8 must-read nonfiction books like Asymmetry: Poems by Adam Zagajewski

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Asymmetry: Poems

By: Adam Zagajewski

4.15

Format: 77 pages, Hardcover

A stunning new collection from Poland's leading poetGive me back my childhood, republic of loquacio…

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1. Les Faux Fuyants

By: Françoise Sagan

3.82

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

Book by Sagan, Francoise read more

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2. Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

By: Rachel Cusk

3.66

Format: 153 pages, Hardcover

In the winter of 2009, Rachel Cusk's marriage of ten years came to an end. In the months that follo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
"[I]t has struck me that along with all other losses, I might lose friendship, too. I am not equal anymore to the people that I know, and what is friendship but a celebration of equality?"

-Rachel Cusk, Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

"The world is constantly evolving, while the family endeavours to stay the same. Updated, refurbished, modernised, but essentially the same. A house in the landscape, both shelter and prison."

-Rachel Cusk, Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

"In marriage you go away from other people, but at the end of marriage they come out to welcome you back. This is civilisation, she says. The worst thing that happened to you has brought out the best …"

-Rachel Cusk, Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

"What I lived as feminism were in fact the male values my parents, among others, well-meaningly bequeathed me—the cross-dressing values of my father, and the anti-feminine values of my mother. So I am…"

-Rachel Cusk, Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

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3. Farewell Waltz

By: Milan Kundera , None

4.38

Format: 613 pages, Paperback

Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom h… read more

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  • contemporary
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4. Summer

By: Edith Wharton

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton's "Summer" created a sensation when first p… read more

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5. Boris

By: Cynthia Rylant

3.97

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Boris is a big gray cat who loves sleeping and playing and exploring and hunting. And his owner lov… read more

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  • poetry
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6. Octombrie, Noiembrie, Decembrie

By: Ana Blandiana

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

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  • poetry

7. Attentat

By: Amélie Nothomb

5.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Epiphane Otos serait-il condamne par sa laideur a vivre exclu de la societe des hommes et interdit … read more

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  • contemporary
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8. Somnul din somn

By: Ana Blandiana

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

,,Motivul somnului si al dorintei de repaus, cu vechi radacini in poezia romaneasca, de la Eminescu… read more

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  • poetry
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9. The Unknown Masterpiece

By: Arthur C. Danto , Honoré de Balzac , Richard Howard

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painte… read more

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10. Las muertas

By: Jorge Ibargüengoitia

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

Si al despertarse, Simon Corona se hubiera vuelto a su casa, los crimenes de Las Poquianchis habria… read more

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  • contemporary

11. La fin de la jalousie et autres nouvelles

By: Marcel Proust

3.80

Format: 260 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Profondement epris de la belle Francoise Seaune, Honore de Tenvres s'emeut sans cesse de cet incroy… read more

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12. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

By: Ludwig Wittgenstein

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Ph… read more

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13. Kappa

By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , Geoffrey Bownas

2.86

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

From the author of Rashomon comes a Swiftian satire of Japanese society thinly disguised as the fic… read more

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14. Un garçon d'Italie

By: Philippe Besson

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

L'ete finit a Florence, ville des princes et des enigmes. Mon histoire, elle, commence. Je m'appell… read more

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15. 100 Poems from the Japanese

By: Kenneth Rexroth

3.97

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

The poems are drawn chiefly from the traditional Manyoshu, Kokinshuand Hyakunin Isshucollections, b… read more

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16. White Holes

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. The Hurting Kind: Poems

By: Ada Limon

4.34

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

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18. El affaire Arnolfini. Investigación sobre un cuadro de Van Eyck

By: Jean-Philippe Postel

3.89

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

El retrato del «matrimonio Arnolfini», que Jan van Eyck pintó en 1434, es uno de los cuadros más fa… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. The Vulnerables

By: Sigrid Nunez

3.61

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more

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  • contemporary
"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"

-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables

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20. El ojo de Goliat

By: Diego Muzzio

4.15

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

A Edward Pierce; psiquiatra inglés; le piden que trate el caso de David Bradley; un ingeniero de la… read more

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21. Yesterday

By: Juan Emar

3.55

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In San Agustín de Tango, you can never be sure what’s waiting around the corner. Over the course… read more

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22. Jak płakać w miejscach publicznych

By: Emilia Dłużewska

3.49

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

Jeśli zastanawiacie się, czy nie powinniście iść do psychiatry, to prawdopodobnie powinniście. D… read more

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  • polish literature
  • nonfiction
  • poland
"Żałuję innych wersji swojego życia, nawet tych, których nigdy nie chciałam i nadal nie chcę."

