8 best-selling nonfiction books like Interventions 2 by Michel Houellebecq

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Interventions 2

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.48

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Les textes de ce recueil, lettres, entretiens ou articles, ont été publiés depuis 1992 dans des pub…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Interventions 2 by Michel Houellebecq , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

By: David Foster Wallace

4.15

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more

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  • essays
"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

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2. America de peste pogrom

By: Cătălin Mihuleac

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

America de peste pogrom evolueaza pe doua mari planuri aparent divergente. Primul, situat in Romani… read more

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3. The Song of Roland

By: Unknown , Dorothy L. Sayers

3.51

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

On 15 August 778, Charlemagne’s army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spa… read more

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  • france
Cover of The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus, Justin O'Brien, James  Wood, Justin Obrien

4. The Myth of Sisyphus

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien , James Wood , Justin Obrien

4.18

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more

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  • france
  • essays
"A fate is not a punishment."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"there are truths but no truth"

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"To will is to stir up paradoxes"

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"Le suicide est une solution à l'absurde."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

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5. Identity

By: Milan Kundera , Linda Asher

3.60

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognize the person we are with, in which th… read more

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6. Travesti

By: Mircea Cărtărescu

4.01

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Travesti este povestea lui Victor, un scriitor de succes, care-si rememoreaza adolescenta, mai cu s… read more

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7. The Sorrows of Young Werther

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more

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8. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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9. The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more

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10. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

3.77

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and th… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Nostalgia by Mircea Cărtărescu, Julian Semilian

11. Nostalgia

By: Mircea Cărtărescu , Julian Semilian

3.69

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Mircea Cartarescu, born in 1956, is one of Romania's leading novelists and poets. This translation … read more

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12. Faust: First Part

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more

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13. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

By: Mark Fisher

3.72

Format: None pages, Paperback

This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays

14. Distant Star

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

4.48

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Staris Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pil… read more

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15. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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16. Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity

By: John Howe , Marc Augé

4.16

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorw… read more

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17. Alabardas

By: José Saramago , Günter Grass , Regina Valente , Roberto Saviano , Helena Pitta , None

4.57

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

Aquando do seu falecimento, em 2010, Jose Saramago deixou escritas trinta paginas daquele que seria… read more

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18. The Burnout Society

By: Byung-Chul Han

5.00

Format: 172 pages,

Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather… read more

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19. The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto

By: Mario Vargas Llosa

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Don Rigoberto - by day a grey insurance executive, by night a pornographer and sexual enthusiast - … read more

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20. Oracle Night

By: Paul Auster

4.19

Format: 496 pages,

The discovery of a mysterious notebook turns a man's life upside-down in this compulsively readable… read more

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21. Dubliners

By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more

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22. Cosmopolis

By: Don DeLillo

4.00

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

It is a stunningly eventful day in the life of Eric Packer, a multi-billionaire who has recently ma… read more

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23. Simple Passion

By: Annie Ernaux

3.93

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more

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"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

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24. Zuleiha deschide ochii

By: Guzel Yakhina

4.39

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

Marea revelație a literaturii ruse din 2015, romanul Zuleiha deschide ochii, salutat cu entuziasm l… read more

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"„Inima e sălașul sentimentelor, nu al rațiuni"

-Guzel Yakhina, Zuleiha deschide ochii

"Inima e sălașul sentimentelor, nu al rațiunii."

-Guzel Yakhina, Zuleiha deschide ochii

"Мысли – не речка, плотиной не перегородишь; пусть текут."

-Guzel Yakhina, Zuleiha deschide ochii

"Метлой по спине – это не больно. Почти как веником. Зулейха лежит смирно, как и велел муж, только вздрагивает и царапает ногтями лэукэ при каждом ударе, – поэтому бьет он недолго. Быстро остывает. Вс…"

-Guzel Yakhina, Zuleiha deschide ochii

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25. Yoga

By: Emmanuel Carrère

3.87

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

C'est l'histoire d'un livre sur le yoga et la dépression. La méditation et le terrorisme. L'aspirat… read more

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26. Le Mage du Kremlin

By: Giuliano da Empoli

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

On l’appelait le « mage du Kremlin ». L’énigmatique Vadim Baranov fut metteur en scène puis product… read more

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Cover of How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division by Elif Shafak

27. How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

By: Elif Shafak

4.00

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The must-read, pocket-sized Big Think book of 2020 Ours is the age of contagious anxiety. We fee… read more

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"Biti lišen glasa znači biti lišen utjecaja na vlastiti život."

-Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

"Do not be afraid of complexity. Be afraid of people who promise an easy shortcut to simplicity."

-Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

"Uskraćivanjem spremnosti da saslušamo druge osiguravamo da se i oni osjećaju kao da ih nitko ne čuje. I krug se nastavlja, i sa svakim okretajem sve se više pogoršava."

-Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

"Onog trenutka kad prestanemo slušati mišljenja koja se razlikuju od naših, prestajemo i učiti. Jer istina je da od jednakog i jednoličnog ne učimo baš mnogo. Obično učimo iz razlika."

-Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

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28. Exitus

By: Gabriel Liiceanu

4.31

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

S‑ar putea ca, atunci cand pierdem fiintele cele mai apropiate, ele sa ne ia intr‑o masura cu ele. … read more

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29. Chłopcy. Idą po Polskę

By: Marcin Kącki

3.53

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Poszedłem do korwinistów i konfederatów. Na początek? Dużo cukru. A potem rozgrywki polityczn… read more

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Cover of Interventions 2 by Michel Houellebecq

30. Interventions 2

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.48

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Les textes de ce recueil, lettres, entretiens ou articles, ont été publiés depuis 1992 dans des pub… read more

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Transform Your Habits

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

David Foster Wallace

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Myth of Sisyphus

Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien , James Wood , Justin Obrien

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

Mark Fisher

3.72

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Elif Shafak

4.00

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Vivre vite

Brigitte Giraud

3.58

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Pierre Lemaitre

4.23

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Jean-Baptiste Andrea

4.28

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Pierre Lemaitre

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