French Books

1
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
35,724 members
444 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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2
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
25,723 members
382 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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3
Cyrano de Bergerac
by Edmond Rostand
7,224 members
86 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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4
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by Victor Hugo
13,706 members
174 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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5
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
25,528 members
332 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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6
Sarah's Key
by Tatiana de Rosnay
10,956 members
645 reviews
4
3 Members
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7
Life: A User's Manual
by Georges Perec
3,704 members
54 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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8
Madeline
by Ludwig Bemelmans
10,241 members
257 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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9
Suite Française
by Irène Némirovsky
9,773 members
342 reviews
4
3 Members
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10
The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
20,724 members
242 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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11
Old Goriot
by Honoré de Balzac
5,826 members
105 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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12
Bitter Greens
by Kate Forsyth
612 members
44 reviews
4
2 Members
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13
These Old Shades
by Georgette Heyer
2,336 members
77 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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14
My Father's Glory
by Marcel Pagnol
840 members
10 reviews
4
2 Members
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Explanations
Dilara86: Provence
15
In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust
3,793 members
44 reviews
½ 4.5
2 Members
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16
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
6,347 members
85 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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17
Eugénie Grandet
by Honoré de Balzac
3,336 members
56 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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18
Zazie in the Metro
by Raymond Queneau
1,659 members
30 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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19
A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway
8,882 members
187 reviews
4
2 Members
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20
Nicholas
by René Goscinny
1,938 members
36 reviews
4
2 Members
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21
Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin
5,254 members
122 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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22
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by Patrick Süskind
17,730 members
437 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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23
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas père
24,693 members
419 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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24
Madeline's Rescue
by Ludwig Bemelmans
4,052 members
85 reviews
4
2 Members
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25
Gigi
by Colette
354 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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26
Bouvard and Pécuchet
by Gustave Flaubert
1,183 members
18 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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27
Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre
9,739 members
80 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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28
My Mother's Castle
by Marcel Pagnol
599 members
8 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Explanations
Dilara86: Provence
29
The Red and the Black
by Stendhal
9,310 members
132 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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30
Swann's Way
by Marcel Proust
10,846 members
176 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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31
Tender is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
12,638 members
181 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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32
The Day of the Jackal
by Frederick Forsyth
5,199 members
89 reviews
4
2 Members
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33
Germinal
by Émile Zola
5,220 members
77 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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34
The Immoralist
by André Gide
3,280 members
45 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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35
Jacques the Fatalist
by Denis Diderot
1,781 members
27 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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36
The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
9,053 members
444 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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37
Camille: The Lady of the Camellias
by Alexandre Dumas
2,881 members
56 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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38
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
by Henry Adams
1,087 members
12 reviews
3.9
Member
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39
Thérèse Raquin
by Émile Zola
3,075 members
78 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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40
Cousin Bette
by Honoré de Balzac
2,203 members
35 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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41
The Beast Within
by Émile Zola
1,565 members
25 reviews
4
2 Members
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42
The Belly of Paris
by Émile Zola
1,165 members
28 reviews
4
2 Members
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43
Querelle of Brest
by Jean Genet
934 members
12 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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44
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
17,561 members
854 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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45
Nine Coaches Waiting
by Mary Stewart
1,593 members
45 reviews
4
Member
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46
Chéri / The Last of Chéri
by Colette
971 members
13 reviews
3.9
Member
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47
My Life in France
by Julia Child
5,052 members
199 reviews
4.2
Member
