Si J' étais vous
By: Julien Green
3.45
Format: 256 pages, Pocket Book
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1. Le Livre de ma mère
By: Albert Cohen
3.88
Format: 203 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Peu de livres ont connu un succès aussi constant que Le livre de ma mère. Ce livre bouleversant est… read more
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"Ma souffrance est ma vengeance contre moi-même."-Albert Cohen, Le Livre de ma mère
2. The Fixer
By: Bernard Malamud , Jonathan Safran Foer
3.98
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
A classic that won Malamud both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. The Fixer (1966)… read more
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"In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams."-Bernard Malamud, The Fixer
"Where to look if you've lost your mind?"-Bernard Malamud, The Fixer
"I fix what's broken - except in the heart."-Bernard Malamud, The Fixer
"Charity you can give even when you haven't got."-Bernard Malamud, The Fixer
3. Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy
By: Irvin D. Yalom
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Bestselling author of Love's Executioner and The Gift of Therapy, psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom … read more
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"Se c'è una via verso il Meglio, essa necessita di uno sguardo intenso al Peggio."-Irvin D. Yalom, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy
"Nu numai ca fictiunea isi are propriul adevar, dar orice povestire, oricat de „adevarata"-Irvin D. Yalom, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy
"Sometimes I felt like I'd just drift off into oblivion if it weren't for your hand anchoring me to my life."-Irvin D. Yalom, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy
"Confruntarea cu moartea iminenta poate sa propulseze omul in intelepciune si la o noua profunzime a existentei."-Irvin D. Yalom, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy
4. Against Nature
By: Joris-Karl Huysmans , Patrick McGuinness , Robert Baldick , Patrick McGuiness
3.87
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
With a title translated either as Against Natureor as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-d… read more
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- france
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5. The Kreutzer Sonata
By: Doris Lessing , Leo Tolstoy , Isai Kamen
3.87
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partne… read more
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"In a large city the unhappy feel their sadness less acutely."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"Yes, man is much worse than the animal when he does not live like a man."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"Удивительное дело, какая полная бывает иллюзия того, что красота есть добро."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
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7. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
8. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Mary Dows Herter Norton
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggeis Rilke's major prose work and was one of the earliest public… read more
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9. The Shadow Over Innsmouth
By: H.P. Lovecraft
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
"The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is a short novel about a weird hybrid race of humans and creatures rese… read more
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10. Whatever
By: Michel Houellebecq , Paul Hammond
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par exce… read more
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"En su lugar, una víbora ya se habría suicidado."-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Me considero un tipo normal. Bueno, puede que no exactamente, pero ¿Quién lo es exactamente? Digamos que soy normal al 80%."-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Il me dit: « Vous avez dû avoir peur. » Je réponds oui pour ne pas faire d'histoires, mais en fait je n'ai pas eu peur du tout, j'ai juste eu l'impression que j'allais crever dans les prochaines minu…"-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Een vrouw die in de handen van de psychoanalytici is gevallen wordt totaal en voorgoed onbruikbaar. Dat fenomeen moet niet als een neveneffect van de psychoanalyse worden beschouwd maar wel degelijk …"-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
11. Esio Trot
By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake
3.74
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Mr. Hoppy is in love with Mrs. Silver, but her heart belongs to Alfie, her pet tortoise. Mr. Hoppy … read more
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12. The Brooklyn Follies
By: Paul Auster
3.90
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
National Bestseller A New York Times Book ReviewEditors' Choice Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn t… read more
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13. Seeing
By: Margaret Jull Costa , José Saramago
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to come out to vote.… read more
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14. The Suicide Shop
By: Jean Teulé , Sue Dyson
3.72
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Has your life been a failure? Let's make your death a success With the twenty-first century just a … read more
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15. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
By: Carson McCullers
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
With the publication of her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twe… read more
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16. Hunger
By: Knut Hamsun , George Egerton
4.05
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary … read more
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"Yoksul aydın, zengin aydından çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)"-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing."-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!"-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity."-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
17. The Monk
By: None
4.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, this is a violent tale of ambition, murde… read more
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18. Platform
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.80
