Fifty French Writers Choose Their Favorite 10 Books - Honourable Mention

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On en garde 10 ! Pour la littérature, 385 Books

This is the honourable mention followup list for https://thegreatestbooks.org/lists/1051

This is all the lists from the 50 french writers and critics that were only mentioned one time. please see that list for more details

This list was originally published in 2022 and was added to this site about 1 year ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
7120 A Louis Zukofsky 1991 American English
8203 4.48 Psychosis Sarah Kane 2000 British English
6005 A Balcony In The Forest Julien Gracq 1958 French French
6005 A Certain Plume Henri Michaux 1930 French English
1003 A Dry White Season Andre Brink 1979 South African Afrikaans
8733 A Girl's Story Annie Ernaux 2016 French French
208 A Good Man Is Hard to Find Flannery O'Connor 1953 American English
1498 A King Alone Jean Giono 1947 French French
1432 A Woman's Life Guy de Maupassant 1883 French French
6304 A Life Of Her Own Émilie Carles 1977 French French
6005 A Love Affair Dino Buzzati 1963 Italian Italian
6746 A Matter Of Feeling Janine Boissard 1985 French French
7056 A Passionate Apprentice Virginia Woolf 1990 British English
173 A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf 1929 British English
238 A Season in Hell Arthur Rimbaud 1873 French French
2912 A Simple Soul Gustave Flaubert 1877 French French
4994 A Thousand Plateaus Gilles Deleuze 1980 French French
3606 A Throw Of The Dice Will Never Abolish Chance Stéphane Mallarmé 1897 French French
1811 A Time Of Gifts Patrick Leigh Fermor 1977 British English
4125 A Very Long Engagement Sebastien Japrisot 1991 French French
6005 A Woman Named Solitude André Schwarz-Bart 1972 French French
43 Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner 1936 American English
360 Ada or Ardor Vladimir Nabokov 1969 American English
766 Adolphe Benjamin Constant 1816 Swiss French
22 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1884 American English
4540 Affliction Russell Banks 1989 American English
11366 Against Poets Witold Gombrowicz Polish Polish
478 Alcools Guillaume Apollinaire 1913 French French
35 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
4493 All The Little Live Things Wallace Stegner 1967 American English
1025 Ambiguous Adventure Cheikh Hamidou Kane 1961 Senegalese French
6806 America Jean Baudrillard 1986 French French
443 Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013 Nigerian English
6005 An Anecdoted Topography Of Chance Daniel Spoerri 1962 Multiple French
10 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1877 Russian Russian
1429 Aphorisms Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1902 German German
815 Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne 1872 French French
5427 At Night All Blood Is Black David Diop 2018 French French
6637 Autonauts Of The Cosmoroute Julio Cortazar 1983 Argentinian Spanish
460 Bartleby the Scrivener Herman Melville 1853 American English
6005 Batailles Dans La Montagne Jean Giono 1937 French French
10905 Before I Forget Anne Pauly 2019 French French
517 Being and Time Martin Heidegger 1927 German German
3291 Bérénice Jean Racine 1670 French French
4483 Bliss Katherine Mansfield 1918 New Zealand English
6005 Bound To Violence Yambo Ouologuem 1968 Malian French
3007 Camera Lucida Roland Barthes 1980 French French
6565 Candy Mian Mian 2000 Chinese Chinese
11210 Canoës Maylis de Kerangal 2021 French French
4495 Castle to Castle Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1957 French French
8891 Cendrillon Éric Reinhardt 2007 French French
6005 Ceux De 14 Maurice Genevoix 1949 French French
2900 City Clifford D. Simak 1952 American English
1796 Collected Stories Isaac Bashevis Singer 1982 Polish English
