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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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
11210 Canoës Maylis de Kerangal 2021 French French
11252 Queen Margot Alexandre Dumas 1845 French French
11253 The Man Who Walked Through Walls Marcel Aymé 1943 French French
11311 Mysteries Of The Middle Ages Thomas Cahill 2006 American English
11358 Walking On The Ceiling Ayşegül Savaş 2019 Turkish English
11364 Une Façon D'aimer Dominique Barbéris 2019 French French
11366 Tout Péguy Charles Péguy French French
11392 Marbot Wolfgang Hildesheimer 1981 German German
11439 A History Of Bombing Sven Lindqvist 1999 Swedish Swedish
11547 The Course in Positive Philosophy Auguste Comte 1830 French French
11572 The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1837 British English
11578 Inside The Whale And Other Essays George Orwell 1940 British English
11616 The Prague Cemetery Umberto Eco 2010 Italian Italian
11637 The Means Of Reproduction Michelle Goldberg 2009 American English
11644 On Animals Susan Orlean 2021 American English
11649 A Secular Age Charles Taylor 2007 Canadian English
11663 Red Comet Heather L. Clark 2020 American English
11663 Apollo’s Angels Jennifer Homans 2010 American English
11663 The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams 2018 American English
11663 Fatal Discord Michael Massing 2018 Unknown English
11663 Looking For Lorraine Imani Perry 2018 Unknown English
11803 The Attention Merchants Tim Wu 2016 American English
11842 Broad Band Claire Evans 2018 Unknown English
11849 Them Francine du Plessix Gray 2005 French English
11853 Chosen Peoples Anthony D. Smith 2003 British English
11858 Dominion Tom Holland 2019 British English
11872 Within A Budding Grove Marcel Proust 1919 French French
11934 Animals Strike Curious Poses Elena Passarello 2017 American English
11941 Oscar Wilde Richard Ellmann 1987 American English
12050 The Death Of Napoleon Simon Leys 1986 Belgian French
12070 Mr. Ibrahim And The Flowers Of The Koran Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt 2001 French French
12123 The Palestine Laboratory Antony Loewenstein 2023 Australian English
12137 The Powers That Be David Halberstam 1979 American English
12192 Mitt Liv Herbert Tingsten 1966 Swedish Swedish
12326 Simone De Beauvoir Deirdre Bair 1990 American English
12326 Across The Bridge Mavis Gallant 1993 Canadian English
12326 Balzac Graham Robb 1994 British English
12326 Zola Frederick Brown 1995 Unknown English
12326 The Collected Stories Of Mavis Gallant Mavis Gallant 1996 Canadian English
12326 Victor Hugo Graham Robb 1997 British English
12470 And The Pursuit Of Happiness Maira Kalman 2010 American English
12615 I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere Anna Gavalda 1999 French French
12740 Small Country Gaël Faye 2016 French French
13137 Katherine Mansfield Gerri Kimber 2025 Unknown English
13259 The Photographer Emmanuel Guibert 2003 French English
13293 My Life Of Absurdity Chester Himes 1990 American English
13354 In My Brother's Shadow Uwe Timm 2005 German German
13362 The Pure and the Impure Colette 1932 French French
13362 Strange People Frank Edwards 1961 American English
13362 Writers At Work Malcolm Cowley 1958 American English
13362 Zanoni Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1842 British English
13362 The Descent Of Man Charles Darwin 1871 British English
13362 Letters Of A Peruvian Woman Françoise de Graffigny 1747 French French
13362 Delphine Madame de Staël 1802 French French
13362 Child Of All Nations Irmgard Keun 1938 German German
13533 Gardner's Art Through The Ages Helen Gardner 1926 American English
13567 The Poe Shadow Matthew Pearl 2006 American English
13581 Out Of The Dark Patrick Modiano 1990 French French
13595 A Family Record Patrick Modiano 1977 French French
