6 best-selling nonfiction books like Un roman russe by Emmanuel Carrère

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Un roman russe

By: Emmanuel Carrère

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

La folie et l'horreur ont obsédé ma vie. Les livres que j'ai écrits ne parlent de rien d'autre. Apr…

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Cover of A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again:  Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace

1. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

By: David Foster Wallace

4.15

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more

Similar categories in David Foster Wallace's A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments book and Emmanuel Carrère's Un roman russe

  • literature
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

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2. La ferocia

By: Nicola Lagioia

3.41

Format: 418 pages, Hardcover

In una calda notte di primavera, una giovane donna cammina nel centro esatto della strada statale. … read more

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  • literature
  • contemporary
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3. Un roman russe

By: Emmanuel Carrère

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

La folie et l'horreur ont obsédé ma vie. Les livres que j'ai écrits ne parlent de rien d'autre. Apr… read more

Similar categories in Emmanuel Carrère's Un roman russe book and Emmanuel Carrère's Un roman russe

  • roman
  • russia
  • biography
  • memoir
  • literature
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • french literature
  • contemporary
  • audiobook

4. Winter Journal

By: Paul Auster

3.82

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling novelist and author of The Invention of Solitude, a moving and highly personal… read more

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5. L'arte della gioia

By: Goliarda Sapienza

4.34

Format: None pages, Hardcover

L'arte della gioiae un libro postumo: giaceva da vent'anni abbandonato in una cassapanca e, dopo es… read more

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6. Triste tigre

By: Neige Sinno

4.23

Format: 283 pages, Paperback

J'ai voulu y croire, j'ai voulu rêver que le royaume de la littérature m'accueillerait comme n'impo… read more

Similar categories in Neige Sinno's Triste tigre book and Emmanuel Carrère's Un roman russe

  • roman
  • biography
  • memoir
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • french literature
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"C'est vrai qu'aucun [...] n'avait vu ce que nous pouvions voir nous, les enfants et ma mère, au sein du foyer, où il se comportait comme un tyran. Et c'est quand même ça qui ressort avant tout de cet…"

-Neige Sinno, Triste tigre

Cover of Baumgartner by Paul Auster

7. Baumgartner

By: Paul Auster

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more

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  • literature
  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

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8. Ferrovie del Messico

By: Gian Marco Griffi

4.10

Format: 824 pages, Paperback

Se cercate dell'avventura, in questo romanzo ne troverete a bizzeffe. Se cercate della letteratura,… read more

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  • audiobook
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9. L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra

By: Michael Bible

3.60

Format: 135 pages, ebook

Mentre tutti sono raccolti in preghiera, dall’ultima fila Iggy avanza verso il centro della chiesa.… read more

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  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"Quegli anni sono così malinconici e bizzarri. Per effetto del vento sembrava che le azalee levitassero a una spanna da terra. I cani dei vicini, Sale e Pepe, abbaiavano come due innamorati durante un…"

-Michael Bible, L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra

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10. Quando muori resta a me

By: Zerocalcare

4.57

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Un viaggio con suo padre verso il paesino tra le Dolomiti da cui proviene la famiglia paterna sareb… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of La vita è breve, eccetera by Veronica Raimo

11. La vita è breve, eccetera

By: Veronica Raimo

3.11

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Undici racconti irriverenti, comici e amari insieme, in cui le relazioni sono piene di spigoli, e l… read more

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  • audiobook
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12. What Happens at Night

By: Peter Cameron

3.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An unnamed American couple travels to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby. It’s a diffic… read more

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  • contemporary
Cover of The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut

13. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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  • literature
  • audiobook
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

Cover of Frontiera: perché sarà un nuovo secolo americano by Francesco Costa

14. Frontiera: perché sarà un nuovo secolo americano

By: Francesco Costa

3.79

Format: 290 pages, ebook

C'è una storia che ascoltiamo da un po' di tempo, e descrive la più grande superpotenza del pianeta… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of La llamada: Un retrato by Leila Guerriero

15. La llamada: Un retrato

By: Leila Guerriero

4.49

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Esta es una historia real, llena de aristas y sombras, sobre la condición humana. A fines de los s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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16. La ricreazione è finita

By: Dario Ferrari

4.24

Format: 480 pages, ebook

Marcello è un trentenne senza un vero lavoro, resiste ai tentativi della fidanzata di rinsaldare il… read more

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  • contemporary
Cover of The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis

17. The Shards

By: Bret Easton Ellis

4.00

Format: 595 pages, Hardcover

A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that t… read more

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  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"Non investivo nel mondo reale – perché avrei dovuto? Non era fatto per me o per i miei bisogni o desideri."

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"Eravamo adolescenti, bambini superficialmente sofisticati, che non sapevano davvero nulla di come funzionava il mondo - lo stavamo sperimentando, immagino, ma senza averne cognizione. Almeno fino a q…"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being …"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

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18. Animali notturni

By: Carlotta Vagnoli

3.10

Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition

Alla fine degli anni Zero, Milano è il centro dell' appena cala il sole, una generazione intera si … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of La casa del mago by Emanuele Trevi

19. La casa del mago

By: Emanuele Trevi

3.57

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

L'attesissimo ritorno al romanzo di Emanuele Trevi. « Emanuele Trevi, il figlio del «mago», è an… read more

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20. Legami

By: Eshkol Nevo

3.97

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

Dalla Simmetria dei desideri fino a Tre piani, Eshkol Nevo ha narrato delle infinite forme del desi… read more

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21. El matarife

By: Sándor Márai

3.65

Format: 105 pages, Paperback

Hijo de una humilde familia de guarnicioneros de Brandeburgo, la vida del niño Otto Schwarz da un v… read more

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8 Top contemporary books like Un roman russe by Emmanuel Carrère

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La ferocia

Nicola Lagioia

3.41

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3.67

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Triste tigre

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4.23

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3.78

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3.78

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Paolo Di Paolo

3.09

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Chiara Valerio

3.77

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Nicoletta Verna

4.57

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