13 must-read fiction books like Swann in Love, Volume 1 (Remembrance of Things Past, #4) by Marcel Proust

Cover of Swann in Love, Volume 1 (Remembrance of Things Past, #4) by Marcel Proust

Swann in Love, Volume 1 (Remembrance of Things Past, #4)

By: Marcel Proust

3.85

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

The acclaimed adaptation continues. Swann is a frequent guest of the high society soirees at the en…

If you liked the fiction plot in Swann in Love, Volume 1 (Remembrance of Things Past, #4) by Marcel Proust , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Schoolgirl

By: Osamu Dazai , Allison Markin Powell , Adam L. Kern , None

4.02

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Osamu Dazai's 1939 novella depicts a day in the life of a Tokyo schoolgirl. Propelling Dazai into t… read more

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  • fiction
"I yearned for everything long gone."

-Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl

"Sometimes happiness arrives one night too late."

-Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl

"Mornings are grey. Always the same. Absolutely empty."

-Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl

"Good night. I'm Cinderella without her prince. Do you know where to find me in Tokyo? You won't see me again."

-Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl

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2. Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)

By: Lawrence Durrell

3.85

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

The time is the eve of the World War II. The place is Alexandria, an Egyptian city that once housed… read more

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  • fiction
"Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off."

-Lawrence Durrell, Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)

"One always falls in love with the love-choice of the person one loves."

-Lawrence Durrell, Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)

"Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?"

-Lawrence Durrell, Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)

"Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged."

-Lawrence Durrell, Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)

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3. J'accuse!

By: Émile Zola

4.07

Format: 162 pages,

In January 1898 Émile Zola took an important part in the defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Frenc… read more

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  • france
"Gerçeği gömmeniz boşuna, toprağın altında yol alıyor; bir gün, her yandan fışkıracak, öç bitkileri olarak açılacaktır."

-Émile Zola, J'accuse!

"Zola'nın italyan kökeni bile bir aşağılama nedeni olur. Bir gazeteci "Yarı-İtalyan, çeyrek Yunan, çeyrek Fransız, üç-dört kez kırma, hiç de güzel bir insanlık örneği değil!" diye yazar."

-Émile Zola, J'accuse!

"Bu suçlamalarda bulunurken, 29 temmuz 1881 tarihli Basın Yasasının 30 ve 31. maddelerine karşı geldiğimi, bu yasanın lekeleme suçlarına ceza belirlediğini bilmiyor değilim. İsteyerek kendimi tehlikey…"

-Émile Zola, J'accuse!

"Evet! Bu utanç verici gösteriyi izliyoruz, borçlar ve suçlar altında ezilmiş kişiler suçsuz ilan ediliyor; buna karşılık onurun ta kendisi, yaşamı lekesiz bir adam cezalandırılıyor. Bir toplum bu nok…"

-Émile Zola, J'accuse!

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4. Mrs. Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more

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  • fiction
"Life stand still here."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What a lark! What a plunge!"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"To love makes one solitary."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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5. Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

By: None , Bela Shayevich

4.29

Format: 192 pages,

From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English… read more

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6. Hotel du Lac

By: Anita Brookner

3.93

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

"Impeccably written and suffused with pleasing wit."--Newsweek In the novel that won her the Booker… read more

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  • fiction
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7. The Book About Moomin, Mymble and Little My

By: Tove Jansson , Sophie Hannah

3.42

Format: None pages,

In a delightful, curious game of what comes next, Moomintroll travels through the woods to get home… read more

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  • fiction
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8. Hiroshima Mon Amour

By: Marguerite Duras , Caridad Martínez

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

El presente volumen contiene la totalidad del material literario de Marguerite Duras para la pelicu… read more

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  • france
  • fiction

9. Karılar Koğuşu

By: Kemal Tahir

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Kemal Tahir, olumunden sonra yayimlanan romani Karilar Kogusu'nda Malatya Cezaevi deneyimlerini, Ik… read more

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10. How Proust Can Change Your Life

By: Alain de Botton

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

For anyone who ever wondered what Marcel Proust had in mind when he wrote the one-and-a-quarter-mil… read more

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"Deprivation quickly drives us into a process of appreciation."

-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

"It is, unfortunately, easier to lose a lover than complete In Search of Lost Time. "

-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

"One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love."

-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

"For Proust, an injection of jealousy is the only thing capable of rescuing a relationship ruined by habit."

