9 best-selling nonfiction books like The Desert and the Dancing Girls by Gustave Flaubert

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The Desert and the Dancing Girls

By: Gustave Flaubert

3.21

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

Gustave Flaubert transformed French literature and caused an outcry when his novel Madame Bovary, p…

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1. Otherwise Pandemonium / Not a Star

By: Nick Hornby

3.59

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Otherwise Pandemonium features two Nick Hornby stories, both packed with the trademark wit and poig… read more

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2. A Taste of the Unexpected

By: Roald Dahl

4.06

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

As well as being famous the world over for his darkly humorous children's tales - all published by … read more

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3. Lady Chatterley's Trial

By: C.H. Rolph

3.60

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

In 1960, thirty years after D. H. Lawrence's death, Penguin moved to publish his most provocative n… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. 2 Stars

By: Paul Theroux

3.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Paul Theroux is one of the world's most prolific and versatile authors. A writer of acclaimed and … read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. The Dressmaker's Child

By: William Trevor

3.78

Format: 479 pages, Paperback

William Trevor has won just about every literary award possible and he is frequently described by c… read more

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6. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit.… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Artists and Models

By: Anaïs Nin

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Both stories capture a moment of sexual awakening, and reveal the subtle or explicit means by which… read more

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8. Cloud, Castle, Lake

By: Vladimir Nabokov

3.98

Format: None pages,

A masterful novelist in both his native Russian and in English, Nabokov shocked a generation when P… read more

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9. Seventeen Poisoned Englishmen

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Edith Grossman

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

Admired by millions across the world, Gabriel Garcia Marquez first came to prominence as an imagina… read more

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10. In Defence of English Cooking

By: George Orwell

4.40

Format: None pages,

Not only was George Orwell one of the greatest writers and most important political thinkers of the… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. The Cave of the Cyclops

By: Homer , E.V. Rieu

4.11

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Homer's Odysseyis a founding tale of Western civilization: an epic story of one man's struggle to r… read more

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12. Outline

By: Rachel Cusk

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more

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13. Noise

By: Hari Kunzru

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

This collection of stories focuses on technology, the dot-com phenomenon and the wired generation s… read more

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14. Where I Was

By: James Kelman

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this collection of short stories, James Kelman introduces us to a superb collection of memorable… read more

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15. The Mirror of Ink

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley

3.94

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

Jorge Luis Borges wrote playful and deeply imaginative short stories that explore philosophy, parad… read more

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16. The Fall

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien

4.01

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more

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17. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

By: Lea Ypi

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more

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  • nonfiction
"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

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18. The Secret Annexe: from The diary of Anne Frank

By: Anne Frank

4.04

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

This extract from the Definitive Edition of Anne's diary begins on Tuesday 10 November 1942. For… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. The Desert and the Dancing Girls

By: Gustave Flaubert

3.21

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

Gustave Flaubert transformed French literature and caused an outcry when his novel Madame Bovary, p… read more

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  • travel
  • egypt
  • france
  • nonfiction
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20. The Bastille Falls

By: Simon Schama

3.45

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Simon Schama is famous both as a great scholar and as one of the UK's greatest popularizers of hist… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Christmas at Stalingrad

By: Antony Beevor

3.74

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

Antony Beevor's Stalingrad, published by Penguin in 1998, was a worldwide bestseller, telling one o… read more

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  • nonfiction

12 must-read audiobook books like Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History by Lea Ypi

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4.28

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Solvej Balle

3.71

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4.38

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4.03

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