6464 Comment S'en Sortir Sans Sortir Ghérasim Luca 1980 French French
2578 Complete Poems E. E. Cummings 1960 American English
11366 Complete Works Jorge Luis Borges Argentinian Spanish
129 First Folio William Shakespeare 1623 British English
1411 Concrete Thomas Bernhard 1982 Austrian German
275 The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1782 French French
840 Confessions of a Mask Yukio Mishima 1949 Japanese Japanese
9162 Correspondance Avec Le Mur Hélène Cixous 2009 French French
6356 Delirious New York Rem Koolhaas 1978 Dutch English
1168 The Diaries Franz Kafka 1948 Czech German
8444 Diaries 1959 1971 Alejandra Pizarnik 2003 Argentinian Spanish
6005 Die Niederschrift Des Gustav Anias Horn Hans Henny Jahnn 1949 German German
6996 Dina's Book Herbjørg Wassmo 1989 Norwegian Norwegian
6005 Dire I–Ii Danielle Collobert 1972 French French
1959 Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault 1975 French French
2891 Distant Star Roberto Bolaño 1996 Chilean Spanish
6005 Divagations Stéphane Mallarmé 1897 French French
2155 Don Juan Molière 1665 French French
53 Dracula Bram Stoker 1897 British English
6304 Dreaming Of Babylon Richard Brautigan 1977 American English
373 The Duino Elegies Rainer Maria Rilke 1923 German German
2912 Délie Maurice Scève 1544 French French
3221 Ecce Homo Friedrich Nietzsche 1908 German German
490 Ethan Frome Edith Wharton 1911 American English
500 Everything That Rises Must Converge Flannery O'Connor 1965 American English
525 Family Sayings Natalia Ginzburg 1963 Italian Italian
228 Father Goriot Honoré de Balzac 1835 French French
45 Fictions Jorge Luis Borges 1944 Argentinian Spanish
2088 A German Officer in Occupied Paris Ernst Jünger 1949 German German
39 Frankenstein Mary Shelley 1818 British English
9038 From A To X John Berger 2008 British English
6878 Galantine De Volaille Pour Dames Frivoles San-Antonio 1987 French French
6517 Ghost Image Hervé Guibert 1981 French French
875 Greguerias Ramón Gómez de la Serna 1910 Spanish Spanish
9162 Haiku Stephen Addiss 2009 Unknown English
71 Hamlet William Shakespeare 1600 British English
2589 Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell 2020 Irish English
504 Her Lover Albert Cohen 1968 Swiss French
399 His Dark Materials Philip Pullman 1995 British English
6219 Holocaust Charles Reznikoff 1975 American English
566 I Served The King Of England Bohumil Hrabal 1983 Czech Czech
318 If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino 1979 Italian Italian
1359 Illuminations Arthur Rimbaud 1886 French French
1633 In Watermelon Sugar Richard Brautigan 1968 American English
6005 Inner Experience Georges Bataille 1943 French French
8203 Insomnia Drawings Louise Bourgeois 2000 Unknown English
6005 Ivanov Anton Chekhov 1887 Russian Russian
29 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë 1847 British English
8654 Jane Maggie Nelson 2005 American English
2538 Jazz Toni Morrison 1992 American English
968 Jesus' Son Denis Johnson 1992 American English
9947 Joseph Marie-Hélène Lafon 2014 French French
9038 Jouer Juste François Bégaudeau 2008 French French
9811 Journal Julie Delporte 2013 Unknown French
8444 Journal Mireille Havet 2003 French French
48 Journey to the End of The Night Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1932 French French
6637 Journey To The Land Of The Real Victor Segalen 1983 French French
10276 Juliette Camille Jourdy 2016 French French
7056 Just The End Of The World Jean-Luc Lagarce 1990 French French
7056 Kaddish For An Unborn Child Imre Kertész 1990 Hungarian Hungarian
799 Kaputt Curzio Malaparte 1944 Italian Italian
131 King Lear William Shakespeare 1608 British English
299 Kristin Lavransdatter Sigrid Undset 1920 Norwegian Norwegian
6134 L'hiver De Force Réjean Ducharme 1973 Canadian French
7606 L'interruption Dominique Noguez 1993 French French
9162 La Blessure Et La Soif Laurence Plazenet 2009 French French