French Books

1
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
36,742 members
455 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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2
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
26,250 members
389 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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3
Cyrano de Bergerac
by Edmond Rostand
7,441 members
91 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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4
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by Victor Hugo
14,194 members
177 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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5
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
26,340 members
341 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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6
Sarah's Key
by Tatiana de Rosnay
11,117 members
654 reviews
4
3 Members
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7
Life: A User's Manual
by Georges Perec
3,800 members
55 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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8
Madeline
by Ludwig Bemelmans
10,641 members
259 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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9
Suite Française
by Irène Némirovsky
9,936 members
346 reviews
4
3 Members
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10
The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
21,389 members
251 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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11
Old Goriot
by Honoré de Balzac
5,979 members
109 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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12
Bitter Greens
by Kate Forsyth
623 members
44 reviews
4
2 Members
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13
These Old Shades
by Georgette Heyer
2,378 members
78 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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14
My Father's Glory
by Marcel Pagnol
853 members
10 reviews
4
2 Members
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Explanations
Dilara86: Provence
15
In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust
3,902 members
46 reviews
½ 4.5
2 Members
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16
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
6,493 members
87 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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17
Eugénie Grandet
by Honoré de Balzac
3,435 members
62 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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18
Zazie in the Metro
by Raymond Queneau
1,689 members
31 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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19
A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway
9,080 members
191 reviews
4
2 Members
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20
Nicholas
by René Goscinny
1,997 members
36 reviews
4
2 Members
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21
Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin
5,544 members
126 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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22
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by Patrick Süskind
18,156 members
449 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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23
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
25,569 members
433 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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24
Madeline's Rescue
by Ludwig Bemelmans
4,207 members
86 reviews
4
2 Members
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25
Gigi
by Colette
377 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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26
Bouvard and Pécuchet
by Gustave Flaubert
1,209 members
18 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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27
Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre
9,976 members
83 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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28
My Mother's Castle
by Marcel Pagnol
609 members
8 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Explanations
Dilara86: Provence
29
The Red and the Black
by Stendhal
9,521 members
136 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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30
Swann's Way
by Marcel Proust
11,159 members
182 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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31
Tender is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
12,944 members
183 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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32
The Day of the Jackal
by Frederick Forsyth
5,309 members
90 reviews
4
2 Members
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33
Germinal
by Émile Zola
5,374 members
79 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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34
The Immoralist
by André Gide
3,338 members
46 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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35
Jacques the Fatalist
by Denis Diderot
1,835 members
28 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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36
The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
9,849 members
467 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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37
Camille: The Lady of the Camellias
by Alexandre Dumas
2,957 members
59 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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38
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
by Henry Adams
1,113 members
13 reviews
3.9
Member
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39
Thérèse Raquin
by Émile Zola
3,150 members
80 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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40
Cousin Bette
by Honoré de Balzac
2,262 members
36 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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41
The Beast Within
by Émile Zola
1,631 members
26 reviews
4
2 Members
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42
The Belly of Paris
by Émile Zola
1,209 members
29 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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43
Querelle of Brest
by Jean Genet
947 members
12 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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44
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
18,792 members
885 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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45