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world… read more
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"Tout peut arriver dans la vie, et surtout rien."-Michel Houellebecq, Platform
"Anything can happen in life, especially nothing."-Michel Houellebecq, Platform
"L'absence d'envie de vivre, hélas, ne suffit pas pour avoir envie de mourir."-Michel Houellebecq, Platform
"Als ik de liefde niet heb begrepen, wat heb ik er dan aan om de rest te begrijpen?"-Michel Houellebecq, Platform
19. The Sisters Brothers
By: Patrick deWitt , Marcelo Barbão
4.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has… read more
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20. War's Unwomanly Face
By: None , Svetlana Alexievich
4.51
Format: 247 pages, Hardcover
This book is a confession, a document and a record of people's memory. More than 200 women speak in… read more
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"War kills time, precious human time."-None, War's Unwomanly Face
"My fearlessness came from an ignorance of life."-None, War's Unwomanly Face
"HOW DO THEY RECEIVE ME? They call me “little girl,"-None, War's Unwomanly Face
"What keeps us from remembering ? The unbearableness of the memories ..."-None, War's Unwomanly Face
21. Novel with Cocaine (European Classics)
By: M. Agueev , Michael Henry Heim , M. Ageyev
3.83
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
A Dostoevskian psychological novel of ideas, Novel with Cocaine explores the interaction between ps… read more
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"And if all womankind banded together and took the male path, the world would turn into one huge brothel."-M. Agueev, Novel with Cocaine (European Classics)
"Boulevards are like people: similar in their youth, they undergo gradual change according to what ferments in them."-M. Agueev, Novel with Cocaine (European Classics)
"To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed going on about them."-M. Agueev, Novel with Cocaine (European Classics)
"... try to understand that our souls work like swings: the stronger the push up towards the nobility of the soul, the stronger the swoop down towards the fury of the beast."-M. Agueev, Novel with Cocaine (European Classics)
22. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"-Plato, The Republic
23. The Universe Has Your Back: Transform Fear to Faith
By: Gabrielle Bernstein
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In her latest book, The Universe Has Your Back,New York Timesbest-selling author Gabrielle Bernstei… read more
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24. The Fall
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien
4.01
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more
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25. The Diary of a Chambermaid
By: John Baxter , Octave Mirbeau
4.29
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
"I am no saint; I have known many men, and I know, by experience, all the madness, all the vileness… read more
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26. Shame
By: Annie Ernaux
3.67
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
"My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon." Thus begins Shame, … read more
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"People are forever remembering."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"We have no true memory of ourselves."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"Le pire dans la honte, c'est qu'on croit être seul à la ressentir"-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"anyone who doesn't speak "the way we do" is, to some extent, labeled a foreigner."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
27. Guerre
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline
3.79
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Parmi les manuscrits de Louis-Ferdinand Céline récemment retrouvés figurait une liasse de deux cent… read more
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"A tant d’années passées le souvenir des choses, bien précisément, c’est un effort. Ce que les gens ont dit c’est presque tourné des mensonges. Faut se méfier. C’est putain le passé, ça fond dans la r…"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre
"J’ai bien dû rester là encore une partie de la nuit suivante. Toute l’oreille à gauche était collée par terre avec du sang, la bouche aussi. Entre les deux y avait un bruit immense. J’ai dormi dans c…"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre
28. Qui a tué mon père
By: Édouard Louis
4.16
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
« Est-ce qu’il est normal d’avoir honte d’aimer ? » Édouard Louis a publié deux livres, En finir… read more
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"September 2017 Emmanuel Macron condemns the “laziness"-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père
"You were as much a victim of the violence you inflicted as of the violence you endured."-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père
"What we call history is nothing but the story of the same emotions, the same joys, reproduced across bodies and time"-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père
"Where is history? The history they taught at school was not your own. We were learning world history, and you were left out."-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père
29. Our Share of Night
By: Mariana Enríquez
4.28
Format: 588 pages, Hardcover
A woman’s mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family. … read more
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"Los fantasmas son reales. Y no siempre vienen los que uno llama."-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night
"They sought me out, here I am. I don’t know how to let go of the dead."-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night
"Nothing can hurt you now, how long was now, how long did the present last?"-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night
"Detestaba cuando la gente se reía de esas fiestas donde la gente trataba de ser feliz."-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night
30. Moby Dick, czyli biały wieloryb. Tom 2
By: Herman Melville
3.87
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
„Wieloryb to zwierzę ssące, pozbawione tylnych kończyn”. – Baron Cuvier „«Moby Dick» jest pełen… read more
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31. Si J' étais vous
By: Julien Green
3.45
Format: 256 pages, Pocket Book
Qui n'a rèvé d'échapper à un moi trop connu, et le plus souvent inconfortable, pour entrer dans la … read more
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