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1
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
32,802 members, 424 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

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2
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
23,821 members, 350 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (1), Dilara86 (1), roby72 (2)

3
Cyrano de Bergerac
by Edmond Rostand
6,663 members, 73 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: raperper (3), roby72 (5), aulsmith (5), Dilara86 (7)

4
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
by Victor Hugo
12,605 members, 167 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: raperper (4), aulsmith (4), roby72 (6), Dilara86 (11)

5
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
23,150 members, 310 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: raperper (1), Dilara86 (2), roby72 (4)

6
Sarah's Key
by Tatiana de Rosnay
10,276 members, 630 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: cej1027 (1), dara85 (3), ahef1963 (15)

7
Life: A User's Manual
by Georges Perec
3,470 members, 48 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

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8
Madeline
by Ludwig Bemelmans
8,741 members, 252 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

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9
Suite Française
by Irène Némirovsky
9,361 members, 331 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

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10
The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas père
19,227 members, 233 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (2), raperper (5), roby72 (37)

11
Old Goriot
by Honoré de Balzac
5,444 members, 97 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: thorold (3), roby72 (7), Dilara86 (22)

12
Bitter Greens
by Kate Forsyth
568 members, 42 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: KimarieBee (1), inge87 (6)

13
These Old Shades
by Georgette Heyer
2,209 members, 72 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: KimarieBee (2), inge87 (4)

14
My Father's Glory
by Marcel Pagnol
781 members, 10 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: inge87 (1), Dilara86 (12)

Explanations:

Dilara86 (12): Provence

15
In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust
3,516 members, 40 reviews
4.52 stars (4.52 stars)

Lists: roby72 (1), Dilara86 (19)

16
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
5,918 members, 83 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: roby72 (3), thorold (4)

17
Eugénie Grandet
by Honoré de Balzac
3,052 members, 47 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: thorold (18), roby72 (20), Dilara86 (23)

18
Zazie in the Metro
by Raymond Queneau
1,538 members, 29 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: thorold (1), roby72 (41)

19
A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway
8,368 members, 170 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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20
Nicholas
by Jean-Jacques Sempé
1,769 members, 31 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

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21
Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin
4,494 members, 100 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: thorold (5), aulsmith (6)

22
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by Patrick Süskind
16,673 members, 414 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: KimarieBee (3), ahef1963 (16)

23
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas père
22,459 members, 390 reviews
4.32 stars (4.32 stars)

Lists: raperper (2), roby72 (34)

24
Madeline's Rescue
by Ludwig Bemelmans
3,525 members, 85 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: cej1027 (3), ahef1963 (19)

25
Gigi
by Colette
320 members, 7 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: inge87 (3), Dilara86 (21)

26
Bouvard and Pécuchet
by Gustave Flaubert
1,577 members, 18 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: Dilara86 (4), roby72 (24)

27
Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre
9,066 members, 75 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (8), roby72 (10)

28
My Mother's Castle
by Marcel Pagnol
557 members, 8 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: inge87 (5), Dilara86 (20)

Explanations:

Dilara86 (20): Provence

29
The Red and the Black
by Stendhal
8,614 members, 121 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: thorold (7), roby72 (16)

30
Swann's Way
by Marcel Proust
9,920 members, 158 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: thorold (8), Dilara86 (14)

31
Tender is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
11,806 members, 175 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (7), roby72 (17)

32
The Day of the Jackal
by Frederick Forsyth
4,838 members, 85 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: KimarieBee (4), roby72 (39)

33
Germinal
by Émile Zola
4,826 members, 73 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: roby72 (9), thorold (19)

34
The Immoralist
by André Gide
3,108 members, 40 reviews
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (10), roby72 (18)

35
Jacques the Fatalist
by Denis Diderot
1,670 members, 23 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: thorold (9), roby72 (31)

36
The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
7,338 members, 409 reviews
4.33 stars (4.33 stars)

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37
Camille: The Lady of the Camellias
by Alexandre Dumas fils
2,688 members, 50 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: EMS_24 (1)

38
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
by Henry Adams
1,006 members, 12 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (1)

39
Thérèse Raquin
by Émile Zola
2,856 members, 71 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: roby72 (14), thorold (20)

40
Cousin Bette
by Honoré de Balzac
2,044 members, 33 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: thorold (11), roby72 (27)

41
The Beast Within
by Émile Zola
1,445 members, 25 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: thorold (13), roby72 (38)

42
The Belly of Paris
by Émile Zola
1,058 members, 26 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: thorold (14), roby72 (36)

43
Querelle of Brest
by Jean Genet
886 members, 10 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: thorold (17), roby72 (43)

44
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
14,897 members, 775 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

Lists: dara85 (2)

45
Nine Coaches Waiting
by Mary Stewart
1,473 members, 42 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: inge87 (2)

46
Chéri / The Last of Chéri
by Colette
864 members, 11 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (2)

47
My Life in France
by Julia Child
4,764 members, 196 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: Barbara.Lohr (3)

48
Paris to the Moon
by Adam Gopnik
2,644 members, 30 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (3)

49
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
24,634 members, 601 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (4)

50
Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris
20,089 members, 347 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (4)

51
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
21,078 members, 303 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (5)

52
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
by David McCullough
2,389 members, 70 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (5)

