6 must-read nonfiction books like Degas Danse Dessin by Paul Valéry

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Degas Danse Dessin

By: Paul Valéry

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Pocket Book

"Comme il arrive qu'un lecteur à demi distrait crayonne aux marges d'un ouvrage et produise, au gré…

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1. İnsan Olmak

By: Engin Geçtan

4.41

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

İlk kez yayımlandığı 1983'ten günümüze defalarca baskı yapmış ve okurla kurduğu yapıcı ilişkiyi kan… read more

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  • nonfiction
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2. Sputnik Sweetheart

By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel

3.83

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

alternate cover can be found here Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But… read more

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"I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky"

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"Ice is cold; roses are red. I’m in love."

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"It was far too hot to think about complicated matters."

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"A percepção não passa da soma dos nossos mal-entendidos."

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

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3. The Unbearable Lightness of Being

By: Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a… read more

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"I want you to be weak. As weak as I am."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"Physical love is unthinkable without violence."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"Only the most naive of questions are truly serious."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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4. South of the Border, West of the Sun

By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel

3.86

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition here. Growing up in the suburbs of post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime t… read more

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"Is that what you see in my eyes, that you know nothing about me?"

-Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

"But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us pain because they remain."

-Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

"Loving her, and being loved, was the only way I could hold myself together."

-Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

"What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities."

-Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

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5. White Nights

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersbur… read more

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"E ti chiedi: “Dove sono i tuoi sogni?"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"Kalbim içimde konuşurken ben susmayı beceremem."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

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6. Die Ursache: Eine Andeutung

By: Thomas Bernhard

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

Die Ursachen waren zerstorend und verbrecherisch - sie hinterliessen unausloschliche Spuren. Das In… read more

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7. Cadı

By: Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

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8. An Essay on Man

By: Frank Brady , Alexander Pope

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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9. The Lime Works

By: Thomas Bernhard , Sophie Wilkins

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

For twenty years, Konrad has imprisoned himself and his crippled wife in an abandoned lime works wh… read more

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10. Martin Eden

By: Jack London , Andrew Sinclair

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

The semiautobiographical Martin Edenis the most vital and original character Jack London ever creat… read more

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11. Moderato cantabile

By: Marguerite Duras

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A distressed young man murders the woman he loves in a cafe, watched by a large crowd. Fascinated b… read more

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12. The Strange Library

By: Haruki Murakami , Ted Goossen

4.36

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami--a fantastical illustrated short novel about … read more

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13. Poor Things

By: Alasdair Gray

3.94

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenste… read more

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"Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

14. Les dix enfants que madame Ming n'a jamais eus (Le Cycle de l'invisible, #6)

By: Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Madame Ming aime parler de ses dix enfants vivant dans divers lieux de l'immense Chine. Fabule-t-el… read more

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15. Sentimental Education

By: Gustave Flaubert , Geoffrey Wall , Robert Baldick

3.81

Format: 460 pages, Paperback

Based on Flaubert’s own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by… read more

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"Cheer up,' said the captain's son. 'Life is long, and we are young."

-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education

"A man so habituated to corruption that he would happily pay for the pleasure of selling himself."

-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education

"...I'm going to write a little novel entitled 'The History of the Idea of Justice' and won't it be funny!"

-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education

"It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find."

-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education

16. Three Tales

By: Gustave Flaubert , Geoffrey Wall , Roger Whitehouse

4.03

Format: 325 pages,

First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness,… read more

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17. Dom Casmurro

By: Machado de Assis

4.58

Format: None pages, Paperback

A classic story of love and jealousy, Dom Casmurro is the story of Bento and his childhood love, Ca… read more

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18. L'analphabète: récit autobiographique

By: Ágota Kristóf

4.11

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

Onze chapitres pour onze moments de sa vie, de la petite enfance en Hongrie à l'apprentissage du fr… read more

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  • nonfiction
"You become a writer by writing with patience and obstinacy, without ever losing faith in what you write."

