French Books

1

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

38,146 members

464 reviews

3.9

4 Members: KimarieBee, aulsmith, ahef1963, raperper

2

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

27,140 members

393 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, Dilara86, ahef1963

3

Cyrano de Bergerac

by Edmond Rostand

7,712 members

92 reviews

4.1

4 Members: aulsmith, roby72, Dilara86, raperper

4

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

by Victor Hugo

14,622 members

193 reviews

3.9

4 Members: aulsmith, roby72, Dilara86, raperper

5

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

27,235 members

342 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: roby72, Dilara86, raperper

6

Sarah's Key

by Tatiana de Rosnay

11,351 members

659 reviews

4

3 Members: dara85, cej1027, ahef1963

7

Life: A User's Manual

by Georges Perec

3,908 members

56 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: thorold, roby72, Dilara86

8

Madeline

by Ludwig Bemelmans

11,372 members

263 reviews

4.2

3 Members: aulsmith, cej1027, ahef1963

9

Suite Française

by Irène Némirovsky

10,129 members

348 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, Dilara86, Barbara.Lohr

10

The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas

22,116 members

256 reviews

4.1

3 Members: aulsmith, roby72, raperper

11

Old Goriot

by Honoré de Balzac

6,178 members

110 reviews

3.8

3 Members: thorold, roby72, Dilara86

12

Bitter Greens

by Kate Forsyth

637 members

44 reviews

4

2 Members: inge87, KimarieBee

13

These Old Shades

by Georgette Heyer

2,417 members

78 reviews

4.1

2 Members: inge87, KimarieBee

14

My Father's Glory

by Marcel Pagnol

883 members

11 reviews

4

2 Members: inge87, Dilara86
Explanations: Dilara86: Provence

15

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

4,061 members

43 reviews

½ 4.6

2 Members: roby72, Dilara86

16

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

6,710 members

89 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thorold, roby72

17

Eugénie Grandet

by Honoré de Balzac

3,556 members

62 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thorold, roby72, Dilara86

18

Zazie in the Metro

by Raymond Queneau

1,735 members

31 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: thorold, roby72

19

A Moveable Feast

by Ernest Hemingway

9,326 members

193 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, Barbara.Lohr,aulsmith

20

Nicholas

by René Goscinny

2,083 members

38 reviews

4.1

2 Members: EMS_24, Dilara86

21

Giovanni's Room

by James Baldwin

5,970 members

133 reviews

4.2

2 Members: thorold, aulsmith

22

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

by Patrick Süskind

18,656 members

459 reviews

3.9

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

23

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

26,737 members

438 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: roby72, raperper

24

Madeline's Rescue

by Ludwig Bemelmans

4,449 members

87 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

25

Gigi [single story]

