Books about France

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Fiction

The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen

The Fall by Albert Camus

The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles

The Kites by Romain Gary

Submission by Michel Houellebecq

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

The American by Henry James

A Very Long Engagement by Sebastien Japrisot

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

The Erasers by Alain Robbe-Grillet

The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet

Cyrano de Bergerac a play by Edmond Rostand

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Candide by Voltaire

Non-Fiction

A Traveller's History of France by Robert Cole

A Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes

Americans in Paris: An Anthology anthology compiled by Adam Gopnik

Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik

Dear Paris by Janice MacLeod

My Life in France by Julia Child & Alex Prud’Homme

Paris Bon Appetit: Shops, Bistros, Restaurants by Pierre Rival

Truth and Existence by Jean-Paul Sartre

Women in Frankish Society: Marriage and the Cloister, 500 to 900 by Suzanne Fonay Wemple