The Impudent Ones
By: Marguerite Duras
3.29
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A major publishing event: the previously untranslated story of a family’s moral reckoning and a dau…
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1. First Love
By: Constance Garnett , Ivan Turgenev
3.77
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
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- classics
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"Jealous Othello, ready for murder, was suddenly transformed into a schoolboy."-Constance Garnett, First Love
"I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to acknowledge to myself that I was not loved;"-Constance Garnett, First Love
"I should not wish ever to have it repeated; but I should consider myself unhappy if I had never experienced it."-Constance Garnett, First Love
"Aprovéchate todo lo que puedas, pero no te entregues tú mismo: el sentido de la vida es no pertenecer a nadie más que a si mismo."-Constance Garnett, First Love
2. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- 20th century
- fiction
- novels
"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
3. 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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- classics
- 20th century
- fiction
4. The Devil in the Flesh
By: None , Raymond Radiguet
4.40
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
The Devil in the Flesh, one of the finest, most delicate love stories ever written, is set in Paris… read more
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- france
- french literature
- 20th century
- fiction
- novels
5. Tropic of Cancer
By: Henry Miller
0.00
Format: None pages,
Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obsc… read more
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- novels
- classics
- fiction
6. Regarde les lumières mon amour
By: Annie Ernaux
3.94
Format: 489 pages, Paperback
Pendant un an, Annie Ernaux a tenu le journal de ses visites a l'hypermarche Auchan du centre comme… read more
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- france
- french literature
7. The Masterpiece (Les Rougon-Macquart, #14)
By: Émile Zola , Roger Pearson
3.70
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
The Masterpieceis the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist who ha… read more
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- france
- french literature
- fiction
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9. Legion
By: William Peter Blatty
4.36
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
One by one the bizarre murders frustrate and torment Lt. Kinderman , the homicide detective from Th… read more
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10. Todas as Palavras
By: Manuel António Pina
3.48
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Corria o ano de 2001 quando a Assirio & Alvim publicou a primeira edicao da Poesia Reunida de Manue… read more
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11. The Blazing World
By: Siri Hustvedt
3.44
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, provocative novel about an artist who, after years of being ignored by the art world, … read more
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12. My Son the Fanatic
By: Hanif Kureishi
4.30
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Set in a northern industrial town, this screenplay presents the dismay experienced by a Pakistani f… read more
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13. Devil at My Heels
By: Louis Zamperini , David Rensin
3.86
Format: None pages,
The inspirational and extraordinarymemoir of one of the most courageous of the greatest generation,… read more
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14. Shame
By: Annie Ernaux
3.67
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
"My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon." Thus begins Shame, … read more
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- france
- french literature
"People are forever remembering."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"We have no true memory of ourselves."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"Le pire dans la honte, c'est qu'on croit être seul à la ressentir"-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"anyone who doesn't speak "the way we do" is, to some extent, labeled a foreigner."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
15. 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
- french literature
- audiobook
16. A Horse at Night: On Writing
By: Amina Cain
4.03
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s … read more
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"For me, fiction is a space of plainness and excess."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Female solitude is weighted with a particular power in literature."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"I want to leave a chain of images that remain in the reader's mind. I want to write what heightened experience feels like."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
17. Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
By: Catherine McCormack
4.35
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their b… read more
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- audiobook
"[We are]expected to be wooed and seduced by the male artist’s libidinous vision, a vision that has dominated and come to define our perception of genius, beauty and value from the perspective of the …"-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
"society tolerates sexually explicit images of women as long as they conform to an ideal that doesn’t relate to women’s autonomous erotic pleasure. Encouraged to be hyper-sexualised and available spec…"-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
"The problem is not that erotically charged images can’t also be seen as culturally valuable expressions (they can), but that woman’s highest cultural expression has been as a passive sex object, and …"-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
"Picasso and Modigliani’s ‘Venuses’ represent a sort of iconoclasm in their self-conscious rejection of the cold, perfectly-finished, stuffy beauty of the Western tradition of art. For the contemporar…"-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
18. Long Live the Post Horn!
By: Vigdis Hjorth
3.67
Format: 240 pages, ebook
Ellinor, a 35-year-old media consultant, has not been feeling herself; she's not been feeling much … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"A letter is practically a gift."-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!
"What do we do with our despair if our lives are too small to contain it?"-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!
"What do we do with our despair if our lives are too small to contain it?’ . . . .accept that there’s so much we’ll never understand intellectually and try to live with things which don’t add up, that…"-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!
