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
11334 La Fin D'amor Jean-Claude Marol French Unknown
11334 La Patrie Empaillée Jacques Izoard Belgian French
11334 La Vie Chinoise De Marianne Pêche Lisa Bresner French French
11334 La Vie Rêvée Antonia Pozzi Italian Italian
1759 Lady into Fox David Garnett 1922 British English
899 Last Exit to Brooklyn Hubert Selby 1964 American English
5995 Le Bavard Louis-René Des Forêts 1946 French French
6674 Le Drame De La Vie & Le Discours Aux Animaux Valère Novarina 1984 French French
6985 Le Théâtre Des Paroles Valère Novarina 1989 French French
11334 Le Monde Tel Qu'il Est Salvat Etchart French Unknown
6415 Le Pays Où Tout Est Permis Sophie Podolski 1979 Unknown French
5995 Leaves of Hypnos René Char 1946 French French
6292 Les Lieux De Marguerite Duras Marguerite Duras 1977 French French
5995 Les Murs De Fresnes Henri Calet 1945 French French
5995 Les Métamorphoses Du Cercle Georges Poulet 1961 Belgian French
7590 Les Praticiens De L'infernal Pierre La Police 1993 French French
11334 Lessons On The French Language Pierre Guyotat French French
1984 Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann 2009 Irish English
1474 Lettres de madame de Sévigné Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné 1671 French French
6867 Lettres Aux Années De Nostalgie Kenzaburō Ōe 1987 Japanese Japanese
1962 Leviathan Arno Schmidt 1949 German German
1435 Life After Life Kate Atkinson 2013 British English
213 Life and Fate Vasily Grossman 1980 Russian Russian
2118 Life In The Folds Henri Michaux 1949 French French
6623 Life With Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse 1983 British English
136 Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1900 British English
9515 Love's End Pascal Rambert 2011 French French
6163 Ludo Conrad Detrez 1974 Belgian French
3880 Lunar Park Bret Easton Ellis 2005 American English
2400 Lust Elfriede Jelinek 1989 Austrian German
21 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1857 French French
5995 Madame Edwarda Unknown 1941 Unknown French
5995 Madness Of The Day Maurice Blanchot 1949 French French
914 Malina Ingeborg Bachmann 1971 Austrian German
172 Man's Fate Andre Malraux 1933 French French
5995 Marginalia On Casanova Miklós Szentkuthy 1939 Hungarian Hungarian
1425 Mars Fritz Zorn 1977 Swiss German
5995 Master And Man Leo Tolstoy 1895 Russian Russian
6795 Maudit Manège Philippe Djian 1986 French French
779 Maxims François duc de La Rochefoucauld 1665 French French
9923 Medicine Walk Richard Wagamese 2014 Canadian English
430 Memoirs From Beyond the Grave François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1849 French French
122 Memoirs of Hadrian Marguerite Yourcenar 1951 French French
5995 Men In Dark Times Hannah Arendt 1968 German English
3574 Mercy Of A Rude Stream Henry Roth 1994 American English
5995 Mes Heures Perdues Félix Arvers 1833 French French
723 Michael Kohlhaas Heinrich von Kleist 1810 German German
8054 Minor Angels Antoine Volodine 1999 French French
1084 Misery Stephen King 1987 American English
6247 Moments Of Being Virginia Woolf 1976 British English
6113 Monster Naoki Urasawa 1994 Japanese Japanese
6309 My Brother Jamaica Kincaid 1997 Antiguan English
5995 My Feminine Brother Marina Tsvetaeva 1923 Russian Russian
11334 My Love Ishikawa Takuboku Japanese Japanese
160 My Antonia Willa Cather 1918 American English
5995 Nietzsche And Philosophy Gilles Deleuze 1962 French French
5995 Night Edgar Hilsenrath 1964 German German
4485 Niourk Stefan Wul 1957 French French
5995 No One's Rose Paul Celan 1963 German German