-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

11. Kunskapens frukt

By: Liv Strömquist

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Liv Stromquists nya seriealbum Kunskapens frukt handlar om det som brukar kallas for det kvinnliga … read more

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12. The Sense of an Ending

By: Julian Barnes

4.05

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and … read more

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13. Stormy Weather

By: Carl Hiaasen

4.83

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER "Hysterically funny...Hiaasen at his satirical best." - USA Today Two hone… read more

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14. Ask the Dust (Arturo Bandini, #3)

By: Charles Bukowski , John Fante

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ask the Dustis the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for … read more

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15. The Door

By: Magda Szabó , Len Rix

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

A busy young writer struggling to cope with domestic chores, hires a housekeeper recommended by a f… read more

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16. Disgrace

By: J.M. Coetzee

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee's searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a… read more

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17. Who Will Comfort Toffle?

By: Tove Jansson

3.80

Format: 281 pages, Hardcover

A SCANDINAVIAN MIDCENTURY CLASSIC BACK IN PRINT Who Will Comfort Toffle?is the timeless, magical ta… read more

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18. The Young Man

By: Annie Ernaux

3.61

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breat… read more

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  • france
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19. Old God's Time

By: Sebastian Barry

3.85

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more

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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

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20. De la Turquie à la Grèce (L'Odyssée d'Hakim #2)

By: Fabien Toulmé

4.75

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

Suite du récit de l'histoire vraie d'Hakim, réfugié syrien en exil, ce deuxième tome aborde avec ém… read more

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  • graphic novels
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  • bande dessinée
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21. De la Macédoine à la France (L'Odyssée d'Hakim #3)

By: Fabien Toulmé

4.81

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

En traversant la mer, Hakim et son fils pensaient avoir échappé au pire. Mais entre centre de réten… read more

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22. 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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  • fiction
"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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23. A Woman's Story

By: Annie Ernaux

4.23

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A Woman's Story is Annie Ernaux's "deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age… read more

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  • france
"Until I was twenty, I thought I was responsible for her growing old."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"With so much misery around, fighting for social advancement had lost all meaning."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"I believe I am writing about my mother because it is my turn to bring her into the world."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"Het beeld van haar wordt langzaam weer dat wat ik mij voorstel te hebben gehad van haar in mijn babytijd, een grote, blanke schaduw boven mij."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

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24. L'Iris blanc (Astérix, #40)

By: Fabcaro

3.83

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

« Pour éclairer la forêt, la floraison d’un seul iris suffit » L’Iris blanc est le nom d’une nouvel… read more

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  • bande dessinée
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  • france
  • fiction
Cover of Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire

25. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

By: Warsan Shire

4.21

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's… read more

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"You only leave home when home won't let you stay."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven opens its mouth, its teeth grazing your toes."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women. Sometimes, the men--they come with keys, and sometimes, the men--they come with hammers."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

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26. Peau d'Homme

By: Hubert

4.30

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Sans contrefaçon, je suis un garçon ! Dans l'Italie de la Renaissance, Bianca, demoiselle de bonne… read more

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  • bande dessinée
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Cover of Bu Hikâye Senden Uzun Osman by Aylin Balboa

27. Bu Hikâye Senden Uzun Osman

By: Aylin Balboa

4.18

Format: 129 pages, Paperback

“Öyle işte. Hâlâ biraz soğuk geliyor ama battıkça alışıyorum. Kendimi boşa aldım bayırdan aşağı ko… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of A palavra que resta by Stênio Gardel

28. A palavra que resta

By: Stênio Gardel

4.05

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Uma carta guardada por mais de cinquenta anos — e jamais lida. É essa a relíquia que Raimundo leva … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of De la Syrie à la Turquie (L'Odyssée d'Hakim, #1) by Fabien Toulmé

29. De la Syrie à la Turquie (L'Odyssée d'Hakim, #1)

By: Fabien Toulmé

4.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

L’histoire vraie d’un homme qui a dû tout quitter : sa famille, ses amis, sa propre entreprise... p… read more

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30. Swann in Love, Volume 1 (Remembrance of Things Past, #4)

By: Marcel Proust

3.85

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

The acclaimed adaptation continues. Swann is a frequent guest of the high society soirees at the en… read more

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  • bande dessinée
  • comics
  • france
  • fiction
Cover of Cocteau, l'enfant terrible by Laureline Mattiussi

31. Cocteau, l'enfant terrible

By: Laureline Mattiussi

3.51

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Écrivain, cinéaste, poète ou encore dessinateur, Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) semble avoir eu mille vie… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • bande dessinée

10 Best france books like Swann in Love, Volume 1 (Remembrance of Things Past, #4) by Marcel Proust

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Émile Zola

4.07

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4.16

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Annie Ernaux

3.61

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4.75

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Guy Delisle

4.09

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4.75

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Riad Sattouf

4.44

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Ersin Karabulut

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