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How to Live Summary
How to Live
Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
by Sarah Bakewell 2010 400 pages
4.02
10k+ ratings
Philosophy
Biography
History
A Life Worth Living Summary
A Life Worth Living
Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning
by Robert Zaretsky 2013 240 pages
4.01
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Biography
History
Albert Camus Summary
Albert Camus
Elements of a Life
by Robert D. Zaretsky 2011 195 pages
4.12
100+ ratings
Philosophy
Biography
Biography Memoir
Waking Up in Paris Summary
Waking Up in Paris
Overcoming Darkness in the City of Light
by Sonia Choquette 2018 248 pages
3.86
500+ ratings
Memoir
France
Travel
How Everything Can Collapse Summary
How Everything Can Collapse
A Manual for our Times
by Pablo Servigne 2020 250 pages
4.19
1k+ ratings
Science
Climate Change
Ecology
French Kids Eat Everything ( And Yours Can, Too ) Summary
French Kids Eat Everything ( And Yours Can, Too )
by Karen Le Billon 2012 320 pages
3.93
9k+ ratings
Parenting
Food
Memoir
My grape year Summary
My grape year
A memoir
by Laura Bradbury
4.14
1k+ ratings
Travel
Memoir
France
Happy as a Dane Summary
Happy as a Dane
10 Secrets of the Happiest People in the World
by Malene Rydahl 2017 144 pages
3.46
500+ ratings
Self Help
Psychology
Adult
At the Existentialist Café Summary
At the Existentialist Café
Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
by Sarah Bakewell 2016 448 pages
4.24
16k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Biography
Mythologies Summary
Mythologies
by Roland Barthes 1972 160 pages
4.09
16k+ ratings
Philosophy
Essays
Theory
A Brief History of Thought Summary
A Brief History of Thought
A Philosophical Guide to Living (Learning to Live)
by Luc Ferry 2011 307 pages
3.97
3k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Psychology
The French Art of Not Giving a F*ck Summary
The French Art of Not Giving a F*ck
by Fabrice Midal 2017 192 pages
3.1
500+ ratings
Self Help
France
Philosophy
Interventions 2020 Summary
Interventions 2020
by Michel Houellebecq 2022 200 pages
3.57
100+ ratings
Essays
France
Politics
Discovering the Hidden Wisdom of The Little Prince Summary
Discovering the Hidden Wisdom of The Little Prince
In Search of Saint-Exupéry's Lost Child
by Pierre Lassus 2017 198 pages
3.25
50+ ratings
Books About Books
History
Biography
Listen to Your Body Summary
Listen to Your Body
Your Best Friend on Earth
by Lise Bourbeau
3.93
500+ ratings
Self Help
Psychology
Personal Development
What Is Existentialism? (Penguin Great Ideas) Summary
What Is Existentialism? (Penguin Great Ideas)
by Simone de Beauvoir 2020 119 pages
3.9
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Essays
Feminism or Death Summary
Feminism or Death
How the Women's Movement Can Save the Planet
by Francoise d'Eaubonne 2022 352 pages
3.52
100+ ratings
Feminism
France
Politics
Brave Genius Summary
Brave Genius
A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
by Sean B. Carroll 2013 594 pages
4.26
500+ ratings
History
Science
Biography
La Guérison des 5 blessures Summary
La Guérison des 5 blessures
by Lise Bourbeau 2015 268 pages
3.94
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Personal Development
Hector and the Search for Happiness (Movie Tie-In) Summary
Hector and the Search for Happiness (Movie Tie-In)
A Novel (Hector's Journeys Book 1)
by Francois Lelord 2010 193 pages
3.48
16k+ ratings
Psychology
Contemporary
France
Hector and the Search for Lost Time Summary
Hector and the Search for Lost Time
A Novel (Hector's Journeys Book 3)
by Francois Lelord 2012 242 pages
3.65
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
France
Hector and the Secrets of Love Summary
Hector and the Secrets of Love
A Novel (Hector's Journeys Book 2)
by Francois Lelord 2011 279 pages
3.47
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Romance
Philosophy
The Linguist Summary
The Linguist
A Personal Guide to Language Learning
by Steve Kaufmann 2003 146 pages
3.5
100+ ratings
Language
Spanish Literature
Linguistics
Les Miserables Summary
Les Miserables
by Victor Hugo 2018 1376 pages
4.21
800k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
The Stranger Summary
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
4.03
1.1M+ ratings
Classics
Philosophy
France
The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) Summary
The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
by Alexandre Dumas père 2003 1276 pages
4.31
900k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Adventure
Literature
Your Brain Is Playing Tricks On You Summary
Your Brain Is Playing Tricks On You
How the Brain Shapes Opinions and Perceptions
by Albert Moukheiber 2022 131 pages
3.88
500+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Science
Around the World in Eighty Days (Penguin Classics) Summary
Around the World in Eighty Days (Penguin Classics)
by Jules Verne 2004 248 pages
3.94
200k+ ratings
Classics
Adventure
Science Fiction
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea Summary
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
by Jules Verne 2002 270 pages
3.89
200k+ ratings
Classics
Science Fiction
Adventure
A Journey to the Center of the Earth (World Cultural Heritage Library) Summary
A Journey to the Center of the Earth (World Cultural Heritage Library)
by Jules Verne 2012 212 pages
3.85
200k+ ratings
Classics
Science Fiction
Adventure
The Three Musketeers Summary
The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
4.09
300k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Classics
Adventure
A Winter's Promise Summary
A Winter's Promise
by Christelle Dabos 2018 492 pages
4.02
100k+ ratings
Fantasy
Young Adult
Romance
Emma Bovary (Major Literary Characters) Summary
Emma Bovary (Major Literary Characters)
by Harold Bloom 1993 222 pages
3.70
300k+ ratings
Classics
France
Literature
Les Misérables Summary
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
4.21
800k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
How To Deal With Idiots Summary
How To Deal With Idiots
(and stop being one yourself)
by Maxime Rovere 2022 176 pages
3.15
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Self Help
France
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