15 must-read novels books like Vestiaire de l'enfance by Patrick Modiano

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Vestiaire de l'enfance

By: Patrick Modiano

3.33

Format: 160 pages, Pocket Book

Un puertofranco, una ciudad queprobablementeesté en el Mediterráneo y que acaso pudiera ser Tánger.…

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1. The Literary Conference

By: César Aira , Katherine Silver

3.60

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

César is a playwright and translator who has fallen on very hard times due to the global economic d… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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2. Fräulein Else

By: Arthur Schnitzler , F.H. Lyon

3.77

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

A young woman is contacted by her mother, begging her to save her father from debtor's jail by visi… read more

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  • fiction
  • 20th century
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3. Everything I Found on the Beach

By: Cynan Jones

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

A dark tale of slavery, immigration, and murder set on the west coast of Wales, this is a startling… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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4. Mr. Vertigo

By: Paul Auster

4.08

Format: 234 pages,

Auf einem Jahrmarkt in Kansas spaziert im Jahre 1927 der zwolfjahrige Waisenjunge Walter Clairborne… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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5. Bear

By: Marian Engel

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

A librarian is called to a remote Canadian island to inventory the estate of a secretive Colonel wh… read more

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  • fiction

6. Embers

By: Sándor Márai , Carol Brown Janeway

3.87

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisite… read more

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7. Exile and the Kingdom

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien

3.46

Format: 32 pages,

These six stories, written at the height of Camus' artistic powers, all depict people at decisive, … read more

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8. Man in the Dark

By: Paul Auster

4.14

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

Man in the Dark is Paul Auster's brilliant, devastating novel about the many realities we inhabit a… read more

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9. Travels in the Scriptorium

By: Paul Auster

3.26

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

A man pieces together clues to his past--and the identity of his captors--in this fantastic, labyri… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"These are treacherous times, and I know how easily perceptions can be twisted by a single word spoken into the wrong ear. Impugn a man's character, and everything that man does is made to seem underh…"

-Paul Auster, Travels in the Scriptorium

"Mr. Blank's old friend is acting up again, and because our hero is no longer wearing the cotton trousers and underpants and is quite naked under the pajama bottoms, there is no barrier to prevent Mr.…"

-Paul Auster, Travels in the Scriptorium

10. The Madman of Bergerac: Inspector Maigret #16

By: Ros Schwartz , Georges Simenon

3.79

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

A new translation of Simenon's tense novel, book fifteen in the new Penguin Maigret series. He reca… read more

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11. De donkere kamer van Damokles

By: Willem Frederik Hermans

3.80

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

De donkere kamer van Damokles vertelt het verhaal van Henri Osewoudt, sigarenhandelaar te Voorschot… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"Waarom zal ik mij moreel gedragen, als ik toch in ieder geval de doodstraf krijg? Iedereen krijgt nou eenmaal de doodstraf en iedereen weet het."

-Willem Frederik Hermans, De donkere kamer van Damokles

12. In the Country of Last Things

By: Paul Auster

3.16

Format: 192 pages,

A dystopian epistolary novel. In the Country of Last Things takes the form of a letter from a young… read more

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13. Max, Mischa & Tetoffensiven

By: Johan Harstad

4.43

Format: 1082 pages, Hardcover

MAX HANSEN er søvnløs i Midtvesten. Han er teaterinstruktør på turné tvers gjennom USA. Det kan vær… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"Det finnes ingen helter. Bare folk som gjør så godt de kan."

-Johan Harstad, Max, Mischa & Tetoffensiven

"Er zullen altijd mensen zijn die een mening hebben die zo min mogelijk moeite kost, zodat ze energie overhouden om het van de daken te schreeuwen."

-Johan Harstad, Max, Mischa & Tetoffensiven

"(...) omdat er een dag komt, veel eerder dan je voor mogelijk houdt, dat zielsverwant een woord is dat je uit aardigheid tegen elkaar zegt en niet noodzakelijkerwijs omdat het waar is, dat er een tij…"

-Johan Harstad, Max, Mischa & Tetoffensiven

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14. Luister

By: Sacha Bronwasser

3.95

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Het nieuws reisde snel, zoals dat soort nieuws doet. Ik wist dat het ook over jou ging zodra het ee… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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15. Giù nella valle

By: Paolo Cognetti

3.58

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Un padre ha piantato due alberi davanti alla sua casa, uno per ogni figlio. Il primo, un larice, … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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16. Le Silence et la Colère

By: Pierre Lemaitre

4.23

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

Un ogre de béton, une vilaine chute dans l’escalier, le Salon des arts ménagers, une grossesse prob… read more

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  • novels
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
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17. Abel. Un western metafisico

By: Alessandro Baricco

3.47

Format: 160 pages, ebook

Dopo La sposa giovane, Alessandro Baricco torna al romanzo con una storia spirituale, sapienziale, … read more

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  • fiction
"Di tutta la vita che si è vissuta e si vivrà - a saper aspettare, e prima che tutto si dissolva - si incontra il racconto, in attimi speciali, sulla propria strada"

-Alessandro Baricco, Abel. Un western metafisico

"Quella volta, Joshua mi rivelò un segreto che poi, come un seme, sarebbe germogliato in me, nel tempo di molti anni e molti dolorosi pensieri. Disse che dovevo stare molto attento perché sebbene la v…"

