7 Top philosophy books like Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take On Each Other and the World by Michel Houellebecq, Frank Wynne, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Miriam Rachel Frendo

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Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take On Each Other and the World

By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne , Bernard-Henri Lévy , Miriam Rachel Frendo

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

The international publishing sensation is now available in the United States--two brilliant, contro…

If you liked the philosophy plot in Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take On Each Other and the World by Michel Houellebecq, Frank Wynne, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Miriam Rachel Frendo , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. La carte et le territoire

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.95

Format: 428 pages, Paperback

Si Jed Martin, le personnage principal de ce roman, devait vous en raconter l’histoire, il commence… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • contemporary
"Sexuality is a fragile thing: it is difficult to enter, and easy to leave."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

"Jed then realized that he was standing in a book, and wondered if this book told the story of his life."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

"Las flores son sólo órganos sexuales, vaginas abigarradas que adornan la superficie del mundo, entregadas a la lubricidad de los insectos."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

"Ciudată e uneori omenirea. Din nefericire, cel mai adesea era genul ciudată și respingătoare, și doar arareori de genul ciudat și încântător."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

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2. The Elementary Particles

By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–pa… read more

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  • philosophy
  • france
  • french literature
  • contemporary
"He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"J'aurais pu adhérer au Front National, mais à quoi bon manger de la choucroute avec des cons?"

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

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3. The Possibility of an Island

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.80

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A worldwide phenomenon and the most important French novelist since Albert Camus, Michel Houellebec… read more

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  • philosophy
  • france
  • french literature
  • contemporary
"La solitude à deux est l'enfer consenti."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island

"Si la sincérité, en elle-même, n'est rien, elle est la condition de tout."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island

"Et l'amour, où tout est facile, Où tout est donné dans l'instant; Il existe au milieu du temps La possibilité d'une île."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island

"The dream of all men is to meet little sluts who are innocent but ready for all forms of depravity—which is what, more or less, all teenage girls are."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island

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4. Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take On Each Other and the World

By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne , Bernard-Henri Lévy , Miriam Rachel Frendo

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

The international publishing sensation is now available in the United States--two brilliant, contro… read more

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  • cultural
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • essays
  • contemporary
  • french literature
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5. Min kamp 1 (Min kamp #1)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

4.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Min kamp ar Karl Ove Knausgards maktiga sjalvbiografiska roman. Forsta delen inleds med en svepande… read more

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  • contemporary
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6. So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood

By: Patrick Modiano , Euan Cameron

4.19

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

A haunting novel of suspense from the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature In the stillness… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
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Paul Hammond

7. Whatever

By: Michel Houellebecq , Paul Hammond

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par exce… read more

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  • philosophy
  • france
  • french literature
  • contemporary
"En su lugar, una víbora ya se habría suicidado."

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

"Me considero un tipo normal. Bueno, puede que no exactamente, pero ¿Quién lo es exactamente? Digamos que soy normal al 80%."

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

"Il me dit: « Vous avez dû avoir peur. » Je réponds oui pour ne pas faire d'histoires, mais en fait je n'ai pas eu peur du tout, j'ai juste eu l'impression que j'allais crever dans les prochaines minu…"

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

"Een vrouw die in de handen van de psychoanalytici is gevallen wordt totaal en voorgoed onbruikbaar. Dat fenomeen moet niet als een neveneffect van de psychoanalyse worden beschouwd maar wel degelijk …"

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

8. Lanzarote

By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne

4.11

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

Realising that his New Year is probably going to be a disaster, as usual, our narrator, on impulse,… read more

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9. H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life

By: Stephen King , Michel Houellebecq , None

4.11

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

In this prescient work, Michel Houellebecq focuses his considerable analytical skills on H. P. Love… read more

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10. Rester vivant: et autres textes

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Un poete mort n'ecrit plus. D'ou l'importance de rester vivant." Toute demarche poetique consistan… read more

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11. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis

4.15

Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback

«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more

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  • french literature
"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

12. Le Royaume

By: Emmanuel Carrère

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Le Royaume raconte l'histoire des debuts de la chretiente, vers la fin du Ier siecle apres Jesus Ch… read more

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13. Platform

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.80

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • contemporary
"Tout peut arriver dans la vie, et surtout rien."

