13 Top feminism books like Inseparable by Simone de Beauvoir

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Inseparable

By: Simone de Beauvoir

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A never-before-published novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood fr…

"How old do you have to be to think: this is forever?"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"She was often late, not because she didn't care, but because she had too many contradictory cares."

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"I didn't understand: you don't believe what you believe on purpose. Could you be punished because certain ideas come into your mind?"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"to fight against time, against forgetting, against death, to do justice to this absolute presence of the instant, to this eternity of the instant, which will have been forever"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

If you liked the feminism plot in Inseparable by Simone de Beauvoir , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Days of Abandonment

By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.87

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

A national bestseller for almost an entire year, The Days of Abandonment shocked and captivated its… read more

Similar categories in Elena Ferrante's The Days of Abandonment book and Simone de Beauvoir's Inseparable

  • feminism
  • literary fiction
  • womens
  • fiction
"I'm dead, but I'm fine."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

"The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can't understand."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

"We don't know anything about people, even those with whom we share everything."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

"Success depends on the capacity to manipulate the obvious with calculated precision."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

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2. Things I Don't Want to Know

By: Deborah Levy

4.09

Format: 109 pages, Hardcover

'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Levy's Things I Don't Want to Know book and Simone de Beauvoir's Inseparable

  • feminism
  • womens
"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

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3. Giovanni’s Room

By: James Baldwin

4.33

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Set in the contemporary Paris of American  expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds  h… read more

Similar categories in James Baldwin's Giovanni’s Room book and Simone de Beauvoir's Inseparable

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • queer
"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

4. The Lost Daughter

By: Elena Ferrante

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more

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5. The Way We Live Now

By: Susan Sontag

3.96

Format: 332 pages, Paperback

Depois que um jovem antiquario bissexual contrai o virus HIV, um grupo de amigos se mobiliza para a… read more

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6. Happening

By: Annie Ernaux

4.32

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plag… read more

Similar categories in Annie Ernaux's Happening book and Simone de Beauvoir's Inseparable

  • feminism
  • france
  • french literature
  • womens
  • audiobook
"There is no such thing as a lesser truth."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"I was intoxicated, wrapped up in wordless intelligence."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"People judged according to the law, they didn't judge the law."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"love children are the most beautiful of all.' What a terrible statement."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

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7. A Girl's Story

By: Annie Ernaux

3.89

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernau… read more

Similar categories in Annie Ernaux's A Girl's Story book and Simone de Beauvoir's Inseparable

  • feminism
  • womens
  • france
  • french literature
"Un été immense comme ils le sont tous jusqu'à vingt-cinq ans"

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

"Everywhere on earth, with every day that dawns, a woman stands surrounded by men ready to throw stones at her."

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

"At this very moment, out in the streets, the open spaces, on the metro, in lecture halls, and inside millions of heads, millions of novels are being written chapter by chapter, erased and revised, an…"

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

"Aucun autre projet d’écriture ne me paraît, non pas lumineux, ni nouveau, encore moins heureux, mais vital, capable de me faire vivre au-dessus du temps. Juste « profiter de la vie » est une perspect…"

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

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8. Inseparable

By: Simone de Beauvoir

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A never-before-published novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood fr… read more

Similar categories in Simone de Beauvoir's Inseparable book and Simone de Beauvoir's Inseparable

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • feminism
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • womens
  • queer
"How old do you have to be to think: this is forever?"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"She was often late, not because she didn't care, but because she had too many contradictory cares."

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"I didn't understand: you don't believe what you believe on purpose. Could you be punished because certain ideas come into your mind?"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"to fight against time, against forgetting, against death, to do justice to this absolute presence of the instant, to this eternity of the instant, which will have been forever"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

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9. Und alle so still

By: Mareike Fallwickl

4.29

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

Was wäre, wenn alle Frauen sich verweigern und in einen Care-Streik treten würden? Ein großer femin… read more

Similar categories in Mareike Fallwickl's Und alle so still book and Simone de Beauvoir's Inseparable

  • feminism
  • womens
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Windstärke 17

