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
3287 The Aspern Papers Henry James 1888 American English
429 The Baron in the Trees Italo Calvino 1957 Italian Italian
2098 The Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver 1988 American English
4488 The Bears' Famous Invasion Of Sicily Dino Buzzati 1945 Italian Italian
103 The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath 1963 American English
6004 The Burrow Franz Kafka 1924 Austrian German
81 The Castle Franz Kafka 1926 Czech German
138 The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal 1839 French French
877 The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov 1904 Russian Russian
9807 The Childhood Of Jesus J. M. Coetzee 2013 South African English
1113 The Christmas Oratorio Göran Tunström 1983 Swedish Swedish
7120 The Color Of Summer Reinaldo Arenas 1991 Cuban Spanish
133 Confessions Augustine 397 Roman Latin
2373 The Crack-Up F. Scott Fitzgerald 1945 American English
2285 The Crossing Cormac McCarthy 1994 American English
6637 The Curse Of Lono Hunter S. Thompson 1983 American English
8203 The Day I Wasn't There Hélène Cixous 2000 French French
11364 The Dead Man Unknown Unknown Unknown
553 The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin 1974 American English
7056 The Diving Pool Yōko Ogawa 1990 Japanese Japanese
1344 The Emigrants W. G. Sebald 1992 German German
644 The English Patient Michael Ondaatje 1992 Canadian English
6004 Five On A Treasure Island Enid Blyton 1942 British English
650 The Flanders Road Claude Simon 1960 French French
6004 The Flood Yevgeny Zamyatin 1929 Russian Russian
178 The Flowers of Evil Charles Baudelaire 1857 French French
6517 A Frozen Woman Annie Ernaux 1981 French French
2609 The Gambler Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866 Russian Russian
2263 Georgics Virgil 29 Latin Latin
6004 The Golden Fruits Nathalie Sarraute 1963 French French
882 The Hour of the Star Clarice Lispector 1977 Brazilian Portuguese
291 The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende 1982 Chilean Spanish
1700 The Hunger Angel Herta Müller 2009 German German
1897 The Ice People René Barjavel 1968 French French
37 The Iliad Homer -750 Greek Ancient greek
11364 The Inherent Perfection Of Life Agnès Martin Unknown Unknown
3570 The Inquisitors' Manual António Lobo Antunes 1996 Portuguese English
177 The Interpretation of Dreams Sigmund Freud 1899 Austrian German
11364 The Jasmine Of The Lovers Rūzbihān Baqlī Shīrāzī Persian Persian
183 The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1906 American English
725 The Kingdom of This World Alejo Carpentier 1949 Cuban Spanish
2637 The Lament Of The Linnet Anna Maria Ortese 1997 Italian Italian
11364 The Lantern Bearers Robert Louis Stevenson Unknown Unknown
4494 The Letters Of Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert 1887 French French
3612 The Life Of Marianne Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux 1731 French French
6004 The Life Of Rancé François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1844 French French
4493 The Little Match Girl Unknown 1845 Unknown Danish
6004 The Lord Chandos Letter And Other Writings Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1902 Austrian German
1964 The Löwensköld Ring Selma Lagerlöf 1925 Swedish Swedish
11207 The M Case Grégoire Bouillier 2021 French French
2372 The Man Who Planted Trees Jean Giono 1953 French French
34 The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 1967 Russian Russian
1057 The Master of Ballantrae Robert Louis Stevenson 1889 British English
66 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka 1915 Czech German
3005 The Monkey's Wrench Primo Levi 1978 Italian Italian
3506 The Most Secret Memory Of Men Mohamed Mbougar Sarr 2021 Senegalese French
6004 The Motorcycle André Pieyre de Mandiargues 1963 French French
4482 The Night Of The Hunter Davis Grubb 1953 American English