by Colette

171 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: inge87, Dilara86

26

Bouvard and Pécuchet

by Gustave Flaubert

1,249 members

18 reviews

3.9

2 Members: roby72, Dilara86

27

Nausea

by Jean-Paul Sartre

10,340 members

91 reviews

3.8

2 Members: roby72, ahef1963

28

My Mother's Castle

by Marcel Pagnol

628 members

9 reviews

4

2 Members: inge87, Dilara86
Explanations: Dilara86: Provence

29

The Red and the Black

by Stendhal

9,827 members

131 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thorold, roby72

30

Swann's Way

by Marcel Proust

11,598 members

184 reviews

4.2

2 Members: thorold, Dilara86

31

Tender is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

13,286 members

184 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: roby72, ahef1963

32

The Day of the Jackal

by Frederick Forsyth

5,463 members

92 reviews

4

2 Members: KimarieBee, roby72

33

Germinal

by Émile Zola

5,545 members

81 reviews

4.2

2 Members: thorold, roby72

34

The Immoralist

by André Gide

3,425 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: roby72, ahef1963

35

Jacques the Fatalist

by Denis Diderot

1,892 members

29 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thorold, roby72

36

The Nightingale

by Kristin Hannah

10,865 members

481 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: dara85

37

Camille: The Lady of the Camellias

by Alexandre Dumas

3,054 members

57 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: EMS_24

38

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

by Henry Adams

1,147 members

13 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith

39

Thérèse Raquin

by Émile Zola

3,272 members

80 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thorold, roby72

40

Cousin Bette

by Honoré de Balzac

2,321 members

38 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thorold, roby72

41

La Bête Humaine

by Émile Zola

1,692 members

25 reviews

4

2 Members: thorold, roby72

42

The Belly of Paris

by Émile Zola

1,251 members

30 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thorold, roby72

43

Querelle of Brest

by Jean Genet

983 members

13 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thorold, roby72

44

All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

20,037 members

897 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: dara85

45

Nine Coaches Waiting

by Mary Stewart

1,653 members

47 reviews

4

Member: inge87

46

Chéri and The Last of Chéri

by Colette

1,036 members

18 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

47

My Life in France

by Julia Child

5,270 members

205 reviews

4.2

Member: Barbara.Lohr

48

Paris to the Moon

by Adam Gopnik

2,830 members

33 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: hipdeep

49

Atonement

by Ian McEwan

27,032 members

637 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

50

Me Talk Pretty One Day

by David Sedaris

21,415 members

373 reviews

4

Member: hipdeep

51

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

23,587 members

344 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

52

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

by David McCullough

2,856 members

77 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

53

The Blue Flowers

by Raymond Queneau

790 members

12 reviews

3.9

Member: Dilara86

54

Possession

by A. S. Byatt

13,247 members

295 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

55

Exercises in Style

by Raymond Queneau

2,658 members

52 reviews

3.9

Member: thorold

56

Froth on the Daydream

by Boris Vian

2,368 members

44 reviews

4

Member: Dilara86

57

The Dream of Scipio

by Iain Pears

2,242 members

53 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: KimarieBee

58

El séptimo velo

by Juan Manuel de Prada

70 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: raperper

59

Rook

by Sharon Cameron

592 members

28 reviews

3.9

Member: inge87

60

Journey to the End of the Night

by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

6,229 members

83 reviews

4.2

Member: roby72

61

Le Capitaine Fracasse

by Théophile Gautier

450 members

5 reviews

4

Member: Dilara86

62

Die letzte Begegnung

by Gertrud von LeFort

4 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: inge87

63

A Woman's Life

by Guy de Maupassant

1,537 members

33 reviews

3.8

Member: Dilara86

64

The Song at the Scaffold

by Gertrud von LeFort

246 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: inge87

65

Asterix the Gaul

by René Goscinny

2,635 members

38 reviews

3.9

Member: thorold

66

Nobody's Boy

by Hector Malot

930 members

23 reviews

4.1

Member: Dilara86

67

The Mandarins

by Simone de Beauvoir

1,787 members

18 reviews

4.1

Member: roby72

68

Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller

9,077 members

135 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: roby72

69

Maigret and the Man on the Boulevard

by Georges Simenon

625 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thorold

70

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

by Gertrude Stein

2,797 members

44 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: thorold

71

L'Assommoir

by Émile Zola

2,499 members

48 reviews

4.1

Member: roby72

72

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

by Simone de Beauvoir

2,149 members

29 reviews

4

Member: Dilara86

73

The Man Who Watched Trains Go By

by Georges Simenon

1,161 members

31 reviews

3.8

Member: thorold

74

Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs

by Marcel Pagnol

480 members

4 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Dilara86
Explanations: Dilara86: Provence

75

Labyrinth

by Kate Mosse

7,393 members

210 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ahef1963

76

The horse of pride : life in a Breton village

by Pierre-Jakez Helias

169 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: Dilara86
Explanations: Dilara86: Brittany

77

Paris Spleen

by Charles Baudelaire

2,186 members

17 reviews

4.2

Member: roby72

78

Ysabel

by Guy Gavriel Kay

2,019 members

91 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

79

The Flowers of Evil

by Charles Baudelaire

8,084 members

81 reviews

4.2

Member: roby72

80

A History of the Franks

by Saint Gregory of Tours

1,114 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

81

Missing Person

by Patrick Modiano

1,033 members

33 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thorold

82

Manon Lescaut

by Abbé Prévost

2,114 members

53 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: roby72

83

Earth

by Émile Zola

770 members

14 reviews

4

Member: thorold

84

The Diary of a Country Priest

by Georges Bernanos

1,744 members

26 reviews

3.9

Member: roby72

85

Le Grand Meaulnes

by Alain-Fournier

3,589 members

80 reviews

3.8

Member: roby72

86

Against Nature

by Joris-Karl Huysmans

3,662 members

73 reviews

3.8

Member: roby72

87

Nana

by Émile Zola

4,038 members

65 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: roby72

88

Sentimental Education

by Gustave Flaubert

4,390 members

60 reviews

3.8

Member: roby72

89

Bel-Ami

by Guy de Maupassant

3,193 members

60 reviews

3.9

Member: roby72

90

The Princess of Clèves

by Madame de La Fayette

2,391 members

54 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: roby72

91

The Devil in the Flesh

by Raymond Radiguet

1,157 members

23 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: roby72

92

The Stranger

by Albert Camus

36,820 members

513 reviews

3.9

2 Members: roby72, ahef1963,thorold ,aulsmith
Explanations: thorold : French literature, but not set in France

93

A Year in Provence

by Peter Mayle

5,670 members

112 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963,Dilara86

94

Holy Blood, Holy Grail

by Michael Baigent

4,501 members

78 reviews

3.2

Member: ahef1963,aulsmith

95

Toujours Provence

by Peter Mayle

2,416 members

22 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963,Dilara86

96

Candide

by Voltaire

21,181 members

319 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963,thorold
Explanations: thorold : Set in all sorts of places (Westfalia, Holland, Portugal, South America, and Turkey), not including France...

97

The Wall: Stories

by Jean-Paul Sartre

2,789 members

25 reviews

3.8

Member: roby72,aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith : "The Wall" is set in Spain. I haven't read the others.

98

The Da Vinci Code

by Dan Brown

71,552 members

1,322 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963,aulsmith ,raperper

99

A Year in the Merde

by Stephen Clarke

1,955 members

51 reviews

½ 3.3

100

A Good Year

by Peter Mayle

1,187 members

28 reviews

½ 3.5

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