The best Amélie Nothomb books
The top 3 according to 49 votes from people: Hygiene and the Assassin · Fear and Trembling · The Character of Rain. (Updated Oct 6, 2023.)
The Nothomb novels that Babelio and SensCritique readers rank highest, from Hygiene and the Assassin to Fear and Trembling.
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Top 14
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Hygiene and the Assassin
1992. Her first novel: a hateful writer faces a journalist.
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Fear and Trembling
1999. A young Belgian in a Japanese company. Académie française Grand Prize.
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The Character of Rain
2000. Her first three years of life in Japan.
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Cosmetics of the Enemy
2001. A tense encounter in an airport.
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Tokyo Fiancée
2007. Her youthful love in Tokyo.
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The Stranger Next Door
1995. A neighbour who visits every single day.
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Life Form
2010. Letters with an American soldier.
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Biography of Hunger
2004. Her childhood hunger for everything.
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Loving Sabotage
1993. A diplomat's childhood in Beijing.
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Attentat
1997. The ugliest man in love with the most beautiful woman.
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First Blood
2021. Her father's story; Renaudot Prize.
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Mercury
1998. A girl kept on an island.
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Le Fait du prince
2008. A man takes a dead man's identity.
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Journal d'Hirondelle
2006. A killer who rediscovers his senses.
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