Nine Coaches Waiting
by Mary Stewart
1,621 members
46 reviews
4
Member
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46
Chéri and The Last of Chéri
by Colette
1,008 members
15 reviews
3.9
Member
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47
My Life in France
by Julia Child
5,157 members
201 reviews
4.2
Member
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48
Paris to the Moon
by Adam Gopnik
2,783 members
32 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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49
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
26,531 members
629 reviews
3.9
Member
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50
Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris
21,109 members
368 reviews
4
Member
hipdeep
51
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
22,993 members
337 reviews
3.8
Member
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52
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
by David McCullough
2,754 members
78 reviews
4
Member
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53
The Blue Flowers
by Raymond Queneau
766 members
12 reviews
3.9
Member
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54
Possession
by A.S. Byatt
12,971 members
289 reviews
4
Member
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55
Exercises in Style
by Raymond Queneau
2,579 members
52 reviews
3.9
Member
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56
Froth on the Daydream
by Boris Vian
2,304 members
44 reviews
4
Member
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57
The Dream of Scipio
by Iain Pears
2,206 members
54 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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58
El séptimo velo
by Juan Manuel de Prada
67 members
4 reviews
3.8
Member
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59
Rook
by Sharon Cameron
571 members
27 reviews
3.9
Member
inge87
60
Journey to the End of the Night
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
6,024 members
83 reviews
4.2
Member
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61
Le Capitaine Fracasse
by Théophile Gautier
442 members
5 reviews
4
Member
Dilara86
62
Die letzte Begegnung
by Gertrud von LeFort
4 members
1 review
½ 3.5
Member
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63
A Woman's Life
by Guy de Maupassant
1,493 members
32 reviews
3.8
Member
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64
The Song at the Scaffold
by Gertrud von LeFort
237 members
5 reviews
3.8
Member
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65
Asterix the Gaul
by René Goscinny
2,545 members
37 reviews
3.9
Member
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66
Nobody's Boy
by Hector Malot
893 members
23 reviews
4.1
Member
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67
The Mandarins
by Simone de Beauvoir
1,736 members
16 reviews
4.1
Member
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68
Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
8,832 members
131 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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69
Maigret and the Man on the Boulevard
by Georges Simenon
598 members
20 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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70
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Gertrude Stein
2,693 members
43 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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71
L'Assommoir
by Émile Zola
2,428 members
46 reviews
4.1
Member
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72
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
by Simone de Beauvoir
2,087 members
29 reviews
4
Member
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73
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
by Georges Simenon
1,122 members
31 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
74
Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs
by Marcel Pagnol
468 members
4 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
Dilara86
Explanations
Dilara86: Provence
75
Labyrinth
by Kate Mosse
7,251 members
207 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
ahef1963
76
The horse of pride : life in a Breton village
by Pierre-Jakez Helias
167 members
3 reviews
3.8
Member
Dilara86
Explanations
Dilara86: Brittany
77
Paris Spleen
by Charles Baudelaire
2,121 members
17 reviews
4.2
Member
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78
Ysabel
by Guy Gavriel Kay
1,982 members
88 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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79
The Flowers of Evil
by Charles Baudelaire
7,581 members
80 reviews
4.2
Member
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80
A History of the Franks
by Saint Gregory of Tours
1,077 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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81
Missing Person
by Patrick Modiano
983 members
32 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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82
Manon Lescaut
by Abbé Prévost
2,033 members
51 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
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83
Earth
by Émile Zola
735 members
15 reviews
4
Member
thorold
84
The Diary of a Country Priest
by Georges Bernanos
1,682 members
25 reviews
3.9
Member
roby72
85
Le Grand Meaulnes
by Alain-Fournier
3,446 members
79 reviews
3.8
Member
roby72
86
Against Nature
by Joris-Karl Huysmans
3,555 members
74 reviews
3.8
Member
roby72
87
Nana
by Émile Zola
3,938 members
68 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
roby72
88
Sentimental Education
by Gustave Flaubert
4,245 members
57 reviews
3.8
Member
roby72
89
Bel-Ami
by Guy de Maupassant
3,066 members
57 reviews
3.9
Member
roby72
90
The Princesse de Clèves
by Madame de La Fayette
2,309 members
55 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
roby72
91
The Devil in the Flesh
by Raymond Radiguet
1,118 members
22 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
roby72
92
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
35,567 members
507 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Explanations
thorold : French literature, but not set in France
93
A Year in Provence
by Peter Mayle
5,554 members
111 reviews
3.9
Member
ahef1963,Dilara86
94
Holy Blood, Holy Grail
by Michael Baigent
4,438 members
78 reviews
3.2
Member
ahef1963,aulsmith
95
Toujours Provence
by Peter Mayle
2,375 members
22 reviews
3.8
Member
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96
Candide
by Voltaire
20,589 members
308 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
2,711 members
22 reviews
3.9
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
70,361 members
1,308 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
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99
A Year in the Merde
by Stephen Clarke
1,929 members
50 reviews
½ 3.3
100
A Good Year
by Peter Mayle
1,166 members
27 reviews
½ 3.5