The Greatest Books of All Time Set in France

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
3506 The Most Secret Memory Of Men Mohamed Mbougar Sarr 2021 Senegalese French
3521 Balzac Stefan Zweig 1946 Austrian German
3524 Strange Defeat Marc Bloch 1946 French French
3556 The Black Jacobins C. L. R. James 1938 British English
3584 The Would-Be Gentleman Molière 1670 French French
3586 The Complete Writings of Alfred de Musset Alfred de Musset 1907 French French
3588 The First Man Albert Camus 1994 French French
3595 Les Destinées Alfred de Vigny 1864 French French
3602 Celtic Tales Hugo Pratt 1980 Italian Italian
3604 Limonov Emmanuel Carrère 2011 French French
3612 The Life Of Marianne Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux 1731 French French
3620 Correspondence Voltaire 1751 French French
3626 Adventures On The Wine Route Kermit Lynch 1988 American English
3637 Letters from an American Farmer J. Crevecoeur 1782 American English
3637 War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon Siegfried Sassoon 1919 British English
3637 The Temptation To Exist Emil Cioran 1956 Romanian French
3637 Blasting And Bombardiering Wyndham Lewis 1937 British English
3637 Being Geniuses Together Robert McAlmon 1938 American English
3637 Maigret And The Old Lady Georges Simenon 1950 Belgian French
3637 The Gods Will Have Blood Anatole France 1912 French French
3637 The Jazz Book Joachim-Ernst Berendt 1953 German German
3637 Laughter Henri Bergson 1900 French French
3637 Exile Lion Feuchtwanger 1940 German German
3637 The Crusaders Stefan Heym 1948 German English
3637 The Raging Reporter Egon Erwin Kisch 1924 Czech German
3637 Scenes Of Bohemian Life Henri Murger 1845 French French
3637 The Prophecies Nostradamus 1555 French French
3637 An Outline Of European Architecture Nikolaus Pevsner 1943 British English
3637 The Seven Lamps Of Architecture John Ruskin 1849 British English
3637 The Story Of My Life George Sand 1855 French French
3637 The Roads To Freedom Jean Paul Sartre 1945 French French
3637 Nuremberg Chronicle Hartmann Schedel 1493 German Latin
3637 Out Of My Life And Thought Albert Schweitzer 1931 German German
3637 Art In Crisis Hans Sedlmayr 1948 Austrian German
3637 Der Moderne Kapitalismus Werner Sombart 1902 German German
3637 The Large Testament And The Small Testament François Villon 1461 French French
3637 History Of The Art Of Antiquity Johann Joachim Winckelmann 1762 German German
3637 Les Rougon Macquart Émile Zola 1871 French French
3802 Manon des sources Marcel Pagnol 1963 French French
3805 The Miser Molière 1668 French French
3807 Rousseau and Revolution Will Durant, Ariel Durant 1967 American English
3812 Reflections On Violence Georges Sorel 1908 French French
3822 The Edge of the Sword Charles De Gaulle 1959 French French
3911 Salt On Our Skin Benoîte Groult 1988 French French
3936 All The World's Mornings Pascal Quignard 1991 French French
3952 Το Ταξίδι Μου Yiannis Psycharis 1888 Greek Greek
3952 The Last Night Of Love, The First Night Of War Camil Petrescu 1930 Romanian Romanian
3952 For Two Thousand Years Mihail Sebastian 1934 Romanian Romanian
4066 Lives Other Than My Own Emmanuel Carrère 2009 French French
4088 Silk Alessandro Baricco 1996 Italian Italian
4091 The Debt To Pleasure John Lanchester 1996 British English
4104 Renaissance And Renascences In Western Art Erwin Panofsky 1960 Unknown English
4119 Each Man In His Darkness Julien Green 1960 French French
4123 A Very Long Engagement Sebastien Japrisot 1991 French French
4152 Like A Tear In The Ocean Manès Sperber 1961 Unknown German
4204 The Colonizer and the Colonized Albert Memmi 1957 French French
4222 The Spectre Of Alexander Wolf Gaito Gazdanov 1947 French Russian
4232 The Tears Of The Acacias W.F. Hermans 1949 Dutch Dutch
4251 Autumn Journal Louis MacNeice 1939 British English
