5 must-read essays books like I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture by Annie Ernaux

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I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture

By: Annie Ernaux

4.15

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

Published for the first time in a beautiful collectible edition, the essential lecture delivered by…

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1. A Very Easy Death

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian

4.04

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • literature
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • french literature
"«A ella le gustaba la vida mundana y lo seguía alegremente»."

-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death

"«No se muere de haber nacido, ni de haber vivido, ni de vejez. Se muere de "algo"»."

-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death

"When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets."

-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death

"Sorumlusu olmadığım halde, benim olan, hiçbir zaman da bağışlatamayacağım bir günahın, umutsuzluk içinde, cezasını çekiyordum."

-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death

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2. Aliss at the Fire

By: Jon Fosse , Damion Searls

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more t… read more

Similar categories in Jon Fosse's Aliss at the Fire book and Annie Ernaux's I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture

  • literature
  • nobel prize

3. Valentino

By: Natalia Ginzburg

4.13

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

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4. A Horse at Night: On Writing

By: Amina Cain

4.03

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s … read more

Similar categories in Amina Cain's A Horse at Night: On Writing book and Annie Ernaux's I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture

  • memoir
  • literature
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • writing
"For me, fiction is a space of plainness and excess."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

"Female solitude is weighted with a particular power in literature."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

"I want to leave a chain of images that remain in the reader's mind. I want to write what heightened experience feels like."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

"Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

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5. A Shining

By: Jon Fosse

3.49

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more

Similar categories in Jon Fosse's A Shining book and Annie Ernaux's I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture

  • literature
  • nobel prize
"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

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6. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's So Late in the Day book and Annie Ernaux's I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture

  • feminism
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7. August Blue

By: Deborah Levy

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more

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"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"

-Deborah Levy, August Blue

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8. The Details

By: Ia Genberg

3.90

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed Swedish author makes her English language debut with this intoxicating novel in the ve… read more

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"La fiducia resta lettera morta, se non la si sente nelle ossa."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"L'io , o meglio, il cosidetto "io", non è altro che questo: ciò che resta delle persone a cui ci siamo stretti."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"La vita mi ha regalato la mia buona dose di magia, e il più delle volte è successo all'incontro con gli altri. Lì c'è qualcosa. Lì, soltanto lì."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"Per i morti la successione del tempo non ha importanza, l'unica cosa che conta sono i dettagli, la densità, il come e il cosa e tutto ciò che riguarda il chi."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

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9. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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10. I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture

By: Annie Ernaux

4.15

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

Published for the first time in a beautiful collectible edition, the essential lecture delivered by… read more

Similar categories in Annie Ernaux's I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture book and Annie Ernaux's I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture

  • nobel prize
  • biography
  • memoir
  • literature
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • essays
  • french literature
  • writing
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11. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Cusk's Parade book and Annie Ernaux's I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture

  • feminism
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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12. A Dictator Calls

By: Ismail Kadare

3.14

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Using a sophisticated and literary version of the ever-popular game of telephone to examine the rel… read more

Similar categories in Ismail Kadare's A Dictator Calls book and Annie Ernaux's I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture

  • literature
"And a cursory glance at Karl Marx shows that a man who had dedicated his life to the violent overthrow of the world order never devoted half a page in any of his dozens of books to the trauma and rem…"

-Ismail Kadare, A Dictator Calls

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13. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Heti's Alphabetical Diaries book and Annie Ernaux's I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • writing
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14. What I'd Rather Not Think About

By: Jente Posthuma

3.77

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without t… read more

Similar categories in Jente Posthuma's What I'd Rather Not Think About book and Annie Ernaux's I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture

  • literature
"Cracks in the ground aren't always visible to the naked eye. Every movement has the potential to take you down."

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"This was shocking to me, because if the oldest person I knew understood even less about the world than I did, then how was it possible that other adults had all the answers? And what was the point of…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"To be a natural presence, you shouldn't take up too much space, which I always found easy at the beginning of a friendship. It felt nice to reshape myself into precisely the right format until the mo…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

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15. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

By: Anne de Marcken

3.82

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more

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"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"

-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

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16. Intervals

By: Marianne Brooker

4.38

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

What makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a harsh wave of austerity o… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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17. Mild Vertigo

By: Mieko Kanai

3.55

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and… read more

Similar categories in Mieko Kanai's Mild Vertigo book and Annie Ernaux's I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture

  • literature
  • feminism
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18. Sagittarius

By: Natalia Ginzburg

3.81

Format: 110 pages, Kindle Edition

At long last she was playing the role she had always dreamt about, that of a mother, full of anxiou… read more

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19. Divisible by Itself and One

By: Kae Tempest

4.17

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

A new poetry collection from Britain's foremost truth-teller, in Divisible by Itself and One Kae Te… read more

Similar categories in Kae Tempest's Divisible by Itself and One book and Annie Ernaux's I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture

  • nonfiction
"It's so much easier to know what's best than to do what's best. - Choices "

-Kae Tempest, Divisible by Itself and One

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20. Porn: An Oral History

By: Polly Barton

3.34

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the a… read more

Similar categories in Polly Barton's Porn: An Oral History book and Annie Ernaux's I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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21. Com o Mar por Meio. Uma amizade em Cartas

By: Jorge Amado

4.47

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

"A amizade entre Jorge Amado e José Saramago teve início quando os dois já tinham idade mais avança… read more

Similar categories in Jorge Amado's Com o Mar por Meio. Uma amizade em Cartas book and Annie Ernaux's I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture

  • nonfiction

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Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian

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4.03

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Jon Fosse

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