# The best Amélie Nothomb books

The Nothomb novels that Babelio and SensCritique readers rank highest, from Hygiene and the Assassin to Fear and Trembling.

- 49 votes · 14 items
- Oct 6, 2023 · Lucas
- https://even.best/en/l/2723/the-best-amelie-nothomb-books

## Top 14

1. **Hygiene and the Assassin** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — 1992. Her first novel: a hateful writer faces a journalist.
2. **Fear and Trembling** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1999. A young Belgian in a Japanese company. Académie française Grand Prize.
3. **The Character of Rain** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 2000. Her first three years of life in Japan.
4. **Cosmetics of the Enemy** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 2001. A tense encounter in an airport.
5. **Tokyo Fiancée** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 2007. Her youthful love in Tokyo.
6. **The Stranger Next Door** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — 1995. A neighbour who visits every single day.
7. **Life Form** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 2010. Letters with an American soldier.
8. **Biography of Hunger** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 2004. Her childhood hunger for everything.
9. **Loving Sabotage** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1993. A diplomat's childhood in Beijing.
10. **Attentat** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — 1997. The ugliest man in love with the most beautiful woman.
11. **First Blood** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2021. Her father's story; Renaudot Prize.
12. **Mercury** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — 1998. A girl kept on an island.
13. **Le Fait du prince** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 2008. A man takes a dead man's identity.
14. **Journal d'Hirondelle** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 2006. A killer who rediscovers his senses.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.