-Alessandro Baricco, Abel. Un western metafisico

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18. Trilogía

By: Jon Fosse

3.90

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Trilogía es un libro diferente. Es hipnótico. Para Jon Fosse escribir es como rezar y, para el lect… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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19. 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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  • novels
  • fiction
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20. Open

By: Philip Huff

3.14

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Op een veel te warme septembermiddag in 2020 trekt de verteller van Open de deur van het huis van z… read more

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"Ik wilde geen kinderen, want ik wilde geen verlenging van al het verdriet, geen goedkeuring van al het geweld. Zoals ik geen kinderen had, kon ik zeggen: 'Maar ik ben het fundamenteel oneens met deze…"

-Philip Huff, Open

"Ik wilde geen kinderen, want ik wilde geen verlenging van al het verdriet, geen goedkeuring van al het geweld. Zolang ik geen kinderen had, kon ik zeggen: 'Maar ik ben het fundamenteel oneens met dez…"

-Philip Huff, Open

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21. De onzichtbaren

By: Frank Nellen

3.88

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

Kiev, eind jaren tachtig. Het eens zo machtige Sovjetimperium wankelt. Tijdens een roerige debatavo… read more

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  • fiction
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22. Iemand anders

By: Nele Van den Broeck

3.79

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Sandra's wereld stort in wanneer ze via een simpele brief gedumpt wordt door haar echtgenoot Georg,… read more

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  • fiction
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23. The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books)

By: Carlos Ruiz Zafón

3.97

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Return to the mythical Barcelona library known as the Cemetery of Forgotten Books in this posthumou… read more

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  • fiction
"En un instante infinito la lluvia quedó suspendida en el aire, un millón de lágrimas de cristal flotando en el vacío, y vi al ángel besarla en la frente, sus labios marcando su piel como hierro cande…"

-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books)

"Era entonces cuando la gran silueta oscura aparecía a la puerta de la casa, un gran ángel con rostro de mármol que me miraba y sonreía como un lobo, desplegando sus alas negras sobre Blanca y envolvi…"

-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books)

"Siempre he envidiado la capacidad de olvidar que tienen algunas personas par alas cuales el pasado es como una muda de temporada o unos zapatos viejos a los que basta condenar en el fondo de un armar…"

-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books)

"Siempre he envidiado la capacidad de olvidar que tienen algunas personas para las cuales el pasado es como una muda de temporada o unos zapatos viejos a los que basta condenar en el fondo de un armar…"

-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books)

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24. De zeven vinkjes: hoe mannen zoals ik de baas spelen

By: Joris Luyendijk

3.62

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Stel: je kunt niet gediscrimineerd worden en je hoeft je nooit ergens aan te passen, omdat iedereen… read more

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25. Le Grand Monde

By: Pierre Lemaitre

4.10

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

La famille Pelletier Trois histoires d’amour, un lanceur d’alerte, une adolescente égarée, deux pr… read more

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  • novels
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
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26. Heatwave

By: Victor Jestin

3.16

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

A vivid, mesmerizing novel about a teenage boy on vacation who makes an irrevocable mistake and bec… read more

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  • novels
  • france
  • fiction
"Elle ne m'aime pas. Elle ne m'aime plus. J'ai mis l'éternité dans deux heures qui n'étaient rien pour elle, elle est partie laver son linge et elle est revenue."

-Victor Jestin, Heatwave

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27. Hebben en zijn

By: Dimitri Verhulst

3.60

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Malodot is dood. Na een fataal auto-ongeluk bevindt hij zich tot zijn verbazing in een kliniek waar… read more

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  • fiction
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28. Klokgelui (Dutch Edition)

By: Leo Pleysier

3.35

Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition

Een vriendengroep komt jaarlijks bijeen op een zomers terras. Het zijn bonte, drukke, door elkaar l… read more

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29. Untold Night and Day

By: Bae Suah

3.49

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A seductive, disorienting novel that manipulates the fragile line between dreams and reality, by So… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"In life there are wounds that like leprosy slowly eat away at the soul in solitude."

-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day

"The door swung back so suddenly it severed them from their shadows, which were left behind like dark ghosts."

-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day

"Whatever the intention or aim of the photographer, every photograph is a unique proof of identify, firmly declaring that human beings are ghosts."

-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day

"Whatever the intention or aim of the photographer, Wolfi thought, every photograph is a unique proof of identity, firmly declaring that human beings are ghosts."

-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day

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30. Vestiaire de l'enfance

By: Patrick Modiano

3.33

Format: 160 pages, Pocket Book

Un puertofranco, una ciudad queprobablementeesté en el Mediterráneo y que acaso pudiera ser Tánger.… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
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31. De lotgevallen

By: Sacha Bronwasser

3.89

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In De lotgevallen zien we hoe de lotsbestemming van de verschillende hoofdpersonen een onverwachte … read more

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22 Best fiction books like Vestiaire de l'enfance by Patrick Modiano

Transform Your Habits

The Literary Conference

César Aira , Katherine Silver

3.60

Transform Your Habits

Fräulein Else

Arthur Schnitzler , F.H. Lyon

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Everything I Found on the Beach

Cynan Jones

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Mr. Vertigo

Paul Auster

4.08

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Days in the History of Silence

Anne Bruce , Merethe Lindstrøm

3.53

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Shy

Max Porter

3.63

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W.

Tiemen Hiemstra

3.88

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Tosca

Maud Vanhauwaert

3.96

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