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1
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
30,599 members, 399 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (2), aulsmith (3), KimarieBee (5), raperper (7)

2
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
22,497 members, 338 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

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

3
Cyrano de Bergerac
by Edmond Rostand
6,240 members, 66 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
11,732 members, 151 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

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

5
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
21,402 members, 290 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

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

6
Sarah's Key
by Tatiana de Rosnay
9,823 members, 625 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

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

7
Life A User's Manual
by Georges Perec
3,281 members, 46 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: thorold (2), Dilara86 (3), roby72 (13)

8
Madeline
by Ludwig Bemelmans
7,904 members, 246 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: cej1027 (2), aulsmith (7), ahef1963 (9)

9
Suite Française
by Irène Némirovsky
8,980 members, 327 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: Barbara.Lohr (1), Dilara86 (13), roby72 (26)

10
The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
17,848 members, 216 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

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

11
Old Goriot
by Honoré de Balzac
5,108 members, 87 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

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

12
Bitter Greens
by Kate Forsyth
524 members, 41 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: KimarieBee (1), inge87 (6)

13
These Old Shades
by Georgette Heyer
2,106 members, 65 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: KimarieBee (2), inge87 (4)

14
My Father's Glory
by Marcel Pagnol
731 members, 10 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: inge87 (1), Dilara86 (12)

Explanations:

Dilara86 (12): Provence

15
In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust
3,225 members, 39 reviews
4.52 stars (4.52 stars)

Lists: roby72 (1), Dilara86 (19)

16
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
5,580 members, 74 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: roby72 (3), thorold (4)

17
Eugénie Grandet
by Honoré de Balzac
2,850 members, 40 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

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

18
Zazie in the Metro
by Raymond Queneau
1,472 members, 27 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: thorold (1), roby72 (41)

19
A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway
7,871 members, 162 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (1), Barbara.Lohr (2)

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20
Nicholas
by Jean-Jacques Sempé
1,625 members, 29 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

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21
Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin
4,019 members, 90 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: thorold (5), aulsmith (6)

22
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by Patrick Süskind
15,954 members, 394 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: KimarieBee (3), ahef1963 (16)

23
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas père
20,704 members, 369 reviews
4.32 stars (4.32 stars)

Lists: raperper (2), roby72 (34)

24
Madeline's Rescue
by Ludwig Bemelmans
3,216 members, 83 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: cej1027 (3), ahef1963 (19)

25
Gigi
by Colette
302 members, 5 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)

Lists: inge87 (3), Dilara86 (21)

26
Bouvard and Pécuchet
by Gustave Flaubert
1,501 members, 17 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: Dilara86 (4), roby72 (24)

27
Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre
8,519 members, 66 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (8), roby72 (10)

28
My Mother's Castle
by Marcel Pagnol
529 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
8,064 members, 112 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: thorold (7), roby72 (16)

30
Swann's Way
by Marcel Proust
9,246 members, 145 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: thorold (8), Dilara86 (14)

31
Tender is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
11,169 members, 164 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (7), roby72 (17)

32
The Day of the Jackal
by Frederick Forsyth
4,540 members, 76 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: KimarieBee (4), roby72 (39)

33
Germinal
by Émile Zola
4,520 members, 69 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: roby72 (9), thorold (19)

34
The Immoralist
by André Gide
2,944 members, 36 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (10), roby72 (18)

35
Jacques the Fatalist
by Denis Diderot
1,568 members, 21 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: thorold (9), roby72 (31)

36
The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
6,215 members, 364 reviews
4.33 stars (4.33 stars)

Lists: dara85 (1)

37
Camille: The Lady of the Camellias
by Alexandre fils Dumas
2,491 members, 47 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: EMS_24 (1)

38
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
by Henry Adams
942 members, 11 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (1)

39
Thérèse Raquin
by Émile Zola
2,712 members, 68 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: roby72 (14), thorold (20)

40
Cousin Bette
by Honoré de Balzac
1,920 members, 31 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: thorold (11), roby72 (27)

41
The Beast Within
by Émile Zola
1,371 members, 24 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: thorold (13), roby72 (38)

42
The Belly of Paris
by Émile Zola
980 members, 27 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: thorold (14), roby72 (36)

43
Querelle of Brest
by Jean Genet
839 members, 9 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: thorold (17), roby72 (43)

44
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
12,773 members, 721 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

Lists: dara85 (2)

45
Nine Coaches Waiting
by Mary Stewart
1,387 members, 37 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: inge87 (2)

46
Chéri / The Last of Chéri
by Colette
819 members, 9 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (2)

47
My Life in France
by Julia Child
4,561 members, 191 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: Barbara.Lohr (3)

48
Paris to the Moon
by Adam Gopnik
2,564 members, 30 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (3)

49
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
23,800 members, 587 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (4)

