French Books

1
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
42,122 members
491 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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2
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
29,866 members
428 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
roby72, Dilara86, ahef1963, BonnieLassie
3
Madeline
by Ludwig Bemelmans
13,154 members
273 reviews
4.2
4 Members
aulsmith, cej1027, ahef1963, BonnieLassie
4
Cyrano de Bergerac
by Edmond Rostand
8,566 members
102 reviews
4.1
4 Members
aulsmith, roby72, Dilara86, raperper
5
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
by Victor Hugo
16,425 members
208 reviews
3.9
4 Members
aulsmith, roby72, Dilara86, raperper
6
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
30,552 members
380 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
roby72, Dilara86, raperper
7
Sarah's Key
by Tatiana de Rosnay
12,257 members
679 reviews
4
3 Members
dara85, cej1027, ahef1963
8
Life: A User's Manual
by Georges Perec
4,275 members
66 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
thorold, roby72, Dilara86
9
Suite Française
by Irène Némirovsky
10,631 members
357 reviews
4
3 Members
roby72, Dilara86, Barbara.Lohr
10
Madeline's Rescue
by Ludwig Bemelmans
5,088 members
92 reviews
4
3 Members
cej1027, ahef1963, BonnieLassie
11
The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
24,617 members
270 reviews
4.1
3 Members
aulsmith, roby72, raperper
12
Old Goriot
by Honoré de Balzac
6,894 members
119 reviews
3.8
3 Members
thorold, roby72, Dilara86
13
Bitter Greens
by Kate Forsyth
680 members
48 reviews
4
2 Members
inge87, KimarieBee
14
These Old Shades
by Georgette Heyer
2,562 members
82 reviews
4.1
2 Members
inge87, KimarieBee
15
My Father's Glory
by Marcel Pagnol
986 members
11 reviews
4
2 Members
inge87, Dilara86
Explanations
Dilara86: Provence
16
In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust
4,372 members
50 reviews
½ 4.6
2 Members
roby72, Dilara86
17
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
7,339 members
106 reviews
4.1
2 Members
thorold, roby72
18
Eugénie Grandet
by Honoré de Balzac
3,937 members
70 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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19
Zazie in the Metro
by Raymond Queneau
1,893 members
35 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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20
A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway
10,186 members
214 reviews
4
2 Members
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21
Nicholas
by René Goscinny
2,304 members
40 reviews
4.1
2 Members
EMS_24, Dilara86
22
Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin
7,710 members
178 reviews
4.2
2 Members
thorold, aulsmith
23
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by Patrick Süskind
20,339 members
497 reviews
3.9
2 Members
KimarieBee, ahef1963
24
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
30,898 members
495 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
roby72, raperper
25
Asterix the Gaul
by René Goscinny
3,008 members
42 reviews
4
2 Members
thorold, BonnieLassie
26
Gigi [novella]
by Colette
183 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
inge87, Dilara86
27
Bouvard and Pécuchet
by Gustave Flaubert
1,364 members
20 reviews
3.8
2 Members
roby72, Dilara86
28
Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre
11,521 members
102 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
roby72, ahef1963
29
My Mother's Castle
by Marcel Pagnol
697 members
9 reviews
4
2 Members
inge87, Dilara86
Explanations
Dilara86: Provence
30
The Red and the Black
by Stendhal
10,800 members
144 reviews
3.9
2 Members
thorold, roby72
31
Swann's Way
by Marcel Proust
12,968 members
206 reviews
4.2
2 Members
thorold, Dilara86
32
Tender Is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
14,581 members
195 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
roby72, ahef1963
33
The Day of the Jackal
by Frederick Forsyth
6,016 members
108 reviews
4
2 Members
KimarieBee, roby72
34
Germinal
by Émile Zola
6,139 members
90 reviews
4.2
2 Members
thorold, roby72
35
The Immoralist
by André Gide
3,693 members
51 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
roby72, ahef1963
36
Jacques the Fatalist
by Denis Diderot
2,050 members
30 reviews
3.8
2 Members
thorold, roby72
37
The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
15,172 members
544 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
dara85
38
Camille: The Lady of the Camellias
by Alexandre Dumas
3,461 members
60 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
EMS_24
39
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
by Henry Adams
1,214 members
13 reviews
3.9
Member
aulsmith
40
Therese Raquin
by Émile Zola
3,616 members
87 reviews
3.8
2 Members
thorold, roby72
41
Cousin Bette
by Honoré de Balzac
2,492 members
41 reviews
3.9
2 Members
thorold, roby72
42
La Bête Humaine
by Émile Zola
1,861 members
26 reviews
4
2 Members
thorold, roby72
43
The Belly of Paris
by Émile Zola
1,359 members
35 reviews
3.9
2 Members
thorold, roby72
44
Querelle of Brest
by Jean Genet
1,067 members
15 reviews
3.9
2 Members
thorold, roby72
45
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
24,056 members
968 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
dara85
46
Nine Coaches Waiting
by Mary Stewart
1,760 members
49 reviews
4
Member
inge87
47
Chéri and The Last of Chéri
by Colette
1,133 members
18 reviews
3.9
Member
hipdeep
48
My Life in France
by Julia Child
5,638 members
213 reviews
4.2
Member
Barbara.Lohr
49
