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
14866 Le Bal Irène Némirovsky 1930 French French
14889 Black Spring Henry Miller 1936 American English
14949 Freedom At Midnight Dominique Lapierre, Larry Collins 1975 Multiple English
14985 From The Fifteenth District Mavis Gallant 1979 Canadian English
14985 God Of Carnage Yasmina Reza 2006 French French
14985 Into The Silence Wade Davis 2011 Canadian English
14985 The End Of Loneliness Benedict Wells 2016 German German
14985 Europe Norman Davies 1996 British English
14985 Hitler Ian Kershaw 1998 British English
14985 The Wright Brothers David McCullough 2015 American English
14985 Parade Rachel Cusk 2024 Unknown English
14985 Anthony Blunt: His Lives Miranda Carter 2001 British English
14985 The World At Night Alan Furst 1996 American English
14985 Fatherland Burkhard Bilger 2023 Unknown English
14985 The New Confessions William Boyd 1987 British English
14985 The Man Who Ate Everything Jeffrey Steingarten 1997 American English
14985 The Most Secret Memory Of Men Mohamed Mbougar Sarr 2023 Senegalese French
15594 Jennie Ralph G. Martin 1969 American English
15609 The Raft Coningsby Dawson 1920 British English
15616 Zelda Nancy Milford 1970 American English
15652 Peter Whiffle Carl Van Vechten 1922 American English
15661 Abbé Pierre Jay William Hudson 1922 Unknown Unknown
15674 The Middle Of The Road Philip Gibbs 1923 British English
15667 Born In Blackness Howard W. French 2021 American English
15686 The Paris Review Interviews Paris Review 2006 American English
15686 Literature And Existentialism Jean Paul Sartre French French
15748 Mrs. 'Arris Goes To Paris Paul Gallico 1958 American English
15746 "Les Misérables" De Victor Hugo Henri Scepi 1862 French French
15756 The Passions Of The Mind Irving Stone 1971 American English
15823 The Complete Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 1911 British English
15855 Tropic Of Capricorn Henry Miller 1939 American English
15843 Bodyguard Of Lies Anthony Cave Brown 1975 British English
15852 Swanns Värld Marcel Proust 1913 French French
15880 John Berger And Me Nikos Papastergiadis 1975 Unknown English
15861 On Revolution Hannah Arendt 1963 American English
15882 Tomb For 500,000 Soldiers Pierre Guyotat 1967 French French
15877 The Masks Of God, Volume 4 Joseph Campbell 1968 American English
16526 An Italian Straw Hat Eugène Labiche 1851 French French
15916 Talleyrand Duff Cooper 1932 British English
15916 The Memoirs Of Hector Berlioz Hector Berlioz 1870 French French
15916 Between Meals A. J. Liebling 1962 American English
15916 Maigret And The Man On The Boulevard Georges Simenon 1953 Belgian French
15916 Elements Of Chemistry Antoine Lavoisier 1789 French French
15916 Twelve Who Ruled R. R. Palmer 1941 American English
15916 120, Rue De La Gare Léo Malet 1943 French French
15916 Native Realm Czesław Miłosz 1959 Polish Polish
15916 Saint Joan Of Arc Vita Sackville-West 1936 British English
15916 A Child Of The Century Ben Hecht 1954 American English
15916 The Gathering Storm Winston Churchill 1948 British English
15916 Discourse On Colonialism Aimé Césaire 1950 French French
15916 He Who Whispers John Dickson Carr 1946 American English
15916 A Chronicle Of The Reign Of Charles Ix Prosper Mérimée 1829 French French
15916 Cinq Mars Alfred de Vigny 1826 French French
15916 The Vicomte Of Bragelonne Alexandre Dumas 1847 French French
15916 Waterloo Erckmann-Chatrian 1865 French French
15916 Neo Colonialism, The Last Stage Of Imperialism Kwame Nkrumah 1965 Ghanaian English
15916 Letters And Poems Mary Wortley Montagu 1800 British English
15916 Female Biography Mary Hays 1803 British English
15916 Biographies Of Good Women Charlotte M Yonge 1866 British English
15916 Memoirs De Vidocq Francois Eugene Vidocq 1828 French French
15916 The Widow Lerouge Émile Gaboriau 1866 French French
15916 File No 13 Émile Gaboriau 1867 French French
