11 best-selling feminism books like Poèmes choisis by Renée Vivien

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Poèmes choisis

By: Renée Vivien

4.37

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Une sélection de poèmes de Renée Vivien, née Pauline Mary Tarn, surnommée Sapho 1900. Parfois compa…

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1. Charlotte

By: David Foenkinos

4.33

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Ce roman retrace la vie de Charlotte Salomon, artiste peintre morte à vingt-six ans alors qu'elle é… read more

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  • poetry
  • france
"La dicha se convierte en una isla en el pasado, inaccesible."

-David Foenkinos, Charlotte

"She must disappear for a time from the human surface, And sacrifice everything for this, To recreate herself from the depths of her world."

-David Foenkinos, Charlotte

"Words do not always need a destination. We can leave them behind us at the borders of feelings. Running around headless in the vague zone. And that is the privilege of artists: to live in confusion."

-David Foenkinos, Charlotte

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2. The Lover

By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston

3.72

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more

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  • france
"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

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3. The Vagabond

By: Colette Gauthier-Villars , Judith Thurman , Enid McLeod

3.92

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Thirty-three years-old and recently divorced, Renée Néré has begun a new life on her own, supportin… read more

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  • feminism
  • france
"So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days."

-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Vagabond

"When are a 'lady on your own,' in other words the landlords' abomination, outcast and terror all rolled into one, you take what you find, lodge where you may, and put up with newly plastered walls."

-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Vagabond

"Rest assured that long patience and jealously concealed sorrows have shaped, refined, and hardened that woman who makes people exclaim: "She's made of steel!" She's simply "made of woman," and that's…"

-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Vagabond

"All this is still my kingdom, a small portion of the splendid riches which God distributes to passers-by, to wanderers and to solitaries. The earth belongs to anyone who stops for a moment, gazes and…"

-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Vagabond

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4. Les Fleurs du Mal

By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more

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  • poetry
  • france
"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"I am the vampire at my own veins."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

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5. Baise-Moi

By: Virginie Despentes , Bruce Benderson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Baise-Moiis one of the most controversial French novels of recent years, a punk fantasy that takes … read more

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  • feminism
  • france
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6. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

By: Sylvia Plath

3.31

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

"What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.... If I sit still and don't do anythin… read more

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  • poetry
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7. Bérénice

By: Jean Racine

4.12

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

Berenice, au centre de l'oeuvre de son auteur, en 1670, est une piece singuliere dans la production… read more

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  • france
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8. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard , Wayne Koestenbaum

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented … read more

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  • france
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9. Laughable Loves

By: Milan Kundera , حسین کاظمی‌یزدی , Suzanne Rappaport

3.91

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

Laughable Lovesis a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but w… read more

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10. The Second Sex

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley

3.60

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more

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  • feminism
  • france

11. Thérèse et Isabelle

By: Violette Leduc

4.50

Format: None pages,

Voici Therese et Isabelletel que Violette Leduc l'avait ecrit a l'origine, avec ses pages inedites … read more

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12. Horowitz Horror: Stories You'll Wish You Never Read

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.17

Format: None pages,

Welcome to a world where everything seems normal. At least, at first. But the sinister and truly te… read more

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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. Les Liaisons dangereuses

By: Pierre Choderlos de Laclos , Douglas Parmée

4.06

Format: 402 pages, Paperback

The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of … read more

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  • france
"J'ai vécu"

-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

"Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust?"

-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

"I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love."

-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

"...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime."

-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

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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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  • feminism
  • france
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16. Vers la beauté

By: David Foenkinos

4.16

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Antoine Duris est professeur aux Beaux-Arts de Lyon. Du jour au lendemain, il décide de tout quitte… read more

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  • france
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17. Smashed

By: Junji Ito

4.15

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Thirteen Chilling Nightmares Presented by the Master of Horror. Try not to be noticed when you e… read more

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18. Les grandes oubliées : Pourquoi l’histoire a effacé les femmes

By: Titiou Lecoq

4.67

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

De tout temps, les femmes ont agi. Elles ont régné, écrit, milité, créé, combattu, crié parfois. Et… read more

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  • feminism
  • france
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19. Anaïs Nin - Sur la mer des mensonges

