Every month, the Konbini editorial team puts together a nice selection of books for you, not just to leave lying on your bedside table – this year, we’re keeping our good reading resolutions all together.
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The Mountain Between Us Marcel Shorjian and Jeanne Sterkers
Plates like poems, soft and tender colors, and a failed (or impossible?) love story between Marcia and Florence. The tears. (24 euros from Éditions Sarbacane)
Camera Girl by Sharon Smith
Madonna, Bowie and lots of glamour: 1980s New York club culture captured in never-before-seen Polaroids from Sharon Smith’s collection. (45 books, around 53 euros, published by IDEA)
Photo on request by Simon Chevrier
Thrown into the throes of Grindr, prostitution, capitalism and a quest for meaning that we know well, the anti-hero at the heart of this first novel will inevitably make you shudder. Striking. (19 euros from Stock editions)
A bright future by Pierre Lemaitre
Continuation (and end?) of the fabulous Pelletier saga. We can’t wait to know what will happen to Bouboule, François, their sister Hélène and, of course, to the cat Joseph. (23.90 euros from Calmann-Lévy editions)
Good as old by Marc Beaugé and Gauthier Borsarello
The story of Gauthier Borsarello’s incredible vintage clothing collection, told by journalist Marc Beaugé. The customized white t-shirt of a spring breaker from 1980, the chinos of a painter from the 1960s, the patched shirt of a scout from 1940… each piece and each patina tell the story of an era that we would happily bring back today. A very beautiful book from Éditions du Chêne which reminds us that style is not a question of wallet, but of culture. (59.90 euros from Éditions du Chêne)
Hey Kids, Watch This!
“100 movie ideas for all types of kids” for parents who are tired of rewatching The Snow Queen. It’s a little bible designed by A24 studios and illustrated by Anna Haifisch. ($38, around 37 euros at A24)
You do that to me again, I’ll take you out by Charlene Fontana
A first collection of poetry which sounds like an emergency, and borrows its familiar language from the city, football fields and bus stops to better translate reality. (12 euros from Le Sabot editions)
Shin Zerovolume 1, by Mathieu Bablet and Guillaume Singelin
Bablet on the screenplay, Singelin on the drawing: the perfect duo for this story of sentai who try to find their place in a society that no longer wants them. (13.90 euros from Label 619 editions)
The Chateau Marmont Hollywood Handbook by Andre Balazs
The story of the legendary Los Angeles hotel told by the man who made it legendary is finally republished, a first since 1996. ($39.95, approximately 39 euros, published by Rizzoli)
Ambush by Yoon and Verbal
There is nothing more nourishing, for the mind and the bedside table, than a beautiful fashion book! The Ambush one talks to us about ready-to-wear, jewelry and, of course, inspiration. (65 dollars, around 63 euros from Rizzoli editions)
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons Learned from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs (translated by Mabeuko Oberty and Myriam Rabah-Konaté)
Unique in its kind, this object at the crossroads of poetry and theoretical thought offers new voices to decolonial and anti-capitalist struggles that are as unexpected as they are powerful. (19 euros in physics and available as a resource from Burn-Août editions)
Aya Nakamura, critical dictionary by Ismaël Mereghetti
A book to decipher the career of our Queen of France? Aya Nakamura deserved this. (14.90 euros from JC Lattès editions)
