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
14886 Black Spring Henry Miller 1936 American English
14947 Freedom At Midnight Dominique Lapierre, Larry Collins 1975 Multiple English
14984 From The Fifteenth District Mavis Gallant 1979 Canadian English
14984 God Of Carnage Yasmina Reza 2006 French French
14984 Lord Of Scoundrels Loretta Chase 1995 American English
14984 Into The Silence Wade Davis 2011 Canadian English
14984 The End Of Loneliness Benedict Wells 2016 German German
14984 Europe Norman Davies 1996 British English
14984 Hitler Ian Kershaw 1998 British English
14984 The Wright Brothers David McCullough 2015 American English
14984 Parade Rachel Cusk 2024 Unknown English
14984 Anthony Blunt: His Lives Miranda Carter 2001 British English
14984 The World At Night Alan Furst 1996 American English
14984 Fatherland Burkhard Bilger 2023 Unknown English
14984 The New Confessions William Boyd 1987 British English
14984 The Man Who Ate Everything Jeffrey Steingarten 1997 American English
14984 The Most Secret Memory Of Men Mohamed Mbougar Sarr 2023 Senegalese French
15588 Jennie Ralph G. Martin 1969 American English
15603 The Raft Coningsby Dawson 1920 British English
15610 Zelda Nancy Milford 1970 American English
15646 Peter Whiffle Carl Van Vechten 1922 American English
15655 Abbé Pierre Jay William Hudson 1922 Unknown Unknown
15668 The Middle Of The Road Philip Gibbs 1923 British English
15661 Born In Blackness Howard W. French 2021 American English
15680 The Paris Review Interviews Paris Review 2006 American English
15680 Literature And Existentialism Jean Paul Sartre French French
15742 Mrs. 'Arris Goes To Paris Paul Gallico 1958 American English
15739 "Les Misérables" De Victor Hugo Henri Scepi 1862 French French
15749 The Passions Of The Mind Irving Stone 1971 American English
15809 The Complete Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 1911 British English
15845 Tropic Of Capricorn Henry Miller 1939 American English
15834 Bodyguard Of Lies Anthony Cave Brown 1975 British English
15842 Swanns Värld Marcel Proust 1913 French French
15868 John Berger And Me Nikos Papastergiadis 1975 Unknown English
15851 On Revolution Hannah Arendt 1963 American English
15872 Tomb For 500,000 Soldiers Pierre Guyotat 1967 French French
15867 The Masks Of God, Volume 4 Joseph Campbell 1968 American English
16507 An Italian Straw Hat Eugène Labiche 1851 French French
15898 Talleyrand Duff Cooper 1932 British English
15898 The Memoirs Of Hector Berlioz Hector Berlioz 1870 French French
15898 Between Meals A. J. Liebling 1962 American English
15898 Maigret And The Man On The Boulevard Georges Simenon 1953 Belgian French
15898 Elements Of Chemistry Antoine Lavoisier 1789 French French
15898 Twelve Who Ruled R. R. Palmer 1941 American English
15898 120, Rue De La Gare Léo Malet 1943 French French
15898 Native Realm Czesław Miłosz 1959 Polish Polish
15898 Saint Joan Of Arc Vita Sackville-West 1936 British English
15898 A Child Of The Century Ben Hecht 1954 American English
15898 The Gathering Storm Winston Churchill 1948 British English
15898 Discourse On Colonialism Aimé Césaire 1950 French French
15898 He Who Whispers John Dickson Carr 1946 American English
15898 A Chronicle Of The Reign Of Charles Ix Prosper Mérimée 1829 French French
15898 Cinq Mars Alfred de Vigny 1826 French French
15898 The Vicomte Of Bragelonne Alexandre Dumas 1847 French French
15898 Waterloo Erckmann-Chatrian 1865 French French
15898 Neo Colonialism, The Last Stage Of Imperialism Kwame Nkrumah 1965 Ghanaian English
15898 Letters And Poems Mary Wortley Montagu 1800 British English
