18 best-selling nonfiction books like Punir. Une passion contemporaine by Didier Fassin

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Punir. Une passion contemporaine

By: Didier Fassin

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Au cours des dernières décennies, la plupart des sociétés se sont faites plus répressives, leurs lo…

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1. La promesse de l'aube

By: Romain Gary

4.24

Format: 456 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Librarian's note: Older cover of ISBN 2070363732. – Tu seras un héros, tu seras général, Gabriel… read more

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  • france
"... văn chương là nơi nương tựa cuối cùng trên cõi đời cho những ai không biết náu mình vào đâu nữa"

-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube

"Kartais man atrodo, kad gyvenu jau tik iš mandagumo, ir jeigu dar leidžiu plakti savo širdžiai, tai tik todėl, kad visada mėgau gyvūnus."

-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube

"... hạnh phúc là cái gì đó có thể đạt tới, chỉ cần tìm thấy thiên hướng sâu xa trong mình rồi hết lòng với những gì mình thích, hoàn toàn quên cả bản thân."

-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube

"At the darkest moments of the war, in the thick of the battle, I always faced peril with a feeling of invincibility. Nothing could happen to me because I was her happy ending."

-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube

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2. The Society of the Spectacle

By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more

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  • history
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

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3. The Fortune of the Rougons (Les Rougon-Macquart, #1)

By: Émile Zola

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

La fortuna de los Rougon (1871) es la primera novela de la serie Les Rougon Macquart, de Emile Zola… read more

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  • france
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4. Ru

By: Kim Thúy

4.20

Format: None pages, Broche

Une femme voyage a travers le desordre des souvenirs : l'enfance dans sa cage d'or a Saigon, l'arri… read more

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  • france
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5. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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6. The Zürau Aphorisms

By: Franz Kafka , Michael Hofmann , Roberto Calasso , Geoffrey Brock

3.68

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The essential philosophical writings of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers are… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Usko kuin kirves. Yhtä raskas, yhtä kevyt."

-Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms

"چه‌طور می‌توان در دنیا شادمان بود مگر با گریختن از آن؟"

-Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms

"از رقیب راستین، شجاعت بی‌نهایتی به درون تو جریان دارد."

-Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms

"Meidän on aina kärsittävä itse kaikki aiheuttamamme kärsimys."

-Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms

7. Ainsi soit Benoîte Groult

By: Catel

3.68

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

Ce livre est a l'origine l'histoire d'une amitie entre deux femmes de deux generations differentes,… read more

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8. The Periodic Table

By: Primo Levi , Raymond Rosenthal

4.18

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi's transportation fr… read more

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9. Returning to Reims

By: Didier Eribon , George Chauncey , None

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

On thinking the matter through, it doesn't seem exaggerated to assert that my coming out of the sex… read more

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10. Belonging: A Culture of Place

By: bell hooks

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

>What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can… read more

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11. Are Prisons Obsolete?

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.15

Format: None pages,

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more

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12. On the Genealogy of Morals

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith

4.13

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

13. Vernon Subutex, 2 (Vernon Subutex, #2)

By: Virginie Despentes

3.10

Format: None pages,

QUI EST VERNON SUBUTEX ? Une legende urbaine. Un ange dechu. Un disparu qui ne cesse de ressurgir. … read more

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14. The Birth of Tragedy

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , Shaun Whiteside

3.99

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his e… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Look at this! Look carefully! It is your life! It is the hour-hand of your clock of existence!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Večita je to pojava: požudna volja uvek nalazi sredstva da iluzijom prostrtom preko stvari zadrži svoje stvorove u životu i da ih prisili da i dalje žive."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

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15. Cher connard

By: Virginie Despentes

3.62

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

C’est une suite de lettres entre amis qui se sauvent la vie. Dans ce roman épistolaire, Virginie De… read more

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  • france
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16. A Man's Place

By: Annie Ernaux

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux's fat… read more

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  • france
  • nonfiction
"J'écris peut-être parce qu'on n'avait plus rien à se dire."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"Có lẽ niềm tự hào lớn nhất đối với ông, hay thậm chí là lời biện minh cho cuộc đời ông: là tôi đang thuộc về thế giới từng khinh miệt ông."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"It was in other people that I searched for the figure of my father, in the way they would call their children, sit down and looked bored in waiting rooms and wave goodbye on station platforms."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

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17. The Young Man

By: Annie Ernaux

3.61

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breat… read more

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  • france
  • nonfiction
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18. Triste tigre

