Orphic Paris
By: Henri Cole
3.93
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
A poetic portrait of Paris that combines prose poetry, diary, and memoir by award-winning writer an…
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1. Self-Portrait in Green
By: Jordan Stump , Marie NDiaye
3.64
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
It seems there is no genre of writing Marie NDiaye will not make her own. Asked to write a memoir, … read more
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- biography memoir
- france
2. The Book of Disquiet
By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith
4.41
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alt… read more
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- poetry
"My past is everything I failed to be."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
3. The Journalist and the Murderer
By: Janet Malcolm , Ian Jack
3.84
Format: 135 pages,
In The Journalist And The Murderer, Janet Malcolm examines the psychopathology of journalism. She d… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
4. Trans-Atlantyk
By: Witold Gombrowicz , None , None
3.00
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
A semi-autobiographical, satirical novel that throws into perspective all of Gombrowicz's major lit… read more
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5. Leaves of Grass
By: Walt Whitman
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more
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6. Transformations
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Anne Sexton , None
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The fairy tale-based works of the tortured confessional poet, whose honesty and wit in the face of … read more
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7. Sweet Days of Discipline
By: Tim Parks , Fleur Jaeggy
4.50
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enou… read more
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8. Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
By: Mary Ruefle
3.93
Format: 214 pages, Paperback
This is one of the wisest books I've read in years... --New York Times Book Review No writer I know… read more
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9. Un amour impossible
By: Christine Angot
4.09
Format: None pages,
<>Pierre et Rachel vivent une liaison courte mais intense a Chateauroux a la fin des annees 1950. P… read more
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10. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
11. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
By: Olga Ravn
3.67
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A workplace novel of the 22nd century The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth… read more
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"This is not a human, but a coworker."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Cada ação encerra em si um elemento de caos."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Tudo precisa atravessar enormes distâncias para se tornar o que é."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Eu também tenho em mim palavras apagadas que deveria ter dito e já não sei mais o que significam."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
12. When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl's Book
By: Naja Marie Aidt
4.27
Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition
In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt’s twenty-five-year-old son, Carl, died in a tragic accident. When De… read more
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- poetry
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"No deseaba recurrir a una persona que ve la pena como un trabajo que elaborar. No deseaba elaborar ningún trabajo. No deseaba contribuir a esa visión de la pena como un trabajo. La sola idea de que l…"-Naja Marie Aidt, When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl's Book
13. 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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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- france
- essays
"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
14. Coventry: Essays
By: Rachel Cusk
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three "literary masterpieces… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"The rules of writing are mostly indistinguishable from the rules of living, but this tends to be the last place people look when searching for 'there'."-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
"Indeed, we believe everyone has a book in them - a book, not a symphony, and not even a poem. What is it, this book everyone has in them? It is, perhaps, that haunting entity, the 'true' self. The tr…"-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
"War is a narrative: it might almost be said to embody the narrative principle itself. It is the attempt to create a story of life, to create agreement. In war, there is no point of view; war is the e…"-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
"In marriage, the woman compensates for her lack of external power by commandeering the story. Isn't that right? She fills the silence, the mystery of her own acts and aims, with a structured account …"-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
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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- poetry
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
16. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
By: Griffin Dunne
4.19
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
17. Wrong Norma
By: Anne Carson
4.33
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-desig… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- essays
"Last thing: one Sunday evening about a year before all this we were on the telephone, my mother and I; it was just after we sold the house and she’d moved to the facility, where she was allowed a sma…"-Anne Carson, Wrong Norma
18. The Undying
By: Anne Boyer
4.16
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggr… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
"Amnesia is vice-president to pain and the mother of philosophy."-Anne Boyer, The Undying
"You will understand, I hope, that because of all of this, every pink ribbon looks like the flag of a conqueror stuck in a woman's grave."-Anne Boyer, The Undying
"As soon as a patient lies down on the exam table, she has laid down her life on a bed of narrowed answers, but the questions are never sufficiently clear."-Anne Boyer, The Undying
"A person who complains about any aspect of breast cancer treatment in public is often drowned out by a chorus of people, many of whom have never had cancer, accusing her of ingratitude, saying she is…"-Anne Boyer, The Undying
19. Arrangements in Blue
By: Amy Key
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
20. Orphic Paris
By: Henri Cole
3.93
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
A poetic portrait of Paris that combines prose poetry, diary, and memoir by award-winning writer an… read more
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- poetry
- art
- biography
- memoir
- gay
- travel
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- france
- nonfiction
- essays
21. Acts: Poems
By: Spencer Reece
3.38
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A book of poems that reckons with love in all its forms, by the priest and poet Spencer Reece—his f… read more
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