L'Enfant d'octobre
By: Philippe Besson
3.35
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
Un soir d'octobre 1984, le cadavre du petit Gregory Villemin, quatre ans, est repêché dans les eaux…
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1. Letters to a Young Poet
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more
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"Everything is gestation and then birthing."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
2. The Unknown Masterpiece
By: Arthur C. Danto , Honoré de Balzac , Richard Howard
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painte… read more
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3. Venice
By: Jan Morris
4.04
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The classic evocation of Venice, acclaimed as one of the finest books ever written about the city. … read more
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4. The Lost Girls of Rome
By: Howard Curtis , Donato Carrisi
3.87
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A grieving young widow, seeking answers to her husband's death, becomes entangled in an investigati… read more
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5. Train Dreams
By: Denis Johnson
3.67
Format: 272 pages,
Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more
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6. The Price of Salt, or Carol
By: Patricia Highsmith , Claire Morgan
4.02
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
Patricia Highsmith's story of sexual obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely … read more
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"She hated cleaning up after making something."-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol
"Love was supposed to be a kind of blissful insanity."-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol
"It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?"-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol
"What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow?"-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol
7. Soumission
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.65
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s’engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu mot… read more
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"It’s submission,"-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"There is no Israel for me."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"Intimacy isn’t something men talk about."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"I was about as political as a bath towel."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
8. Cher connard
By: Virginie Despentes
3.62
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
C’est une suite de lettres entre amis qui se sauvent la vie. Dans ce roman épistolaire, Virginie De… read more
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9. Vivre vite
By: Brigitte Giraud
3.58
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
"J'ai été aimantée par cette double mission impossible. Acheter la maison et retrouver les armes ca… read more
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10. Happening
By: Annie Ernaux
4.32
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plag… read more
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"There is no such thing as a lesser truth."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"I was intoxicated, wrapped up in wordless intelligence."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"People judged according to the law, they didn't judge the law."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"love children are the most beautiful of all.' What a terrible statement."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
11. La mala costumbre
By: Alana S. Portero
4.55
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
Narrada desde una singular y desgarradora voz en primera persona, La mala costumbre recorre la adol… read more
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"Cuando reímos con ganas no tenemos edad, lo hacemos igual durante toda nuestra vida y puede adivinarse en nuestra mueca la niña que fuimos o la anciana que seremos."-Alana S. Portero, La mala costumbre
12. Oliva Denaro
By: Viola Ardone
4.41
Format: 299 pages, Paperback
«Io non lo so se sono favorevole al matrimonio. Per questo in strada vado sempre di corsa: il respi… read more
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13. Bournville
By: Jonathan Coe
3.81
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more
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14. Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
By: Édouard Louis
4.13
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Pendant une grande partie de sa vie ma mère a vécu dans la pauvreté et la nécessité, à l'écart de t… read more
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"Why do I feel as though I'm writing a sad story, when my aim was to tell the story of a liberation?"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"I'd gotten so used to seeing her unhappy at home that the joy on her face seemed scandalous to me, a deceit, a lie that had to be exposed as soon as possible."-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"I started this book wanting to tell the story of a woman, but I've realized that yours is the story of a human being who fought for the right to exist as a woman, as opposed to the nonexistence impos…"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"A final memory. A few months ago, in the garden of a teahouse where I’d suggested we meet, she told me how she had once been called to the school by my teacher when I was six years old. The teacher w…"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
15. A Woman's Story
By: Annie Ernaux
4.23
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
A Woman's Story is Annie Ernaux's "deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age… read more
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"Until I was twenty, I thought I was responsible for her growing old."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
"With so much misery around, fighting for social advancement had lost all meaning."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
"I believe I am writing about my mother because it is my turn to bring her into the world."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
"Het beeld van haar wordt langzaam weer dat wat ik mij voorstel te hebben gehad van haar in mijn babytijd, een grote, blanke schaduw boven mij."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
16. Life Ceremony
By: Sayaka Murata
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stori… read more