4280 The Place Of The Star Patrick Modiano 1968 French French
4299 The Fairy Gunmother Daniel Pennac 1987 French French
4308 Indiana George Sand 1832 French French
4308 Ennui Maria Edgeworth 1809 Irish English
4308 Epitaph For A Spy Eric Ambler 1938 British English
4308 The Parasites Daphne du Maurier 1949 British English
4308 Fair Stood The Wind For France H. E. Bates 1944 British English
4308 Three Soldiers John Dos Passos 1921 American English
4370 The Long Voyage Jorge Semprún 1963 French French
4391 The Winds Of War Herman Wouk 1971 American English
4400 The Revolt Of The Angels Anatole France 1914 French French
4409 The Pigeon Patrick Suskind 1987 German German
4414 Diary Witold Gombrowicz 1986 Polish Polish
4439 The Thief's Journal Jean Genet 1949 French French
4466 The Chateau William Maxwell 1961 American English
4493 The Letters Of Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert 1887 French French
4490 Niourk Stefan Wul 1957 French French
4507 The Book about Blanche and Marie Per Olov Enquist 2004 Swedish Swedish
4508 Practicalities Marguerite Duras 1987 French French
4522 The True Confessions Of An Albino Terrorist Breyten Breytenbach 1983 South African English
4532 Mend The Living Maylis de Kerangal 2014 French French
4553 When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Judith Kerr 1971 German English
4578 History Of Art Elie Faure 1919 French French
4579 Papillon Henri Charrière 1969 French French
4593 Last Night James Salter 2005 American English
4612 Cold Heaven Brian Moore 1983 British English
4615 The Emperor's Snuff Box John Dickson Carr 1942 American English
4620 Calligrammes Guillaume Apollinaire 1918 French French
4634 The Medici George Frederick Young 1910 Unknown English
4638 The Vintner's Luck Elizabeth Knox 1998 New Zealand English
4643 Midnight Plus One Gavin Lyall 1965 British English
4644 The Blue Room Georges Simenon 1964 French French
4666 Saint Joan George Bernard Shaw 1923 Irish English
4668 The Painter Of Modern Life Charles Baudelaire 1863 French French
4686 In Search Of The Miraculous P.D. Ouspensky 1947 Russian English
4686 Major Trends In Jewish Mysticism Gershom Scholem 1929 German German
4716 A Life of Picasso John Richardson 1991 British English
4744 Oeuvre Poétique Léopold Sédar Senghor 1964 Senegalese French
4776 The Life Of Katherine Mansfield Anthony Alpers 1980 New Zealand English
4789 Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes Robert Louis Stevenson 1879 British English
4811 Slave Old Man Patrick Chamoiseau 1997 French French
4821 Thirteen Years After; A Great War Veteran Returns To The Old Battlefields Will R. Bird 1931 Canadian English
4824 The Hollow Needle Maurice Leblanc 1909 French French
4823 Vernon Subutex Virginie Despentes 2015 French French
4862 What Is Cinema? André Bazin 1967 French French
4877 Apoutsiak, Le Petit Flocon De Neige Paul-Émile Victor 1948 French French
4877 To The End Of The World Blaise Cendrars 1957 French French
4877 L'instant Fatal Raymond Queneau 1948 French French
4877 The Cat Colette 1933 French French
4888 The Book of Salt Monique Truong 2003 American English
4898 On Occult Philosophy Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1531 German Latin
4898 The Discovery Of Freedom Rose Wilder Lane 1943 American English
4898 Cruising Speed William F. Buckley, Jr 1971 American English
4898 Once An Eagle Anton Myrer 1968 American English
4898 King John William Shakespeare 1700 British English
4930 Running Jean Echenoz 2008 French French
4946 Les Regrets Joachim Du Bellay 1558 French French
4955 The Centaur Algernon Blackwood 1911 British English
4979 The Hare with Amber Eyes Edmund de Waal 2010 British English
4983 Sophie's Misfortunes Countess of Ségur. 1858 French French
4988 Madame Curie - A Biography by Eve Curie Eve Curie 1937 French French