9 Best bande dessinée books like Nothing is Simple by Jean-Jacques Sempé

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Nothing is Simple

By: Jean-Jacques Sempé

4.33

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

Sempe has created a world above and beyond specific cultural and political references, a world all …

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1. L'Autre (Le Rapport de Brodeck #1)

By: Manu Larcenet

4.38

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

Manu Larcenet s'attaque pour la première fois à une adaptation, celle du chef-d'oeuvre de Philippe … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • bande dessinée
  • comics
  • france
  • fiction
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2. La casa

By: Paco Roca

4.45

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A lo largo de los años el dueño llena de recuerdos su casa, testigo mudo de su vida. Y aquél es tam… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • bande dessinée
  • fiction
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3. A Clatter of Jars

By: Lisa Graff

3.91

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

In this companion to A Tangle of Knots, it's summertime and everyone is heading off to camp. For Ta… read more

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  • fiction
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4. Catherine Certitude

By: Jean-Jacques Sempé , Patrick Modiano

3.88

Format: None pages,

Comme son papa, Catherine Certitude porte des lunettes. Et une paire de lunettes, cela complique pa… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
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5. Alone

By: Christophe Chabouté

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Available in English for the first time--the internationally bestselling graphic novel and an Offic… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • bande dessinée
  • comics
  • france
  • fiction
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6. Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?

By: Roz Chast

4.29

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York TimesBestseller 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • humor
  • comics
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7. Piège au Royaume des Ombres (Les Chevaliers d'Émeraude, #3)

By: Anne Robillard

3.50

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Agee de quinze ans et ressentant les premiers fremissements de l'adolescence, Kira realise enfin so… read more

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  • france
  • fiction

8. Arrugas

By: Paco Roca

4.56

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Emilio, un antiguo ejecutivo bancario, es internado en una residencia de ancianos por su familia tr… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • bande dessinée
  • fiction

9. Gli occhiali d'oro: Il romanzo di Ferrara

By: Giorgio Bassani

4.05

Format: None pages, Paperback

In una Ferrara ricca, affascinante ma oppressa dal fascismo, un giovane studente ebreo, voce narran… read more

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10. Asterix the Gaul (Asterix, #1)

By: René Goscinny , Albert Uderzo , Anthea Bell , Derek Hockridge

3.88

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The year is 50BC, and all Gaul is occupied. Only one small village of indomitable Gauls still holds… read more

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11. Perrault's Fairy Tales

By: Charles Perrault , Gustave Doré

3.49

Format: None pages, Paperback

Here are the original eight stories from the 1697 volume Contes de temps passeby the great Charles … read more

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12. The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly

By: Luis Sepúlveda , Margaret Sayers Peden , Chris Sheban

4.22

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A cat. A seagull. An impossible task. A worldwide bestseller and the subject of a feature film, THE… read more

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  • fiction
"Only those who dare may fly"

-Luis Sepúlveda, The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly

"Thật dễ dàng để chấp nhận và yêu thương một kẻ nào đó giống mình, nhưng để yêu thương ai đó khác mình thực sự rất khó khăn..."

-Luis Sepúlveda, The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly

"-Sí, al borde del vacío comprendió lo más importante - maulló Zorbas. -Ah, sí? Y qué es lo que comprendió -preguntó el humano. -Que sólo vuela el que se atreve a hacerlo - maulló Zorbas."

-Luis Sepúlveda, The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly

"We've learnt to appreciate and respect and love someone who's different from us. It is very easy to accept and love those who are like us, but to love someone different is very hard, and you helped u…"

-Luis Sepúlveda, The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly

13. Asterix and the Golden Sickle (Asterix, #2)

By: René Goscinny , Albert Uderzo , Anthea Bell , Derek Hockridge

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

It's a disaster - the druid Getafix has broken his golden sickle. Asterix and Obelix go to Lutetia … read more

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14. Relativity: The Special and the General Theory

By: Albert Einstein , Robert W. Lawson , Nigel Calder

4.08

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

An accesible version of Einstein's masterpiece of theory, written by the genius himself According t… read more

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15. 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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  • fiction
"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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16. 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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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
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17. Premier sang

By: Amélie Nothomb

3.81

Format: 173 pages, Paperback

« Il ne faut pas sous-estimer la rage de survivre. » read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
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18. L'étranger

By: Jacques Ferrandez

3.73

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

Le jour où sa mère est morte, Meursault a remarqué qu'il faisait très chaud dans l'autobus qui le m… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • bande dessinée
  • comics
  • france
  • fiction
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19. Grass

