7 best-selling nonfiction books like Elke vriendschap met mij is verderfelijk by Joseph Roth

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Elke vriendschap met mij is verderfelijk

By: Joseph Roth

3.98

Format: 419 pages, Paperback

'Duitsland is dood... voor ons is het dood. Het is een droom geweest. Ziet u het dan eindelijk, als…

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1. Así empieza lo malo

By: Javier Marías

4.00

Format: 534 pages, Paperback

Así empieza lo malo cuenta la historia íntima de un matrimonio de muchos años, narrada por su joven… read more

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2. Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

By: Marina Abramović

4.56

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

“I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Kelionėse išlieki jaunas, nes neturi kada senti."

-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

"Pour atteindre un objectif, il faut tout donner jusqu'à ce qu'il ne vous reste rien. Alors, votre objectif se réalisera tout seul."

-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

"Il arrive que ce que les morts laissent en partant nous apprenne sur eux des choses qu'ils ne nous auraient jamais dites de leur vivant."

-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

"Il arrive qu'on fasse des pieds et des mains pour atteindre un objectif, mais il vous échappe parce que les lois cosmiques suivent une autre voie."

-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

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3. Oblomov

By: Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment

4.12

Format: 586 pages, Paperback

Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifet… read more

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"Now or never. To be or not to be!"

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"Love was life's hardest school of all."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"You have a lunatic before you who has been infected by passion."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

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4. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods , T.J. Reed

3.69

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a class… read more

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  • german literature
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5. Austerlitz

By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more

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  • german literature
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6. Beware of Pity

By: Stefan Zweig , Phyllis Blewitt , Trevor Blewitt

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Beware of… read more

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  • german literature
  • 20th century
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7. Nooit meer slapen

By: Willem Frederik Hermans

4.03

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Nooit meer slapen is het meesterlijke verhaal van de jonge geoloog Alfred Issendorf, die in het moe… read more

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8. Visser

By: Rob van Essen

4.15

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

Geschiedenisleraar Jacob Visser heeft een huis op een woonerf, een dochter die gaat trouwen en een … read more

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9. The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904

By: Anton Chekhov , Ronald Wilks , None

3.91

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

This collection contains the following thirteen stories: The House with the Mezzanine Peasants Man … read more

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10. Vingerafdruk van verdriet

By: Manu Keirse

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Onmisbare steun voor iedereen die met verlies wordt geconfronteerd Vingerafdruk van verdriet is een… read more

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11. The World of Yesterday

By: Stefan Zweig , Harry Zohn

3.72

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expre… read more

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12. Jean Christophe Vol I

By: Romain Rolland

4.46

Format: 170 pages,

Translated by Gilbert Cannan One word only! No more talk of money. I hate money--the word and the t… read more

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13. Invisible Collection

By: Stefan Zweig

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The first of these two Stefan Zweig tales, The Invisible Collection, is about a blind collector of … read more

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14. Montaigne

By: Stefan Zweig

4.00

Format: 592 pages,

Auteur de nombreuses biographies (Fouche, Balzac, Marie-Antoinette, Magellan,... ), Stefan Zweig dr… read more

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15. The Magic Mountain

By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods

4.13

Format: 706 pages, Paperback

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more

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  • german literature
  • 20th century
"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

16. Chess Story

By: Stefan Zweig , Joel Rotenberg , Peter Gay , None , None , None , None , None

3.00

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement,… read more

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17. 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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  • nonfiction
"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

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18. Luister

By: Sacha Bronwasser

3.95

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Het nieuws reisde snel, zoals dat soort nieuws doet. Ik wist dat het ook over jou ging zodra het ee… read more

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19. Morele ambitie

By: Rutger Bregman

3.71

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

De grootste verspilling van onze tijd is de verspilling van talent. Iedere carrière duurt 2.000 wer… read more

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  • nonfiction
"De geschiedenis doet niks. Mensen doen dingen."

-Rutger Bregman, Morele ambitie

"Het doel van leiderschap is om meer leiders te produceren, niet meer volgers."

-Rutger Bregman, Morele ambitie

"De grote advieskantoren zitten vol met toptalenten die niet weten wat ze met hun talent aan moeten, en daarom maar consultant zijn geworden."

-Rutger Bregman, Morele ambitie

"Ja, we hebben activisten nodig die strijden tegen al het onrecht in het hier en nu, maar er is ook behoefte aan makers en bouwers van de toekomst."

-Rutger Bregman, Morele ambitie

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20. Lessons

By: Ian McEwan

4.00

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more

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"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

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21. La ricreazione è finita

By: Dario Ferrari

4.24

Format: 480 pages, ebook

Marcello è un trentenne senza un vero lavoro, resiste ai tentativi della fidanzata di rinsaldare il… read more

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22. Elizabeth Finch

By: Julian Barnes

3.17

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that centers on the presence of a vivid and pa… read more

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"In the case of George and the Dragon – an encounter in which the dice were theologically loaded – any morally sentient human being must surely sympathise with the poor dragon."

