15 must-read france books like Growing Up with the Impressionists: The Diary of Julie Manet by Julie Manet

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Growing Up with the Impressionists: The Diary of Julie Manet

By: Julie Manet

3.76

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

Julie Manet, the daughter of Eugène Manet and the most famous female Impressionist artist, Berthe M…

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1. Mrs. Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more

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"Life stand still here."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What a lark! What a plunge!"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"To love makes one solitary."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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2. Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The characte… read more

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"Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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3. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

By: Sylvia Plath

3.31

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

"What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.... If I sit still and don't do anythin… read more

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4. Eugénie Grandet

By: Honoré de Balzac , Sylvia Raphael , Christopher Prendergast

3.79

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

"Who is going to marry Eugenie Grandet?" This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabi… read more

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"Misery begets equality."

-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet

"[...] ironia este însușirea fundamentală a providenței"

-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet

"Bilgisi arttıktan sonra, erdem de günah kadar hesap yapar."

-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet

"این نقطه اشتراک زن ها و فرشته هاست. رنج بشریت مال آن هاست."

-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet

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5. The Princesse de Clèves

By: Madame de La Fayette

3.00

Format: 508 pages, Paperback

This new translation of The Princesse de Clevesalso includes two shorter works also attributed to M… read more

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6. The New York Trilogy

By: Paul Auster , Art Spiegelman

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of … read more

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7. Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)

By: Octavia E. Butler

3.89

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

In this sequel to Dawn, Lilith Iyapo has given birth to what looks like a normal human boy named Ak… read more

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8. Un secret

By: Philippe Grimbert

4.00

Format: 45 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Souvent les enfants s'inventent une famille, une autre origine, d'autres parents. Le narrateur de c… read more

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9. The Dud Avocado

By: Elaine Dundy , Terry Teachout

3.82

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas … read more

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10. Transit

By: Rachel Cusk

4.14

Format: 222 pages, Hardcover

The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline, one of The New York Times Book Revi… read more

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11. Outline

By: Rachel Cusk

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more

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12. La Nuit des temps

By: René Barjavel

4.05

Format: 394 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Dans l'immense paysage gelé, les membres des Expéditions Polaires françaises font un relevé du reli… read more

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"—Écoutez, Coban, c'est terminé. —C'est commencé..."

-René Barjavel, La Nuit des temps

"Les formes paraissaient étranges parce qu'elles étaient inconnues."

-René Barjavel, La Nuit des temps

"—Vous êtes bien? demanda Coban. Elle ne le regarda même pas. Elle savait qu'il savait."

-René Barjavel, La Nuit des temps

"Il ne faut pas comprendre, il faut voir. Paris vous guérira. PARIS VOUS GUÉRIRA DU PASSÉ !"

-René Barjavel, La Nuit des temps

13. Herland

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Ann J. Lane

3.68

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

An all-female society is discovered somewhere in the distant reaches of the earth by three male exp… read more

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14. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

By: Angela Carter

3.92

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more

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"Her hair falls down like tears"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"ordered me a sky from a florist"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My spite was sharp as broken glass"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

15. Foster

By: Claire Keegan

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when s… read more

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16. Berthe Morisot : Le Secret de la femme en noir

By: Dominique Bona

0.00

Format: 152 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Cette jeune femme en noir, au bouquet de violettes, aux yeux profonds, que peint Manet dans les ann… read more

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17. The Glass Menagerie

By: Tennessee Williams

4.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

The story of a mother, her son and daughter, and her daughter's suitor that brings to life human be… read more

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18. Middlemarch

By: Michel Faber , George Eliot

4.02

Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more

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"After all, the true seeing is within."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I protest against any absolute conclusion."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

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19. 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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20. A Man's Place

By: Annie Ernaux

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux's fat… read more

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"J'écris peut-être parce qu'on n'avait plus rien à se dire."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"Có lẽ niềm tự hào lớn nhất đối với ông, hay thậm chí là lời biện minh cho cuộc đời ông: là tôi đang thuộc về thế giới từng khinh miệt ông."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"It was in other people that I searched for the figure of my father, in the way they would call their children, sit down and looked bored in waiting rooms and wave goodbye on station platforms."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

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21. Au revoir là-haut

By: Pierre Lemaitre

4.20

Format: 567 pages, Paperback

Sur les ruines du plus grand carnage du XXe siècle,deux rescapés des tranchées, passablement abîmés… read more

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"Même les grandes joies vous laissent un peu de regret, il y a un fond de manque dans tout ce qu'on vit."

-Pierre Lemaitre, Au revoir là-haut

"Elle les avait démasqués de loin, les petits ambitieux qui la trouvait banale vue de face, mais très jolie vue de dot."

-Pierre Lemaitre, Au revoir là-haut

"Le pays tout entier était saisi d'une fureur commémorative en faveur des morts, proportionnelle à sa répulsion vis-à-vis des survivants."

-Pierre Lemaitre, Au revoir là-haut

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22. The Mad Women's Ball

By: Victoria Mas

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A literary historical novel detailing the horrors faced by institutionalized women in 19th century … read more

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""

-Victoria Mas, The Mad Women's Ball

"As long as men have pricks, all the evil in this world will go on existing."

-Victoria Mas, The Mad Women's Ball

"Lekarz zawsze uważa, że wie lepiej niż pacjent, a mężczyzna zawsze uważa, że wie lepiej niż kobieta."

-Victoria Mas, The Mad Women's Ball

"Although madness in men is not the same as that in women: men use it against others; women turn it in on themselves."

-Victoria Mas, The Mad Women's Ball

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23. The Years

By: Annie Ernaux

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more

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"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

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24. Atteindre l'aube

By: Diglee

4.45

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

« Atteindre l’aube est une lettre d’amour à ma grand-tante Georgie. Femme fantasque, femme adorée, … read more

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25. Fille

By: Camille Laurens

4.23

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Laurence Barraqué est née en 1959 dans une famille de la petite bourgeoisie de Rouen. Son père est … read more

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26. The Story of Art Without Men

By: Katy Hessel

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before th… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. Open Water

By: Caleb Azumah Nelson

4.04

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships … read more

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"Trauma makes you considerate."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

"You are more than the sum of your traumas"

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

"You do not want to die before you can live"

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

"...love was not always synonymous with care."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

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28. Amalia

By: Aude Picault

3.71

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

Amalia est au bord du burn-out. Dans sa famille, où elle s’occupe de sa fille Lili, 4 ans et subit … read more

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29. Winter in Sokcho

By: Elisa Shua Dusapin

3.56

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

As if Marguerite Duras wrote Convenience Store Woman - a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut F… read more

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"The rain hammered down, the sea rising beneath it in spikes like the spines of a sea urchin."

-Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho

"How do you know when a story is done?" "My character reaches a point when I know he has a life of his own. I can let him go."

-Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho

"How do you know when a story is done?’ ‘My character reaches a point when I know he has a life of his own. I can let him go."

-Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho

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30. Je serai le feu

By: Diglee

4.69

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

Cette anthologie réunit 50 poétesses des 19e, 20e et 21e siècle. Certaines d’entre elles sont très … read more

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31. Growing Up with the Impressionists: The Diary of Julie Manet

By: Julie Manet

3.76

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

Julie Manet, the daughter of Eugène Manet and the most famous female Impressionist artist, Berthe M… read more

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Annie Ernaux

3.88

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Annie Ernaux

4.17

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4.45

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Katy Hessel

4.31

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Claire Keegan

4.18

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Mieko Kawakami

3.72

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Julia Armfield

3.78

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Eliza Clark

3.90

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