All Things France

Description
The purpose of this list is to compile the best books (non-fiction or fiction) about French history, culture, politics, society, etc.
1
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
30,672 members
380 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
Bretzky1, Tinuvia
3
My Father's Glory
by Marcel Pagnol
983 members
11 reviews
4
Member
inge87
4
Vive La Revolution
by Mark Steel
341 members
8 reviews
3.8
Member
bluepiano
5
Histoire mondiale de la France
by Patrick Boucheron
163 members
1 review
4.2
Member
Dilara86
6
Sister Liberty
by Gregory Hill
5 members
2 reviews
4
Member
GWHill
7
Swann's Way
by Marcel Proust
12,948 members
207 reviews
4.2
Member
Tinuvia
8
My Mother's Castle
by Marcel Pagnol
696 members
9 reviews
4
Member
inge87
9
All the World's Mornings
by Pascal Quignard
383 members
14 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
Dilara86
10
France and the French: A Modern History
by Rod Kedward
167 members
2 reviews
3.9
Member
Bretzky1
11
The Days of the French Revolution
by Christopher Hibbert
890 members
9 reviews
3.8
Member
Bretzky1
12
Money
by Émile Zola
615 members
10 reviews
3.9
Member
Tinuvia
13
Gigi [novella]
by Colette
183 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
inge87
15
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
by Victor Hugo
16,399 members
207 reviews
3.9
Member
Tinuvia
16
The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography
by Graham Robb
1,423 members
29 reviews
4
Member
inge87
17
The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy
by Peter H. Wilson
1,035 members
13 reviews
3.9
Member
Bretzky1
18
On Human Diversity: Nationalism, Racism, and Exoticism in French Thought
by Tzvetan Todorov
108 members
1 review
½ 3.5
Member
Dilara86
19
The Magic Skin
by Honoré de Balzac
1,703 members
31 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Tinuvia
20
The horse of pride : life in a Breton village
by Pierre-Jakez Helias
175 members
3 reviews
3.8
Member
Dilara86
21
The Napoleonic Revolution
by Robert B. Holtman
89 members
3.8
Member
Bretzky1
22
Jacques the Fatalist
by Denis Diderot
2,049 members
30 reviews
3.8
Member
Tinuvia
23
Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error
by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
1,989 members
24 reviews
3.9
Member
Dilara86
24
Virtue and Terror
by Maximilien Robespierre
245 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
Bretzky1
25
Cousin Bette
by Honoré de Balzac
2,491 members
41 reviews
3.9
Member
Tinuvia
26
The Memoirs of Madame Roland: A Heroine of the French Revolution
by Madame Roland
44 members
3.2
Member
Bretzky1
27
La condition noire : Essai sur une minorité française
by Pap Ndiaye
15 members
2 reviews
5
Member
Dilara86
28
'Tis Folly to Be Wise
by Lion Feuchtwanger
90 members
4.1
Member
Tinuvia
29
Tels des astres éteints
by Léonora Miano
10 members
½ 4.5
Member
Dilara86
30
The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
53,139 members
874 reviews
4.2
Member
Tinuvia
31
A Man's Place
by Annie Ernaux
979 members
37 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Dilara86
32
The Memoirs of a Physician [Part 2 of Mémoires d'un médecin: Joseph Balsamo]
by Alexandre Dumas
322 members
15 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Tinuvia
33
Cleaned Out
by Annie Ernaux
205 members
5 reviews
4.1
Member
Dilara86
34
The Red and the Black
by Stendhal
10,783 members
144 reviews
3.9
Member
Tinuvia
35
Texaco
by Patrick Chamoiseau
721 members
13 reviews
3.9
Member
Dilara86
36
Gargantua and Pantagruel
by François Rabelais
5,348 members
52 reviews
3.8
Member
Tinuvia
37
Jacquou le croquant
by Eugène Le Roy
122 members
1 review
½ 3.6
Member
Dilara86
38
The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
24,592 members
270 reviews
4.1
Member
Tinuvia
39
Vernon Subutex 1
by Virginie Despentes
728 members
22 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Dilara86
40
The Award
by Lydie Salvayre
19 members
½ 3.4
Member
Dilara86
41
The Seine was Red: Paris, October 1961
by Leïla Sebbar
