7 must-read noir books like C'est la Vie by Pascal Garnier

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C'est la Vie

By: Pascal Garnier

3.64

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Tough, bloody stuff, but put together with a cunning intelligence’ Sunday Times 'Happiness for t…

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1. Trout Fishing in America

By: Richard Brautigan

3.76

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Richard Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960s and 1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vi… read more

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  • fiction
"His eyes were like the shoelaces of a harpsichord."

-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

"USED TROUT STREAM FOR SALE. MUST BE SEEN TO BE APPRECIATED."

-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

"We were all silent except for blink, blink, blink, blink, blink."

-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

"You're not fooling anyone by taking your clothes off when you go to bed."

-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

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2. The Ice Palace

By: Tarjei Vesaas , Elizabeth Rokkan

3.86

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Commonly seen as the legendary Norwegian writer's masterpiece, this story tells the tale of Siss an… read more

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  • fiction
"The promise was a strong tie, hard, but I knew where I stood. If it's gone, I don't know where I am. When there's a strong scent in the spring twilight, I know least of all."

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

"The darkness at the sides of the road. It possesses neither form nor name, but whoever passes here knows when it comes out and follows after and sends shudders like rippling streams down his back."

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

"Lovnad i djupaste snøen frå Siss til Unn: Det lovar eg deg at eg ikkje vil tenke på noko anna enn deg. Tenke på alt eg veit om deg. Tenke på deg heime og på skolen, og på skolevegen. Tenke på deg hei…"

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

"Four eyes full of gleams and radiance beneath their lashes, filling the looking-glass. Questions shooting out and then hiding again. I don't know: Gleams and radiance, gleaming from you to me, from m…"

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

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3. So Long, See You Tomorrow

By: William Maxwell

3.91

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

On an Illinois farm in the 1920s, a man is murdered, and in the same moment the tenuous friendship … read more

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  • fiction
"His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope."

-William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow

"Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera."

-William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow

"A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own."

-William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow

"I don't know what she looked like. Most farm women of her age were reduced by hard work and frequent child-bearing to a common denominator of plainness."

-William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow

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4. In caso di disgrazia

By: Georges Simenon , Laura Colombo

3.77

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

La sera in cui Lucien Gobillot - uno dei piu celebri avvocati di Parigi, la cui brillante carriera … read more

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  • france
  • noir
  • fiction
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5. L'Homme aux cercles bleus (Commissaire Adamsberg, #1)

By: Fred Vargas

4.31

Format: None pages,

Depuis quatre mois, des cercles bleus surgissent la nuit, traces a la craie sur les trottoirs de Pa… read more

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  • france
  • fiction
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6. Imperium (Cicero, #1)

By: Robert Harris

4.13

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

When Tiro, the confidential secretary (and slave) of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified… read more

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  • fiction
"What a terrible audit Death lays upon a man."

-Robert Harris, Imperium (Cicero, #1)

"Few subjects make more tedious reading than happiness."

-Robert Harris, Imperium (Cicero, #1)

"Since when has idiocy been a bar to advancement in politics?"

-Robert Harris, Imperium (Cicero, #1)

"Tak usah cemas, akan banyak waktu untuk tidur setelah kita mati."

-Robert Harris, Imperium (Cicero, #1)

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7. A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1)

By: Chester Himes

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

A Rage in Harlemis a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling N… read more

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  • noir
  • fiction
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8. The Immoralist

By: André Gide , David Watson , Alan Sheridan

3.55

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

In The Immoralist, André Gide presents the confessional account of a man seeking the truth of his o… read more

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  • france
  • fiction
"Existing is occupation enough."

-André Gide, The Immoralist

"إنني اترك الماضي خلفي بعيدا كأنه عصفور يطير ويترك ظله."

-André Gide, The Immoralist

"Nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness."

-André Gide, The Immoralist

"Aynı zamanda hem içten olmak, hem de öyle görünmek olası değil."

-André Gide, The Immoralist

9. Sanctuary (Jack Taylor, #7)

By: Ken Bruen

3.85

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

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  • noir
  • fiction

10. Lacci

By: Domenico Starnone

3.88

Format: 588 pages, Hardcover

Che cosa lasciamo, quando lasciamo qualcuno? Una casa, una famiglia, il passato, un'idea di futuro,… read more

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11. The Wicked Go To Hell

By: David Coward , Frédéric Dard

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

A cop receives a mission - to win the confidence of an enemy spy, currently in prison, and so to ex… read more

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12. Cross (Jack Taylor, #6)

By: Ken Bruen

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Hardcover

cross/krs/ n., v., & adj. 1 an ancient instrument of torture 2 in a very bad humour 3 a punch thro… read more

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13. Snow Country

By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker

3.59

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's mast… read more

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  • fiction
"국경의 긴 터널을 빠져나오자, 雪國이었다."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"Nothing is so strange when one is in love."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"In the moonlight the fine geishalike skin took on the luster of a seashell."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"The notes went out crystalline into the clean winter morning, to sound on the far, snowy peaks."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

14. Priest (Jack Taylor, #5)

By: Ken Bruen

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Jack Taylor, o violento e compulsivo ex-policia alcoolatra, que sofre estranhas agonias nas narrati… read more

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15. Idol, Burning

By: Rin Usami

3.23

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The novel that lit the Japanese publishing world on fire: From a breathtaking up-and-coming writer,… read more

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  • fiction
"His existence and my witnessing of it were all I asked for."

