15 Top memoir books like à Paris by Jeanne Damas

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à Paris

By: Jeanne Damas

3.93

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

It-girl au demi-million de followers, Jeanne Damas est considérée comme l’incarnation de La Parisie…

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1. Things I Don't Want to Know

By: Deborah Levy

4.09

Format: 109 pages, Hardcover

'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

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2. The Artist's Way

By: Julia Cameron

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Artist's Wayis the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, mill… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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3. Life Unstyled: How to embrace imperfection and create a home you love

By: Debi Treloar , Emily Henson

3.94

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

We are bombarded by perfect interiors, images that aren't attainable because they have been styled … read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. The Kinfolk Home: Interiors for Slow Living

By: Kinfolk Magazine , Nathan Williams

4.20

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

New York Timesbestseller When The Kinfolk Table was published in 2013, it transformed the way reade… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. A Moveable Feast

By: Ernest Hemingway

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • france
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6. A Year in Provence

By: Peter Mayle

3.67

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

National Bestseller In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to r… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • france
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7. How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits

By: Anne Berest , Audrey Diwan , Caroline de Maigret , None

3.62

Format: None pages, None

From four stunning and accomplished French women--at last--a fresh and spirited take on what it rea… read more

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  • cultural
  • travel
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • fashion
  • self help
"Wear a black bra under your white blouse, like two notes on a sheet of music."

-Anne Berest, How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits

"Just because you only have one life doesn't mean you should be afraid of wasting it."

-Anne Berest, How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits

"She did not try to make others happy; she selfishly delighted in the pleasure of giving pleasure."

-Anne Berest, How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits

"Go to the theater, to museums, and to concerts as often as possible; it gives you a healthy glow."

-Anne Berest, How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits

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8. It

By: Alexa Chung

3.34

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In It, her first book, the global fashion-trendsetter Alexa Chung shares her own very personal insp… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • fashion
"Boys say they don't mind how you get your hair done. But then they leave you for someone with really great standard girl hair and the next thing you know you're alone with a masculine crop crying int…"

-Alexa Chung, It

"DJing for people is fun until someone comes up with a phone screen that has 'PLAY SOME RIHANNA' written on it. I prefer to play older songs because they're the ones I personally enjoy dancing and sin…"

-Alexa Chung, It

"The problem with heartbreak is that nobody can help you when you're heartbroken. Nobody and nothing. Not the films you watch alone desperately searching for a character who feels the way you do, not …"

-Alexa Chung, It

"I have googled 'how long does heartbreak last?' The result more popular than that was 'how long does heartburn last?' This implies people suffer from heartburn more than they do heartbreak which is a…"

-Alexa Chung, It

9. New York: A Guide to the Fashion Cities of the World

By: Megan Hess

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An illustrated guide to the fashionista's New York - from one of the world's most sought-after fash… read more

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10. Hiệu ứng chim mồi

By: None

3.82

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

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11. French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

By: Mireille Guiliano

3.55

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

The million copy, ultimate #1 bestseller that is changing the way Americans eat and live Don't D… read more

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  • france
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help
"On the whole, “offenders"

-Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

"Give us being and feeling over having any day."

-Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

"Learn to say no, with an eye to saying yes to something else."

-Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

"You owe it to your loved ones as well as yourself to know and pursue your pleasures."

-Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

12. A Guide to Elegance: For Every Woman Who Wants to Be Well and Properly Dressed on All Occasions

By: Geneviève Antoine Dariaux

3.46

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The original What Not to Wear from one of fashion's most enduringly stylish women ... Written by Fr… read more

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13. Inseparable

By: Simone de Beauvoir

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A never-before-published novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood fr… read more

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  • france
"How old do you have to be to think: this is forever?"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"She was often late, not because she didn't care, but because she had too many contradictory cares."

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"I didn't understand: you don't believe what you believe on purpose. Could you be punished because certain ideas come into your mind?"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"to fight against time, against forgetting, against death, to do justice to this absolute presence of the instant, to this eternity of the instant, which will have been forever"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

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14. Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)

By: Shaun Bythell

4.01

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

"Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?" Shaun Bythell is the own… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • contemporary
"Money can't buy happiness, BUT it can buy books (which is basically the same thing)."

-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)

"There's a difference between a book being too expensive and a customer being too cheap."

-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)

"On the news this morning was a story about four men who have been abducted from a bookshop in Hong Kong for disseminating literature critical of the Chinese regime. Bookselling can be a perilous busi…"

-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)

"Коли я виставляв ціни на видання, до мене підійшов старший чоловік і попросив: - Не допоможете мені знайти книжки із самодопомоги? Певний, що він не помітив у цій фразі суперечності, я спитав, яка са…"

-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)

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15. Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir

By: Alba Donati

3.50

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Under the Tuscan Sun meets Diary of a Bookseller in this charming memoir by an Italian poet recount… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
"A Lucignana non abbiamo regine ma fate si, molte."

-Alba Donati, Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir

"How did I get the idea? Ideas don't just spring out of nothing - they smoulder, ferment, crowd our mind while we sleep. Ideas walk on their own two legs, follow their own parallel path in part of us …"

-Alba Donati, Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir

"Cit. p.81 "I fiori come noi pensano, intuiscono la via più semplice, evitano percorsi difficili. e lottano, hanno spiriti rivoluzionari. ... Penso alla povera erba medica che ripone dentro leggere sp…"

-Alba Donati, Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir

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16. Last Summer in the City

By: Gianfranco Calligarich

3.66

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The first novel from award-winning author Gianfranco Calligarich to be published in English, Last S… read more

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  • contemporary
"Tą kartą ir sužinojau, kad du žmonės tyli tyliau už vieną."

