11 Best fiction books like Amours by Paul Léautaud

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Amours

By: Paul Léautaud

3.34

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

"Mes souvenirs, en effet, s'arrêtent là, de ce grand jour où je fis avec Jeanne, et pour la premièr…

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1. Les Choses

By: Georges Perec

3.80

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

L.F: " Les choses " ? C'est un titre qui intrigue, qui alimente les malentendus. Plutôt qu'un livre… read more

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"Qui ne travaille pas ne mange pas, certes, mais qui travaille ne vit plus."

-Georges Perec, Les Choses

"Leur vie était comme une trop longue habitude, comme un ennui presque serein : une vie sans rien."

-Georges Perec, Les Choses

"Pero nestes tempos e nestas latitudes, cada vez hai máis xente que non é rica nin pobre: soñan coa riqueza e poderían facerse ricos: é aí onde empezan as súas desgracias."

-Georges Perec, Les Choses

"A trente ans, l'on se doit d'être arrivé, ou bien l'on n'est rien. Et nul n'est arrivé s'il n'a trouvé sa place, s'il n'a creusé son trou, s'il n'a ses clés, son bureau, sa petite plaque."

-Georges Perec, Les Choses

Cover of King Kong théorie by Virginie Despentes

2. King Kong théorie

By: Virginie Despentes

4.01

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

J’écris de chez les moches, pour les moches, les frigides, les mal baisées, les imbaisables, toutes… read more

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"Le prostitute costituiscono l'unico proletariato la cui condizione commuove tanto la borghesia"

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Dans la morale judéo-chrétienne, mieux vaut être prise de force que prise pour une chienne, on nous l'a assez répété."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Il faut être crétin, ou simplement malhonnête, pour trouver une oppression insupportable et juger l'autre pleine de poésie."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Hace falta ser idiota, o asquerosamente deshonesto, para pensar que una forma de opresión es insoportable y juzgar que la otra está llena de poesía."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

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3. The Possibility of an Island

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.80

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A worldwide phenomenon and the most important French novelist since Albert Camus, Michel Houellebec… read more

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"La solitude à deux est l'enfer consenti."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island

"Si la sincérité, en elle-même, n'est rien, elle est la condition de tout."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island

"Et l'amour, où tout est facile, Où tout est donné dans l'instant; Il existe au milieu du temps La possibilité d'une île."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island

"The dream of all men is to meet little sluts who are innocent but ready for all forms of depravity—which is what, more or less, all teenage girls are."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island

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4. Survival in Auschwitz

By: Primo Levi , Philip Roth , Stuart J. Woolf

4.33

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Ausch… read more

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"... infin che un giorno senso non avrà più dire : domani" (...jusqu'à ce qu'un jour dire "demain" n'ait plus de sens)"

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"…in this place everything is forbidden, not for hidden reasons, but because the camp has been created for that purpose."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"...for a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"Qualcuno, molto tempo fa, ha scritto che anche i libri, come gli esseri umani, hanno un loro destino, imprevedibile, diverso da quello che per loro si desiderava e si attendeva."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

Cover of Dirty Snow by Georges Simenon, William T. Vollmann, Marc Romano

5. Dirty Snow

By: Georges Simenon , William T. Vollmann , Marc Romano

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

Nineteen-year-old Frank Friedmaier lives in a country under occupation. Most people struggle to get… read more

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6. The Castle

By: Franz Kafka , Mark Harman , Regaip Minareci , None

3.90

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published unt… read more

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  • fiction
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7. Laughter in the Dark

By: Vladimir Nabokov

4.01

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

"Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, h… read more

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"Death often is the point of life's joke."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark

"[S]urely the Cupid serving him was lefthanded, with a weak chin and no imagination."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark

"Death," he had said on another occasion, "seems to be merely a bad habit, which nature is at present powerless to overcome."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark

"A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s w…"

-Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark

Cover of El baile by Irène Némirovsky, Gemma Moral Bartolomé

8. El baile

By: Irène Némirovsky , Gemma Moral Bartolomé

3.67

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

Autora de la recién descubierta Suite francesa, publicada póstumamente y aclamada por la crítica y … read more

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9. Endgame

By: Samuel Beckett

4.67

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, no… read more

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10. نان سال‌های جوانی

By: Heinrich Böll , محمد اسماعیل‌زاده

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

yn khtb shrH mshqthy rwy st dr dwrn jwny bry khsb dramd w nn drawrdn. dstni mrbwT bh slhy qHTy w gr… read more

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11. The Key

By: Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

4.25

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

'This year I intend to begin writing freely about a topic which, in the past, I have hesitated to m… read more

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12. Fatelessness

By: Imre Kertész , Tim Wilkinson

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without a… read more

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13. The End of Eddy

By: Édouard Louis , None

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The most talked-about European novel since My Struggle--a sexually frank, brutally honest coming-of… read more

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14. Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

3.99

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more

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15. Cathedral

By: Raymond Carver

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

Raymond Carver's third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the cano… read more

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16. The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James , Patricia Crick

3.79

Format: 797 pages, Paperback

When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more

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"She has only one fault; too many ideas."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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17. Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)

By: John Updike

3.58

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—… read more

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"You were never in Texas,"

-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)

"They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him."

-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)

"If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price."

-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)

"The only way to get somewhere, you know, is to figure out where you’re going before you go there."

-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)

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18. 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

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

19. 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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  • 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)

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20. The Winter Journey (Syren)

By: Georges Perec

4.05

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

In 1979, Georges Perec (1936–1982) wrote a brief entertainment called “The Winter Journey” for a pu… read more

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Cover of Amours by Paul Léautaud

21. Amours

By: Paul Léautaud

3.34

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

"Mes souvenirs, en effet, s'arrêtent là, de ce grand jour où je fis avec Jeanne, et pour la premièr… read more

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William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

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Walker Percy

3.65

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Bernard Malamud , Jonathan Safran Foer

3.98

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