54 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
Dilara86
42
Victoire
by Maryse Condé
97 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Dilara86
43
Vernon Subutex 2
by Virginie Despentes
329 members
9 reviews
4
Member
Dilara86
44
Vernon Subutex 3
by Virginie Despentes
232 members
7 reviews
4
Member
Dilara86
45
Returning to Reims
by Didier Eribon
456 members
7 reviews
4.1
Member
Dilara86
46
Le grand cours de cuisine FERRANDI: L'école française de gastronomie
by Collectif
13 members
½ 3.5
Member
Dilara86
49
The Medieval Kitchen: Recipes from France and Italy
by Odile Redon
378 members
4 reviews
4
50
The Identity of France, Volume 1
by Fernand Braudel
328 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
51
Paris to the Past: Traveling through French History by Train
by Ina Caro
260 members
7 reviews
4
52
The General: Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved
by Jonathan Fenby
247 members
2 reviews
3.9
54
The Age of Louis XIV
by Voltaire
196 members
2 reviews
4
55
The Complete War Memoirs of Charles de Gaulle
by Charles de Gaulle
156 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
56
Louis XIV
by Vincent Cronin
156 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
57
A history of France
by André Maurois
151 members
2 reviews
3
58
The Dreyfus Affair: The Scandal That Tore France in Two
by Piers Paul Read
144 members
4 reviews
3.8
59
Mémoires de guerre, tome 1 : L'Appel, 1940-1942
by Charles de Gaulle
142 members
1 review
½ 3.7
60
The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of General De Gaulle
by Charles Williams
121 members
1 review
½ 3.7
61
La Révolution française
by François Furet
109 members
3 reviews
½ 3.3
62
The Course of French History
by Pierre Goubert
107 members
1 review
3.1
63
Petain's Crime: The Full Story of French Collaboration in the Holocaust
by Paul Webster
102 members
1 review
3.9
64
Robespierre and the French Revolution
by J. M. Thompson
101 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
65
Louis XIV
by John B. Wolf
100 members
1 review
½ 3.5
66
Louis XIV
by François Bluche
97 members
½ 3.6
67
The Republican Experiment, 1848-1852
by Maurice Agulhon
86 members
½ 3.3
68
Seventeenth-Century French Drama
by Jacques Guicharnaud
66 members
70
De man die nee zei Charles De Gaulle 1890-1970
by H. L. Wesseling
58 members
2 reviews
3.9
71
The Great Book of French Cuisine
by Henri-Paul Pellaprat
57 members
4
72
Revolution
by Emmanuel Macron
55 members
1 review
3.1
73
Louis XIV
by Philippe Erlanger
52 members
3.8
74
Louis XIV
by Anthony Levi
49 members
½ 3.6
75
The Age of Louis XV
by Alvar Gonzalez Palacios
44 members
1 review
½ 2.3
76
A survey of French literature
by Morris Bishop
43 members
5
77
The Age of Louis XVI
by Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios
42 members
½ 3.3
78
Pétain
by Herbert R. Lottman
40 members
1 review
½ 3.5
80
Louis Philippe
by John S. C. Abbott
37 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
81
Louis XVI: The Silent King
by John Hardman
29 members
1 review
4
82
Louis the Fifteenth and his Times
by Pierre Gaxotte
28 members
5
83
A Brief Guide to French History
by Lily Deveze
26 members
1 review
½ 3.5
84
Louis XVI
by Jean-Christian Petitfils
24 members
4
85
The Past in French History
by Robert Gildea
23 members
3
86
Homosexuality in French History and Culture
by Jeffrey Merrick
20 members
4
87
The leading facts of French history
by D. H. Montgomery
18 members
1 review
88
Louis XV
by Michel Antoine
16 members
1 review
3
89
Louis XVI
by Bernard Vincent
14 members
4
90
Louis XV
by François Bluche
12 members
½ 2.5
91
Le siècle de Louis XV
by Hubert Méthivier
9 members
½ 3.3
92
Louis XIV
by P A Holmes
9 members
93
The Paris Metro: A Ticket to French History
by Susan L. Plotkin
8 members
½ 3.5
94
An outline of French history;
by René Sédillot
5 members
1 review
95
French Opera: Development to the Revolution
by Norman Demuth
5 members
97
French Drama
by Alfred Bates
1 member
98
Interest-group politics in France
by Frank Lee Wilson
1 member
100
Nana
by Émile Zola
4,382 members
69 reviews
3.8