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
- french literature
- audiobook
"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
20. A Frozen Woman
By: Annie Ernaux
4.16
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A Frozen Woman charts Ernaux's teenage awakening, a… read more
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- roman
- france
- french literature
- 20th century
- fiction
- audiobook
"Old equals plain equals lonely."-Annie Ernaux, A Frozen Woman
"So, what are you up to, where are you going on your vacation, that's a cute dress--no one knows what to talk about with an unmarried girl. Whereas a husband, children, an apartment, a washing machine…"-Annie Ernaux, A Frozen Woman
"Menstruation, making love, that had to come, but getting married? Everything that I've just experienced seems like all those things that are neither deliberately willed nor firmly rejected, and are t…"-Annie Ernaux, A Frozen Woman
21. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more
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- audiobook
"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
22. Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
By: Deborah Levy
4.29
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
'Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill. Fame. Tenderness. The statu… read more
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"É difícil reivindicar fragilidade e força em igual proporção, mas é essa mistura que nos constitui a todos"-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"A história neste livro era sobre uma mulher que oferece a sua vida a um homem. Não se deve tentar isso em casa, mas é normalmente aí que acontece."-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"The story in this book was about a woman who has gifted her life to a man. This is not something to be tried at home but it is usually where it happens."-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"One of these men told me at a book festival that if he did not transgress too many boundaries in his marriage, there would always be a comforting pair of slippers warming for him by the fire...Will t…"-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
23. The Years
By: Annie Ernaux
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more
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- french literature
- audiobook
"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
24. 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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- classics
- france
- french literature
- audiobook
"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
25. Meter i sekundet
By: Stine Pilgaard
3.78
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Et ungt par bosætter sig på en højskole i Vestjylland med deres lille barn. De træder ind i en verd… read more
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- literary fiction
- roman
- fiction
- novels
- audiobook
"Kanske är det för att jag är ensambarn, men jag blir alltid förvirrad när jag inte möts av jubel vart jag än kommer"-Stine Pilgaard, Meter i sekundet
"Det gäller att ha is i magen, säger Anders Agger, om man är tyst tillräckligt länge kommer de till sist att börja prata"-Stine Pilgaard, Meter i sekundet
"Jag säger inte att jag är oskyldig. I likhet med de flesta senmoderna människor är jag bara en bra vän när jag har långtråkigt eller har behov av andra"-Stine Pilgaard, Meter i sekundet
"När man inte kan överblicka saker och ting är det viktigt att inte bry sig om framtiden. Släpp de stora dragen och ta en minut i taget [...] Gör allt så enkelt och kortsiktigt som möjligt, tänk inte …"-Stine Pilgaard, Meter i sekundet
26. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
By: Olivia Laing
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in th… read more
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- audiobook
"Empathy is not something that happens to us when we read Dickens. It’s work. What art does is provide material with which to think: new registers, new spaces. After that, friend, it’s up to you."-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"The Argonauts is about these small, miraculous domestic dramas, and the acts of readjustment and care that they require, but it is also a reconsideration of what the institutions established around s…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"Fiction can do that: can make a space for reflecting, for generating novel ways of responding and reacting to lies and guns and walls alike. The mere act of cracking open a book, Smith thinks, is cre…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"These narratives are interesting in and of themselves, but Nelson isn’t just airing her feelings out. She’s bent on using these experiences as ways of prying the culture open, of investigating what i…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
27. Shanghailanders
By: Juli Min
3.51
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in tim… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
28. Getting Lost
By: Annie Ernaux
3.44
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The diary of one of France’s most important, award-… read more
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- france
- french literature
- audiobook
"I write in lieu of love, to fill that empty space above death."-Annie Ernaux, Getting Lost
29. The Chandelier
By: Clarice Lispector
3.92
Format: 320 pages, ebook
Fresh from the enormous success of her debut novel Near to the Wild Heart, Hurricane Clarice let lo… read more
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- classics
- 20th century
- fiction
- novels
30. The Impudent Ones
By: Marguerite Duras
3.29
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A major publishing event: the previously untranslated story of a family’s moral reckoning and a dau… read more
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- roman
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- france
- french literature
- fiction
- 20th century
- novels
- audiobook
31. Planet of Clay
By: Samar Yazbek
3.63
Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition
Rima, a young girl from Damascus, longs to walk, to be free to follow the will of her feet, but ins… read more
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- fiction
