9 best-selling france books like Êtes-vous fous ? by René Crevel

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Êtes-vous fous ?

By: René Crevel

3.91

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

After visiting an oracle who predicts his future, Vagualame, the narrator of this dreamlike tale, f…

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1. The Green Man

By: Kingsley Amis

3.54

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A ghost story for adults. Like all good coaching inns, the Green Man is said to boast a resident g… read more

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"There are other things to a woman than taking her to bed."

-Kingsley Amis, The Green Man

"Nothing short of physical handicap has ever made anybody turn over a new leaf."

-Kingsley Amis, The Green Man

"I am too old a hand to be put off pleasure by even the certain prospect of not enjoying it."

-Kingsley Amis, The Green Man

"The trouble with the hypochondriac is that he will be wrong about his condition nine hundred and ninety-nine times."

-Kingsley Amis, The Green Man

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2. The Society of the Spectacle

By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more

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"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

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3. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories

By: Lewis Carroll , John Tenniel

4.26

Format: 1165 pages, Hardcover

Table of Contents Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Through the Looking-Glass Sylvie and Bruno … read more

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"Only the insane equate pain with success." "The uninformed must improve their deficit, or die." _Cheshire Cat"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories

"She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box …"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories

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4. High-Rise

By: J.G. Ballard

3.61

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battleg… read more

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"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

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5. Tartuffe

By: Martin Sorrell , Molière , Curtis Hidden Page

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Condemned and banned for five years in Moliere's day, Tartuffe is a satire on religious hypocrisy. … read more

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6. The Sirens of Titan

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depr… read more

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7. Vita Nuova

By: Dante Alighieri , Mark Musa

3.89

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

Vita Nuova(1292-94) is regarded as one of Dante's most profound creations. The thirty-one poems in … read more

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8. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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9. Self Portraits: Tales from the Life of Japan's Great Decadent Romantic

By: Osamu Dazai

3.70

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

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10. We

By: Yevgeny Zamyatin , Clarence Brown

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst exce… read more

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"Her smile was a bite, and I was its target."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"There is no final one; revolutions are infinite."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

11. Heartsnatcher

By: Raymond Queneau , Boris Vian , John Sturrock , Stanley Chapman

3.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in a bizarre and slightly sinister town where the elderly are auctioned off at an Old Folks Fai… read more

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12. L'Assommoir (The Dram Shop) (Les Rougon-Macquart, #7)

By: Émile Zola , Robin Buss

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

The seventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, L'Assommoir(1877) is the story of a woman's struggl… read more

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13. Blankets

By: Craig Thompson

None

Format: 582 pages, Paperback

Blankets is the story of a young man coming of age and finding the confidence to express his creati… read more

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14. 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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15. Germinal (Les Rougon-Macquart, #13)

By: Émile Zola , Roger Pearson

3.70

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

The thirteenth novel in Emile Zola's great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at … read more

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16. The First Man

By: Albert Camus , David Hapgood

3.97

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

The unfinished manuscript of The First Man was discovered in the wreckage of a car accident in whic… read more

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"Je réclame l'indépendance dans l'interdépendance."

-Albert Camus, The First Man

"Ceux qui [suscitent] l'amour,même déchus, sont les rois et les justificateurs du monde."

-Albert Camus, The First Man

"Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to death."

-Albert Camus, The First Man

"Il faudrait vivre en spectateur de sa propre vie. Pour y ajouter le rêve qui l'achèverait. Mais on vit, et les autres rêvent votre vie."

-Albert Camus, The First Man

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17. Fathers and Sons

By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more

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"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"Death's an old story, but new for each person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

18. The Tartar Steppe

By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood

3.80

Format: 25 pages,

Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more

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19. In Youth Is Pleasure

By: Denton Welch

4.23

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Against the backdrop of an English country hotel in a languid pre-war summer, Denton Welch's alter … read more

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20. The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories

By: Tove Jansson , Lauren Groff , Thomas Teal , Silvester Mazzarella

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

An NYRB Classics Original Tove Jansson was a master of brevity, unfolding worlds at a touch. Her ar… read more

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21. The Symposium

By: Plato , Christopher Gill

4.09

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more

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"The truth about eros is terrifying."