-Gianfranco Calligarich, Last Summer in the City

"There was great sadness in the speed at which the days were getting shorter. As if they were trying to redeem something that was irredeemable. With a sense of heartache, I thought about September, wh…"

-Gianfranco Calligarich, Last Summer in the City

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17. Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

By: Katherine Angel

4.08

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A provocative, elegantly written analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age of Me… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The fantasy of total autonomy, and of total self-knowledge, is not only a fantasy; it’s a nightmare."

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

"Any model of consent can prove itself worthless if a man is not open to his sexual partner's no, or her changing desires, and if he responds to either of these with a rage borne of humiliation."

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

"Why not aim for sex itself as being deeply mutually pleasurable? Why not aim for a culture that embraces and enables women’s sexual pleasure, in all its complexity, and admits the complexity of male …"

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

"Instead of resigning ourselves to the inevitability of bad sex, and even romanticizing it as merely youthful misadventure, we should subject it to sustained scrutiny. Bad sex emerges from gender norm…"

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

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18. Zen: The Art of Simple Living

By: Shunmyō Masuno

3.88

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Zen is the perfect antidote to the chaos of modern life . . . In clear, practical and easy to f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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19. How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life

By: Pandora Sykes

3.75

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

Modern life is full of choices. We’re told that happiness lies within and we can be whoever we want… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • self help
"The woman that does not require validation from anyone is the most feared individual on the planet. Our desire for validation is far older than the internet."

-Pandora Sykes, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life

"Me without reading is like me without food. I would wilt and become silent. I don't read because it is 'better' than watching television. I read because I don't know what else to do."

-Pandora Sykes, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life

"In a world crowded with the white noise of other people's narratives -- the collective narrative of social media; the multi-strand narratives of binge TV -- having your own, singular, internal narrat…"

-Pandora Sykes, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life

"It can’t be long before burnout is recognized by the NHS as a type of work-related stress. But we should be vary of using it as a non-specific term. Almost every single zeitgeisty buzz word or phrase…"

-Pandora Sykes, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life

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20. There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

By: Pamela Druckerman

3.31

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The best-selling author of Bringing Up Bebe investigates life in her forties, and wonders whether h… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • self help
"Mommy, I'm not going to have your American childhood, " she says. "I don't want to wake up at seven a.m. and make bracelets. I just don't. Accept it."

-Pamela Druckerman, There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

"There are stages of becoming a grown-up. First, you definitely aren’t one. Then you pretend to be one. Then you’re sure that there are no grown -ups; that they’re mythological and don’t really exist.…"

-Pamela Druckerman, There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

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21. My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now

By: Peter Mayle

3.92

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The beloved author Peter Mayle, champion of all things Provence, here in a final volume of all new … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • france
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22. à Paris

By: Jeanne Damas

3.93

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

It-girl au demi-million de followers, Jeanne Damas est considérée comme l’incarnation de La Parisie… read more

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  • poetry
  • cultural
  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • contemporary
  • fashion
  • self help
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23. Film for Her

By: Orion Carloto

3.78

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

With both pen and camera lens, Orion Carloto captures the dreamlike beauty of memory. Film for Her… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • contemporary
"I close my eyes just enough to let go of the suffering and allow myself this moment to feel everything."

-Orion Carloto, Film for Her

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24. Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes

By: Dana Thomas

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry and the grassroots, high… read more

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  • fashion
  • nonfiction
"Shoppers snap up five times more clothing now than they did in 1980."

-Dana Thomas, Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes

"In 1991, 56.2% of all clothes purchased in the United States were American-made. By 2012, it was down to 2.5%. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, between 1990 and 2012, the U.S. textile and…"

-Dana Thomas, Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes

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25. Home Sweet Maison: The French Art of Making a Home

By: Danielle Postel-Vinay

3.64

Format: 288 pages, ebook

French Women Don’t Get Fat meets The Little Book of Hygge in this lively, sophisticated, and practi… read more

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  • cultural
  • memoir
  • travel
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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26. Meghan and Harry: The Real Story

By: Lady Colin Campbell

3.69

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

The fall from popular grace of Prince Harry, the previously adulated brother of the heir to the Bri… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • contemporary
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27. Maison: Parisian Chic at Home

By: Inès de la Fressange

3.87

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A duo of high-profile tastemakers invite readers inside fifteen homes that are infused with the ble… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • france
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28. How the French Live: Modern French Style

By: Siham Mazouz

3.53

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

At home with modern French families . . . Si Mazouz, curator of the popular blog FRENCHBYDESIGN, in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • france
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29. For the Love of White: The White & Neutral Home

By: Chrissie Rucker

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

'A capsule of calm, this ode to pale interiors by The White Company's founder Chrissie Rucker is te… read more

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  • nonfiction

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Anne Berest , Audrey Diwan , Caroline de Maigret , None

3.62

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It

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3.34

Transform Your Habits

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4.01

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3.50

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Lauren Liess

4.04

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Isabella Rossellini , Tricia Foley

3.68

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The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

Elaine N. Aron

3.85

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