-Ágota Kristóf, L'analphabète: récit autobiographique

"في الغالب أكتفي بالكتابة في ذهني . ذلك اسهل . داخل الراس تجري الامور كلها بيسر . لكن ما ان نشرع في الكتابة حتى تتغير الأفكار .تتشوه.تصير خاطئة"

-Ágota Kristóf, L'analphabète: récit autobiographique

19. The Shape of a Pocket

By: John Berger

2.18

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people … read more

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20. Der Atem. Eine Entscheidung

By: Thomas Bernhard

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

Nicht einmal achtzehnjahrig wurde Thomas Bernhard im Jahre 1949 aus seinem musikalischen Studien du… read more

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21. Hoşgör Köftecisi

By: Orhan Veli Kanık

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

Orhan Veli'nin hikayeleri, 1947-50 yillari arasinda Tanin gazetesi ile Secilmis Hikayeler ve Yaprak… read more

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22. Der Keller: Eine Entziehung

By: Thomas Bernhard

3.94

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

Eines Morgens beschliesst der sechzehnjahrige Gymnasiast auf dem Schulweg spontan, sich seinem bish… read more

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23. White Noise

By: Don DeLillo

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more

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"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"...the half-concealed disasters that constitute a life."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

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24. A Man's Place

By: Annie Ernaux

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux's fat… read more

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  • nonfiction
"J'écris peut-être parce qu'on n'avait plus rien à se dire."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"Có lẽ niềm tự hào lớn nhất đối với ông, hay thậm chí là lời biện minh cho cuộc đời ông: là tôi đang thuộc về thế giới từng khinh miệt ông."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"It was in other people that I searched for the figure of my father, in the way they would call their children, sit down and looked bored in waiting rooms and wave goodbye on station platforms."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

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25. Inseparable

By: Simone de Beauvoir

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A never-before-published novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood fr… read more

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"How old do you have to be to think: this is forever?"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"She was often late, not because she didn't care, but because she had too many contradictory cares."

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"I didn't understand: you don't believe what you believe on purpose. Could you be punished because certain ideas come into your mind?"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"to fight against time, against forgetting, against death, to do justice to this absolute presence of the instant, to this eternity of the instant, which will have been forever"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

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26. Tudo é Rio

By: Carla Madeira

4.26

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Por este livro passa um rio. Em sua correnteza, a obsessão de três personagens que não sabem desist… read more

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"Deus não é um lugar de certeza, é só um pouco de esperança."

-Carla Madeira, Tudo é Rio

"Um dia feliz tem mais poder que a tristeza de uma vida inteira"

-Carla Madeira, Tudo é Rio

"Quem vê de fora faz arranjos melhores, mas é dentro, bem no lugar que a gente não vê, que o não dar conta ocupa tudo."

-Carla Madeira, Tudo é Rio

"Não sabia se livrar daquele sentir, e do sentir para o consentir é só um tombinho de nada, basta um descuido para quem está andando tropeçar."

-Carla Madeira, Tudo é Rio

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27. 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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  • nonfiction
"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

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28. Die Kälte: Eine Isolation

By: Thomas Bernhard

4.21

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

Mit der Einweisung in die Lungenheilstätte Grafenhof endet der dritte Teil von Thomas Bernhards Jug… read more

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29. Ein Kind

By: Thomas Bernhard

3.97

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

Die Schande einer unehelichen Geburt, die Alltagssorgen der Mutter und ihr ständiger Vorwurf: Du ha… read more

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30. Degas Danse Dessin

By: Paul Valéry

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Pocket Book

"Comme il arrive qu'un lecteur à demi distrait crayonne aux marges d'un ouvrage et produise, au gré… read more

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  • poetry
  • art
  • nonfiction
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31. Permafrost

By: Eva Baltasar

3.85

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

El permafrost es esa capa de la tierra permanentemente congelada y es también la membrana que cubre… read more

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"Do you remember that movie we saw when we were little?"

-Eva Baltasar, Permafrost

"Al cap d’un temps acabes descobrint que el límit es deixa viure, vertical com mai, a frec del no-res, i que no només és possible habitar-hi sinó que també s’hi pot créixer de maneres diferents. Si de…"

-Eva Baltasar, Permafrost

"«¿Recuerdas aquella película de cuando éramos pequeñas? —empiezo—. Se titulaba La gran evasión. La vimos con papá al menos siete u ocho veces. Iba de unos aviadores americanos reclusos en un campo de…"

-Eva Baltasar, Permafrost

6 must-read france books like L'analphabète: récit autobiographique by Ágota Kristóf

Transform Your Habits

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Jean-Louis Fournier , Can Belge

3.51

Transform Your Habits

Asla Kimseyi Öldürmedi Benim Babam

Jean-Louis Fournier , Zafer Demez

3.94

Transform Your Habits

L'analphabète: récit autobiographique

Ágota Kristóf

4.11

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3.61

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