By: Léonie Bischoff

4.20

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Début des années 30. Anaïs Nin vit en banlieue parisienne et lutte contre l’angoisse de sa vie d’ép… read more

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  • feminism
  • france
  • lgbt
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20. Adieu triste amour

By: Mirion Malle

4.38

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Après C'est comme ça que je disparais, Mirion Malle revient avec une nouvelle BD tout aussi forte e… read more

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  • feminism
  • france
  • lgbt
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21. A Kind of Spark

By: Elle McNicoll

4.52

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

A neurodivergent girl campaigns for a memorial when she learns that her small Scottish town used to… read more

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"No horrible, awful, rubbish day is worth damaging a library book."

-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

"Autistic people have probably done so much for hundreds of years without any credit."

-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

"While you are neurotypical and I am autistic, I promise we are more alike than we are different."

-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

"Books are not medicine, they are food. You won't remember every bite but you will remember the taste."

-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

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22. Les Yeux d'Elsa

By: Louis Aragon

4.05

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

Pétrarque a chanté Laure, Ronsard, Hélène, Lamartine, Elvire ; c'est à Elsa qu'Aragon adresse ses p… read more

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  • poetry
  • france
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23. La Petite Dernière

By: Fatima Daas

3.85

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

« Je m'appelle Fatima Daas. Je suis la mazoziya, la dernière. Celle à laquelle on ne s'est pas prép… read more

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  • feminism
  • france
  • lgbt
"Il n'y a que sur les photos qu'on est heureux."

-Fatima Daas, La Petite Dernière

"Islam meant believing in God, loving Him, fearing Him, obeying Him. I got the first stages right."

-Fatima Daas, La Petite Dernière

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24. Les Morts ont la Parole

By: Philippe Boxho

4.20

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Les morts ont la parole: Philippe Boxho, médecin légiste, fait parler les cadavres. Âmes sensibles … read more

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25. Je serai le feu

By: Diglee

4.69

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

Cette anthologie réunit 50 poétesses des 19e, 20e et 21e siècle. Certaines d’entre elles sont très … read more

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  • poetry
  • feminism
  • france
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26. Clémence en colère

By: Mirion Malle

4.72

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Clémence est en colère. Une colère si forte, si envahissante qu'elle l'empêche de vivre. Sentant qu… read more

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  • feminism
  • lgbt
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27. Les Nuits bleues

By: Anne-Fleur Multon

4.11

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

Dans les rues d'un Paris déserté, la narratrice avance la peur au ventre et la joie au coeur : c'es… read more

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  • poetry
  • france
  • lgbt
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28. Poèmes choisis

By: Renée Vivien

4.37

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Une sélection de poèmes de Renée Vivien, née Pauline Mary Tarn, surnommée Sapho 1900. Parfois compa… read more

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  • poetry
  • feminism
  • france
  • lgbt
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29. Petit livre de - La petite anthologie des poétesses françaises

By: Sylvie Brunet

4.08

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Christine de Pisan, Louise Labé, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Anna de Noailles, Renée Vivien... les… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Brouillons amoureux by Souad Labbize

30. Brouillons amoureux

By: Souad Labbize

4.48

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

A travers ses Brouillons, Souad Labbize ciselle sa langue d'exil pour dire l'universel du sentiment… read more

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  • poetry
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31. Nouvelles Pensées de l'Amazone

By: Natalie Clifford Barney

3.68

Format: 165 pages, Paperback

"Attendre, attendre en vain ton élan que déçoitUne rivale absurde, et jalouse, me taire ...Avoir be… read more

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  • poetry

19 Top france books like Poèmes choisis by Renée Vivien

Transform Your Habits

Charlotte

David Foenkinos

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Lover

Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston

3.72

Transform Your Habits

The Vagabond

Colette Gauthier-Villars , Judith Thurman , Enid McLeod

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Les Fleurs du Mal

Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

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9 Best classics books like A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes, Richard Howard, Wayne Koestenbaum

Transform Your Habits

Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

Anne Carson , Stesichorus

4.27

Transform Your Habits

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike

3.73

Transform Your Habits

A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

Roland Barthes , Richard Howard , Wayne Koestenbaum

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Eros the Bittersweet

Anne Carson

4.00

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