By: Caroline Wahl

4.49

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Ida hat nichts bei sich außer dem alten, verschrammten Hartschalenkoffer ihrer Mutter, ein paar Lie… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Wahl's Windstärke 17 book and Simone de Beauvoir's Inseparable

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. ‎22 Bahnen

By: Caroline Wahl

4.36

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Tildas Tage sind strikt durchgetaktet: studieren, an der Supermarktkasse sitzen, sich um ihre klein… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Wahl's ‎22 Bahnen book and Simone de Beauvoir's Inseparable

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. Die Wut, die bleibt

By: Mareike Fallwickl

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Aufwühlend, wütend, hellsichtig: Mareike Fallwickls neuer Roman. Helene, Mutter von drei Kindern… read more

Similar categories in Mareike Fallwickl's Die Wut, die bleibt book and Simone de Beauvoir's Inseparable

  • feminism
  • womens
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

By: Deborah Levy

4.18

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-tim… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Levy's The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography book and Simone de Beauvoir's Inseparable

  • feminism
  • womens
"Sometimes we want to unbelong as much as we want to belong."

-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

"It was a big release from the terror of death to finally acknowledge that it is also always absurd."

-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

"I might one day risk falling in love again, but I was not going to lose my heart to the cardiologist."

-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

"To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life."

-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

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14. The Years

By: Annie Ernaux

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more

Similar categories in Annie Ernaux's The Years book and Simone de Beauvoir's Inseparable

  • feminism
  • france
  • french literature
  • audiobook
"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

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15. Iowa: Ein Ausflug nach Amerika

By: Stefanie Sargnagel

4.18

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

2022 tauscht Stefanie Sargnagel widerstrebend das bequeme Wiener Sofa gegen ein Flugticket in die U… read more

Similar categories in Stefanie Sargnagel's Iowa: Ein Ausflug nach Amerika book and Simone de Beauvoir's Inseparable

  • feminism
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16. Hässlichkeit

By: Moshtari Hilal

4.46

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

Vom Sehen und Gesehenwerden, von Selbstbildern und Selbstzweifeln – Moshtari Hilal schreibt über Hä… read more

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  • feminism
  • womens
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17. Issa

By: Mirrianne Mahn

4.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

«Ich kenne ihre Geschichten so gut, dass ich manchmal glaube, ich hätte sie selbst erlebt.» Eige… read more

Similar categories in Mirrianne Mahn's Issa book and Simone de Beauvoir's Inseparable

  • feminism
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. Klarkommen

By: Ilona Hartmann

3.65

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

»Ich wollte wirklich gerne meine Jugend verschwenden, aber doch nicht so.« »Klarkommen« erzählt … read more

Similar categories in Ilona Hartmann's Klarkommen book and Simone de Beauvoir's Inseparable

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. Schlafen

By: Theresia Enzensberger

3.25

Format: 113 pages, ebook

Das Leben Theresia Enzensbergers Buch ist ein philosophischer Streifzug durch die Nacht – und eine… read more

Similar categories in Theresia Enzensberger's Schlafen book and Simone de Beauvoir's Inseparable

  • audiobook
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20. Liebe Enkel oder Die Kunst der Zuversicht

By: Gabriele von Arnim

3.74

Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition

»Es gehört zum Wesen der Hoffnung, dass sie enttäuscht werden kann, sonst wäre sie ja Zuversicht«, … read more

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21. "Einige Herren sagten etwas dazu": Die Autorinnen der Gruppe 47 (German Edition)

By: Nicole Seifert

4.63

Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition

Nicole Seifert erzählt die Geschichte der Gruppe 47 aus einer neuen der der Frauen. Ihr Ergebnis k… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Seifert's "Einige Herren sagten etwas dazu": Die Autorinnen der Gruppe 47 (German Edition) book and Simone de Beauvoir's Inseparable

  • feminism
  • womens

9 Best fiction books like Inseparable by Simone de Beauvoir

Transform Your Habits

The Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Giovanni’s Room

James Baldwin

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Inseparable

Simone de Beauvoir

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Und alle so still

Mareike Fallwickl

4.29

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18 Top fiction books like Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

Transform Your Habits

Play It As It Lays

Joan Didion , David Thomson

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

4.12

Transform Your Habits

The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Transform Your Habits

White Nights

Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

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