-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning

"Maybe that was how a home broke down over the years, as the sound of doors slamming and chairs roughly scraping the floor built up like dust, and the slow drip of gnashing teeth and resentful grumbli…"

-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning

"Idol groups generally assigned each member an official color, which would be used for the light sticks that fans would hold up to show your support at a performance or for other individual merch. My …"

-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning

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16. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Cover of A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2) by Alix E. Harrow

17. A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

By: Alix E. Harrow

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A Mirror Mended is the next installment in USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's Fractured … read more

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  • fiction
"You have to make the best of whatever story you were born into, and if your story happens to suck ass, well, maybe you can do some good before you go."

-Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

"everybody knows that happily is never really ever after. The truth is buried in the phrase itself, if you look it up. The original version was “happy in the ever after,"

-Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

"The mirror showed me you, out of all the possible people in all the universes,' It sounds almost like an apology. 'Why?' 'Well, what were you doing at the time?' 'I was looking into the mirror, obvio…"

-Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

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18. 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
  • fiction
Cover of The Other Half (DI Caius Beauchamp, #1) by Charlotte Vassell

19. The Other Half (DI Caius Beauchamp, #1)

By: Charlotte Vassell

3.35

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

You know how they live. This is how they die... Rupert's 30th birthday party is a black-tie dinn… read more

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  • fiction
"No one used the phrase "force of nature" in a positive way. It's meant for floods, and volcanoes, and hurricanes. I'm a woman, not a geographical phenomenon."

-Charlotte Vassell, The Other Half (DI Caius Beauchamp, #1)

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20. Recitatif

By: Toni Morrison

4.31

Format: 19 pages, Audiobook

A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more

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  • fiction
"Difficult to “move on"

-Toni Morrison, Recitatif

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21. Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

By: Mary L. Trump

3.82

Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition

In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, M… read more

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22. A Man Named Doll (Happy Doll #1)

By: Jonathan Ames

3.69

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Happy Doll is a charming, if occasionally inexpert, private detective living just one sheer cliff b… read more

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  • noir
  • fiction
Cover of Atlanta Deathwatch (Hardman #1) by Ralph Dennis

23. Atlanta Deathwatch (Hardman #1)

By: Ralph Dennis

4.07

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

The first novel in the unforgettable, long lost series by Ralph Dennis is finally back in print… af… read more

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  • noir
  • fiction
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24. The Wheel of Doll

By: Jonathan Ames

3.91

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The eponymous and hapless detective Happy Doll returns with a new philosophy and a new case in this… read more

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  • noir
  • fiction
Cover of Killing Jericho (Scott Jericho #1) by Will Harker

25. Killing Jericho (Scott Jericho #1)

By: Will Harker

3.98

Format: 419 pages, Kindle Edition

Murder this twisted demands a new kind of detective Fresh out of prison, former Detective Consta… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Ich verliebe mich so leicht by Hervé Le Tellier

26. Ich verliebe mich so leicht

By: Hervé Le Tellier

3.08

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Wie in dem Bestseller Die Anomalie beginnt auch hier alles in einem Flugzeug. Ein bis über beide Oh… read more

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  • fiction
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27. Les Suicidés

By: Georges Simenon

3.21

Format: 160 pages, Pocket Book

Hard to Find book read more

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  • fiction
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28. French Windows

By: Antoine Laurain

3.72

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Bringing his trademark style and charming whimsy, Antoine Laurain’s new novel of intrigue, murder a… read more

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  • france
  • fiction
Cover of Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1) by Katherine Rundell

29. Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

By: Katherine Rundell

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.… read more

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  • fiction
"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"Nighthand grunted, and signalled for another bottle of wine. "Are you sure?" said Irian. "Shouldn't we keep our wits about us?" "I see no reason to. I prefer the world drunk. It disappoints me less."…"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

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30. The Last Yakuza: Life and Death in the Japanese Underworld

By: Jake Adelstein

3.87

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it’s never been told before in this gripping, … read more

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31. C'est la Vie

By: Pascal Garnier

3.64

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Tough, bloody stuff, but put together with a cunning intelligence’ Sunday Times 'Happiness for t… read more

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  • france
  • noir
  • fiction

24 must-read fiction books like C'est la Vie by Pascal Garnier

Transform Your Habits

Trout Fishing in America

Richard Brautigan

3.76

Transform Your Habits

The Ice Palace

Tarjei Vesaas , Elizabeth Rokkan

3.86

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So Long, See You Tomorrow

William Maxwell

3.91

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In caso di disgrazia

Georges Simenon , Laura Colombo

3.77

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The Getaway

Jim Thompson

2.67

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The Secret Hours

Mick Herron

4.29

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Ozark Dogs

Eli Cranor

3.72

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Everybody Knows

Jordan Harper

3.76

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