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French Fiction of the 18th and 19th Centuries in English Translation

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Rank Title Author Added

1

Les Misérables

26,343 members

341 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Bretzky1

2

Around the World in Eighty Days

17,153 members

265 reviews

3.8

Member: Bretzky1

3

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

14,902 members

229 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

4

The Mysterious Island

4,773 members

82 reviews

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

5

Eugénie Grandet

by Honoré de Balzac

3,436 members

62 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NinieB

6

by Honoré de Balzac

670 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: irisrose

7

The Mysteries of Paris

323 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: irisrose

8

Ursule Mirouët

by Honoré de Balzac

315 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: irisrose

9

The Wandering Jew

300 members

1 review

2.9

Member: irisrose

10

Taking the Bastille

by Alexandre Dumas

190 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: irisrose

11

by Émile Gaboriau

109 members

3 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: irisrose

12

by Gustave Flaubert

26,256 members

389 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NinieB,Bretzky1

13

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

25,576 members

433 reviews

½ 4.3

14

The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas

21,389 members

251 reviews

4.1

15

20,590 members

308 reviews

3.8

16

20,000 Leagues under the Sea

18,462 members

254 reviews

½ 3.7

17

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

14,198 members

177 reviews

3.9

18

by Honoré de Balzac

5,980 members

109 reviews

3.8

19

Camille: The Lady of the Camellias

by Alexandre Dumas

2,957 members

59 reviews

½ 3.7

20

Twenty Years After

by Alexandre Dumas

2,905 members

41 reviews

3.9

21

by Honoré de Balzac

2,489 members

31 reviews

4.2

22

by Honoré de Balzac

2,262 members

36 reviews

3.9

23

by Abbé Prévost

2,034 members

51 reviews

½ 3.4

24

The Black Tulip

by Alexandre père Dumas

2,007 members

56 reviews

½ 3.6

25

by Gustave Flaubert

1,869 members

29 reviews

½ 3.7

26

Michael Strogoff

1,830 members

31 reviews

3.8

27

The Vicomte de Bragelonne

by Alexandre Dumas

1,650 members

24 reviews

3.8

28

by Alexandre Dumas

1,588 members

25 reviews

3.9

29

Five Weeks in a Balloon

1,524 members

40 reviews

½ 3.6

30

by Honoré de Balzac

1,505 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

31

by Honoré de Balzac

1,198 members

12 reviews

3.8

32

1,145 members

25 reviews

3.9

33

Pierre et Jean (French Edition)

by Guy de Maupassant

1,056 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

34

The Man Who Laughs

924 members

22 reviews

4.1

35

by Hector Malot

893 members

23 reviews

4.1

36

884 members

20 reviews

½ 3.5

37

The Devil’s Pool

768 members

17 reviews

3.1

38

Tartarin of Tarascon

by Alphonse Daudet

710 members

9 reviews

½ 3.5

39

Lily of the Valley

by Honoré de Balzac

665 members

10 reviews

½ 3.6

40

The Black Sheep

by Honoré de Balzac

655 members

13 reviews

3.9

41

Mademoiselle de Maupin

by Théophile Gautier

627 members

14 reviews

3.8

42

The Castle of the Carpathians

623 members

13 reviews

½ 3.4

43

The Knight of Maison-Rouge: A Novel of Marie Antoinette

by Alexandre Dumas

574 members

5 reviews

3.8

44

by Honoré de Balzac

563 members

4 reviews

½ 3.3

45

Paul and Virginia

by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

521 members

8 reviews

3.2

46

A Murky Business

by Honoré de Balzac

510 members

9 reviews

½ 3.3

47

Fanchon the Cricket

445 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

48

Le Capitaine Fracasse

by Théophile Gautier

443 members

5 reviews

4

49

The Queen's Necklace

by Alexandre Dumas

418 members

10 reviews

½ 3.5

50

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

by Anatole France

404 members

8 reviews

3.8

51

by Alain René Le Sage

398 members

14 reviews

½ 3.6

52

An Iceland Fisherman

390 members

10 reviews

½ 3.5

53

A Journey Around My Room

by Xavier de Maistre

370 members

17 reviews

½ 3.5

54

César Birotteau

by Honoré de Balzac

356 members

8 reviews

½ 3.5

55

The Romance of a Mummy

by Théophile Gautier

332 members

12 reviews

3.1

56

The Country Doctor

by Honoré de Balzac

294 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

57

Corinne, or Italy

by Madame de Staël

294 members

4 reviews

3.1

58

The Forty-Five Guardsmen

by Alexandre Dumas

276 members

9 reviews

3.8

59

The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter

by Henri Murger

264 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

60

Chicot the Jester

by Alexandre Dumas

262 members

5 reviews

3.9

61

The Adventures of Telemachus, the Son of Ulysses

by François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon

262 members

6 reviews

½ 3.3

62

A Fantasy of Dr. Ox

239 members

7 reviews

½ 3.3

63

Letters of Two Brides

by Honoré de Balzac

233 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

64

The Quest of the Absolute

by Honoré de Balzac

206 members

4 reviews

3.8

65

203 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

66

The Country Waif

189 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

67

Propeller Island

186 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

68

by Guy de Maupassant

170 members

4 reviews

4

69

Claudius Bombarnac: The Adventures of a Special Correspondent

169 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

70

160 members

2 reviews

4.1

71

Tartarin on the Alps

by Alphonse Daudet

158 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

72

by Honoré de Balzac

153 members

1 review

½ 3.5

73

La Comtesse de Charny

by Alexandre Dumas

146 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

74

About Catherine de Medici

by Honoré de Balzac

144 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

75

The Duchesse of Langeais

by Honoré de Balzac

143 members

3 reviews

½ 3.4

76

Germinie Lacerteux

by Edmond de Goncourt

139 members

3 reviews

3.8

77

The Chevalier D'Harmental (The Conspirators)

by Alexandre Dumas

138 members

3 reviews

3.8

78

Hans of Iceland

135 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

79

by Honoré de Balzac

129 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

80

The Companions of Jehu

by Alexandre Dumas

127 members

5 reviews

3.8

81

The Blockade Runners

126 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

82

by Honoré de Balzac

121 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

83

Der hinkende Teufel

by Alain René Le Sage

119 members

1 review

½ 3.4

84

The Abbe Constantin

by Ludovic Halévy

118 members

3

85

The Regent's Daughter

by Alexandre Dumas

117 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

86

by Alfred de Vigny

108 members

2 reviews

3.2

87

99 members

1 review

½ 3.7

88

The Bureaucrats (European Classics)

by Honoré de Balzac

99 members

3 reviews

½ 3.4

89

History of a Crime

96 members

1 review

3.8

90

The Village Rector

by Honoré de Balzac

91 members

3 reviews

½ 3.3

91

by Honoré de Balzac

91 members

3 reviews

3

92

Pierrette / The Vicar of Tours

by Honoré de Balzac

85 members

½ 3.6

93

Omega : the Last Days of the World

by Camille Flammarion

84 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

94

The Conscript: A Story of the French War of 1813

by Erckmann-Chatrian

77 members

1 review

3.8

95

Renata Mauperin

by Edmond de Goncourt

73 members

½ 3.7

96

by Erckmann-Chatrian

68 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

97

by Erckmann-Chatrian

66 members

2 reviews

3.8

98

by Alexandre Dumas

65 members

4 reviews

3.9

99

The Whites and the Blues

by Alexandre Dumas

59 members

½ 3.5

100

The Page of the Duke of Savoy

by Alexandre Dumas

59 members

2 reviews

½ 2.6

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