Each title in this list offers a new way to approach the cinema—not as spectacle, but as a lived and intimate process. These are texts that understand film as a porous form: part diary, part method, part disappearance act.

This summer, why not slip into the role of a literary detective and immerse yourself in lives remembered and lives reimagined—among literary ghosts, vanished women, and obsessive questions that refuse to be silenced?

What if this summer you could boost your French language skills while discovering timeless literary classics? Publisher CLE offers a collection designed to help you do just that. With (seriously) abridged versions of major works, this series will elevate your French while introducing you to the essential masterpieces of French literature.

This year, give a book that lingers, questions, and resonates. Happy Father’s Day!

The four novels, all translated from the French with great care, in this list—grapple with silence. They ask: what do we carry forward when the world has shifted beneath our feet? What remains when memory falters, when language fails?