The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Paris

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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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2202 Arch Of Triumph Erich Maria Remarque 1945 German German
2242 Collected Poems Arthur Rimbaud 1898 French French
2285 Smiley's People John le Carré 1979 British English
2335 Moderato Cantabile Marguerite Duras 1958 French French
2369 The Arcades Project Walter Benjamin 1982 German German
2374 The Vagabond Colette 1910 French French
2426 Platform Michel Houellebecq 2001 French French
2447 The Map And The Territory Michel Houellebecq 2010 French French
2492 The Moon And Sixpence W. Somerset Maugham 1919 British English
2514 Howl, Kaddish And Other Poems Allen Ginsberg 1956 American English
2549 The Thinking Reed Rebecca West 1936 British English
2568 Poesías Completas Antonio Machado 1940 Spanish Spanish
2577 The Diary of Anais Nin, 1931-1934 Anaïs Nin 1966 French English
2602 Darkness Visible William Styron 1990 American English
2610 Whatever Michel Houellebecq 1994 French French
2649 Gemini Michel Tournier 1975 French French
2672 The Mysteries Of Paris Eugène Sue 1842 French French
2700 Existentialism And Humanism Jean Paul Sartre 1946 French French
2708 A Lover's Discourse Roland Barthes 1977 French French
2751 Decisive Moments in History Stefan Zweig 1927 Austrian German
2752 Young Henry Of Navarre Heinrich Mann 1935 German German
2782 The Legend Of Thyl Ulenspiegel And Lamme Goedzak Charles de Coster 1867 Belgian French
2789 A Cultural History Of The Modern Age Egon Friedell 1927 Austrian English
2848 Things Georges Perec 1965 French French
2910 Villa Des Roses Willem Elsschot 1913 Belgian Dutch
2921 Maigret And The Headless Corpse Georges Simenon 1955 Belgian French
2963 Au Bonheur Des Dames Émile Zola 1883 French French
2966 In A Dark Wood Wandering Hella S. Haasse 1949 Dutch Dutch
2978 My Friends Emmanuel Bove 1924 French French
2985 The Vampire Lestat Anne Rice 1985 American English
3016 The American Henry James 1877 American English
3054 National Episodes Benito Pérez Galdós 1873 Spanish Spanish
3092 Disturbance Philippe Lançon 2018 French French
3132 The Man Who Loved Dogs Leonardo Padura 2009 Cuban Spanish
3193 The Aesthetics Of Resistance Peter Weiss 1975 German German
3200 Story Of A Soul Thérèse of Lisieux 1898 French French
3207 Submission Michel Houellebecq 2015 French French
3221 Aphrodite Pierre Louÿs 1896 French French
3248 Memoirs of Cardinal De Retz Cardinal de Retz 1717 French French
3279 Holy Week Louis Aragon 1958 French French
3304 Personal Recollections Of Joan Of Arc Mark Twain 1896 American English
3324 Tarr Wyndham Lewis 1918 British English
3324 Retreat Without Song Shahan Shahnur 1929 Armenian Armenian
3324 Summer Will Show Sylvia Townsend Warner 1936 British English
3387 Human Poems César Vallejo 1939 Peruvian Spanish
3391 Napoleon Emil Ludwig 1926 German German
3496 The Return Of Martin Guerre Natalie Zemon Davis 1983 Unknown English
3507 The Most Secret Memory Of Men Mohamed Mbougar Sarr 2021 Senegalese French
3605 Limonov Emmanuel Carrère 2011 French French
3638 Being Geniuses Together Robert McAlmon 1938 American English
3638 The Gods Will Have Blood Anatole France 1912 French French
3638 The Jazz Book Joachim-Ernst Berendt 1953 German German
3638 Exile Lion Feuchtwanger 1940 German German
3638 The Raging Reporter Egon Erwin Kisch 1924 Czech German
3638 Scenes Of Bohemian Life Henri Murger 1845 French French
3638 The Prophecies Nostradamus 1555 French French
3638 An Outline Of European Architecture Nikolaus Pevsner 1943 British English
3638 The Seven Lamps Of Architecture John Ruskin 1849 British English
3638 The Story Of My Life George Sand 1855 French French
3638 The Roads To Freedom Jean Paul Sartre 1945 French French
