Le Nuage aux Livres
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The only French bookshop with no shop and no shelves

For the regular reader whose independent bookshop has closed, or sits too far away, and who misses being asked: what should I read next?

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A stippled grey illustration of a cloud holding a domed library, open books and rows of spines

Every book at its single book price

Fixed price

Every title sits at the French single book price (loi Lang)

3 EUR

Legally required shipping, under 35 EUR

0.01 EUR

Legally required shipping, from 35 EUR

Le Nuage aux Livres lives on the margin of each book sold.

Step 1

Tell a bookseller what you long to read

You used to walk in and ask what to read next. Here you still can. Describe the mood, the last book you loved, the evening you have in mind.

A bookseller answers, with you, in conversation. No shelf to scan and no list to scroll: someone listens, then chooses.

A woman in a leather armchair at home talks with a bookseller on a tablet, a paperback on her knee

Step 2

Watch the book come alive

Before you decide, see the book in a short film made for it, so you feel its air before you open it.

Then read its own pages, so you know whether its voice is yours.

Two readers at a wooden table, one holding a tablet that plays a film of a house by the sea, the other turning pages of an open book

Step 3

Receive it at home

Once you have chosen, the book travels from the distribution chain straight to your door.

No shop to visit, no queue, no shelf. The conversation is the bookshop, and the book simply arrives.

A man at the open door of a stone house, smiling, holding a book wrapped in kraft paper

A sample of the conversation

Written to show how one begins, for a reader whose bookseller has closed. The title, author and film still are samples.

Conversation with a bookseller

Sample
  1. Reader

    My bookseller closed last spring. I just finished a slow novel set by the sea and I do not want to leave it. What should I read next?

  2. Bookseller

    Then stay near the water a little longer. Do you want a book that consoles you, or one that unsettles you?

  3. Reader

    One that unsettles me, gently.

  4. Bookseller

    I have the one. A widow, a house on the tide line, a summer that will not end. Watch its film, read its first lines, and tell me if you want it at home.

A film still of a stone house on the tide line at dusk, a woman lit at its windowFilm still, sample

La Maison des Marées

Hélène Varenne, sample title and author

First lines, sample

The tide came in earlier that year, as if the sea had somewhere else to be.

What should I read next?

Le Nuage aux Livres is a bookshop that is a conversation. The sample above shows how one begins.

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