By: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

4.52

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

This true story of a Korean comfort woman documents how the atrocity of war devastates women’s live… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
"Frágiles ramas que tiemblan en las postrimerías del largo invierno. Dentro albergan la energía de una vida nueva que pronto brotará y abrirá grietas en la corteza La tierra despertará de su hibernaci…"

-Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, Grass

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20. De eerlijke vinder

By: Lize Spit

3.61

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Alternative cover edition of ISBN 9789059657328 'Hoe langer hij ermee wachtte, hoe minder moed h… read more

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  • fiction
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21. In the Country of Others

By: Leïla Slimani

3.76

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning, #1 internationally bestselling new novel by the author of The Perfect Nanny--a p… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"À présent qu'aucun retour en arrière n'était possible, elle se sentait forte. Forte de ne pas être libre."

-Leïla Slimani, In the Country of Others

"J'admire ceux qui avec un cœur sincère acceptent le martyr des leurs. Mais je comprends encore mieux ceux qui veulent les sauver à tout prix."

-Leïla Slimani, In the Country of Others

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22. Écoute, jolie Márcia

By: Marcello Quintanilha

4.07

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Márcia est infirmière dans un hôpital à proximité de Rio et vit dans une favela avec son petit ami … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • bande dessinée
  • fiction
Cover of The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors) by Guy de Maupassant

23. The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.89

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Before succumbing to the insanity that ravaged his later life, Guy de Maupassant established a repu… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Es evidente que la soledad resulta peligrosa para las mentes que piensan demasiado."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

Cover of L'âge d'or. Volume 1 (L'âge d'or, #1) by Cyril Pedrosa

24. L'âge d'or. Volume 1 (L'âge d'or, #1)

By: Cyril Pedrosa

4.00

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

Le vieux roi est mort. Sa fille Tilda s'apprête à lui succéder, bien décidée à mener les réformes … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • bande dessinée
  • comics
  • france
  • fiction
"Good God, Bertil, don't be daft. Peasants are like children. They love to frighten one another."

-Cyril Pedrosa, L'âge d'or. Volume 1 (L'âge d'or, #1)

"Don't forget, Bertil. Today's honors must be greeted with the same reserve as yesterday's disgraces."

-Cyril Pedrosa, L'âge d'or. Volume 1 (L'âge d'or, #1)

"Nature gave the same form to all And warms each one with the same heat Using reason, we follow her inclination To give equal opportunity to our fellow humans Who are our brothers. None should seek fe…"

-Cyril Pedrosa, L'âge d'or. Volume 1 (L'âge d'or, #1)

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25. Pe cine iubești mai mult?

By: Mihaela Buruiană

4.34

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

O geografie interioară a alegerilor La intersecția dintre generații și perspective, dintre anii… read more

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  • fiction
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26. The Safekeep

By: Yael van der Wouden

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more

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  • fiction
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27. ca și cum nimic nu s-ar fi întâmplat

By: Alina Nelega

4.52

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

„După ce, timp de decenii, s-a implicat în viața teatrală din România, impunîndu-se ca una dintre f… read more

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  • fiction
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28. Les grands espaces

By: Catherine Meurisse

4.19

Format: 92 pages, Kindle Edition

Catherine Meurisse a grandi à la campagne, entourée de pierres, d'arbres, et avec un chantier sous … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • bande dessinée
  • comics
  • france
  • french literature
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29. Cazzo

By: Mihnea Bâlici

4.14

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

„Cazzo este un party fără timpi morți, unde asiști la momentul în care un băiat lovește sistematic … read more

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30. Nothing is Simple

By: Jean-Jacques Sempé

4.33

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

Sempe has created a world above and beyond specific cultural and political references, a world all … read more

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  • art
  • graphic novels
  • humor
  • bande dessinée
  • comics
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
  • cartoon
Cover of La riada (Blackwater, #1) by Michael McDowell

31. La riada (Blackwater, #1)

By: Michael McDowell

3.74

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Descubre el primer volumen de la saga Blackwater. Una saga matriarcal. Mujeres poderosas que luc… read more

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  • fiction

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Manu Larcenet

4.38

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La casa

Paco Roca

4.45

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A Clatter of Jars

Lisa Graff

3.91

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Catherine Certitude

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3.88

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Delphine de Vigan

3.83

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Baumgartner

Paul Auster

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas

Irene Solà

3.91

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La mala costumbre

Alana S. Portero

4.55

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