-old son of Alice's ex-boyfriend, makes plans to seduce Molly, Roland's teenage daughter. Fran's children uncover an ugly secret in a ruined cottage in the woods. Passion erupts where it's least expected, blasting the quiet self-possession of Harriet, the oldest sister. A way of life - bourgeois, literate, ritualised - winds down to its inevitable end. With uncanny precision and extraordinary sympathy, Tessa Hadley charts the squalls of lust and envy disrupting this ill-assorted house party, as well as the consolations of memory and affection, the beauty of the natural world, the shifting of history under the social surface. From the first page the reader is absorbed and enthralled, watching a superb craftsman at work --

Harper Roberts, a sharp Manhattan corporate attorney, is frustrated by her dating woes—men love her when she appears a clueless blonde, but recoil when they learn she’s a Harvard‑educated lawyer. With a magazine‑editor friend’s help, she goes undercover as the archetypal dumb blonde, only to discover that appearance matters for everyone.

A reality TV contestant dreams of becoming a singer, but her past mistakes threaten to ruin her chance at true love.