6 Best nonfiction books like Une femme honorable : Marie Curie, une vie by Françoise Giroud

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Une femme honorable : Marie Curie, une vie

By: Françoise Giroud

3.90

Format: 376 pages, Pocket Book

Ce livre est ma lecture de la vie de Marie Curie, telle qu'elle m'est apparue depuis que j'ai été c…

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Cover of Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5) by Douglas Adams

1. Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)

By: Douglas Adams

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of  The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,  soon to be a Hulu o… read more

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"Fuck ’em,"

-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)

"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."

-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)

"Life will always find a way og hanging on in somewhere."

-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)

"I think we have different value systems." —Arthur "Well mine's better." —Ford"

-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)

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2. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)

By: Douglas Adams

4.09

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ra… read more

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"Shit!"

-Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)

"Non tout baigne, tout ce qui est susceptible de biagner, baigne."

-Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)

"Non è un vero scienziato chi ha timore che la gente lo ritenga pazzo."

-Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)

"God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience."

-Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)

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3. A Room of One’s Own

By: Virginia Woolf

4.21

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October,… read more

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  • womens
  • nonfiction
"Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped."

-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."

-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

"Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems."

-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

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4. Pierre et Jean

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Pierre, medecin, ne comprend pas pourquoi un ami de sa famille a legue sa fortune a Jean, son frere… read more

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  • france
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5. Her Darkest Nightmare (The Evelyn Talbot Chronicles, #1)

By: Brenda Novak

3.82

Format: 254 pages,

THE HUNT FOR A SERIAL KILLER Evelyn Talbot knows that a psychopath can look perfectly normal. She w… read more

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6. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide, #2)

By: Douglas Adams

3.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a craving for tea.… read more

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Cover of Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Guide, #3) by Douglas Adams

7. Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Guide, #3)

By: Douglas Adams

3.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads-so… read more

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8. Accabadora

By: Michela Murgia

4.07

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

La Sardegna degli anni Cinquanta è un mondo antico sull’orlo del precipizio. Maria ha sei anni ed è… read more

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  • womens
"Quan es té prou temps, fins i tot la ràbia s'organitza."

-Michela Murgia, Accabadora

"En la hora de la debilidad algunos prefieren hacerse creyentes que fuertes"

-Michela Murgia, Accabadora

"-¿Quieres juzgar el cómo sin entender el porqué? Siempre tienes prisa por dictar sentencias, Maria. (Bonaria Urria)"

-Michela Murgia, Accabadora

"Come gli occhi della civetta, ci sono pensieri che non sopportano la luce piena. Non possono nascere che di notte, dove la loro funzione è la stessa della luna, necessaria a smuovere maree di senso i…"

-Michela Murgia, Accabadora

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9. Limonov

By: Emmanuel Carrère

4.27

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

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  • nonfiction
  • france
  • biography

10. Barbe bleue

By: Amélie Nothomb

4.04

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

Saturnine cherche une colocation car vivre sur le canape du tout petit appartement de sa copine, c'… read more

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11. The Man Who Laughs

By: Victor Hugo

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Victor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs(first published under the French title L'Homme qui Ritin April 186… read more

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12. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

By: Barack Obama

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Nine years before the Senate campaign that made him one of the most influential and compelling voic… read more

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13. The Elegance of the Hedgehog

By: Muriel Barbery , Alison Anderson

2.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

A moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us. We… read more

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14. Le premier jour du reste de ma vie

By: Virginie Grimaldi

4.71

Format: None pages,

Marie a tout prepare pour l'anniversaire de son mari : gateaux, invites, decoration de l'appartemen… read more

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15. The Story of a New Name (The Neapolitan Novels #2)

By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.33

Format: 75 pages, Paperback

The second book, following last year's My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elen… read more

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16. The Turnglass

By: Gareth Rubin

3.50

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

1880s England On the bleak island of Ray, off the Essex coast, an idealistic young doctor, Simeon … read more

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"These tales are intertwined and parasitic. Beguiling and, I think, a little strange too."

-Gareth Rubin, The Turnglass

"It was the wrong house for the Tooke family. It was see-through, allowing everyone to look in, while the people who lived there did their best to hide their lives away."