5995 Note Conjointe Charles Péguy 1914 French French
5995 Notebooks Joseph Joubert 1883 French French
11334 Notes Boulet French Unknown
383 Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles -401 Greek Ancient greek
170 Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck 1937 American English
1270 Omeros Derek Walcott 1990 Saint Lucian English
405 De Rerum Natura Lucretius 55 Roman Latin
42 On the Road Jack Kerouac 1957 American English
5 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez 1967 Colombian Spanish
46 One Thousand and One Nights Unknown 800 Multiple Arabic
927 Our Lady of the Flowers Jean Genet 1943 French French
11334 Où Sont Ils Maintenant. Anthologie Personnelle Laura Kasischke Unknown French
6985 Panegyric Guy Debord 1989 French French
2165 Paris Spleen Charles Baudelaire 1869 French French
8634 Pedigree Patrick Modiano 2005 French French
4473 Perceval, Or The Story Of The Grail Chrétien de Troyes 1181 French Old french
1396 Pierre et Jean Guy de Maupassant 1888 French French
5995 Poem Of The End Marina Tsvetaeva 1923 Russian Russian
1304 Collected Poems Stéphane Mallarmé 1887 French French
3510 Poems, 1913 1956 Bertolt Brecht 1976 German German
1964 Poppy And Memory Paul Celan 1950 German German
3393 Portrait Of A Marriage Nigel Nicolson 1973 British English
1957 The Prose Of The Trans Siberian Blaise Cendrars 1913 French French
5995 Pylon William Faulkner 1935 American English
5995 Quai Des Grands Augustins Jean Rhys 1930 Unknown French
9636 Rachel, Monique… Sophie Calle 2012 French French
11334 Refusal To Obey Jean Giono French French
2600 Regarding the Pain of Others Susan Sontag 2003 American English
610 Requiem Anna Akhmatova 1963 Russian Russian
4474 Revenge Of The Lawn Richard Brautigan 1971 American English
11334 Rien Que L'amour Lucien Becker French French
69 Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe 1719 British English
8248 Rosie Carpe & Hilda Marie NDiaye 2001 French French
1561 Runaway Alice Munro 2004 Canadian English
6623 Savannah Bay Marguerite Duras 1983 French French
1024 Secondhand Time Svetlana Alexievich 2013 Belarusian Russian
7975 Vie Secrète Pascal Quignard 1998 French French
5995 Chekhov's Selected Stories Anton Chekhov 1903 Russian Russian
116 A Sentimental Education Gustave Flaubert 1869 French French
5995 Septentrion Louis Calaferte 1963 French French
5995 Seven Gothic Tales Karen Blixen 1934 Danish Danish
554 The Seven Pillars of Wisdom T. E. Lawrence 1926 British English
5995 Shakespeare And Company Sylvia Beach 1959 American English
5715 Simple Passion Annie Ernaux 1991 French French
1278 So Long a Letter Mariama Bâ 1980 Senegalese French
6568 So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away Richard Brautigan 1982 American English
7043 Some Thing Black Jacques Roubaud 1990 French French
5995 Someone Robert Pinget 1965 French French
5995 Sonnets Louise Labé 1556 French French
7667 Sophie Calle Sophie Calle 1994 French French
4531 Special Topics In Calamity Physics Marisha Pessl 2006 American English
834 Story of O Pauline Reage 1954 French French
1344 Story of the Eye Georges Bataille 1928 French French
6272 Sur La Scène Intérieure Marcel Cohen 2013 French French
3262 Tales Of Mystery And Imagination Edgar Allan Poe 1908 American English
983 Tartuffe Molière 1664 French French
2090 Derborence Charles Ferdinand Ramuz 1934 Swiss French
5995 Testimony Charles Reznikoff 1965 American English
2473 L'acacia Claude Simon 1989 French French
227 The Alexandria Quartet Lawrence Durrell 1957 British English
6247 The Allure Of Chanel Paul Morand 1976 French French