53
The Blue Flowers
by Raymond Queneau
686 members, 12 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: Dilara86 (5)

54
Possession: A Romance
by A. S. Byatt
12,166 members, 276 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (6)

55
Exercises in Style
by Raymond Queneau
2,342 members, 49 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: thorold (6)

56
Froth on the Daydream
by Boris Vian
2,103 members, 42 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: Dilara86 (6)

57
The Dream of Scipio
by Iain Pears
2,086 members, 51 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: KimarieBee (6)

58
El séptimo velo
by Juan Manuel de Prada
57 members, 3 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: raperper (6)

59
Rook
by Sharon Cameron
493 members, 26 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: inge87 (7)

60
Journey to the End of the Night
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
5,547 members, 72 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: roby72 (8)

61
Captain Fracasse
by Théophile Gautier
383 members, 4 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: Dilara86 (8)

62
Die letzte Begegnung
by Gertrud von LeFort
4 members, 1 review
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: inge87 (8)

63
A Woman's Life
by Guy de Maupassant
1,355 members, 27 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: Dilara86 (9)

64
The Song at the Scaffold
by Gertrud von LeFort
190 members, 4 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: inge87 (9)

65
Asterix the Gaul
by René Goscinny
2,221 members, 35 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: thorold (10)

66
Nobody's Boy
by Hector Malot
800 members, 21 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: Dilara86 (10)

67
The Mandarins
by Simone de Beauvoir
1,600 members, 13 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: roby72 (11)

68
Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
8,121 members, 116 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Lists: roby72 (12)

69
Maigret and the Man on the Boulevard
by Georges Simenon
528 members, 15 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: thorold (12)

70
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Gertrude Stein
2,450 members, 42 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)

Lists: thorold (15)

71
L'Assommoir
by Émile Zola
2,164 members, 38 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: roby72 (15)

72
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
by Simone de Beauvoir
1,885 members, 28 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: Dilara86 (15)

73
The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By
by Georges Simenon
1,001 members, 26 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: thorold (16)

74
Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs
by Marcel Pagnol
436 members, 4 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: Dilara86 (17)

Explanations:

Dilara86 (17): Provence

75
Labyrinth
by Kate Mosse
6,785 members, 204 reviews
3.31 stars (3.31 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (18)

76
The horse of pride : life in a Breton village
by Pierre-Jakez Helias
153 members, 2 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: Dilara86 (18)

Explanations:

Dilara86 (18): Brittany

77
Paris Spleen (New Directions Paperbook)
by Charles Baudelaire
1,923 members, 17 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: roby72 (19)

78
Ysabel
by Guy Gavriel Kay
1,875 members, 89 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (20)

79
The Flowers of Evil
by Charles Baudelaire
6,804 members, 76 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: roby72 (21)

80
A History of the Franks
by Saint Gregory of Tours
982 members, 7 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (21)

81
Missing Person
by Patrick Modiano
872 members, 29 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: thorold (21)

82
Manon Lescaut
by Abbé Prévost
1,839 members, 48 reviews
3.39 stars (3.39 stars)

Lists: roby72 (22)

83
Earth
by Émile Zola
647 members, 12 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: thorold (22)

84
The Diary of a Country Priest
by Georges Bernanos
1,489 members, 21 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: roby72 (23)

85
Le Grand Meaulnes
by Alain-Fournier
3,121 members, 72 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: roby72 (25)

86
Against Nature
by Joris-Karl Huysmans
3,253 members, 72 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: roby72 (29)

87
Nana
by Émile Zola
3,574 members, 58 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: roby72 (32)

88
Sentimental Education
by Gustave Flaubert
3,848 members, 54 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: roby72 (33)

89
Bel-Ami
by Guy de Maupassant
2,739 members, 54 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: roby72 (35)

90
The Princesse de Clèves
by Madame de La Fayette
2,093 members, 55 reviews
3.43 stars (3.43 stars)

Lists: roby72 (40)

91
The Devil in the Flesh
by Raymond Radiguet
994 members, 19 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

Lists: roby72 (42)

92
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
32,139 members, 458 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (3), roby72 (28)

Thumbs down: thorold, aulsmith

Explanations:

thorold (0): French literature, but not set in France

93
A Year in Provence
by Peter Mayle
5,125 members, 104 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (11)

Thumbs down: Dilara86

94
Holy Blood, Holy Grail
by Michael Baigent
4,153 members, 73 reviews
3.23 stars (3.23 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (12)

Thumbs down: aulsmith

95
Toujours Provence
by Peter Mayle
2,223 members, 20 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (13)

Thumbs down: Dilara86

96
Candide
by Voltaire
18,724 members, 284 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (17)

Thumbs down: thorold

Explanations:

thorold (0): Set in all sorts of places (Westfalia, Holland, Portugal, South America, and Turkey), not including France...

97
The Wall: Stories
by Jean-Paul Sartre
2,624 members, 23 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: roby72 (30)

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Explanations:

aulsmith (0): "The Wall" is set in Spain. I haven't read the others.

98
The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
65,789 members, 1,271 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (14)

Thumbs down: aulsmith, raperper

99
A Year in the Merde
by Stephen Clarke
1,855 members, 49 reviews
3.29 stars (3.29 stars)

Thumbs down: Dilara86

100
A Good Year
by Peter Mayle
1,084 members, 28 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

Thumbs down: Dilara86

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