15916 The Elementary Forms Of The Religious Life Emile Durkheim 1912 French French
15916 The Cornerstone Zoe Oldenbourg 1953 French French
15916 Citizen Tom Paine Howard Fast 1943 American English
15916 Lydia Bailey Kenneth Roberts 1940 American English
15916 Childhood, Youth And Exile Alexander Herzen 1852 Russian Russian
15916 The Engagement Georges Simenon 1933 Belgian French
15916 The Iron King Unknown 1955 Unknown French
15916 Journal Of Katherine Mansfield Katherine Mansfield 1927 New Zealand English
15916 Medieval Cities Henri Pirenne 1925 Belgian French
15916 A Tramp Abroad Mark Twain 1880 American English
15910 The Complete Stories Edgar Allan Poe 1832 American English
16507 William Shakespeare Complete Works William Shakespeare 1623 English English
16623 Trilby Charles Lomon 1894 British Unknown
16626 Le Dindon Georges Feydeau 1896 French French
16534 Latin Quarter Suhail Idriss 1953 Lebanese Arabic
16590 Tous Les Hommes Sont Mortels Simone de Beauvoir 1946 French French
16552 The Triumphs Of Eugene Valmont Robert Barr 1906 British English
16552 Spider King Lawrence Schoonover 1954 American English
16600 Le Comte De Monte Cristo I Alexandre Dumas 1844 French French
16609 The Oxford Complete Shakespeare, 2nd Edition Oxford University Press 1623 British English
16738 The Misanthrope / Tartuffe Molière 1666 French French
16729 Inside The Third Reich Speer 1969 German German
16774 The World Crisis Winston Churchill 1923 British English
16648 The State In Capitalist Society Ralph Miliband 1969 British English
16698 The Image Daniel J. Boorstin 1962 American English
16769 The Count Of Monte Cristo Mitsu Yamamoto 1844 Unknown French
16648 Les Rois Maudits; Tome 2 Maurice Druon 1955 French French
16665 Le Journal D'une Femme De Chambre Octave Mirbeau 1900 French French
16676 Lettres Portugaises Gabriel de Guilleragues 1668 French French
16631 La Femme Rompue / L'âge De Discrétion / Monologue Simone de Beauvoir 1967 French French
16725 Selected Writings Karl Marx 1973 German German
16648 Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Cambrioleur Maurice Leblanc 1907 French French
16771 The Collected Tales Of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe 1908 American English
16713 Le Dernier Jour D'un Condamné Victor Hugo 1829 French French
16775 The Talented Mr. Ripley / Ripley Under Ground / Ripley's Game Patricia Highsmith 1955 American English
16671 Kleine Weltgeschichte Der Philosophie Hans Joachim Störig 1950 German German
16763 Las Confesiones Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1782 Genevan French
16757 Os Miseráveis 2 Victor Hugo 1862 French French
16745 Os Miseráveis 1 Victor Hugo 1862 French French
16686 Philosophical Dictionary Voltaire 1770 French French
17163 The Rape of Europa Lynn Nicholas 1994 American English
17163 The PowerBook Jeanette Winterson 2000 British English
17163 Fatal Purity Ruth Scurr 2006 British English
17163 Entering Fire Rikki Ducornet 1986 American English
17163 Pure Andrew Miller 2011 British English
17163 Die andere Bildung. Was man von den Naturwissenschaften wissen sollte Ernst Peter Fischer 2001 German German
17163 Rooftoppers Katherine Rundell 2013 British English
17163 Bad Marie Marcy Dermansky 2010 American English
17163 Under Two Flags Ouida 1867 British English
17163 The House Of Shattered Wings Aliette de Bodard 2015 French English
16918 A Flea In Her Ear Georges Feydeau 1907 French French
17163 Spurs Jacques Derrida 1976 French French
17163 How Proust Can Change Your Life Alain de Botton 1997 British English
17163 The Piano Shop On The Left Bank Thad Carhart 2000 American English
17163 The Dada Painters and Poets Robert Motherwell 1978 American English
17018 Les Miserables (New Edition) (Paperback Blue Bird Kodansha) Les Miserables Unknown 1862 French French
16887 The Crisis Of The Modern World (Guenon, Rene. Works.) René Guénon 1927 French French
17163 Memory In The Flesh Ahlam Mosteghanemi 1993 Algerian Arabic