By: Neige Sinno

4.23

Format: 283 pages, Paperback

J'ai voulu y croire, j'ai voulu rêver que le royaume de la littérature m'accueillerait comme n'impo… read more

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  • france
  • nonfiction
"C'est vrai qu'aucun [...] n'avait vu ce que nous pouvions voir nous, les enfants et ma mère, au sein du foyer, où il se comportait comme un tyran. Et c'est quand même ça qui ressort avant tout de cet…"

-Neige Sinno, Triste tigre

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19. A Woman's Story

By: Annie Ernaux

4.23

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A Woman's Story is Annie Ernaux's "deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age… read more

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  • france
  • nonfiction
"Until I was twenty, I thought I was responsible for her growing old."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"With so much misery around, fighting for social advancement had lost all meaning."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"I believe I am writing about my mother because it is my turn to bring her into the world."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"Het beeld van haar wordt langzaam weer dat wat ik mij voorstel te hebben gehad van haar in mijn babytijd, een grote, blanke schaduw boven mij."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

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20. La chair est triste hélas

By: Ovidie

4.17

Format: 137 pages, Kindle Edition

" J'ai repensé à ces innombrables rapports auxquels je m'étais forcée par politesse, pour ne pas fr… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. En bons pères de famille

By: Rose Lamy

4.61

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

« Dans cette fiction sociale écrite par les bons pères de famille, les femmes et les enfants sont l… read more

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  • france
  • nonfiction
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22. Monique s'évade

By: Édouard Louis

4.20

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Une nuit, j’ai reçu un appel de ma mère. Elle pleurait. Elle me disait au téléphone que l’homme ave… read more

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23. The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.89

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Before succumbing to the insanity that ravaged his later life, Guy de Maupassant established a repu… read more

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  • france
"A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Es evidente que la soledad resulta peligrosa para las mentes que piensan demasiado."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

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24. Eine Arbeiterin

By: Didier Eribon

4.11

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Eigentlich hatte Didier Eribon sich vorgenommen, ab jetzt regelmäßig nach Fismes zu fahren. Doch se… read more

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  • france
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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25. "On ne peut pas accueillir toute la misère du monde" - En finir avec une sentence de mort

By: Jean-Charles Stevens

4.67

Format: 62 pages, Kindle Edition

Proférés pour clore toute discussion, ces dix mots, "On ne peut pas accueillir toute la misère du m… read more

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26. Punir. Une passion contemporaine

By: Didier Fassin

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Au cours des dernières décennies, la plupart des sociétés se sont faites plus répressives, leurs lo… read more

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  • history
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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27. Rester barbare

By: Louisa Yousfi

4.22

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

"Je sens que j’ai tellement de choses à dire qu’il vaut mieux que je ne sois pas trop cultivé. Il f… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. « Alternatives » à la prison

By: Michel Foucault

3.99

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Que penser des «alternatives» à la prison ? À l’occasion d’une conférence donnée à Montréal peu apr… read more

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  • nonfiction
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29. Ceux qui restent

By: Benoît Coquard

4.08

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Qui sont ces hommes et ces femmes qui continuent d'habiter dans les campagnes en déclin ? Certains … read more

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  • france
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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30. Ici et ailleurs

By: Florence Aubenas

3.94

Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition

« On est le 6 décembre 2018, il est midi. Trois semaines que le mouvement a démarré, avec l’impress… read more

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31. Qui annule quoi? Sur la cancel culture

By: Laure Murat

3.86

Format: 48 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Et si la cancel culture n’était que l’avatar logique, inévitable, d’une démocratie à bout de souffl… read more

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  • nonfiction
"N'allez pas chercher la violence de la cancel culture ailleurs que dans la brutalité du pouvoir."

-Laure Murat, Qui annule quoi? Sur la cancel culture

"L'histoire se fait ou plutôt s'incarne, par représentation, en érigeant des monuments tout autant qu'en les faisant tomber."

-Laure Murat, Qui annule quoi? Sur la cancel culture

5 must-read history books like Punir. Une passion contemporaine by Didier Fassin

Transform Your Habits

The Society of the Spectacle

Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None

3.35

Transform Your Habits

On the Genealogy of Morals

Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith

4.13

Transform Your Habits

The Birth of Tragedy

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , Shaun Whiteside

3.99

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13 must-read nonfiction books like La chair est triste hélas by Ovidie

Transform Your Habits

La prochaine fois que tu mordras la poussière

Panayotis Pascot

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Triste tigre

Neige Sinno

4.23

Transform Your Habits

La chair est triste hélas

Ovidie

4.17

Transform Your Habits

En bons pères de famille

Rose Lamy

4.61

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