11 best-selling fiction books like Platform by Michel Houellebecq

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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…

"Tout peut arriver dans la vie, et surtout rien."

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

"Tout peut arriver dans la vie, et surtout rien."

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

"Anything can happen in life, especially nothing."

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

"Anything can happen in life, especially nothing."

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

If you liked the fiction plot in Platform by Michel Houellebecq , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim

1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being

By: Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I want you to be weak. As weak as I am."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"Physical love is unthinkable without violence."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"Only the most naive of questions are truly serious."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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2. Against Nature

By: Joris-Karl Huysmans , Patrick McGuinness , Robert Baldick , Patrick McGuiness

3.87

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

With a title translated either as Against Natureor as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-d… read more

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  • literature
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
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3. La forja de un rebelde

By: Arturo Barea

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Una obra tan esencial para entender la Espana del siglo XX como indispensable es la lectura de Tols… read more

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4. 99 francs (14,99 Euros)

By: Frédéric Beigbeder

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

En ce temps-la, on mettait des photographies geantes de produits sur les murs, les arrets d'autobus… read more

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  • roman
  • literature
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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5. Immortality

By: Milan Kundera

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

This breathtaking, reverberating survey of human nature finds Kundera still attempting to work out … read more

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  • literature
  • france
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"The reign of imagology begins where history ends"

-Milan Kundera, Immortality

"واحسرتاه! ففي حالة الحب يكفي القليل جداً لزرع اليأس في النفس!."

-Milan Kundera, Immortality

"To be absolutely modern is to be the ally of one's grave diggers."

-Milan Kundera, Immortality

"I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them."

-Milan Kundera, Immortality

6. The Loser

By: Thomas Bernhard , Jack Dawson

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovatio… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction

7. Woodcutters

By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This controversial portrayal of Viennese artistic circles begins as the writer-narrator arrives at … read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
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8. Concrete

By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Instead of the book he's meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this tale of pr… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take On Each Other and the World by Michel Houellebecq, Frank Wynne, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Miriam Rachel Frendo

9. 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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  • france
  • french literature
  • contemporary
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10. Limonov

By: Emmanuel Carrère

4.27

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

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  • literature
  • france
  • french literature

11. Una novelita lumpen

By: Roberto Bolaño

4.32

Format: 650 pages, Paperback

The Final Bolano Novella "Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of c… read more

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12. Min kamp 3 (Min kamp #3)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

3.97

Format: 434 pages, Hardcover

MIN KAMP 3 er en roman om barndom. En familie pa fire, mor, far og to drenge flytter til et hus i e… read more

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13. Journey to the End of the Night

By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim , William T. Vollmann

4.19

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of soci… read more

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  • roman
  • literature
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
  • novels
"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"When you write, you should put your skin on the table."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"Sonuçta savaş dediğiniz şey, anlamadığınız ne varsa odur"

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

14. Less Than Zero

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait o… read more

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15. Bouvard and Pecuchet

By: Gustave Flaubert , Raymond Queneau , Αχιλλέας Κυριακίδης , None

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

In his own words, the novel is "a kind of encyclopedia made into farce ... A book in which I shall … read more

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16. 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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  • roman
  • literature
  • travel
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century
  • sexuality
  • novels
"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

17. Portnoy's Complaint

By: Philip Roth , Luca Marinelli

3.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy, who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexualit… read more

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18. Guerre

By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline

3.79

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Parmi les manuscrits de Louis-Ferdinand Céline récemment retrouvés figurait une liasse de deux cent… read more

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  • novels
"A tant d’années passées le souvenir des choses, bien précisément, c’est un effort. Ce que les gens ont dit c’est presque tourné des mensonges. Faut se méfier. C’est putain le passé, ça fond dans la r…"

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre

"J’ai bien dû rester là encore une partie de la nuit suivante. Toute l’oreille à gauche était collée par terre avec du sang, la bouche aussi. Entre les deux y avait un bruit immense. J’ai dormi dans c…"

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre

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19. Yoga

By: Emmanuel Carrère

3.87

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

C'est l'histoire d'un livre sur le yoga et la dépression. La méditation et le terrorisme. L'aspirat… read more

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  • roman
  • france
  • french literature
  • contemporary
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20. Finally, Some Good News

By: Delicious Tacos

3.88

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

Two birdwatchers survive a nuclear holocaust. read more

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6 must-read contemporary books like Platform by Michel Houellebecq

Transform Your Habits

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

Transform Your Habits

99 francs (14,99 Euros)

Frédéric Beigbeder

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Immortality

Milan Kundera

4.14

Transform Your Habits

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

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

4.25

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18 Top fiction books like Guerre by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

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La Prisonnière

Marcel Proust

4.29

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Malevil

Robert Merle

4.25

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A Matter оf Death аnd Life

Andrey Kurkov

3.69

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The Lime Works

Thomas Bernhard , Sophie Wilkins

3.73

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