-Gareth Rubin, The Turnglass

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17. The Anomaly

By: Hervé Le Tellier

3.81

Format: 391 pages, Paperback

A virtuoso novel where logic confronts magic and that explores the part of ourselves that eludes us… read more

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  • france
"Aimer évite au moins de chercher sans cesse un sens à sa vie."

-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly

"Le vrai pessimiste sait qu'il est déjà trop tard pour l'être."

-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly

"Une traduction est une œuvre, les traducteurs sont des auteurs."

-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly

"Es gibt ein Leben nach dem Tod, besonders nach dem der anderen."

-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly

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18. "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

By: Richard P. Feynman

4.27

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A New York Times bestseller—the outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific mi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is."

-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

"I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!"

-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

"All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is just another way of saying that you can't."

-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

"You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick."

-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

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19. Black Wolf (Antonia Scott, #2)

By: Juan Gómez-Jurado

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Antonia Scott has an unusually gifted mind, able to see what others miss, able to solve the crimes … read more

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"Kummerspeck. In German, that means "the bacon of sadness." The weight you gain when you're unhappy."

-Juan Gómez-Jurado, Black Wolf (Antonia Scott, #2)

"Lo peor fue el miedo que sintió durante los tres pasos hacia adelante. El plomo en el estómago que cargas en la distancia entre lo que te impulsa y o que temes."

-Juan Gómez-Jurado, Black Wolf (Antonia Scott, #2)

"En ese rato ha llovido y ha escampado. Un olor fragante entra por la rendija, aliviando la tristeza. O cambiándola de sitio. Con cierto humilde consuelo: el que cuando ya nada subsista del pasado que…"

-Juan Gómez-Jurado, Black Wolf (Antonia Scott, #2)

"(...) la mañana ha hecho eso que hacen todas las mañanas cuando llegan, prometernos unas horas distintas, nuevas, libres de que haceres y pesares. Como saben todas las huerfanitas pecosas, el sol bri…"

-Juan Gómez-Jurado, Black Wolf (Antonia Scott, #2)

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20. Rey blanco (Antonia Scott, #3)

By: Juan Gómez-Jurado

4.26

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

ESPERO QUE NO TE HA YAS OLVIDADO DE MÍ. ¿JUGAMOS? Cuando Antonia Scott recibe este mensaje, sabe… read more

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"Porque lo que las palabras lastiman, a veces solo el silencio arregla."

-Juan Gómez-Jurado, Rey blanco (Antonia Scott, #3)

"Quizás en eso consiste crecer: en darte cuenta de lo gilipollas que eras."

-Juan Gómez-Jurado, Rey blanco (Antonia Scott, #3)

"La raíz de los males del mundo es que nadie se pone de acuerdo en qué es eso."

-Juan Gómez-Jurado, Rey blanco (Antonia Scott, #3)

"La soledad hace del alma una esponja reseca, que acepta con gratitud cualquier líquido que le caiga encima."

-Juan Gómez-Jurado, Rey blanco (Antonia Scott, #3)

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21. 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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  • france
Cover of Il volto del male: Storie di efferati assassini by Stefano Nazzi

22. Il volto del male: Storie di efferati assassini

By: Stefano Nazzi

3.92

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

«Perché l'ha fatto?» Ce lo chiediamo spesso davanti a delitti particolarmente feroci, specie quando… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

By: Natalie Haynes

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Greek myths are one of the most important cultural foundation-stones of the modern world. St… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Haynes's Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths book and Françoise Giroud's Une femme honorable : Marie Curie, une vie

  • nonfiction
"For my mum, who has always thought that a woman with an axe was more interesting than a princess"

-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

"Medusa wasn't always a monster, Helen of Troy wasn't always an adulterer, Pandora wasn't ever a villain."

-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

"The greatest virtue, in other words, that an Athenian woman could aspire to was not to be registered, almost not to exist."

-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

"The guiding principle when searching for the cause of everything wrong in the world has been, all too often: _cherchez la femme_."

-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

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24. Une femme honorable : Marie Curie, une vie

By: Françoise Giroud

3.90

Format: 376 pages, Pocket Book

Ce livre est ma lecture de la vie de Marie Curie, telle qu'elle m'est apparue depuis que j'ai été c… read more

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  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • biography

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Pierre et Jean

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3.84

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Limonov

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4.27

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3.81

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Brigitte Giraud

3.58

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Pierre Lemaitre

4.23

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Jean-Baptiste Andrea

4.28

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