5 Best nonfiction books like The Diary of Others: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1955-1966 by Anaïs Nin

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The Diary of Others: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1955-1966

By: Anaïs Nin

4.07

Format: 659 pages, Kindle Edition

The Diary of Others is the penultimate volume of a series of Anaïs Nin’s unexpurgated diaries, whic…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Diary of Others: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1955-1966 by Anaïs Nin , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library) by Virginia Woolf

1. The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

By: Virginia Woolf

3.75

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

Woolf’s first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and… read more

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"I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say."

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

"J'ai un faible pour les gens qui ne se décident pas à commencer quelque chose."

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

"I can’t imagine anything nicer than to sit out in the moonlight and listen to music—"

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

"Ce qu'on attend de l'être avec qui l'on vit c'est qu'il vous maintienne au niveau le plus élevé de vous-même."

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

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2. Jacob's Room

By: Virginia Woolf

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Virginia Woolf's first original and distinguished work, Jacob's Room is the story of a sensitive yo… read more

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"One must love everything."

-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

"Marvelous are the innocent. "

-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

"But language is wine upon his lips"

-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

"It is no use trying to sum people up."

-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

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3. A Pale View of Hills

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

3.79

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: This a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780571225378. In his highly acclaim… read more

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"Sisters are supposed to be people you’re close to, aren’t they. You may not like them much, but you’re still close to them."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

"It doesn’t matter how old someone is, it’s what they’ve experienced that counts. People can get to be a hundred and not experience a thing."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

"I’ve come to appreciate cooking over the years. It’s an art, I’m convinced of it, just as noble as painting or poetry. It’s not appreciated simply because the product disappears so quickly"

-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

"The Americans, they never understood the way things were in Japan. Not for one moment have they understood. Their ways may be fine for Americans, but in Japan things are different, very different."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

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4. Les Fleurs du Mal

By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more

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"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"I am the vampire at my own veins."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

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5. Kitchen

By: Banana Yoshimoto , Megan Backus

3.66

Format: 296 pages,

Banana Yoshimoto's novels have made her a sensation in Japan and all over the world, and Kitchen, t… read more

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6. The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

By: Carson McCullers

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers'… read more

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7. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

By: Anne Brontë , Stevie Davies

3.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

Note: Editions of The Tenant that start with: "You must go back with me..." are incomplete. Actual … read more

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8. A Moveable Feast

By: Ernest Hemingway

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast… read more

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9. Clock Without Hands

By: Carson McCullers

3.93

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

Set in Georgia on the eve of court-ordered integration, Clock Without Hands contains McCullers's mo… read more

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10. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

By: Laurence Sterne , Melvyn New

3.90

Format: 256 pages,

Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categoriz… read more

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11. Journal of a Solitude

By: May Sarton

3.91

Format: 2 pages, Paperback

"I am here alone for the first time in weeks," May Sarton begins this book, "to take up my 'real' l… read more

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12. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

By: Carson McCullers

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

With the publication of her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twe… read more

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13. Reflections in a Golden Eye

By: Carson McCullers

3.77

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

A powerful and passionate tale is set on a southern army post --a human hell inhabited by a sexuall… read more

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14. War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude , Henry Gifford

4.16

Format: 1392 pages, Paperback

In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Pe… read more

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"God is the same everywhere."

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Kings are the slaves of history."

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Everything depends on upbringing. "

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"We are asleep until we fall in Love!"

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

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15. Weather

By: Jenny Offill

3.55

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a v… read more

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"How do you know all this?"

-Jenny Offill, Weather

"They say when you're lonely you start to lose words."

-Jenny Offill, Weather

"Later, I remember to tell Ben about the girl. “Seconds!"

-Jenny Offill, Weather

"If only I’d remembered that old proverb: When three people say you are drunk, go to sleep. "

-Jenny Offill, Weather

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16. A Book of Days

By: Patti Smith

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winnin… read more

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17. Love, Pamela

By: Pamela Anderson

3.80

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

To live and dream is a wicked dance. My dreams often come true -- a curse, and a blessing. Pa… read more

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"She told me that you get to have only one true love, and once you've found it, whether you kept it or lost it, you'd never recover...Accepting that was the hardest part."

-Pamela Anderson, Love, Pamela

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18. The Absolution (Children's House, #3)

By: Yrsa Sigurdardottir

3.92

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Absolution is the third installment in Queen of Icelandic crime fiction Yrsa Sigurdardóttir's s… read more

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19. A Joyous Transformation: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1966-1977

By: Anas Nin

4.33

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

A Joyous Transformation marks the end of Anaïs Nin’s 35,000-page diary, the publication of which be… read more

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20. I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories

By: Laura van den Berg

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An urgent and unsettling collection of women on the verge from Laura van den Berg, author of The Th… read more

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"She was always telling people to shut the fuck up . It was a term of endearment."

-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories

"...this is the problem with translating experience into fiction, the way certain truths read like lies."

-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories

"I was an attentive child; the world seemed like a bewildering place and I wanted all the knowledge I could come by."

-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories

"Margot has always wanted to be the kind of person who can become too distraught to eat, but the truth is funerals make her hungry."

-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories

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21. The Diary of Others: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1955-1966

By: Anaïs Nin

4.07

Format: 659 pages, Kindle Edition

The Diary of Others is the penultimate volume of a series of Anaïs Nin’s unexpurgated diaries, whic… read more

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Flannery O'Connor

3.83

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Bill Pronzini , David Goodis

3.87

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