545 The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie Agota Kristof 1986 Hungarian French
5282 The Complete Notebooks Of Henry James Henry James 1987 American English
3534 The Obscene Madame D Hilda Hilst 1982 Brazilian Portuguese
24 The Odyssey Homer -740 Greek Ancient greek
2913 The Odyssey Nikos Kazantzakis 1938 Greek Greek
6637 The Opoponax Monique Wittig 1983 French French
6217 The Origin Thomas Bernhard 1975 Austrian German
1110 The Overstory Richard Powers 2018 American English
11364 The Pencil Territory Robert Walser Swiss Unknown
6004 The People Of The Abyss Jack London 1903 American English
958 The Periodic Table Primo Levi 1975 Italian Italian
4489 La Pesanteur Et La Grâce Simone Weil 1947 French French
6004 The Pine Wood Notebook Francis Ponge 1947 French French
284 The Princess of Cleves Madame de La Fayette 1678 French French
6303 The Professor Of Desire Philip Roth 1977 American English
1960 The Provincial Letters Blaise Pascal 1656 French French
5578 The Puttermesser Papers Cynthia Ozick 1997 American English
6004 The Ratcatcher Marina Tsvetaeva 1926 Russian Russian
6004 The Red Balloon Iela Mari 1967 Unknown Italian
6004 The Return Of Münchausen Sigismund Krzyzanowski 1927 Russian Russian
697 The Rings of Saturn W. G. Sebald 1995 German German
290 The Road Cormac McCarthy 2006 American English
6637 The Ruin Of Kasch Roberto Calasso 1983 Italian Italian
6004 The Sailor From Gibraltar Marguerite Duras 1952 French French
279 The Secret History Donna Tartt 1992 American English
5240 The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty James Thurber 1983 American English
6746 The Seven Solitudes Of Lorsa Lopez Sony Labou Tansi 1985 Congolese French
592 The Sleepwalkers Hermann Broch 1932 Austrian German
463 The Songs of Maldoror Comte de Lautréamont 1868 French French
343 The Sonnets William Shakespeare 1609 British English
6637 The Stadium Of Wimbledon Daniele del Giudice 1983 Italian Italian
6004 The Story Of My Life Giacomo Casanova 1822 Italian French
6004 The Story Of My Wife Milán Füst 1942 Hungarian Hungarian
3293 The Subterraneans Jack Kerouac 1958 American English
1681 The Teachings Of Don Juan Carlos Castaneda 1968 American English
119 The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas 1844 French French
99 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera 1984 Czech Czech
770 The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead 2016 American English
2301 Le Roman Inachevé Louis Aragon 1956 French French
111 The Waste Land T. S. Eliot 1922 British English
11364 The Watch Nikos Kavvadias Greek Greek
1931 The Way Of The World Nicolas Bouvier 1963 French French
10272 The Wicked Boy Kate Summerscale 2016 British English
6004 The Wild Swans Hans Christian Andersen 1838 Danish Danish
261 Wings of the Dove Henry James 1902 American English
6004 The Wonderful Farm Marcel Aymé 1939 French French
370 The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 2005 American English
597 The Years Annie Ernaux 2008 French French
6004 Theatre Of The World Frances A. Yates 1969 British English
685 Them Joyce Carol Oates 1969 American English
9035 Them Old Cowboy Songs Annie Proulx 2008 American English
6004 Things Seen Victor Hugo 1887 French French
9159 This Is Water David Foster Wallace 2009 American English
6128 Three Day Road Joseph Boyden 2005 Canadian English
8652 Three Days With My Mother François Weyergans 2005 Belgian French
3066 Three Guineas Virginia Woolf 1938 British English
6004 Three Women Robert Musil 1924 Austrian German
222 Thus Spake Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche 1883 German German
633 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy John le Carré 1974 British English
1829 To The Friend Who Did Not Save My Life Hervé Guibert 1990 French French
1130 Too Loud A Solitude Bohumil Hrabal 1976 Czech Czech
6004 Tous N'étaient Pas Des Anges Joseph Kessel 1970 French French