14 best-selling fiction books like The Castle of Communion by Bernard Noël

Cover of The Castle of Communion by Bernard Noël

The Castle of Communion

By: Bernard Noël

3.72

Format: 109 pages, Paperback

When Le Château de Cène (here translated as The Castle of Communion) first appeared in France in 19…

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Cover of Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander, Hayden Carruth

1. Nausea

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In… read more

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  • literature
  • france
  • fiction
"It was true, I had always realized it—I hadn’t any “right"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

Cover of The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast, Mark Treharne

2. The Guermantes Way

By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , Mark Treharne

4.27

Format: 619 pages, Paperback

After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way … read more

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  • literature
  • france
  • fiction
"She was not yet dead. But I was already alone."

-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

"و خواندن کتاب تو را خوش می‌آید، چون تخیل با توست"

-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

"گاهی آدم چیزهای دور را بهتر از چیزهای نزدیک می‌شناسد"

-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

"You're as strong as the Pont Neuf. You'll live to bury us all!"

-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

Cover of Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard

3. 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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  • literature
  • france
  • fiction
"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

Cover of Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans, Patrick McGuinness, Robert Baldick, Patrick McGuiness

4. Against Nature

By: Joris-Karl Huysmans , Patrick McGuinness , Robert Baldick , Patrick McGuiness

3.87

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

With a title translated either as Against Natureor as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-d… read more

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  • literature
  • france
  • fiction
Cover of Là-Bas by Joris-Karl Huysmans, None

5. Là-Bas

By: Joris-Karl Huysmans , None

3.73

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

At the novel's center is Durtal, a writer obsessed with the life of one of the blackest figures in … read more

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  • literature
  • france
  • fiction
Cover of The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus, Justin O'Brien, James  Wood, Justin Obrien

6. The Myth of Sisyphus

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien , James Wood , Justin Obrien

4.18

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more

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  • literature
  • france
"A fate is not a punishment."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"there are truths but no truth"

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"To will is to stir up paradoxes"

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"Le suicide est une solution à l'absurde."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

7. Steppenwolf

By: Hermann Hesse , Basil Creighton , کیکاووس جهانداری

4.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Steppenwolfis a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. Th… read more

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8. The Wasp Factory

By: Iain Banks

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed B… read more

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Cover of The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima, John Nathan

9. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

By: Yukio Mishima , John Nathan

3.85

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679750154 The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"إن الخطر، هو الحياة"

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"To Ryuji the smile seemed as brittle as fine glass crystal and very dangerous"

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"حتى وإن أبحرت سنوات عديدة، لن تعتاد يوماً على العواصف، وفي كل مرة تتساءل إن كنت ستودع الحياة"."

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast."

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

10. Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness

By: Bob Kaufman

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Published in 1965, Solitudes Crowded with Lonelinessassembles ten years' work of Bob Kaufman, celeb… read more

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11. Paradise

By: Abdulrazak Gurnah

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

Paradise is at once the story of an African boy's coming of age, a tragic love story, and a tale of… read more

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Cover of The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat, D.P. Costello

12. The Blind Owl

By: Sadegh Hedayat , D.P. Costello

3.97

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Considered the most important work of modern Iranian literature, The Blind Owl is a haunting tale o… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"افكار پوچ! از هر حقيقتی بيشتر مرا شكنجه ميكند"

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

"در زندگی زخمهایی است که روح را آهسته در انزوا می خورد ومیتراشد"

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

"در زندگی زخمهايی هست که مثل خوره روح را آهسته در انزوا می خورد و می تراشد"

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

"از دور ریختن عقایدی که به من تلقین شده بود، آرامش مخصوصی در خودم حس می‌کردم."

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

13. The Waste Land and Other Poems

By: T.S. Eliot

3.62

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century… read more

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14. Anéantir

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.84

Format: 734 pages, Hardcover

Ce roman de Michel Houellebecq nous projette à la fin du second mandat du président à travers un ré… read more

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  • literature
  • france
  • fiction
"La prise de vues donnait une étrange impression de neutralité."

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

"Les chrétiens ont du mal en général, avec l’absurde, ça n’entre pas vraiment dans leurs catégories."

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

"Certains lundis de la toute fin novembre, ou du début de décembre, surtout lorsqu'on est célibataire, on a la sensation d'être dans le couloir de la mort. Les vacances d'été sont depuis longtemps oub…"

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

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15. 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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  • france
"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

Cover of The Wolves of Eternity (Morgenstjernen, #2) by Karl Ove Knausgård

16. The Wolves of Eternity (Morgenstjernen, #2)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

4.03

Format: 800 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a sprawling and deeply human novel… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
Cover of Samlade verk by Lydia Sandgren

17. Samlade verk

By: Lydia Sandgren

4.08

Format: 689 pages, Hardcover

I Göteborg förbereds en stor retrospektiv över konstnären Gustav Beckers verk från 1980-talet och f… read more

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  • fiction
"You’re right,"

-Lydia Sandgren, Samlade verk

"People engage in a lot of self-deception,"

-Lydia Sandgren, Samlade verk

"Over the years, I’ve thought a lot about what a person has a right to tell other people. As a therapist, it’s simple: everything you’re told is confidential. Outside the clinic, however, there are un…"

-Lydia Sandgren, Samlade verk

Cover of Ruthless Little Things by Elizabeth Victoria Aldrich

18. Ruthless Little Things

By: Elizabeth Victoria Aldrich

4.37

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

A thunderclap of nebular shards, a ne plus ultra moment. The doyenne of irrationality and freedom c… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
Cover of A LIGHT NO MORE by Robert Kloss

19. A LIGHT NO MORE

By: Robert Kloss

4.58

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

After I finished THE WOMAN WHO LIVED AMONGST THE CANNIBALS in March, 2014, I didn’t know if I would… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Castle of Communion by Bernard Noël

20. The Castle of Communion

By: Bernard Noël

3.72

Format: 109 pages, Paperback

When Le Château de Cène (here translated as The Castle of Communion) first appeared in France in 19… read more

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  • literature
  • erotica
  • france
  • fiction
Cover of Four Circles by Meg McCarville

21. Four Circles

By: Meg McCarville

4.48

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

“It was over. There was no making up for it. There was nothing I could do. All of this right after … read more

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Cover of The Great When (The Long London Quintet, #1) by Alan             Moore

22. The Great When (The Long London Quintet, #1)

By: Alan Moore

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author and legendary storyteller Alan Moore, the first book in … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Testament of the dead Daughter by René

23. The Testament of the dead Daughter

By: René

3.89

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

Voici le testament fulgurant et énigmatique d'une jeune fille morte en 2006, à l'âge de 87 ans. Int… read more

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24. Pierre Guyotat: Revolutions & Aberrations

By: Stephen Barber

3.50

Format: 74 pages, Paperback

From his first books of the 1960s – such as Tomb for Five Hundred Thousand Soldiers and Eden, Eden,… read more

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12 Best literature books like The Castle of Communion by Bernard Noël

Transform Your Habits

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Guermantes Way

Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , Mark Treharne

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Les Fleurs du Mal

Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Against Nature

Joris-Karl Huysmans , Patrick McGuinness , Robert Baldick , Patrick McGuiness

3.87

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Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Transform Your Habits

White Nights

Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

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