13600 Dreams Of My Russian Summers Andreï Makine 1995 French French
13600 A Web of Lace Pascal Lainé 1974 French French
13600 Trois Jours Chez Ma Mère Weyergans-F 2005 French French
13600 Creezy Félicien Marceau 1969 French French
13600 One-Way Didier van Cauwelaert 1994 French French
13600 Le Chasseur Zéro Pascale Roze 1996 French French
13600 Brazil Red Jean-Christophe Rufin 2001 French French
13600 Die Gasse Der Dunklen Läden Patrick Modiano 1978 French French
13600 La Maternelle Léon Frapié 1904 French French
13600 Momo Émile Ajar French French
13600 Alabama Song Gilles Leroy 2007 French French
13729 Oscar And The Lady In Pink Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt 2002 French French
13733 Vendetta Jan Guillou 1991 Swedish Swedish
13736 Christianity In The Twentieth Century Brian Stanley 2018 British English
13743 Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art James Hall 1974 British English
13753 Interviews With Francis Bacon David Sylvester 1975 British English
13764 Invisible Ink Patrick Modiano 2019 French French
13818 N. Ernesto Ferrero 2000 Italian Italian
13818 The Girl With The Leica Helena Janeczek 2017 Italian Italian
14061 David Bomberg Richard Cork 1987 British English
14065 Thomas Jefferson Thomas S. Kidd 2022 Unknown English
14093 The Disciple Paul Bourget 1889 French French
14092 The Idea Of You Robinne Lee 2017 American English
14106 L'éducation D'une Fée Didier van Cauwelaert 2000 French French
14113 The Tragic Muse Henry James 1890 British English
14113 Sexual Personae Camille Paglia 1990 American English
14164 Am Weltenrand Sitzen Die Menschen Und Lachen Philipp Weiss 2018 Austrian German
14180 Fromont Junior & Risler Senior Alphonse Daudet 1874 French French
14232 M. Butterfly David Henry Hwang 1988 American English
14232 Disoriental Négar Djavadi 2016 French French
14232 Lord Of Scoundrels Loretta Chase 1995 American English
14232 The Invention Of Hugo Cabret Brian Selznick 2007 American English
14324 All The Devils Are Here Louise Penny 2020 Canadian English
14369 The Beloved Vagabond William John Locke 1906 British English
14377 Gaston De Latour Walter Pater 1896 British English
14388 On The Branch Pierre de Coulevain 1904 French French
14400 Bye Bye Blondie Virginie Despentes 2004 French French
14452 The Word Irving Wallace 1972 American English
14458 The Romantic Generation Charles Rosen 1995 American English
14457 A Chair On The Boulevard Leonard Merrick 1907 British English
14491 Sarah's Key Tatiana de Rosnay 2006 French French
14499 The Trial Of Henry Kissinger Christopher Hitchens 2001 British English
14518 Brev Från Nollpunkten Peter Englund 1996 Swedish Swedish
14520 The Coast Of Utopia Tom Stoppard 2002 British English
14589 Confident Women Tori Telfer 2021 Unknown English
14599 The Pleasure of the Text Roland Barthes 1973 French French
14624 The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse Vicente Blasco Ibáñez 1916 Spanish Spanish
14630 The Elm Tree On The Mall Anatole France 1905 French French
14650 A Night In The Luxembourg Remy de Gourmont 1906 French French
14674 The Genius Theodore Dreiser 1915 American English
14677 The Life And Letters Of John Hay William Roscoe Thayer 1915 American English
14680 Teenage Jon Savage 2007 British English
14698 The Doctor's Wife Brian Moore 1976 British English
14719 Monsieur Lecoq Émile Gaboriau 1869 French French
14771 Oliver Wiswell Kenneth Roberts 1940 American English
14778 Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man James Weldon Johnson 1912 American English
14788 Legion Of The Damned Sven Hassel 1953 Danish Danish
14788 The Making Of The Middle Ages R. W. Southern 1953 British English
14788 French Country Cooking Elizabeth David 1951 British English
14821 Summulae De Dialectica John Buridan, Gyula Klima 1350 French Latin
14853 Memoirs Of A Dutiful Daughter Simone de Beauvoir 1958 French French