7 must-read art books like Chardin and Rembrandt by Marcel Proust

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Chardin and Rembrandt

By: Marcel Proust

3.88

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

-Only a petty mind, an artist who at most speaks and dresses as such, looks solely for people in wh…

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1. The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)

By: Philip Roth

3.91

Format: 361 pages, Paperback

It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a… read more

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"Niente dura, e nondimeno niente passa. E niente passa proprio perché niente dura."

-Philip Roth, The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)

"Tanta istruzione, e non serve a nulla. Nulla può isolare dal più infimo livello del pensiero."

-Philip Roth, The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)

"موته كان خلاصها.الموت تدخل ليبسط كل شيء.كل شك،كل ريبة،كل الهواجس أزيحت جانبا على يد ذلك المستخف الأعظم بهم جميعا،الذي هو الموت."

-Philip Roth, The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)

"Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game."

-Philip Roth, The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)

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2. In Praise of Shadows

By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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3. Things I Don't Want to Know

By: Deborah Levy

4.09

Format: 109 pages, Hardcover

'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

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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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  • literature
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5. Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy

By: Mark Doty

4.34

Format: 345 pages, Paperback

Although at first glance this slim volume appears to be a quick read, it should be lingered over an… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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6. Faithful and Virtuous Night

By: Louise Glück

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fe… read more

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  • literature

7. Woodcutters

By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This controversial portrayal of Viennese artistic circles begins as the writer-narrator arrives at … read more

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  • literature
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8. 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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  • literature
"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

9. The Second Sex

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley

3.60

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. The Europeans

By: Henry James , Tony Tanner , Patricia Crick

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Eugenia, the daughter of American expatriates, is the morganatic wife of a German prince, who is be… read more

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  • literature

11. The Savage Detectives

By: Roberto Bolaño , Natasha Wimmer

4.48

Format: 334 pages,

New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in p… read more

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12. The Lathe of Heaven

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.48

Format: 334 pages,

George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more

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13. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley

4.00

Format: 201 pages,

Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more

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14. At Last (Patrick Melrose #5)

By: Edward St. Aubyn

3.73

Format: None pages, Hardcover

As friends, relatives and foes trickle in to pay their final respects to his mother Eleanor, Patric… 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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  • literature
"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. Vineland

By: Thomas Pynchon

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their l… read more

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17. Greek Lessons

By: Han Kang

3.47

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more

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  • literature
"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

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18. Penge på lommen (Scandinavian Star, #1)

By: Asta Olivia Nordenhof

3.88

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

Penge på lommen er første del af en romanføljeton, der har mordbranden på Scandinavian Star som et … read more

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19. Cold Enough for Snow

By: Jessica Au

3.73

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more

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"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

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20. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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21. August Blue

By: Deborah Levy

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more

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"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"

-Deborah Levy, August Blue

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22. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

By: Eve Babitz

4.10

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique… read more

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  • essays
"The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression. 'Money,' Mary said."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"It's very easy to stand L.A., which is why it's almost inevitable that all sorts of ideas get entertained."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

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23. My First Book

By: Honor Levy

3.27

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From groundbreaking debut author Honor Levy, stories to delight and ensnare Walking the wire betwe… read more

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  • literature
  • essays
"I HAV3 CHOS3N T3H WAY OF FA3THFUL3SS"

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"Nerf is a verb now. I'm gonna nerf all you faggots, give me that grenade."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"Zoe laughs like Tinkerbell, the air whistling between the gaps in her teeth. She’s definitely not a dog."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

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24. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

By: Olivia Laing

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in th… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Empathy is not something that happens to us when we read Dickens. It’s work. What art does is provide material with which to think: new registers, new spaces. After that, friend, it’s up to you."

-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

"The Argonauts is about these small, miraculous domestic dramas, and the acts of readjustment and care that they require, but it is also a reconsideration of what the institutions established around s…"

-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

"Fiction can do that: can make a space for reflecting, for generating novel ways of responding and reacting to lies and guns and walls alike. The mere act of cracking open a book, Smith thinks, is cre…"

-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

"These narratives are interesting in and of themselves, but Nelson isn’t just airing her feelings out. She’s bent on using these experiences as ways of prying the culture open, of investigating what i…"

-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

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25. Dark Days

By: James Baldwin

4.40

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"A mob is not autonomous: it executes the real will of the people who rule the State."

-James Baldwin, Dark Days

"No curtain under heaven is heavier than that curtain of guilt and lies behind which white Americans hide."

-James Baldwin, Dark Days

"The question of color was but another detail, somewhere between being six feet tall and being six feet under."

-James Baldwin, Dark Days

"But the Irish became white when they got here and began rising in the world, whereas I became black and began sinking."

-James Baldwin, Dark Days

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26. A Month in Siena

By: Hisham Matar

4.04

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

When Hisham Matar was nineteen years old he came across the Sienese School of painting for the firs… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
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27. Oh, to Be a Painter! (ekphrasis)

By: Virginia Woolf

4.04

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The twentieth volume in the renowned ekphrasis series, this collection of Virginia Woolf’s writings… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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28. Quantum Listening

By: Pauline Oliveros

3.85

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

What is the difference between hearing and listening? Does sound have consciousness? Can you imagin… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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29. Scaffolding

By: Lauren Elkin

3.86

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more

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30. Chardin and Rembrandt

By: Marcel Proust

3.88

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

-Only a petty mind, an artist who at most speaks and dresses as such, looks solely for people in wh… read more

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  • literature
  • art
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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31. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

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