10 Top nonfiction books like The Plague by Jacqueline Rose

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The Plague

By: Jacqueline Rose

3.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

What do you do with death and dying when they can no longer be pushed to the outer limits of your l…

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1. The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

By: Mathias Énard

3.59

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from P… read more

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  • 21st century
Cover of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer

2. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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3. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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4. Aquí no es Miami

By: Fernanda Melchor

4.17

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Las crónicas de Fernanda Melchor dan cuenta de la degradación humana en uno de sus aspectos más sór… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"El estilo narrativo de Jorge me intrigaba: sabía entretejer el relato directo de lo sucedido con fragmentos de diálogo, con ademanes aferrados a su cuerpo, con sus propios pensamientos, los presentes…"

-Fernanda Melchor, Aquí no es Miami

"Siempre me ha parecido inquietante la contigüidad que existe entre la crónica de sociales y la nota roja, no sólo porque estas dos secciones suelen aparecer juntas en los diarios del puerto (a menudo…"

-Fernanda Melchor, Aquí no es Miami

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5. 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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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"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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6. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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7. The English Understand Wool

By: Helen DeWitt

4.10

Format: 69 pages, Hardcover

Maman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not … read more

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8. Psychopompe

By: Amélie Nothomb

3.48

Format: 147 pages, Kindle Edition

 "Ecrire, c'est voler." Amélie Nothomb read more

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9. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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10. My Work

By: Olga Ravn

4.01

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

In this radical, funny, and mercilessly honest novel about motherhood, Anna is utterly lost after g… read more

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11. Affinities: On Art and Fascination

By: Brian Dillon

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A meditation on the power and pleasures of the image, from paintings to photographs to migraine aur… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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12. Practice

By: Rosalind Brown

3.71

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing first novel about a day in the life of a young student who experiences her thoughts,… read more

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13. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder

By: Mark O'Connell

3.74

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous chapters in mo… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. Brian

By: Jeremy Cooper

3.83

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

A tender meditation on friendship and the importance of community,  Brian  is also a tangential wor… read more

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  • 21st century
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15. Arrangements in Blue

By: Amy Key

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
Cover of Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József  Debreczeni

16. Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

By: József Debreczeni

4.53

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

The first English language edition of a lost memoir by a Holocaust survivor, offering a shocking an… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. The Sitter

By: Angela O'Keeffe

3.77

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Paris, 2020. A writer is confined to her hotel room during the early days of the pandemic, struggli… read more

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18. Porn: An Oral History

By: Polly Barton

3.34

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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19. Thunderhead

By: Miranda Darling

3.62

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A black comedy, set in suburbia, about one woman’s struggle to be free. When Winona Dalloway beg… read more

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20. The Plague

By: Jacqueline Rose

3.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

What do you do with death and dying when they can no longer be pushed to the outer limits of your l… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Rose's The Plague book and Jacqueline Rose's The Plague

  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • 21st century
Cover of Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel by Yōko Tawada

21. Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel

By: Yōko Tawada

3.76

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A moving story about friendship, illness, and the poetry of Paul Celan, described as “bewitching” (… read more

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Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Claire Dederer

3.79

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Aquí no es Miami

Fernanda Melchor

4.17

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I Remain in Darkness

Annie Ernaux

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Alphabetical Diaries

Sheila Heti

4.02

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Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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August Blue

Deborah Levy

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

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