6 best-selling classics books like The Vain Tenderness by Sully Prudhomme

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The Vain Tenderness

By: Sully Prudhomme

3.31

Format: 106 pages, Kindle Edition

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Cover of Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3) by Jeff VanderMeer

1. Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.64

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, reb… read more

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  • fiction
"What does the border look like?"

-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

"I hope to find Area X in Area X."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

"The time for expeditions was over."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

"Was this first contact, or last contact?"

-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

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2. The Circle of Karma

By: Kunzang Choden

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

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  • fiction
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3. 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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  • literature
Cover of The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7) by C.S. Lewis

4. The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)

By: C.S. Lewis

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

For the first time, an edition of Lewis's classic fantasy fiction packaged specifically for adults.… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"My sister Susan,"

-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)

"Do you think I care if Aslan dooms me to death?"

-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)

"But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan."

-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)

". . .[W]e have all been blind. We are only beginning to see. . . ."

-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)

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5. Offshore

By: Penelope Fitzgerald

3.91

Format: 736 pages,

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found  On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a m… read more

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

6. 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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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness by Epictetus, Sharon Lebell

7. The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness

By: Epictetus , Sharon Lebell

3.37

Format: None pages,

Epictetus was born into slavery about 55 C.E. in the eastern outreaches of the Roman Empire. Sold a… read more

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8. 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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9. Revenge

By: Yōko Ogawa , Stephen Snyder

4.26

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Sinister forces draw together a cast of desperate characters in this eerie and absorbing novel from… read more

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10. A History of Rome

By: Theodor Mommsen

3.21

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

The classical historian Theodor Mommsen (1817 1903) published his monumental History of Rome betwee… read more

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11. Paradise

By: Abdulrazak Gurnah

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

Paradise is at once the story of an African boy's coming of age, a tragic love story, and a tale of… read more

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12. Bonjour tristesse

By: Françoise Sagan

3.72

Format: 154 pages, Mass Market Paperback

(English follows French) La villa est magnifique, l'été brûlant, la Méditerranée toute proche. C… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • france
  • fiction
"Je serais intelligente, cultivée, un peu détachée, comme Anne."

-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

"Il est très vaniteux ou très peu sûr de lui, comme vous voulez."

-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

"Bet juk taip malonu paklusti savo impulsams, o paskui gailėtis..."

-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

"Et de plus, Cyril m'aimait ... cette pensée suffisait à mon euphorie."

-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

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13. The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

By: John Buchan

3.60

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Adventurer Richard Hannay, just returned from South Africa, is thoroughly bored with London life—un… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle."

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

"If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing"

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

"I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place."

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

"All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I have always fancied I had a kind of instinct about questions like thi…"

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

14. Ali and Nino: A Love Story

By: Kurban Said

4.10

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

First published in Vienna in 1937, this classic story of romance and adventure has been compared to… read more

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15. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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16. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.87

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"I would like to belong but I dont."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

Cover of A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough

17. A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

By: David Attenborough

4.51

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

See the world. Then make it better. I am 94. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that … read more

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"Give and take, that is the essence of what balance is all about."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

"It seems that, however grave our mistakes, nature will be able to overcome them, given the chance."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves. With or without us, the wild will return."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

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18. Parwana: Recipes and Stories from an Afghan Kitchen

By: Durkhanai Ayubi

4.32

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Art of Eating Prize for best food book of the year 2021 Winner of The Guild of Foo… read more

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19. The Vain Tenderness

By: Sully Prudhomme

3.31

Format: 106 pages, Kindle Edition

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  • poetry
  • nobel prize
  • classics
  • literature
  • france
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12 must-read fiction books like The Vain Tenderness by Sully Prudhomme

Transform Your Habits

Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

Jeff VanderMeer

3.64

Transform Your Habits

The Circle of Karma

Kunzang Choden

4.29

None

Juan Rulfo , Margaret Sayers Peden , Susan Sontag

None

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The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)

C.S. Lewis

4.01

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12 Best fiction books like Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald

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The Finkler Question

Howard Jacobson

2.83

Transform Your Habits

The Photograph

Penelope Lively

3.38

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Troubles (Empire Trilogy, #1)

John Banville , J.G. Farrell

3.83

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The Sea, the Sea

Iris Murdoch , Mary Kinzie

3.66

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