50
Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris
19,389 members, 335 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (4)

51
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
20,015 members, 287 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (5)

52
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
by David McCullough
2,170 members, 65 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (5)

53
The Blue Flowers
by Raymond Queneau
665 members, 10 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: Dilara86 (5)

54
Possession: A Romance
by A. S. Byatt
11,747 members, 264 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (6)

55
Exercises in Style
by Raymond Queneau
2,229 members, 47 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: thorold (6)

56
The Dream of Scipio
by Iain Pears
2,016 members, 47 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: KimarieBee (6)

57
Froth on the Daydream
by Boris Vian
1,992 members, 39 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: Dilara86 (6)

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

Lists: raperper (6)

59
Rook
by Sharon Cameron
451 members, 24 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: inge87 (7)

60
Journey to the End of the Night
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
5,239 members, 68 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: roby72 (8)

61
Captain Fracasse
by Théophile Gautier
364 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
1,272 members, 25 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: Dilara86 (9)

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

Lists: inge87 (9)

65
Asterix the Gaul
by René Goscinny
2,109 members, 33 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: thorold (10)

66
Nobody's Boy
by Hector Malot
763 members, 20 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: Dilara86 (10)

67
The Mandarins
by Simone de Beauvoir
1,487 members, 12 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: roby72 (11)

68
Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
7,715 members, 110 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Lists: roby72 (12)

69
Maigret and the Man on the Boulevard
by Georges Simenon
487 members, 15 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: thorold (12)

70
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Gertrude Stein
2,309 members, 40 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)

Lists: thorold (15)

71
L'Assommoir
by Émile Zola
2,056 members, 38 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: roby72 (15)

72
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
by Simone de Beauvoir
1,754 members, 27 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: Dilara86 (15)

73
The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By
by Georges Simenon
923 members, 20 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: thorold (16)

74
The Water of the Hills: Jean de Florette / Manon of the Springs
by Marcel Pagnol
410 members, 4 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: Dilara86 (17)

Explanations:

Dilara86 (17): Provence

75
Labyrinth
by Kate Mosse
6,475 members, 199 reviews
3.3 stars (3.3 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (18)

76
The horse of pride : life in a Breton village
by Pierre-Jakez Helias
142 members, 2 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Lists: Dilara86 (18)

Explanations:

Dilara86 (18): Brittany

77
Paris Spleen (New Directions Paperbook)
by Charles Baudelaire
1,801 members, 16 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

Lists: roby72 (19)

78
Ysabel
by Guy Gavriel Kay
1,804 members, 86 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (20)

79
The Flowers of Evil
by Charles Baudelaire
6,353 members, 62 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: roby72 (21)

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

Lists: ahef1963 (21)

81
Missing Person
by Patrick Modiano
790 members, 27 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: thorold (21)

82
Manon Lescaut
by Abbé Prévost
1,725 members, 47 reviews
3.37 stars (3.37 stars)

Lists: roby72 (22)

83
Earth
by Émile Zola
612 members, 12 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: thorold (22)

84
The Diary of a Country Priest
by Georges Bernanos
1,367 members, 20 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: roby72 (23)

85
Le Grand Meaulnes
by Alain-Fournier
2,954 members, 68 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: roby72 (25)

86
Against Nature
by Joris-Karl Huysmans
3,076 members, 64 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: roby72 (29)

87
Nana
by Émile Zola
3,393 members, 55 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: roby72 (32)

88
Sentimental Education
by Gustave Flaubert
3,627 members, 48 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Lists: roby72 (33)

89
Bel-Ami
by Guy de Maupassant
2,553 members, 50 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: roby72 (35)

90
The Princesse de Clèves
by Madame de La Fayette
1,971 members, 50 reviews
3.43 stars (3.43 stars)

Lists: roby72 (40)

91
The Devil in the Flesh
by Raymond Radiguet
935 members, 19 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)

Lists: roby72 (42)

92
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
30,414 members, 415 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 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
4,860 members, 98 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (11)

Thumbs down: Dilara86

94
Holy Blood, Holy Grail
by Michael Baigent
4,018 members, 71 reviews
3.23 stars (3.23 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (12)

Thumbs down: aulsmith

95
Toujours Provence
by Peter Mayle
2,132 members, 20 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (13)

Thumbs down: Dilara86

96
Candide
by Voltaire
17,613 members, 271 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
2,463 members, 21 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 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
63,341 members, 1,240 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (14)

Thumbs down: aulsmith, raperper

99
A Year in the Merde
by Stephen Clarke
1,802 members, 47 reviews
3.29 stars (3.29 stars)

Thumbs down: Dilara86

100
A Good Year
by Peter Mayle
1,051 members, 27 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

Thumbs down: Dilara86

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