Books like Journal du voleur
Journal du voleur by Jean Genet reads as defiant, sensual. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
The diary of Anaïs Nin
Anaïs Nin · 1966
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How to Say Babylon
Safiya Sinclair · 2023
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Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée
Simone de Beauvoir · 1900
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Conundrum
Jan Morris · 1974
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All the Lives We Ever Lived
Katharine Smyth · 2019
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The child that books built
Francis Spufford · 2002
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Everything Sad Is Untrue
Daniel Nayeri · 2020
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Kaputt
Curzio Malaparte · 1946
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Too much and not the mood
Durga Chew-Bose · 2017
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How to write an autobiographical novel
Alexander Chee · 2018
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The orchard
Drusilla Modjeska · 1994
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The Flaneur
Edmund White · 2001
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