5 must-read roman books like Liefde tegen liefde by Benoîte Groult

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Liefde tegen liefde

By: Benoîte Groult

3.28

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

Le Féminin pluriel est le journal de ces deux amies devenues ennemies- (Juliette est pour Marianne …

If you liked the roman plot in Liefde tegen liefde by Benoîte Groult , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. A Severed Head

By: Iris Murdoch

3.74

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

As macabre as a Jacobean tragedy, as frivolous as a Restoration comedy, Iris Murdoch's fifth novel … read more

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"I could not see other human beings at present."

-Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head

"This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart..."

-Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head

"The trouble with people nowadays is they don't know how to do nothing."

-Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head

"I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture."

-Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head

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2. The Raven

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Gustave Doré

4.29

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

In Gustave Doré, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late 19h century,… read more

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"Quoth the raven nevermore."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

"Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

"La ciencia no nos a enseñado aun si la locura es o no lo mas sublime de la inteligencia"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted Nevermore"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

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3. Prime of Life (1929-1944)

By: Simone de Beauvoir

4.16

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

The author recalls her life in Paris in the formative years of 1929 to 1944, telling of her relatio… read more

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4. The Fountainhead

By: Ayn Rand , Leonard Peikoff

3.88

Format: 704 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking ph… read more

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"This is pity,"

-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

"A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack"

-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

"Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea."

-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

"Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."

-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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5. Spoon River Anthology

By: Edgar Lee Masters

4.05

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful sca… read more

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"Act well your part, there all the honor lies."

-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

"Remember the acorn; It does not devour other acorns."

-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

"the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth."

-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

"The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul."

-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

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6. The Woman Destroyed

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian

3.75

Format: None pages,

Una crisi coniugale o familiare costringe tre donne a mettere in discussione la propria vita e il p… read more

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7. El misterio de la cripta embrujada

By: Eduardo Mendoza

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Las enigmáticas desapariciones de niñas del colegio de las madres Lazaristas de San Gervasio son el… read more

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"Con este consuelo me metí en la cama y traté de dormirme repitiendo para mis adentros la hora en que quería despertarme, pues sé que el subconsciente, además de desvirtuar nuestra infancia, tergivers…"

-Eduardo Mendoza, El misterio de la cripta embrujada

8. Reveries of the Solitary Walker

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Peter France

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The struggle between Rousseau's yearning for solitude and his need for society is the central theme… read more

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9. Ninety-Three

By: Victor Hugo , Ayn Rand

4.48

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

Ninety-three, the last of Victor Hugo's novels, is regarded by many including such diverse critics … read more

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10. Moon Palace

By: Paul Auster

3.90

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Marco Stanley Fogg is an orphan, a child of the sixties, a quester tirelessly seeking the key to hi… read more

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11. The Tartar Steppe

By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood

3.80

Format: 25 pages,

Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more

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12. The God of Small Things

By: Arundhati Roy

3.96

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with… read more

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"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"Thirty-one. Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

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13. 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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"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

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14. Happening

By: Annie Ernaux

4.32

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plag… read more

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"There is no such thing as a lesser truth."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"I was intoxicated, wrapped up in wordless intelligence."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"People judged according to the law, they didn't judge the law."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"love children are the most beautiful of all.' What a terrible statement."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

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15. A Girl's Story

By: Annie Ernaux

3.89

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernau… read more

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"Un été immense comme ils le sont tous jusqu'à vingt-cinq ans"

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

"Everywhere on earth, with every day that dawns, a woman stands surrounded by men ready to throw stones at her."

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

"At this very moment, out in the streets, the open spaces, on the metro, in lecture halls, and inside millions of heads, millions of novels are being written chapter by chapter, erased and revised, an…"

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

"Aucun autre projet d’écriture ne me paraît, non pas lumineux, ni nouveau, encore moins heureux, mais vital, capable de me faire vivre au-dessus du temps. Juste « profiter de la vie » est une perspect…"

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

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16. Inseparable

By: Simone de Beauvoir

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A never-before-published novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood fr… read more

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"How old do you have to be to think: this is forever?"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"She was often late, not because she didn't care, but because she had too many contradictory cares."

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"I didn't understand: you don't believe what you believe on purpose. Could you be punished because certain ideas come into your mind?"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"to fight against time, against forgetting, against death, to do justice to this absolute presence of the instant, to this eternity of the instant, which will have been forever"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

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17. Ressac

By: Diglee

4.29

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Ressac (n.m.). Retour violent des vagues sur elles-mêmes, lorsqu’elles se brisent contre un obstacl… read more

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  • roman
"J'aspire aujourd'hui à devenir cet Autre pour moi-même. Je veux être celle sur laquelle m'appuyer quand je coule."

-Diglee, Ressac

"Un voile rose est tombé sur la lande : ses cheveux d'or, le banc de pierres, les façades blanches des maisons couvertes de ronces, tout est désespérément noyé dans le rose. Je grimpe, silencieuse. Ma…"

-Diglee, Ressac

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18. 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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"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

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19. Génitrix

By: François Mauriac

3.45

Format: 126 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Mathilde Cazenave morte, sa belle-mère jubile : elle va pouvoir reconquérir totalement son fils bie… read more

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20. 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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Cover of Liefde tegen liefde by Benoîte Groult

21. Liefde tegen liefde

By: Benoîte Groult

3.28

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

Le Féminin pluriel est le journal de ces deux amies devenues ennemies- (Juliette est pour Marianne … read more

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  • roman
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22. Veronika Decides to Die

By: Paulo Coelho

3.73

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

In his latest international bestseller, the celebrated author of The Alchemist addresses the fundam… read more

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"Am I cured?"

-Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

"Collective madness is called sanity .."

-Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

"Nothing in this world happens by chance."

-Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

"La conciencia de la muerte nos anima a vivir más"

-Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

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