7 Best nonfiction books like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Philosophers on Film) by Christopher Grau

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Philosophers on Film)

By: Christopher Grau

4.20

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of the most widely discussed and thought-provoking fil…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Philosophers on Film) by Christopher Grau , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

By: Art Spiegelman

4.38

Format: 159 pages, Hardcover

The first installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Friends? Your friends? If you lock them together in a room with no food for a week…Then you could see what it is, friends! …"

-Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

"Maybe your father needed to show that he was always right - that he could always SURVIVE - because he felt GUILTY about surviving."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

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2. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

By: Marjane Satrapi , Mattias Ripa

4.26

Format: 153 pages, Paperback

In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from … read more

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  • nonfiction
"To each his own way of calming down."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

"Saying goodbye is a little like dying."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

"My natural optimism just leads me to be skeptical."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

"I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

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3. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

By: Sylvia Plath , Karen V. Kukil

3.31

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

First U.S. Publication A major literary event--the complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath, p… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. The Prince

By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez

3.84

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Is it better to be loved or feared?"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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5. Beowulf

By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more

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"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Let whoever can win glory before death."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."

-Unknown, Beowulf

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6. Dolores Claiborne

By: Stephen King

3.00

Format: None pages, ebook

Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story o… read more

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7. The Tell-Tale Heart

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Byron Glaser , None

4.24

Format: 31 pages, Library Binding

A man confronts himself and an unknown listener with his desire to murder an old man. In this cl… read more

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"would a madman have been so wise as this?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"Basta ya de fingir, malvados! -aullé-. ¡Confieso que lo maté! ¡Levanten esos tablones! ¡Ahí… ahí! ¡Donde está latiendo su horrible corazón!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

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8. Treasure Island

By: Robert Louis Stevenson , N.C. Wyeth

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From … read more

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"Doctors is all swabs."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

"Thems that die'll be the lucky ones."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

"... Bear up until you see you're gaining."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

"We must go on, because we can't turn back."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Shooting Script

By: Michel Gondry , Charlie Kaufman , None

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In this illuminating script book, Charlie Kaufman, the Academy Award(r)-nominated screenwriter of B… read more

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10. The Canterbury Tales

By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Nevill Coghill

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval… read more

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11. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

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12. The Fall of the House of Usher

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.87

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Take the plunge. Dive into this classic from the singular mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who is widely re… read more

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"[Son] cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. — De Béranger "

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and very luminous...finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"Er is geen twijfel mogelijk dat mijn bewustzijn van de snelle groei van mijn bijgeloof (want waarom zou ik het niet zo noemen?) de groei alleen maar scheen te versnellen. Dat is, zoals ik al lange ti…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

13. Othello

By: William Shakespeare

4.48

Format: None pages,

In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (betwee… read more

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14. Trainspotting

By: Irvine Welsh , None

3.87

Format: 334 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ils sont quatre amis inseparables qui ont en commun une enfance, une ville, des voisins, le chomage… read more

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15. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

By: Eric LaRocca

2.96

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

Sadomasochism. Obsession. Death. A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet… read more

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16. So You Want to Talk About Race

By: Ijeoma Oluo

4.49

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

In this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from w… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Conversations on racism should never be about winning."

-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

"Our humanity is worth a little discomfort, it's actually worth a lot of discomfort."

-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

"Our police forces were created not to protect Americans of color, but to control Americans of color."

-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

"When we say ‘Asian American’ we are talking about so much more than can be fit in a single stereotype."

-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

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17. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Philosophers on Film)

By: Christopher Grau

4.20

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of the most widely discussed and thought-provoking fil… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Grau's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Philosophers on Film) book and Christopher Grau's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Philosophers on Film)

  • film
  • media tie in
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays

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Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.40

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Brittney Cooper

4.43

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James Baldwin

3.54

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