-Emilia Dłużewska, Jak płakać w miejscach publicznych

"Życie z lękiem to brnięcie przez tor przeszkód, którego większość ludzi nie jest w stanie dostrzec."

-Emilia Dłużewska, Jak płakać w miejscach publicznych

"Po prostu to, co w nas wyjątkowe, może zachwycać naszą mamę, ale dla badacza pozostaje bezużyteczne: nie da się na tej podstawie zbierać danych, określać częstotliwości ani wyciągać wniosków."

-Emilia Dłużewska, Jak płakać w miejscach publicznych

"Jedną z najgorszych rzeczy, które wymyślily nasze przerośnięte mózgi, jest obsesja celowości. Ludziom wydaje się, że tłumaczenie skąd się biorą dzieci, to wyzwanie - spróbujcie wytłumaczyć, po co się…"

-Emilia Dłużewska, Jak płakać w miejscach publicznych

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23. Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season

By: Forugh Farrokhzad

4.16

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

In the years since her tragic death in a car accident at age thirty-two in 1967, Forough Farrokhzad… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"I dreamed of that red star when I wasn’t asleep"

-Forugh Farrokhzad, Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season

"Düşler daima Saflıklarının yüksekliğinden fırlatılıp ölürler"

-Forugh Farrokhzad, Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season

"Life is perhaps lighting up a cigarette in the narcotic repose between two love-makings or the absent gaze of a passerby who takes off his hat to another passerby with a meaningless smile and a good …"

-Forugh Farrokhzad, Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season

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24. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

By: Chen Chen

4.15

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves cal… read more

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  • poetry
"If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we co…"

-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

"You climb back in bed & touch my face. You climb back in bed to touch my face. You wrap your arms around me & it’s like you’re the patron saint if touch as well as soft sunlight & soothed dogs. Or yo…"

-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

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25. Asymmetry: Poems

By: Adam Zagajewski

4.15

Format: 77 pages, Hardcover

A stunning new collection from Poland's leading poetGive me back my childhood, republic of loquacio… read more

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  • poetry
  • poland
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • polish literature
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26. Jazz Owls

By: Margarita Engle

3.94

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the Young People’s Poet Laureate Margarita Engle comes a searing novel in verse about the Zoot… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Japonisme: Ikigai, Forest Bathing, Wabi-sabi and more by Erin Niimi Longhurst

27. Japonisme: Ikigai, Forest Bathing, Wabi-sabi and more

By: Erin Niimi Longhurst

3.75

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

A Japanese-inspired guide to living a happier, more fulfilled life. Japonisme explores the Japanes… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Có thể nói rằng, một điều hết sức quan trọng là đừng quay lưng với bất cứ ai, vì bạn không bao giờ biết được những gì họ đang phải trốn tránh thế giới bên ngoài."

-Erin Niimi Longhurst, Japonisme: Ikigai, Forest Bathing, Wabi-sabi and more

"Bathing is not just about a quick rinse. Taking care of your whole self is essential in maintaining balance and contentment. And rituals around bathing play their part - they provide time in the day …"

-Erin Niimi Longhurst, Japonisme: Ikigai, Forest Bathing, Wabi-sabi and more

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28. Un certain Paul Darrigrand

By: Philippe Besson

4.22

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

Cette année-là, j'avais vingt-deux ans et j'allais, au même moment, rencontrer l'insaisissable Paul… read more

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  • contemporary
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29. Dor De Dor De Tine, Volumul 2

By: Constantin Romulus Preda

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dupa succesul Volumului I Dor de dor de tine € ce a devenit Bestseller National cu peste 4000 de ex… read more

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30. Dor de dor de tine

By: Constantin Romulus Preda

4.16

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

Poezia nu poate exista fără femeie, și nici invers Femeia este semn de întrebare și răspuns în … read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Yearning Young (Burning Britely, #2) by Deidre Huesmann

31. Yearning Young (Burning Britely, #2)

By: Deidre Huesmann

4.16

Format: None pages, ebook

Braeden’s never had to question anything before. He’s always been popular, always had everything ha… read more

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  • contemporary

8 Top contemporary books like Asymmetry: Poems by Adam Zagajewski

Transform Your Habits

Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

Rachel Cusk

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Farewell Waltz

Milan Kundera , None

4.38

Attentat

Amélie Nothomb

5.00

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Las muertas

Jorge Ibargüengoitia

3.98

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Transform Your Habits

Boris

Cynthia Rylant

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Faithful and Virtuous Night

Louise Glück

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Love Poems

Pablo Neruda , None

3.00

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The Dark Between Stars

Atticus Poetry

3.96

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