The Easy Life
By: Marguerite Duras
3.79
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
For the first time in English, literary icon Marguerite Duras's foundational masterpiece about a yo…
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1. Meadowlands
By: Louise Glück
4.08
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Louise Glück sows the fertile subject ground of marital discord in harvesting this crop of gems. Th… read more
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"Watching you stare into space in the tidy rows of the vegetable garden, ostensibly working hard while actually doing the worst job possible, I think you are a small irritating purple thing and I woul…"-Louise Glück, Meadowlands
2. The Golden Notebook
By: Doris Lessing
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- literature
- fiction
- novels
3. Nefando
By: Mónica Ojeda
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Nefando, Viaje a las entranas de una habitacion, fue un videojuego en linea poco conocido y pronto … read more
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- novels
- fiction
4. The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism
By: Octavio Paz , None
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this series of essays Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love in l… read more
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5. The Wild Palms
By: William Faulkner , Adam Mars-Jones
4.00
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
In this feverishly beautiful novel--originally titled If I Forget Thee, Jerusalemby Faulkner, and n… read more
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6. Artful
By: Ali Smith
4.16
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The incomparable Ali Smith melds the tale and the essay into a magical hybrid form, a song of prais… read more
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7. The Apple in the Dark
By: Clarice Lispector
4.23
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
Martin is convinced that he has murdered his wife. In a delirium of guilt and grief, he wanders thr… read more
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8. An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
By: Clarice Lispector
4.27
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
What to make of a writer who follows the metaphysical heights of her great Passion According to GH … read more
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"Ah "persona", como não te usar e ser!"-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
"Oh God! Having just one life was so little."-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
"Meu mistério é simples: eu não sei como estar viva."-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
"E digo: eu está apaixonada pelo teu eu. Então nós é."-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
9. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
10. Is Mother Dead
By: Vigdis Hjorth
3.80
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middle-aged artis… read more
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"Den första sång jag höra fick, var mor som grät vid vaggan"-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead
"Det händer att det som inte sker är det viktigaste som händer en dag"-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead
"We all carry our mothers like a hole in our souls, small or big, living or dead."-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead
"A mother can never be an ordinary human being to her children, and I am one of her children."-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead
11. I Remain in Darkness
By: Annie Ernaux
3.99
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Written in journal form, Annie Ernaux's account of … read more
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- france
- french literature
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"Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?"-Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness
"As I bend forward to check the safety catch of my mother's wheelchair, she leans over and kisses my hair. How can I survive that kiss, such love, my mother, my mother."-Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness
12. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
13. Lies and Sorcery
By: Elsa Morante
4.16
Format: 800 pages, Paperback
Elsa Morante is one of the great writers of the twentieth century—Natalia Ginzburg said she was the… read more
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14. The Easy Life
By: Marguerite Duras
3.79
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
For the first time in English, literary icon Marguerite Duras's foundational masterpiece about a yo… read more
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- coming of age
- france
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- historical fiction
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- audiobook
15. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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16. Happiness, as Such
By: Natalia Ginzburg
3.98
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
At the heart of Happiness, as Such is an absence—an abyss that pulls everyone to its brink—created … read more
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"This life now has nothing to equal to the places and moments we passed through to get here"-Natalia Ginzburg, Happiness, as Such
"Ma è vero che a un certo punto della nostra vita i rimorsi li inzuppiamo nel caffè la mattina come biscotti."-Natalia Ginzburg, Happiness, as Such
"Ma non si amano soltanto le memorie felici. A un certo punto della vita, ci si accorge che si amano le memorie."-Natalia Ginzburg, Happiness, as Such
"So I wasn’t there when he died, which I regret. But after a certain point in life a person has to dunk her regrets in the morning coffee, just like biscuits."-Natalia Ginzburg, Happiness, as Such
17. The Possession
By: Annie Ernaux
3.75
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE “The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can … read more
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"The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city, the whole world, with a person you have never met."-Annie Ernaux, The Possession
"Writing has been a way to save that which is no longer my reality – a sensation seizing me from head to foot, in the streets – but has become ''the possession,'’ a period of time, circumscribed and c…"-Annie Ernaux, The Possession
18. Drifts
By: Kate Zambreno
3.67
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A restlessly brilliant novel of creative crisis and transformation Beguiling and compulsively re… read more
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19. Life in the Garden
By: Penelope Lively
3.58
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
The two central activities in my life - alongside writing - have been reading and gardening. Pen… read more
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"So far as I am concerned the difference between men and women is that men are interested in cutting grass and women are not. I actually prefer a daisy-sprinkled lawn; Jack, of course, wanted meticulo…"-Penelope Lively, Life in the Garden
"Anthropomorphism is unavoidable, I am finding, in writing about gardening: weeds don't just grow, they grow with intent, they grow aggressively. Well, they do, as any gardener knows. They sneak in an…"-Penelope Lively, Life in the Garden
20. Do What They Say or Else
By: Annie Ernaux
3.68
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1977, Do What They Say or Else is the second novel by French author Annie E… read more
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- france
- french literature
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"In their opinion, writing was dangerous, like touching your privates or grimacing like a dingo."-Annie Ernaux, Do What They Say or Else
"El caso es que cuando era pequeña no prestaba atención a las palabras, los recuerdos de infancia son de cine mudo."-Annie Ernaux, Do What They Say or Else
21. Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays
By: Elisa Gabbert
3.97
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of… read more
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