10 must-read france books like To Leave with the Reindeer by Olivia Rosenthal

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To Leave with the Reindeer

By: Olivia Rosenthal

3.17

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

To Leave with the Reindeer is the account of a woman who has been trained for a life she cannot liv…

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1. Armadale

By: John Sutherland , Wilkie Collins

3.94

Format: 721 pages, Paperback

When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"A judge, replied the Empress, is easy to be had, but to get an impartial judge, is a thing so difficult."

-John Sutherland, Armadale

"The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!"

-John Sutherland, Armadale

"...that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other..."

-John Sutherland, Armadale

"Allan found his place for the second time, and fell headlong into the bottomless abyss of the English Law. “Page 280,"

-John Sutherland, Armadale

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2. 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
  • french literature
  • fiction
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3. Sorry to Disrupt the Peace

By: Patrick Cottrell

2.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Helen Moran is thirty-two years old, single, childless, college-educated, and partially employed as… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. Upstream: Selected Essays

By: Mary Oliver

2.43

Format: None pages,

Comprising a selection of essays, Upstreamfinds beloved poet Mary Oliver reflecting on her astonish… read more

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5. Existentialism Is a Humanism

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre , Annie Cohen-Solal , None

4.25

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to spe… read more

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  • france
  • french literature

6. The Art of Happiness

By: Epicurus , George K. Strodach

4.19

Format: 294 pages, ebook

New to Penguin Classics and the perfect companion volume to bestselling author Daniel Klein's new b… read more

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7. The World's Wife

By: Carol Ann Duffy

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me,… read more

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  • fiction

8. 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
  • contemporary
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9. Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

3.70

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

An exciting contribution to the growing trend of applying Buddhist practices to encourage wellness … read more

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10. Sylvie

By: Gérard de Nerval

4.06

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The story is about a hero's love for three women, all of whom he loses; a hymn to unattainable, unr… read more

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11. Venetia

By: Georgette Heyer

3.75

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

She wasn't looking for love . . . Her beauty rivaled only by her sensibility, Venetia Lanyon is nea… read more

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12. The Covent Garden Ladies: Pimp General Jack & The Extraordinary Story of Harris' List

By: Hallie Rubenhold

2.00

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

The Covent Garden Ladiestells the story of Samuel Derrick, Jack Harris, and Charlotte Hayes, whose … read more

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13. Butterflies in November

By: Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir , Brian FitzGibbon

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

After a day of being dumped - twice - and accidentally killing a goose, a young woman yearns for a … read more

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14. 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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15. The Tiger's Wife

By: Téa Obreht

3.20

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Tea Obreht, the youngest of The N… read more

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16. Greek Lessons

By: Han Kang

3.47

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

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17. Vivre vite

By: Brigitte Giraud

3.58

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

"J'ai été aimantée par cette double mission impossible. Acheter la maison et retrouver les armes ca… read more

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  • literature
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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18. Cold Enough for Snow

By: Jessica Au

3.73

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

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19. Novelist as a Vocation

By: Haruki Murakami

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels. Haruki Mura… read more

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  • literature
"writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise"

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

"La experiencia nos enseña a los escritores lo duro que es seguir siendo escritor."

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta"

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta."

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

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20. 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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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • france
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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21. Seven Empty Houses

By: Samanta Schweblin

3.71

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

By: Cal Flyn

4.20

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more

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"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

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23. Les Choses humaines

By: Karine Tuil

4.06

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

Les Farel forment un couple de pouvoir. Jean est un célèbre journaliste politique français ; son ép… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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24. In the Eye of the Wild

By: Nastassja Martin

3.96

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

In the Eye of the Wild begins with a terrifying account of the anthropologist Nastassja Martin’s ne… read more

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  • french literature
  • france
  • animals
"Da anni scrivo di confini, del margine, della liminarità, della zona di frontiera, del tra-due-mondi; a proposito di questo luogo molto speciale dove è possibile incontrare una potenza “altra"

-Nastassja Martin, In the Eye of the Wild

"İnsanların, kayalara yapışan istiridyeler gibi, başkalarının acılarına yapışmak gibi tuhaf bir saplantıları var. Başıma gelen şey onları kendileriyle yüzleştiriyor sanki. Bu trajedi organlarının, der…"

-Nastassja Martin, In the Eye of the Wild

"Cette nuit-là, j'écris qu'il faut croire aux fauves, à leurs silences, à leur retenue ; croire au qui-vive, aux murs blancs et nus, aux draps jaunes de cette chambre d'hôpital ; croire au retrait qui…"

-Nastassja Martin, In the Eye of the Wild

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25. Où vont les larmes quand elles sèchent

By: Baptiste Beaulieu

3.98

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

" Médecin le jour, écrivain la nuit, Baptiste Beaulieu mêle comme personne le drame et la drôlerie.… read more

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  • novels
  • france
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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26. The Premonition

By: Banana Yoshimoto

3.43

Format: 133 pages, Hardcover

The internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and he… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I'd never known a love before that could blot out the world around like this."

-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

"Later, for the first time in a very long time, I heard my aunt play the piano. Its tone was soft, and just like I remembered it. At the kitchen window one overcast afternoon, I watched its beautiful …"

-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

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27. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

By: Jia Tolentino

4.04

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges … read more

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  • contemporary
"To communicate an identity requires some degree of self-delusion."

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

"Even if you avoid the internet completely—my partner does: he thought #tbt meant “truth be told"

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

"People have been carping in this way for many centuries. Socrates feared that the act of writing would “create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls."

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

"A woman is unruly if anyone has incorrectly decided that she’s too much of something, and if she, in turn, has chosen to believe that she’s just fine."

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

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28. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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29. Brood

By: Jackie Polzin

3.53

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A new literary voice--wryly funny, honest and observational,--depicts one woman's attempt to keep h… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • animals
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"Life is the ongoing effort to live. Some people make it look easy. Chickens do not."

-Jackie Polzin, Brood

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30. Le Château des Rentiers

By: Agnès Desarthe

3.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

En levant les yeux vers le huitième étage d’une tour du XIIIe arrondissement de Paris, Agnès rejoin… read more

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  • france
Cover of To Leave with the Reindeer by Olivia Rosenthal

31. To Leave with the Reindeer

By: Olivia Rosenthal

3.17

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

To Leave with the Reindeer is the account of a woman who has been trained for a life she cannot liv… read more

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  • lgbt
  • literature
  • animals
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century
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15 must-read fiction books like To Leave with the Reindeer by Olivia Rosenthal

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Armadale

John Sutherland , Wilkie Collins

3.94

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Against Nature

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

3.87

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Sorry to Disrupt the Peace

Patrick Cottrell

2.50

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The World's Wife

Carol Ann Duffy

4.42

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Vivre vite

Brigitte Giraud

3.58

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Veiller sur elle

Jean-Baptiste Andrea

4.28

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Les gens de Bilbao naissent où ils veulent

María Larrea

3.84

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Panorama

Lilia Hassaine

3.59

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