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48
Paris to the Moon
by Adam Gopnik
2,745 members
32 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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49
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
25,995 members
614 reviews
3.9
Member
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50
Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris
20,886 members
360 reviews
4
Member
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51
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
22,520 members
329 reviews
3.8
Member
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52
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
by David McCullough
2,665 members
73 reviews
3.9
Member
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53
The Blue Flowers
by Raymond Queneau
740 members
12 reviews
3.9
Member
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54
Possession
by A.S. Byatt
12,726 members
285 reviews
4
Member
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55
Exercises in Style
by Raymond Queneau
2,509 members
51 reviews
3.9
Member
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56
Froth on the Daydream
by Boris Vian
2,259 members
43 reviews
4
Member
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57
The Dream of Scipio
by Iain Pears
2,177 members
54 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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58
El séptimo velo
by Juan Manuel de Prada
66 members
3 reviews
3.8
Member
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59
Rook
by Sharon Cameron
551 members
26 reviews
3.9
Member
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60
Journey to the End of the Night
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
5,906 members
80 reviews
4.2
Member
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61
Le Capitaine Fracasse
by Théophile Gautier
424 members
5 reviews
4
Member
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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
1,448 members
31 reviews
3.8
Member
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64
The Song at the Scaffold
by Gertrud von LeFort
221 members
4 reviews
3.8
Member
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65
Asterix the Gaul
by René Goscinny
2,442 members
36 reviews
3.9
Member
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66
Nobody's Boy
by Hector Malot
863 members
23 reviews
4.1
Member
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67
The Mandarins
by Simone de Beauvoir
1,706 members
14 reviews
4.1
Member
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68
Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
8,645 members
127 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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69
Maigret and the Man on the Boulevard
by Georges Simenon
576 members
20 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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70
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Gertrude Stein
2,609 members
43 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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71
L'Assommoir
by Émile Zola
2,351 members
44 reviews
4.1
Member
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72
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
by Simone de Beauvoir
2,041 members
29 reviews
3.9
Member
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73
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
by Georges Simenon
1,089 members
31 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
74
Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs
by Marcel Pagnol
460 members
4 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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Explanations
Dilara86: Provence
75
Labyrinth
by Kate Mosse
7,106 members
205 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
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76
The horse of pride : life in a Breton village
by Pierre-Jakez Helias
165 members
3 reviews
3.8
Member
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Explanations
Dilara86: Brittany
77
Paris Spleen
by Charles Baudelaire
2,071 members
17 reviews
4.2
Member
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78
Ysabel
by Guy Gavriel Kay
1,953 members
88 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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79
The Flowers of Evil
by Charles Baudelaire
7,374 members
79 reviews
4.2
Member
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80
A History of the Franks
by Saint Gregory of Tours
1,050 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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81
Missing Person
by Patrick Modiano
958 members
31 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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82
Manon Lescaut
by Abbé Prévost
1,988 members
51 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
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83
Earth
by Émile Zola
700 members
12 reviews
4.1
Member
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84
The Diary of a Country Priest
by Georges Bernanos
1,634 members
23 reviews
3.9
Member
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85
Le Grand Meaulnes
by Alain-Fournier
3,357 members
79 reviews
3.8
Member
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86
Against Nature
by Joris-Karl Huysmans
3,497 members
72 reviews
3.8
Member
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87
Nana
by Émile Zola
3,842 members
65 reviews
3.8
Member
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88
Sentimental Education
by Gustave Flaubert
4,146 members
57 reviews
3.8
Member
roby72
89
Bel-Ami
by Guy de Maupassant
2,976 members
56 reviews
3.9
Member
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90
The Princesse de Clèves
by Madame de La Fayette
2,261 members
55 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
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91
The Devil in the Flesh
by Raymond Radiguet
1,083 members
21 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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92
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
34,696 members
490 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
5,448 members
109 reviews
3.9
Member
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94
Holy Blood, Holy Grail
by Michael Baigent
4,384 members
75 reviews
3.2
Member
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95
Toujours Provence
by Peter Mayle
2,334 members
21 reviews
3.8
Member
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96
Candide
by Voltaire
20,113 members
304 reviews
3.8
Member
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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
2,637 members
22 reviews
3.9
Member
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Explanations
aulsmith : "The Wall" is set in Spain. I haven't read the others.
98
The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
69,299 members
1,293 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
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99
A Year in the Merde
by Stephen Clarke
1,903 members
50 reviews
½ 3.3
100
A Good Year
by Peter Mayle
1,153 members
27 reviews
½ 3.5