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"Nowadays, your partner is not necessarily a sex object - this is a wonderful advancement."-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"I'm seeking an amicable daily routine with someone I get along well with, like brother and sister, without being a slave to sex"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"Walking like this, feeling like a feral human, even machines and buildings were warm to the touch, and some emitted sounds and vibrations. Their presence was similar to the sounds emitted by life-for…"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"If they tried it, the memories of the wild rooted in their flesh would come back to them, and they would discover that eating the city like this would connect the earth between the gaps in the concre…"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
17. Changer : méthode
By: Édouard Louis
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
« Une question s’est imposée au centre de ma vie, elle a concentré toutes mes réflexions, occupé to… read more
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18. Les impatientes
By: Djaïli Amadou Amal
4.06
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Trois femmes, trois histoires, trois destins liés. Ce roman polyphonique retrace le destin de la j… read more
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19. The Woman in the Purple Skirt
By: Natsuko Imamura
3.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A bestselling, prizewinning novel of obsession and psychological intrigue about two enigmatic unmar… read more
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20. Le Mage du Kremlin
By: Giuliano da Empoli
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
On l’appelait le « mage du Kremlin ». L’énigmatique Vadim Baranov fut metteur en scène puis product… read more
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21. Psychopompe
By: Amélie Nothomb
3.48
Format: 147 pages, Kindle Edition
"Ecrire, c'est voler." Amélie Nothomb read more
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22. Nothing Can Erase You
By: Michel Bussi
3.85
Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of After the Crash comes a gripping new thriller about one woman’s descent into gri… read more
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23. Le livre des sœurs
By: Amélie Nothomb
3.76
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
Amélie Nothomb possède l’énigmatique et belle faculté de raconter des histoires tristes qui ne vous… read more
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24. Concerning My Daughter
By: Hye-Jin Kim
3.71
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
When an ageing mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants fo… read more
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"Ir abrindo mão das coisas de que gostamos. Essa é a definição do verbo envelhecer."-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
"That child who sprang from my own flesh and blood is perhaps the creature I'm most distant from."-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
"Ela estudou tanto que, não tendo mais o que estudar, foi aprender o que não devia. Por exemplo: como negar o mundo, como ir contra o mundo."-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
"It's not my fault. It's not your fault. It's no one's fault. If we keep telling ourselves that, then who should all the victims of the world go to for their apology?"-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
25. La datcha
By: Agnès Martin-Lugand
4.11
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
" L'homme venait de me déposer dans un décor de rêve, dont je n'aurais même pas soupçonné l'existen… read more
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26. Miss Iceland
By: Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
3.87
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Iceland in the 1960s. Hekla is a budding female novelist who was born in the remote district of Dal… read more
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"Dalla mia coscienza alle tue labbra c'è un oceano insormontabile."-Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Miss Iceland
"It’s better than anything either Laxness or Thórberger Thordarson write. We might be talking about a new Nobel Prize winner, Hekla."-Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Miss Iceland
"Calculo mentalmente. Si cada día trabajo nueve horas y duermo siete, me quedan ocho para escribir y leer. Si quiero escribir de noche, nadie me lo impedirá. Igual que nadie me animará a hacerlo. Nadi…"-Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Miss Iceland
27. Suite inoubliable
By: Akira Mizubayashi
3.85
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
"En lui, la musique parlait français depuis qu'il l'avait vécue en France. En se livrant à la conve… read more
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28. Un homme sans titre
By: Xavier Le Clerc
3.89
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
"Si tu étais si attaché à ta carte d’ouvrier, c’est sans doute parce que tu étais un homme sans tit… read more
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"Mothers as brave as lionesses, poor Belcourt children, little Kabyles starving to death in 1939 – those people also earned the applause."-Xavier Le Clerc, Un homme sans titre
"They are staring at the photographer in perplexity. A few even wear naive smiles, as if forgetting the extreme poverty of the arid plains."-Xavier Le Clerc, Un homme sans titre
"In the intoxication of being twenty and swept up by my reading, I hoped to live in the light of day, in joy, refusing submission, shackles and conformity."-Xavier Le Clerc, Un homme sans titre
"And he dreaded prison more than anything, not because survival in the gourbis was any better, but because nothing would be more humiliating than being labeled a criminal. He had inherited a sense of …"-Xavier Le Clerc, Un homme sans titre
29. L'Enfant d'octobre
By: Philippe Besson
3.35
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
Un soir d'octobre 1984, le cadavre du petit Gregory Villemin, quatre ans, est repêché dans les eaux… read more
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30. Faut pas prendre les cons pour des gens 03
By: Reuzé
3.72
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
Après les succès des deux premiers tomes, Faut pas prendre les cons pour des gens revient en novemb… read more
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31. L'impossible retour
By: Amélie Nothomb
3.81
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
"Tout retour est impossible, l'amour le plus absolu n'en donne pas la clé." read more
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