Use of Speech
By: Nathalie Sarraute
3.61
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The nature of interpersonal communication is explored through a series of descriptions of people's …
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1. Sido / Les vrilles de la vigne
By: Colette Gauthier-Villars , Colette
3.02
Format: 256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Dans la première partie du livre, Colette fait revivre Sido, sa mère tant aimée. Elle nous parle au… read more
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- france
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- 20th century
2. Noces
By: Albert Camus
3.60
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Ce recueil se compose de quatre essais ecrits en 1936 et 1937, publies en 1950. Noces a Tipasa evoq… read more
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- classics
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- short stories
3. Orlando
By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more
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- classics
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"Life and a lover"-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Thoughts are divine."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
4. Are You My Mother?
By: Alison Bechdel
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly tol… read more
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5. The Lady and the Little Fox Fur
By: Deborah Levy , Violette Leduc , Derek Coltman
3.69
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Trapped in the depths of poverty, an old woman escapes into an existence where objects, streets, an… read more
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- classics
- france
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- 20th century
- fiction
6. Nadja
By: André Breton , Richard Howard
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Nadja, originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance eve… read more
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"I am the soul in limbo."-André Breton, Nadja
"Le coeur humain, beau comme un sismographe."-André Breton, Nadja
"Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all."-André Breton, Nadja
"...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours."-André Breton, Nadja
7. Les Guérillères
By: Monique Wittig , David Le Vay
4.62
Format: None pages,
A landmark of lesbian fiction, Les Guerilleres is about a war of the sexes, where women 'engage in … read more
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- france
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8. Invisible Cities
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more
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- fiction
9. The Vice Consul
By: Marguerite Duras , Eileen Ellenbogen
3.65
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
The Vice-Consul is a bleak, enigmatic novel. Set in the steamy monsoon heat of Calcutta, it brings … read more
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10. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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11. The End of Eddy
By: Édouard Louis , None
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The most talked-about European novel since My Struggle--a sexually frank, brutally honest coming-of… read more
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12. Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
By: Adrienne Rich
3.75
Format: 166 pages,
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13. 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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14. Bonjour tristesse
By: Françoise Sagan
3.72
Format: 154 pages, Mass Market Paperback
(English follows French) La villa est magnifique, l'été brûlant, la Méditerranée toute proche. C… read more
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"Je serais intelligente, cultivée, un peu détachée, comme Anne."-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse
"Il est très vaniteux ou très peu sûr de lui, comme vous voulez."-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse
"Bet juk taip malonu paklusti savo impulsams, o paskui gailėtis..."-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse
"Et de plus, Cyril m'aimait ... cette pensée suffisait à mon euphorie."-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse
15. Vers la beauté
By: David Foenkinos
4.16
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Antoine Duris est professeur aux Beaux-Arts de Lyon. Du jour au lendemain, il décide de tout quitte… read more
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16. 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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- france
- french literature
"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
17. Les enfants endormis
By: Anthony Passeron
4.31
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Quarante ans après la mort de son oncle Désiré, Anthony Passeron décide d'interroger le passé famil… read more
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- fiction
18. Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
By: Édouard Louis
4.13
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Pendant une grande partie de sa vie ma mère a vécu dans la pauvreté et la nécessité, à l'écart de t… read more
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- french literature
"Why do I feel as though I'm writing a sad story, when my aim was to tell the story of a liberation?"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"I'd gotten so used to seeing her unhappy at home that the joy on her face seemed scandalous to me, a deceit, a lie that had to be exposed as soon as possible."-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"I started this book wanting to tell the story of a woman, but I've realized that yours is the story of a human being who fought for the right to exist as a woman, as opposed to the nonexistence impos…"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"A final memory. A few months ago, in the garden of a teahouse where I’d suggested we meet, she told me how she had once been called to the school by my teacher when I was six years old. The teacher w…"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
19. 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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- french literature
20. Monique s'évade
By: Édouard Louis
4.20
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Une nuit, j’ai reçu un appel de ma mère. Elle pleurait. Elle me disait au téléphone que l’homme ave… read more
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21. La Langue des choses cachées
By: Cécile Coulon
3.79
Format: 131 pages, Paperback
Inlassablement, jour après jour, une mère apprend à son fils son travail, celui de soigner, de répa… read more
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22. The Years
By: Annie Ernaux
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more
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"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
23. Atteindre l'aube
By: Diglee
4.45
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
« Atteindre l’aube est une lettre d’amour à ma grand-tante Georgie. Femme fantasque, femme adorée, … read more
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24. The Possession
By: Annie Ernaux
3.75
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE “The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can … read more
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"The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city, the whole world, with a person you have never met."-Annie Ernaux, The Possession
"Writing has been a way to save that which is no longer my reality – a sensation seizing me from head to foot, in the streets – but has become ''the possession,'’ a period of time, circumscribed and c…"-Annie Ernaux, The Possession
25. Viendra le temps du feu
By: Wendy Delorme
4.32
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
"Elles étaient toutes brisées et pourtant incassables. Elles existaient ensemble comme un tout soli… read more
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26. A Feminist Theory of Violence: A Decolonial Perspective
By: Françoise Vergès
4.11
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
'A robust, decolonial challenge to carceral feminism' - Angela Y. Davis ***Winner of an English PEN… read more
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27. Un miracle
By: Victoria Mas
3.22
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Sœur Anne, religieuse chez les Filles de la Charité, reçoit d’une de ses condisciples une prophétie… read more
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28. Qui sait
By: Pauline Delabroy-Allard
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
« J’attends que quelque chose se passe. Je crains, à tout moment, que ça ne fonctionne pas, qu’il y… read more
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29. Pédés
By: Florent Manelli
4.35
Format: 256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Dans une société qui peine à lutter contre l'homophobie ambiante, la communauté gay est éreintée pa… read more
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30. Une culture du viol à la française
By: Valérie Rey-Robert
4.44
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Du « troussage de domestique » à la « liberté d’importuner » Dans cet essai documenté et novateu… read more
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31. Use of Speech
By: Nathalie Sarraute
3.61
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The nature of interpersonal communication is explored through a series of descriptions of people's … read more
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