-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch

"I don’t know what the average allotment of good luck in a life is or should be — it’s an unanswerable question, and doubtless there is no ‘should’ in it anyway — but I do know that she was part of my…"

-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch

"Korean woman who had escaped from the North to the South. She was talking about love. ‘If you grow up in the West,’ she said, ‘you may think romance occurs naturally, but it does not. You learn how t…"

-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch

"We must certainly consider, not just in this class, but outside it, in our own turbulent and fretful lives, the element of chance. The number of people we deeply meet is strangely few. Passion may mi…"

-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch

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23. The Cockroach

By: Ian McEwan

3.26

Format: 109 pages, Kindle Edition

That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself tr… read more

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24. I Am an Island

By: Tamsin Calidas

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Tamsin Calidas first arrives on an island in the Scottish Hebrides, it feels like coming home.… read more

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  • nonfiction
"It was a time of hope and dreaming of your beautiful life, and Brit Pop singing the world real again."

-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island

"On dementia: It is like you are living in a world with no connection to anyone or anything. It is lonely. It is like nobody is there."

-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island

"Cancer bleeds the life out of you until there is nothing left. Once the body is not able to eat, it starts to sleep and its muscles and strength begin to waste away. But even then, the mind can still…"

-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island

"When someone dies, their spirit is free. But no one is free that is left behind. (...) Grief is like soil. It is heavy and clings to your skin, even when you come up for air. And sometimes, even afte…"

-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island

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25. Nirwana

By: Tommy Wieringa

4.07

Format: 478 pages, Kindle Edition

De geschiedenis van een grootvader bepaalt het heden van een samen vertellen ze het verhaal van ee… read more

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26. Wat stilte wil

By: Arthur Japin

3.73

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

Zingen is Anna’s grote geluk. Zij heeft de stem, de opleiding en het talent en de ambitie, maar in … read more

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27. On Connection

By: Kae Tempest

4.17

Format: 129 pages, Hardcover

From the Ted Hughes award winner and Sunday TImes bestselling authour Kae Tempest. The increasin… read more

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  • nonfiction
"When I am numb, how can I make myself connected? I can't. But I can try to create an environment that is welcoming for connection if it should turn up."

-Kae Tempest, On Connection

"Words on a page are incomplete. The poem, the novel or the non-fiction pamphlet are finished when they are taken up and engaged with. Connection is collaborative. For words to have meaning, they have…"

-Kae Tempest, On Connection

"We are empathic beings who feel for each other. Our very success as a species is rooted in our ability to be aware of each other's needs, to notice each other's pain and to experience deeply felt phy…"

-Kae Tempest, On Connection

"The work that I do on myself may not be evident in my daily exchanges, but little by little, if I continue, I hope that my actions will reflect my changing mindset, and next time, I promise myself, I…"

-Kae Tempest, On Connection

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28. Rock, Paper, Scissors: And Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics)

By: Maxim Osipov

3.72

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

The first English-language collection of a contemporary Russian master of the short story.Maxim Osi… read more

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  • 20th century
"The place could be anywhere with its own kind of appeal—particularly central Russia. You can fall for this place just as easily as a woman can fall for a loser."

-Maxim Osipov, Rock, Paper, Scissors: And Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics)

"There's no easier pastime than bad-mouthing the church. Much like bad-mouthing Dostoyevsky: it's true, of course, all true, but it also misses the point. The church is a thing of wonder, Dostoyevsky …"

-Maxim Osipov, Rock, Paper, Scissors: And Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics)

"The consultant starts explaining again. She isn't participating, isn't listening. Then suddenly she hears him say: "... if he has the operation he could live to a good age. We've persuaded him, almos…"

-Maxim Osipov, Rock, Paper, Scissors: And Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics)

"Of course, certain external circumstances are impossible to predict. ... For instance: Will our country last? Its predecessor, with all its might, was more short-lived than your average violin, for w…"

-Maxim Osipov, Rock, Paper, Scissors: And Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics)

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29. Alma's dochters. Vijf levens in de schaduw.

By: Jutta Chorus

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Aan de rand van een Italiaanse vallei vindt Lili eindelijk haar Air-Francekoffertje terug. Eruit va… read more

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30. Is geschiedenis fictie?

By: Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

3.89

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Homeruslezing 2024 Dit betoog is een aanval op intellectuele gemakzucht en een pleidooi voor de … read more

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  • nonfiction
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31. Elke vriendschap met mij is verderfelijk

By: Joseph Roth

3.98

Format: 419 pages, Paperback

'Duitsland is dood... voor ons is het dood. Het is een droom geweest. Ziet u het dan eindelijk, als… read more

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  • german literature
  • nonfiction
  • 20th century

5 best-selling german literature books like Elke vriendschap met mij is verderfelijk by Joseph Roth

Transform Your Habits

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

Thomas Mann , John E. Woods , T.J. Reed

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Austerlitz

Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald

4.67

Transform Your Habits

Beware of Pity

Stefan Zweig , Phyllis Blewitt , Trevor Blewitt

4.67

Transform Your Habits

The Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann , John E. Woods

4.13

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5 Top womens books like A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux

Transform Your Habits

The Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Things I Don't Want to Know

Deborah Levy

4.09

Transform Your Habits

A Girl's Story

Annie Ernaux

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Inseparable

Simone de Beauvoir

4.10

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