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 11 months ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
7107 A Louis Zukofsky 1991 American English
8187 4.48 Psychosis Sarah Kane 2000 British English
5995 A Balcony In The Forest Julien Gracq 1958 French French
5995 A Certain Plume Henri Michaux 1930 French English
1001 A Dry White Season Andre Brink 1979 South African Afrikaans
8714 A Girl's Story Annie Ernaux 2016 French French
207 A Good Man Is Hard to Find Flannery O'Connor 1953 American English
1497 A King Alone Jean Giono 1947 French French
1432 A Woman's Life Guy de Maupassant 1883 French French
6292 A Life Of Her Own Émilie Carles 1977 French French
5995 A Love Affair Dino Buzzati 1963 Italian Italian
6734 A Matter Of Feeling Janine Boissard 1985 French French
7043 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
2907 A Simple Soul Gustave Flaubert 1877 French French
4982 A Thousand Plateaus Gilles Deleuze 1980 French French
3601 A Throw Of The Dice Will Never Abolish Chance Stéphane Mallarmé 1897 French French
1810 A Time Of Gifts Patrick Leigh Fermor 1977 British English
4118 A Very Long Engagement Sebastien Japrisot 1991 French French
5995 A Woman Named Solitude André Schwarz-Bart 1972 French French
43 Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner 1936 American English
357 Ada or Ardor Vladimir Nabokov 1969 American English
765 Adolphe Benjamin Constant 1816 Swiss French
22 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1884 American English
4533 Affliction Russell Banks 1989 American English
11334 Against Poets Witold Gombrowicz Polish Polish
478 Alcools Guillaume Apollinaire 1913 French French
35 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
4486 All The Little Live Things Wallace Stegner 1967 American English
1022 Ambiguous Adventure Cheikh Hamidou Kane 1961 Senegalese French
6795 America Jean Baudrillard 1986 French French
441 Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013 Nigerian English
5995 An Anecdoted Topography Of Chance Daniel Spoerri 1962 Multiple French
10 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1877 Russian Russian
1428 Aphorisms Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1902 German German
815 Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne 1872 French French
5417 At Night All Blood Is Black David Diop 2018 French French
6623 Autonauts Of The Cosmoroute Julio Cortazar 1983 Argentinian Spanish
459 Bartleby the Scrivener Herman Melville 1853 American English
5995 Batailles Dans La Montagne Jean Giono 1937 French French
10873 Before I Forget Anne Pauly 2019 French French
517 Being and Time Martin Heidegger 1927 German German
3286 Bérénice Jean Racine 1670 French French
4476 Bliss Katherine Mansfield 1918 New Zealand English
5995 Bound To Violence Yambo Ouologuem 1968 Malian French
3001 Camera Lucida Roland Barthes 1980 French French
6552 Candy Mian Mian 2000 Chinese Chinese
11177 Canoës Maylis de Kerangal 2021 French French
4488 Castle to Castle Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1957 French French
8872 Cendrillon Éric Reinhardt 2007 French French
5995 Ceux De 14 Maurice Genevoix 1949 French French
2894 City Clifford D. Simak 1952 American English
1795 Collected Stories Isaac Bashevis Singer 1982 Polish English
6452 Comment S'en Sortir Sans Sortir Ghérasim Luca 1980 French French
2575 Complete Poems E. E. Cummings 1960 American English
11334 Complete Works Jorge Luis Borges Argentinian Spanish
129 First Folio William Shakespeare 1623 British English
1411 Concrete Thomas Bernhard 1982 Austrian German
273 The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1782 French French
839 Confessions of a Mask Yukio Mishima 1949 Japanese Japanese
9140 Correspondance Avec Le Mur Hélène Cixous 2009 French French
6345 Delirious New York Rem Koolhaas 1978 Dutch English
1167 The Diaries Franz Kafka 1948 Czech German
8424 Diaries 1959 1971 Alejandra Pizarnik 2003 Argentinian Spanish
5995 Die Niederschrift Des Gustav Anias Horn Hans Henny Jahnn 1949 German German
6985 Dina's Book Herbjørg Wassmo 1989 Norwegian Norwegian
5995 Dire I–Ii Danielle Collobert 1972 French French
1954 Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault 1975 French French
2885 Distant Star Roberto Bolaño 1996 Chilean Spanish
5995 Divagations Stéphane Mallarmé 1897 French French
2144 Don Juan Molière 1665 French French
53 Dracula Bram Stoker 1897 British English
6292 Dreaming Of Babylon Richard Brautigan 1977 American English
371 The Duino Elegies Rainer Maria Rilke 1923 German German
2907 Délie Maurice Scève 1544 French French
3216 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
524 Family Sayings Natalia Ginzburg 1963 Italian Italian
228 Father Goriot Honoré de Balzac 1835 French French
45 Fictions Jorge Luis Borges 1944 Argentinian Spanish
2082 A German Officer in Occupied Paris Ernst Jünger 1949 German German
39 Frankenstein Mary Shelley 1818 British English
9018 From A To X John Berger 2008 British English
6867 Galantine De Volaille Pour Dames Frivoles San-Antonio 1987 French French
6505 Ghost Image Hervé Guibert 1981 French French
875 Greguerias Ramón Gómez de la Serna 1910 Spanish Spanish
9140 Haiku Stephen Addiss 2009 Unknown English
72 Hamlet William Shakespeare 1600 British English
2586 Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell 2020 Irish English
504 Her Lover Albert Cohen 1968 Swiss French
397 His Dark Materials Philip Pullman 1995 British English
6207 Holocaust Charles Reznikoff 1975 American English
565 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
1355 Illuminations Arthur Rimbaud 1886 French French
1631 In Watermelon Sugar Richard Brautigan 1968 American English
5995 Inner Experience Georges Bataille 1943 French French
8187 Insomnia Drawings Louise Bourgeois 2000 Unknown English
5995 Ivanov Anton Chekhov 1887 Russian Russian
28 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë 1847 British English
8635 Jane Maggie Nelson 2005 American English
2533 Jazz Toni Morrison 1992 American English
1111 Jesus' Son Denis Johnson 1992 American English
9924 Joseph Marie-Hélène Lafon 2014 French French
9018 Jouer Juste François Bégaudeau 2008 French French
9791 Journal Julie Delporte 2013 Unknown French
8424 Journal Mireille Havet 2003 French French
48 Journey to the End of The Night Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1932 French French
6623 Journey To The Land Of The Real Victor Segalen 1983 French French
10250 Juliette Camille Jourdy 2016 French French
7043 Just The End Of The World Jean-Luc Lagarce 1990 French French
7043 Kaddish For An Unborn Child Imre Kertész 1990 Hungarian Hungarian
798 Kaputt Curzio Malaparte 1944 Italian Italian
131 King Lear William Shakespeare 1608 British English
297 Kristin Lavransdatter Sigrid Undset 1920 Norwegian Norwegian
6123 L'hiver De Force Réjean Ducharme 1973 Canadian French
7590 L'interruption Dominique Noguez 1993 French French
9140 La Blessure Et La Soif Laurence Plazenet 2009 French French