Paris to the Moon
by Adam Gopnik
2,984 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
hipdeep
50
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
28,778 members
665 reviews
3.9
Member
ahef1963
51
Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris
22,407 members
385 reviews
4
Member
hipdeep
52
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
25,744 members
374 reviews
3.8
Member
ahef1963
53
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
by David McCullough
3,166 members
82 reviews
3.9
Member
hipdeep
54
The Blue Flowers
by Raymond Queneau
844 members
13 reviews
3.9
Member
Dilara86
55
Possession
by A. S. Byatt
14,275 members
314 reviews
4
Member
ahef1963
56
Exercises in Style
by Raymond Queneau
2,910 members
57 reviews
3.9
Member
thorold
57
Froth on the Daydream
by Boris Vian
2,576 members
47 reviews
4
Member
Dilara86
58
The Dream of Scipio
by Iain Pears
2,353 members
53 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
KimarieBee
59
El séptimo velo
by Juan Manuel de Prada
74 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
raperper
60
Rook
by Sharon Cameron
661 members
29 reviews
3.9
Member
inge87
61
Journey to the End of the Night
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
6,908 members
86 reviews
4.2
Member
roby72
62
Le Capitaine Fracasse
by Théophile Gautier
493 members
6 reviews
4
Member
Dilara86
63
Die letzte Begegnung
by Gertrud von LeFort
4 members
1 review
½ 3.5
Member
inge87
64
A Woman's Life
by Guy de Maupassant
1,679 members
33 reviews
3.8
Member
Dilara86
65
The Song at the Scaffold
by Gertrud von LeFort
296 members
5 reviews
3.8
Member
inge87
66
Nobody's Boy
by Hector Malot
1,012 members
25 reviews
4.1
Member
Dilara86
67
The Mandarins
by Simone de Beauvoir
1,959 members
22 reviews
4.1
Member
roby72
68
Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
9,855 members
146 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
roby72
69
Maigret and the Man on the Boulevard
by Georges Simenon
667 members
23 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
70
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Gertrude Stein
3,073 members
46 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
thorold
71
L'Assommoir
by Émile Zola
2,669 members
52 reviews
4.1
Member
roby72
72
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
by Simone de Beauvoir
2,370 members
30 reviews
4
Member
Dilara86
73
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
by Georges Simenon
1,290 members
32 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
74
Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs
by Marcel Pagnol
529 members
5 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
Dilara86
Explanations
Dilara86: Provence
75
Labyrinth
by Kate Mosse
7,870 members
222 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
ahef1963
76
The horse of pride : life in a Breton village
by Pierre-Jakez Helias
175 members
3 reviews
3.8
Member
Dilara86
Explanations
Dilara86: Brittany
77
Paris Spleen
by Charles Baudelaire
2,368 members
22 reviews
4.2
Member
roby72
78
Ysabel
by Guy Gavriel Kay
2,133 members
97 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963
79
The Flowers of Evil
by Charles Baudelaire
9,063 members
90 reviews
4.2
Member
roby72
80
A History of the Franks
by Gregory of Tours
1,221 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963
81
Missing Person
by Patrick Modiano
1,178 members
36 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
82
Manon Lescaut
by Abbé Prévost
2,375 members
59 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
roby72
83
The Earth
by Émile Zola
838 members
14 reviews
4
Member
thorold
84
The Diary of a Country Priest
by Georges Bernanos
1,975 members
29 reviews
3.9
Member
roby72
85
Le Grand Meaulnes
by Alain-Fournier
3,915 members
85 reviews
3.8
Member
roby72
86
Against Nature
by Joris-Karl Huysmans
4,000 members
80 reviews
3.8
Member
roby72
87
Nana
by Émile Zola
4,372 members
69 reviews
3.8
Member
roby72
88
Sentimental Education
by Gustave Flaubert
4,835 members
60 reviews
3.8
Member
roby72
89
Bel-Ami
by Guy de Maupassant
3,593 members
70 reviews
3.9
Member
roby72
90
The Princess of Clèves
by Madame de La Fayette
2,588 members
60 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
roby72
91
The Devil in the Flesh
by Raymond Radiguet
1,290 members
24 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
roby72
92
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
40,938 members
581 reviews
3.9
2 Members
roby72, ahef1963,thorold ,aulsmith
Explanations
thorold : French literature, but not set in France
93
The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
76,068 members
1,369 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
ahef1963, BonnieLassie,aulsmith ,raperper
94
A Year in Provence
by Peter Mayle
6,078 members
119 reviews
3.9
Member
ahef1963,Dilara86
95
Holy Blood, Holy Grail
by Michael Baigent
4,798 members
80 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
ahef1963,aulsmith
96
Toujours Provence
by Peter Mayle
2,557 members
24 reviews
3.8
Member
ahef1963,Dilara86
97
Candide
by Voltaire
23,164 members
344 reviews
3.8
Member
ahef1963,thorold
Explanations
thorold : Set in all sorts of places (Westfalia, Holland, Portugal, South America, and Turkey), not including France...
98
The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories
by Jean-Paul Sartre
3,047 members
32 reviews
3.8
Member
roby72,aulsmith
Explanations
aulsmith : "The Wall" is set in Spain. I haven't read the others.
99
A Year in the Merde
by Stephen Clarke
2,026 members
54 reviews
½ 3.3
100
A Good Year
by Peter Mayle
1,261 members
31 reviews
½ 3.5