3638 Nuremberg Chronicle Hartmann Schedel 1493 German Latin
3638 Art In Crisis Hans Sedlmayr 1948 Austrian German
3638 Der Moderne Kapitalismus Werner Sombart 1902 German German
3638 The Large Testament And The Small Testament François Villon 1461 French French
3638 History Of The Art Of Antiquity Johann Joachim Winckelmann 1762 German German
3638 Les Rougon Macquart Émile Zola 1871 French French
3805 The Miser Molière 1668 French French
3911 Salt On Our Skin Benoîte Groult 1988 French French
3954 Το Ταξίδι Μου Yiannis Psycharis 1888 Greek Greek
3954 The Last Night Of Love, The First Night Of War Camil Petrescu 1930 Romanian Romanian
3954 For Two Thousand Years Mihail Sebastian 1934 Romanian Romanian
4106 Renaissance And Renascences In Western Art Erwin Panofsky 1960 Unknown English
4121 Each Man In His Darkness Julien Green 1960 French French
4154 Like A Tear In The Ocean Manès Sperber 1961 Unknown German
4224 The Spectre Of Alexander Wolf Gaito Gazdanov 1947 French Russian
4234 The Tears Of The Acacias W.F. Hermans 1949 Dutch Dutch
4253 Autumn Journal Louis MacNeice 1939 British English
4282 The Place Of The Star Patrick Modiano 1968 French French
4301 The Fairy Gunmother Daniel Pennac 1987 French French
4310 Ennui Maria Edgeworth 1809 Irish English
4372 The Long Voyage Jorge Semprún 1963 French French
4393 The Winds Of War Herman Wouk 1971 American English
4402 The Revolt Of The Angels Anatole France 1914 French French
4411 The Pigeon Patrick Suskind 1987 German German
4416 Diary Witold Gombrowicz 1986 Polish Polish
4495 The Letters Of Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert 1887 French French
4509 The Book about Blanche and Marie Per Olov Enquist 2004 Swedish Swedish
4510 Practicalities Marguerite Duras 1987 French French
4524 The True Confessions Of An Albino Terrorist Breyten Breytenbach 1983 South African English
4534 Mend The Living Maylis de Kerangal 2014 French French
4595 Last Night James Salter 2005 American English
4622 Calligrammes Guillaume Apollinaire 1918 French French
4670 The Painter Of Modern Life Charles Baudelaire 1863 French French
4688 In Search Of The Miraculous P.D. Ouspensky 1947 Russian English
4688 Major Trends In Jewish Mysticism Gershom Scholem 1929 German German
4718 A Life of Picasso John Richardson 1991 British English
4778 The Life Of Katherine Mansfield Anthony Alpers 1980 New Zealand English
4823 Thirteen Years After; A Great War Veteran Returns To The Old Battlefields Will R. Bird 1931 Canadian English
4825 Vernon Subutex Virginie Despentes 2015 French French
4879 To The End Of The World Blaise Cendrars 1957 French French
4879 L'instant Fatal Raymond Queneau 1948 French French
4879 The Cat Colette 1933 French French
4890 The Book of Salt Monique Truong 2003 American English
4900 On Occult Philosophy Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1531 German Latin
4900 The Discovery Of Freedom Rose Wilder Lane 1943 American English
4900 Cruising Speed William F. Buckley, Jr 1971 American English
4932 Running Jean Echenoz 2008 French French
4948 Les Regrets Joachim Du Bellay 1558 French French
4957 The Centaur Algernon Blackwood 1911 British English
4982 The Hare with Amber Eyes Edmund de Waal 2010 British English
4991 Madame Curie - A Biography by Eve Curie Eve Curie 1937 French French
5025 The City And The Mountains Eça de Queirós 1901 Portuguese Portuguese
5032 Lust For Life Irving Stone 1934 American English
5046 Peter Ibbetson Daphne du Maurier 1891 British Unknown
5046 My First Two Thousand Years George Vierick 1928 American English
5099 A Hunger Like No Other Kresley Cole 2006 American English
5100 Three To Kill Jean-Patrick Manchette 1976 French French
5190 The Lock And Key Library Julian Hawthorne 1909 American English
5190 A Man In The Zoo David Garnett 1924 British English
5283 The Complete Notebooks Of Henry James Henry James 1987 American English