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 12 months ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
11365 La Fin D'amor Jean-Claude Marol French Unknown
11365 La Patrie Empaillée Jacques Izoard Belgian French
11365 La Vie Chinoise De Marianne Pêche Lisa Bresner French French
11365 La Vie Rêvée Antonia Pozzi Italian Italian
1762 Lady into Fox David Garnett 1922 British English
901 Last Exit to Brooklyn Hubert Selby 1964 American English
6004 Le Bavard Louis-René Des Forêts 1946 French French
6688 Le Drame De La Vie & Le Discours Aux Animaux Valère Novarina 1984 French French
6996 Le Théâtre Des Paroles Valère Novarina 1989 French French
11365 Le Monde Tel Qu'il Est Salvat Etchart French Unknown
6426 Le Pays Où Tout Est Permis Sophie Podolski 1979 Unknown French
6004 Leaves of Hypnos René Char 1946 French French
6303 Les Lieux De Marguerite Duras Marguerite Duras 1977 French French
6004 Les Murs De Fresnes Henri Calet 1945 French French
6004 Les Métamorphoses Du Cercle Georges Poulet 1961 Belgian French
7606 Les Praticiens De L'infernal Pierre La Police 1993 French French
11365 Lessons On The French Language Pierre Guyotat French French
1958 Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann 2009 Irish English
1475 Lettres de madame de Sévigné Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné 1671 French French
6878 Lettres Aux Années De Nostalgie Kenzaburō Ōe 1987 Japanese Japanese
1967 Leviathan Arno Schmidt 1949 German German
1435 Life After Life Kate Atkinson 2013 British English
214 Life and Fate Vasily Grossman 1980 Russian Russian
2126 Life In The Folds Henri Michaux 1949 French French
6637 Life With Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse 1983 British English
137 Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1900 British English
9535 Love's End Pascal Rambert 2011 French French
6173 Ludo Conrad Detrez 1974 Belgian French
3886 Lunar Park Bret Easton Ellis 2005 American English
2407 Lust Elfriede Jelinek 1989 Austrian German
20 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1857 French French
6004 Madame Edwarda Unknown 1941 Unknown French
6004 Madness Of The Day Maurice Blanchot 1949 French French
915 Malina Ingeborg Bachmann 1971 Austrian German
172 Man's Fate Andre Malraux 1933 French French
6004 Marginalia On Casanova Miklós Szentkuthy 1939 Hungarian Hungarian
1426 Mars Fritz Zorn 1977 Swiss German
6004 Master And Man Leo Tolstoy 1895 Russian Russian
6806 Maudit Manège Philippe Djian 1986 French French
780 Maxims François duc de La Rochefoucauld 1665 French French
9942 Medicine Walk Richard Wagamese 2014 Canadian English
431 Memoirs From Beyond the Grave François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1849 French French
123 Memoirs of Hadrian Marguerite Yourcenar 1951 French French
6004 Men In Dark Times Hannah Arendt 1968 German English
3578 Mercy Of A Rude Stream Henry Roth 1994 American English
6004 Mes Heures Perdues Félix Arvers 1833 French French
724 Michael Kohlhaas Heinrich von Kleist 1810 German German
8069 Minor Angels Antoine Volodine 1999 French French
1086 Misery Stephen King 1987 American English
6258 Moments Of Being Virginia Woolf 1976 British English
6123 Monster Naoki Urasawa 1994 Japanese Japanese
6320 My Brother Jamaica Kincaid 1997 Antiguan English
6004 My Feminine Brother Marina Tsvetaeva 1923 Russian Russian
11365 My Love Ishikawa Takuboku Japanese Japanese
160 My Antonia Willa Cather 1918 American English
6004 Nietzsche And Philosophy Gilles Deleuze 1962 French French
6004 Night Edgar Hilsenrath 1964 German German
4491 Niourk Stefan Wul 1957 French French
6004 No One's Rose Paul Celan 1963 German German
6004 Note Conjointe Charles Péguy 1914 French French
6004 Notebooks Joseph Joubert 1883 French French
11365 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
41 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
929 Our Lady of the Flowers Jean Genet 1943 French French
11365 Où Sont Ils Maintenant. Anthologie Personnelle Laura Kasischke Unknown French
6996 Panegyric Guy Debord 1989 French French
2175 Paris Spleen Charles Baudelaire 1869 French French
8652 Pedigree Patrick Modiano 2005 French French
4479 Perceval, Or The Story Of The Grail Chrétien de Troyes 1181 French Old french
1396 Pierre et Jean Guy de Maupassant 1888 French French
6004 Poem Of The End Marina Tsvetaeva 1923 Russian Russian
1304 Collected Poems Stéphane Mallarmé 1887 French French
3513 Poems, 1913 1956 Bertolt Brecht 1976 German German
1969 Poppy And Memory Paul Celan 1950 German German
3399 Portrait Of A Marriage Nigel Nicolson 1973 British English
1962 The Prose Of The Trans Siberian Blaise Cendrars 1913 French French
6004 Pylon William Faulkner 1935 American English
6004 Quai Des Grands Augustins Jean Rhys 1930 Unknown French
9655 Rachel, Monique… Sophie Calle 2012 French French
11365 Refusal To Obey Jean Giono French French
2603 Regarding the Pain of Others Susan Sontag 2003 American English
610 Requiem Anna Akhmatova 1963 Russian Russian
4480 Revenge Of The Lawn Richard Brautigan 1971 American English
11365 Rien Que L'amour Lucien Becker French French
69 Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe 1719 British English
8264 Rosie Carpe & Hilda Marie NDiaye 2001 French French
1563 Runaway Alice Munro 2004 Canadian English
6637 Savannah Bay Marguerite Duras 1983 French French
1027 Secondhand Time Svetlana Alexievich 2013 Belarusian Russian
7990 Vie Secrète Pascal Quignard 1998 French French
6004 Chekhov's Selected Stories Anton Chekhov 1903 Russian Russian
116 A Sentimental Education Gustave Flaubert 1869 French French
6004 Septentrion Louis Calaferte 1963 French French
6004 Seven Gothic Tales Karen Blixen 1934 Danish Danish
541 The Seven Pillars of Wisdom T. E. Lawrence 1926 British English
6004 Shakespeare And Company Sylvia Beach 1959 American English
5726 Simple Passion Annie Ernaux 1991 French French
1278 So Long a Letter Mariama Bâ 1980 Senegalese French
6581 So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away Richard Brautigan 1982 American English
7056 Some Thing Black Jacques Roubaud 1990 French French
6004 Someone Robert Pinget 1965 French French
6004 Sonnets Louise Labé 1556 French French
7683 Sophie Calle Sophie Calle 1994 French French
4537 Special Topics In Calamity Physics Marisha Pessl 2006 American English
834 Story of O Pauline Reage 1954 French French
1347 Story of the Eye Georges Bataille 1928 French French
6283 Sur La Scène Intérieure Marcel Cohen 2013 French French
3267 Tales Of Mystery And Imagination Edgar Allan Poe 1908 American English
984 Tartuffe Molière 1664 French French
2094 Derborence Charles Ferdinand Ramuz 1934 Swiss French
6004 Testimony Charles Reznikoff 1965 American English
2478 L'acacia Claude Simon 1989 French French
226 The Alexandria Quartet Lawrence Durrell 1957 British English
6258 The Allure Of Chanel Paul Morand 1976 French French