5 best-selling nonfiction books like Saborami by Cecilia Vicuña

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Saborami

By: Cecilia Vicuña

4.26

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

First published in 1973, two months after the military coup in Chile, Cecilia Vicuña’s SABORAMI is …

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Cover of Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche, Michael Tanner, R.J. Hollingdale

1. Beyond Good and Evil

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"The noble soul reveres itself"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"...all that is rare is for the rare."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"One is punished most for one’s virtues."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"In music the passions enjoy themselves."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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2. The War

By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray

3.86

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

One of France's greatest novelists offers a remarkable diary of the Nazi occupation of Paris during… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Poemas y antipoemas by Nicanor Parra

3. Poemas y antipoemas

By: Nicanor Parra

4.28

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

La publicación en 1954 de "Poemas y antipoemas" revoluciónó la poesía y la manera de poetizar en to… read more

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  • poetry
"el autor se dará x satisfecho si el lector compra este libro"

-Nicanor Parra, Poemas y antipoemas

"Sólo debo agregar que en aquel día Nació en mi mente la inquietud y el ansia De hacer en verso lo que en ola y ola Dios a mi vista sin cesar creaba. Desde ese entonces data la ferviente Y abrasadora …"

-Nicanor Parra, Poemas y antipoemas

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4. Ban en Banlieue

By: Bhanu Kapil

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

Bhanu Kapil's Ban en Banlieue follows a brown (black) girl as she walks home from school in the fir… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos by Anne Carson

5. The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

By: Anne Carson

4.23

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story o… read more

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  • poetry
"Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue."

-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

"Ray please I never lied to her. When need arose I may have used words that lied."

-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it"

-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it."

-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

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6. The Woman Destroyed

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian

3.75

Format: None pages,

Una crisi coniugale o familiare costringe tre donne a mettere in discussione la propria vita e il p… read more

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7. El lugar sin límites

By: José Donoso

3.47

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Un mundo que es el infierno, donde se ponen al descubierto las falsas apariencias, la sordidez, la … read more

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8. Invisible Cities

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

4.11

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more

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9. A Month in the Country

By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd

3.76

Format: None pages,

In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more

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10. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

By: Aldous Huxley

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more

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11. Purgatory

By: Raúl Zurita , None

3.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Raul Zurita's "Purgatory, " a landmark in contemporary Latin American poetry, records the physical,… read more

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12. Simple Passion

By: Annie Ernaux

3.93

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more

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"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

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13. Notes on ‘Camp’

By: Susan Sontag

3.97

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.' These two classic essays were the f… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying."

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

"Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a 'lamp'; not a woman, but a 'woman'."

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

"To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion."

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine…"

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

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14. La Bandera de Chile

By: Elvira Hernández

4.37

Format: 34 pages, None

Diario de reflexiones poéticas sobre Chile y sus emblemas, escrito en 1981. Las copias mimeografiad… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor

15. Hurricane Season

By: Fernanda Melchor

4.06

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book (2020) A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A Literary Hub Favorite Book of… read more

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"а разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"за разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"There's no reasoning with dog, two ferocious dogs who refuse to let go of their prey until they've been torn to shreds"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"момчето, щом порасна, се превърна в диво животно, което, пуснеха ли го на свобода, дори по никое време вечер, все го теглеше към гората, защото според баба ѝ този бил начинът да възпитават момчетата,…"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

Cover of Anéantir by Michel Houellebecq

16. Anéantir

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.84

Format: 734 pages, Hardcover

Ce roman de Michel Houellebecq nous projette à la fin du second mandat du président à travers un ré… read more

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"La prise de vues donnait une étrange impression de neutralité."

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

"Les chrétiens ont du mal en général, avec l’absurde, ça n’entre pas vraiment dans leurs catégories."

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

"Certains lundis de la toute fin novembre, ou du début de décembre, surtout lorsqu'on est célibataire, on a la sensation d'être dans le couloir de la mort. Les vacances d'été sont depuis longtemps oub…"

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

Cover of Panza de burro by Andrea Abreu López

17. Panza de burro

By: Andrea Abreu López

3.80

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

«Reconozco que al principio, cuando Panza de burro solo había crecido unos capitulitos, pensé que s… read more

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"A la altura del cruce vi la forma del cuerpo de Isora al final del camino. Era verla allá, al final de la carretera, justo en el rasante, donde el camino se volvía casi vertical, y me golpeaba una al…"

-Andrea Abreu López, Panza de burro

"Y ya las ranitas del estanque en el que ya nadie nadaba empezaban a cantar y parecía como una canción antigua, una canción que venía de siglos atrás, de cuando Isora y yo todavía no éramos amigas per…"

-Andrea Abreu López, Panza de burro

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18. Tremor

By: Teju Cole

3.69

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violen… read more

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"I had not noticed before how every stretch of this route contains personal memories, how the city is like one of those movies shot in a single take from the window of a moving car."

-Teju Cole, Tremor

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19. Saborami

By: Cecilia Vicuña

4.26

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

First published in 1973, two months after the military coup in Chile, Cecilia Vicuña’s SABORAMI is … read more

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  • poetry
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of La pieza oscura by Enrique Lihn

20. La pieza oscura

By: Enrique Lihn

4.37

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

En 1963, el año de Rayuela y La ciudad y los perros, se publicó La pieza oscura, el tercer libro de… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of La poesía chilena by Juan Luis Martínez

21. La poesía chilena

By: Juan Luis Martínez

4.20

Format: None pages, None

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Nicanor Parra

4.28

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Bhanu Kapil

3.95

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Anne Carson

4.23

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Elvira Hernández

4.37

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Joan Didion , David Thomson

3.92

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Elif Batuman

3.66

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Jeffrey Eugenides

3.79

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Eve Babitz

3.87

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