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

"Anything can happen in life, especially nothing."

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

"L'absence d'envie de vivre, hélas, ne suffit pas pour avoir envie de mourir."

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

"Als ik de liefde niet heb begrepen, wat heb ik er dan aan om de rest te begrijpen?"

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

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14. Soumission

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.65

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s’engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu mot… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • contemporary
"It’s submission,"

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"There is no Israel for me."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"Intimacy isn’t something men talk about."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"I was about as political as a bath towel."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

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15. The Magic Mountain

By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods

4.13

Format: 706 pages, Paperback

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more

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  • philosophy
"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

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16. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • france
  • french literature
  • contemporary
"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

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17. Serotonin

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.58

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

»Es ist nicht die Zukunft, es ist die Gegenwart, die dich tötet, die wiederkommt, um an dir zu nage… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • contemporary
"[...] chiaramente sto semplificando ma se non si semplifica non si conclude niente."

-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

"nic nas nie koi równie łatwo jak świadomość innych niż nasze dramatów, które nam zostały oszczędzone"

-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

"An atmosphere of general catastrophe always alleviates individual catastrophe- that's probably why suicides are so rare in wartime"

-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

"... it isn't the future but past that kills you, that comes back to torment and undermine you, and effectively ends up killing you."

-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

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18. Anéantir

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.84

Format: 734 pages, Hardcover

Ce roman de Michel Houellebecq nous projette à la fin du second mandat du président à travers un ré… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • contemporary
"La prise de vues donnait une étrange impression de neutralité."

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

"Les chrétiens ont du mal en général, avec l’absurde, ça n’entre pas vraiment dans leurs catégories."

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

"Certains lundis de la toute fin novembre, ou du début de décembre, surtout lorsqu'on est célibataire, on a la sensation d'être dans le couloir de la mort. Les vacances d'été sont depuis longtemps oub…"

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

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19. Interventions 2020

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.58

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

« 55 % de ce volume figurait déjà dans la deuxième édition d'Interventions, parue en 2009. Cette tr… read more

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  • philosophy
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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20. En présence de Schopenhauer

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.41

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

L’oeuvre de Michel Houellebecq est marquée par la pensée de Schopenhauer. Il ne cesse de se réclame… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • french literature
  • essays
Cover of Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie

21. Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020

By: Salman Rushdie

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Newly collected, revised, and expanded nonfiction--including many texts never previously in print--… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame."

-Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020

"…Shakespeare is both my door knocker and the owner of the domains to which the knock admits me, at once my Virgil opening the gates of hell and heaven, and the devil, and God, and I say this as a per…"

-Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020

"In America, if you dismiss religion from a lecture podium, you often hear noises of shock: gasps, sharp intakes of breath. In America, you can't be elected dogcatcher if you can't prove that you go t…"

-Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020

"Christopher came to believe that the people who understood the dangers posed by radical Islam were on the right, that his erstwhile comrades on the left were arranging with one another to miss what s…"

-Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020

11 best-selling contemporary books like Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take On Each Other and the World by Michel Houellebecq, Frank Wynne, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Miriam Rachel Frendo

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La carte et le territoire

Michel Houellebecq

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Elementary Particles

Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Possibility of an Island

Michel Houellebecq

3.80

Transform Your Habits

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Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne , Bernard-Henri Lévy , Miriam Rachel Frendo

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17 Top fiction books like Min kamp 1 (Min kamp #1) by Karl Ove Knausgård

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The Elementary Particles

Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne

3.80

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Karl Ove Knausgård

4.11

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Hunger

Knut Hamsun , George Egerton

4.05

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Soumission

Michel Houellebecq

3.65

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