-Plato, The Symposium

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"

-Plato, The Symposium

"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."

-Plato, The Symposium

"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"

-Plato, The Symposium

22. Le feu follet suivi de Adieu à Gonzague

By: Pierre Drieu la Rochelle

3.68

Format: 290 pages,

<>Alain regresa a la clinica de desintoxicacion despues de un agitado reencuentro con su amante, Ly… read more

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23. 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

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24. Tombs: Junji Ito Story Collection

By: Junji Ito

4.23

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

FRESH NIGHTMARES BROUGHT TO YOU BY HORROR MASTER JUNJI ITO. Countless tombstones stand in rows, … read more

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25. La Nuit où les étoiles se sont éteintes (La Nuit où les étoiles se sont éteintes, #1)

By: Nine Gorman

4.32

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

« J'aimerais lui rétorquer que les étoiles s'éteignent et que quand c'est le cas, elles détruisent … read more

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"Plus sombre est le chaos, plus belle sera l'étoile."

-Nine Gorman, La Nuit où les étoiles se sont éteintes (La Nuit où les étoiles se sont éteintes, #1)

"- Parfois, j'aimerais pouvoir être là pour toi comme tu l'as été pour moi."

-Nine Gorman, La Nuit où les étoiles se sont éteintes (La Nuit où les étoiles se sont éteintes, #1)

"Il faut parfois traverser des mauvais moments pour apprécier les meilleurs à leur juste valeur. Les étoiles n'ont pas besoin de la nuit pour briller, mais toi, tu en as besoin pour les voir."

-Nine Gorman, La Nuit où les étoiles se sont éteintes (La Nuit où les étoiles se sont éteintes, #1)

"Le temps s'écoule et rien ne vient rompre la paix que j'éprouve. Dans ce silence, j'entends l'immensité de l'univers, dont j'ignore tout et qui m'ignore lui aussi. Face à l'infini, je sais que mon ex…"

-Nine Gorman, La Nuit où les étoiles se sont éteintes (La Nuit où les étoiles se sont éteintes, #1)

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26. Soichi

By: Junji Ito

3.92

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

“I’LL GET YOU FOR THIS… I’LL SHOW YOU TRUE HORROR!” Soichi, the unhinged second son of the Tsuji… read more

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27. The Flowers of Buffoonery

By: Osamu Dazai

3.83

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba—the narrator of No Longer Hu… read more

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"But in my softness I find peace, however fleeting."

-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery

"Hacían reír a otros. Querían provocar la risa en otros a cualquier precio, incluso a costa de su propio dolor."

-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery

"It was only natural for Yozo to vacillate when asked about the reason behind his suicide – it was everything to him."

-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery

"The next morning was peaceful and clear. The sea was calm. White smoke from the volcano on Oshima, just above the horizon, drifted up into the sky. Never mind. I hate describing scenery."

-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery

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28. Beautiful Star

By: Yukio Mishima

3.19

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

The Osugi family have come to a realisation. Each of them hails from a different planet. Father fro… read more

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"Every morning, the newspapers are crammed full of human-interest stories, and on television we see one human after another. When animals do make an occasional appearance, they are ascribed human char…"

-Yukio Mishima, Beautiful Star

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29. Cats in Spring Rain: A Celebration of Feline Charm in Japanese Art and Haiku

By: Aya Kusch

4.24

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

This delightful little book pays homage to the cat through artfully curated Japanese poetry and pri… read more

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30. Êtes-vous fous ?

By: René Crevel

3.91

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

After visiting an oracle who predicts his future, Vagualame, the narrator of this dreamlike tale, f… read more

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31. The Princess of Darkness

By: Rachilde

3.80

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Rachilde, the writer whose formal name was Marguerite Vallette-Eymery (1860-1853), is primarily rem… read more

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10 must-read fiction books like La Nuit où les étoiles se sont éteintes (La Nuit où les étoiles se sont éteintes, #1) by Nine Gorman

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Nine Gorman

4.32

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Morgane Moncomble

4.34

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Un automne pour te pardonner (Seasons, #1)

Morgane Moncomble

4.46

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