6 must-read travel books like Flâneur: The Art of Wandering the Streets of Paris by Federico Castigliano

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Flâneur: The Art of Wandering the Streets of Paris

By: Federico Castigliano

3.75

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A man walks the streets of Paris, alone and without a destination. He covers the long avenues with …

"The flâneur is he who consecrates his own life to the instant, to ephemeral things."

-Federico Castigliano, Flâneur: The Art of Wandering the Streets of Paris

"The flâneur is he who consecrates his own life to the instant, to ephemeral things."

-Federico Castigliano, Flâneur: The Art of Wandering the Streets of Paris

"The flâneur is he who consecrates his own life to the instant, to ephemeral things."

-Federico Castigliano, Flâneur: The Art of Wandering the Streets of Paris

"Paris is narcotic for a man alone, a never-ending labyrinth where the anxiety of freedom is relieved."

-Federico Castigliano, Flâneur: The Art of Wandering the Streets of Paris

If you liked the travel plot in Flâneur: The Art of Wandering the Streets of Paris by Federico Castigliano , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Stupeur et tremblements by Amélie Nothomb

1. Stupeur et tremblements

By: Amélie Nothomb

3.73

Format: 187 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition for isbn13: 9782253150718 Au début des années 90, la narratr… read more

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  • france
"هناك فهمت حقيقة مهمة: في اليابان، الحياة هي الشركة."

-Amélie Nothomb, Stupeur et tremblements

"كان يابانيا من بين آلاف آخرين، عبدا وجلادا في الوقت نفسه."

-Amélie Nothomb, Stupeur et tremblements

"أما فوبوكي فلم تكن لا إلها ولا شيطانا, كانت امرأة يابانية"

-Amélie Nothomb, Stupeur et tremblements

"Le donne che non hanno il diritto di sognare portano nomi che fanno sognare"

-Amélie Nothomb, Stupeur et tremblements

Cover of The Histories by Herodotus, Aubrey de Sélincourt, John M. Marincola

2. The Histories

By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

Format: 716 pages, Paperback

David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Hippocleides doesn't care."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"So much, then, for the fish."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."

-Herodotus, The Histories

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3. Donne, madonne, mercanti e cavalieri: Sei storie medievali

By: Alessandro Barbero

3.92

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

Chi erano, come pensavano, come vedevano il mondo uomini e donne del Medioevo? Sei destini unici c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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4. New York è una finestra senza tende

By: Paolo Cognetti

3.82

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

Isole, ponti, palazzi, infinite pagine di carta, otto milioni di abitanti più tutti gli eroi delle … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Flaneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris by Edmund White

5. The Flaneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris

By: Edmund White

4.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Bloomsbury is proud to announce the first title in an occasional series in which some of the world'… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • essays
  • walking
Cover of Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence by Stefano Mancuso, Alessandra Viola, Joan Benham

6. Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence

By: Stefano Mancuso , Alessandra Viola , Joan Benham

4.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Are plants intelligent? Can they solve problems, communicate, and navigate their surroundings? Or a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Acide sulfurique

By: Amélie Nothomb

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

<> Concentration : la derniere-nee des emissions televisees. On enleve des gens, on recrute des kap… read more

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  • france

8. La briscola in cinque

By: Marco Malvaldi

3.97

Format: 434 pages, Paperback

La rivalsa dei pensionati. Da un cassonetto dell'immondizia in un parcheggio periferico, sporge il … read more

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9. The Grotesque

By: Patrick McGrath

3.78

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Paralysed, mute and confined to a wheelchair, former palaeontologist Sir Hugo Coal recounts the eve… read more

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10. Nudi e crudi

By: Giulia Arborio Mella , Alan Bennett , Claudia Valeria Letizia

4.57

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

Trovare la casa svaligiata dai ladri e senza dubbio un evento sinistro. Ma se spariscono anche la m… read more

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11. La settimana bianca

By: Emmanuel Carrère , Maurizia Balmelli

3.90

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

<>ha raccontato una volta Emmanuel Carrere <>. All'inizio, infatti, il piccolo Nicolas ha tutta l'a… read more

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12. Suite Française

By: Irène Némirovsky , Sandra Smith

3.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first two stories of a masterwork once thought lost, written by a pre-WWII bestselling author w… read more

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13. Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies (Pottermore Presents, #1)

By: J.K. Rowling , MinaLima

4.04

Format: 538 pages, ebook

'Minerva was the Roman goddess of warriors and wisdom. William McGonagall is celebrated as the wors… read more

