A list of books that changed my life and that helped me to better understand human nature through the beauty of their stories, their characters, and their literary style.
The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier (1957)
L'Etranger by Albert Camus (1942)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
Thérèse et Isabelle by Violette Leduc (1966)
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (1987)
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (1927)
Mademoiselle de Maupin by Théophile Gautier (1835)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov (1859)
The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin (2015)
1984 by George Orwell (1949)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890)
Un barrage contre le Pacifique by Marguerite Duras (1950)
The Left Hand of Darknessby Ursula K. Le Guin (1969)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1857)
Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevski (1880)
Petit Paysby Gaël Faye (2016)
Thérèse Raquin by Emile Zola (1873)
Anna Kareninaby Leo Tolstoy (1877)
No Country Woman by Zoya Patel (2018)
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (tomes I and II) by Alexandre Dumas (1846)
Les Amantes by Elfriede Jelinek (1975)
Le Pays des Autres by Leïla Slimani (2020)
Les Liaisons Dangereusesby Choderlos de Laclos (1782)
Le Coup de Grâceby Marguerite Yourcenar (1939)
The House of Spiritsby Isabel Allende (1982)
Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangéeby Simone de Beauvoir (1958)