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14. Cosmétique de l'ennemi

By: Amélie Nothomb

4.67

Format: 523 pages, Mass Market Paperback

<> C'est dans le hall d'un aeroport que tout a commence. Il savait que ce serait lui. La victime pa… read more

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15. Chi dice e chi tace

By: Chiara Valerio

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Scauri, affacciato sul Tirreno, è l’ultimo paese del Lazio, un posto né bello né brutto, con una su… read more

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16. The Talk

By: Darrin Bell

4.65

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie

17. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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18. Roman Stories

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.80

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more

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  • travel
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19. Eastbound

By: Maylis de Kerangal

3.97

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more

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  • france
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20. The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

By: James Patterson

3.92

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

Booksellers and librarians are superheroes, saving lives every single day. Here are their amazing, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Different books speak to us at different times."

-James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

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21. A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

By: Edward Chisholm

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An evocative portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris as seen through the eyes of a young w… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • france
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22. Butter Honey Pig Bread

By: Francesca Ekwuyasi

4.31

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tel… read more

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"Death is only a doorway."

-Francesca Ekwuyasi, Butter Honey Pig Bread

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23. L'incredibile viaggio delle piante

By: Stefano Mancuso

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Come le piante navigano intorno al mondo, come portano la vita su isole sterili, come sono state in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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24. This Strange Eventful History

By: Claire Messud

3.63

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more

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  • france
"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

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25. Chi si ferma è perduto

By: Marco Malvaldi

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Serena, casalinga ultraindaffarata di un borgo vicino a Pisa, si imbatte casualmente in un cadavere… read more

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26. Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

By: Annabel Abbs

3.92

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

In a novel perfect for fans of Hazel Gaynor’s A Memory of Violets and upstairs-downstairs stories, … read more

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"God, I think blasphemously, is in a sip of coffee."

-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

"I can feel Mother's furious eyes upon me, but the tug of the kitchen is stronger: my new books, the fresh perch gleaming in the larder, the trugs of field mushrooms and damsons and pippin apples stil…"

-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

"The smell of bruised apples reaches me of a sudden. And in that moment I am back in Miss Eliza's kitchen, rich with cooking odors: the nutty smell of roasting coffee berries, the syrupy scent of frui…"

-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

"But then, one bright morning, I walked out through woods of pine and birch. Foxgloves and wild clematis and briar roses were bursting from the earth. Birdsong shook the air. Swifts snipped at the sky…"

-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

Cover of Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

27. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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28. Paris by the Book

By: Liam Callanan

3.16

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A missing person, a grieving family, a curious clue: a half-finished manuscript set in Paris. Headi… read more

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  • travel
  • france
"Every book in a bookstore is a fresh beginning. Every book is the next iteration of a very old story. Every bookstore, therefore, is like a safe-deposit box for civilization."

-Liam Callanan, Paris by the Book

"Stories provide a form, a mold. And a good story, one that's retold for generations, demands you pour the messy contents of your own life into it to see what happens as it hardens and sets."

-Liam Callanan, Paris by the Book

"Every town, every book, is a way to say, look, there’s a new way, a different way. Every book in a bookstore is a fresh beginning. Every book is the next iteration of a very old story. Every bookstor…"

-Liam Callanan, Paris by the Book

"It’s only with mild surprise I find I don’t so much read anymore, but rather teeter, wonder, take flight, like Pascal, like Madeline, like Bemelmans, like Lamorisse, like my daughters. Like Robert. L…"

-Liam Callanan, Paris by the Book

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29. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

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"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

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30. After Oz

By: Gordon McAlpine

3.68

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Gripping and emotionally riveting, this whimsical tale is an empowering and timely retelling of The… read more

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31. Flâneur: The Art of Wandering the Streets of Paris

By: Federico Castigliano

3.75

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A man walks the streets of Paris, alone and without a destination. He covers the long avenues with … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • essays
  • walking
"The flâneur is he who consecrates his own life to the instant, to ephemeral things."

-Federico Castigliano, Flâneur: The Art of Wandering the Streets of Paris

"Paris is narcotic for a man alone, a never-ending labyrinth where the anxiety of freedom is relieved."

-Federico Castigliano, Flâneur: The Art of Wandering the Streets of Paris

"Free and alone in the maze of the city, the flâneur craves a revelation that might change his life and destiny."

-Federico Castigliano, Flâneur: The Art of Wandering the Streets of Paris

"The greatest pleasure does not consist in experiencing new things, but in savoring the infinite variation of what we already know"

-Federico Castigliano, Flâneur: The Art of Wandering the Streets of Paris

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3.92

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New York è una finestra senza tende

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