15898 Female Biography Mary Hays 1803 British English
15898 Biographies Of Good Women Charlotte M Yonge 1866 British English
15898 Memoirs De Vidocq Francois Eugene Vidocq 1828 French French
15898 The Widow Lerouge Émile Gaboriau 1866 French French
15898 File No 13 Émile Gaboriau 1867 French French
15898 The Elementary Forms Of The Religious Life Emile Durkheim 1912 French French
15898 The Cornerstone Zoe Oldenbourg 1953 French French
15898 Citizen Tom Paine Howard Fast 1943 American English
15898 Lydia Bailey Kenneth Roberts 1940 American English
15898 Childhood, Youth And Exile Alexander Herzen 1852 Russian Russian
15898 The Engagement Georges Simenon 1933 Belgian French
15898 The Iron King Unknown 1955 Unknown French
15898 Journal Of Katherine Mansfield Katherine Mansfield 1927 New Zealand English
15898 Medieval Cities Henri Pirenne 1925 Belgian French
15898 A Tramp Abroad Mark Twain 1880 American English
15897 The Complete Stories Edgar Allan Poe 1832 American English
16491 William Shakespeare Complete Works William Shakespeare 1623 English English
16595 Trilby Charles Lomon 1894 British Unknown
16594 Le Dindon Georges Feydeau 1896 French French
16514 Latin Quarter Suhail Idriss 1953 Lebanese Arabic
16563 Tous Les Hommes Sont Mortels Simone de Beauvoir 1946 French French
16532 The Triumphs Of Eugene Valmont Robert Barr 1906 British English
16532 Spider King Lawrence Schoonover 1954 American English
16593 Le Comte De Monte Cristo I Alexandre Dumas 1844 French French
16700 The Misanthrope / Tartuffe Molière 1666 French French
16696 Inside The Third Reich Speer 1969 German German
16743 The World Crisis Winston Churchill 1923 British English
16614 The State In Capitalist Society Ralph Miliband 1969 British English
16679 The Image Daniel J. Boorstin 1962 American English
16732 The Count Of Monte Cristo Mitsu Yamamoto 1844 Unknown French
16614 Les Rois Maudits; Tome 2 Maurice Druon 1955 French French
16612 Le Journal D'une Femme De Chambre Octave Mirbeau 1900 French French
16637 Lettres Portugaises Gabriel de Guilleragues 1668 French French
16600 La Femme Rompue / L'âge De Discrétion / Monologue Simone de Beauvoir 1967 French French
16695 Selected Writings Karl Marx 1973 German German
16614 Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Cambrioleur Maurice Leblanc 1907 French French
16730 The Collected Tales Of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe 1908 American English
16668 Le Dernier Jour D'un Condamné Victor Hugo 1829 French French
16642 Kleine Weltgeschichte Der Philosophie Hans Joachim Störig 1950 German German
16728 Las Confesiones Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1782 Genevan French
16724 Os Miseráveis 2 Victor Hugo 1862 French French
16713 Os Miseráveis 1 Victor Hugo 1862 French French
17120 The Rape of Europa Lynn Nicholas 1994 American English
17120 The PowerBook Jeanette Winterson 2000 British English
17120 Fatal Purity Ruth Scurr 2006 British English
17120 Entering Fire Rikki Ducornet 1986 American English
17120 Pure Andrew Miller 2011 British English
17120 Die andere Bildung. Was man von den Naturwissenschaften wissen sollte Ernst Peter Fischer 2001 German German
17120 Rooftoppers Katherine Rundell 2013 British English
17120 Bad Marie Marcy Dermansky 2010 American English
17120 Under Two Flags Ouida 1867 British English
17120 The House Of Shattered Wings Aliette de Bodard 2015 French English
16880 A Flea In Her Ear Georges Feydeau 1907 French French
17120 Spurs Jacques Derrida 1976 French French
17120 How Proust Can Change Your Life Alain de Botton 1997 British English
17120 The Piano Shop On The Left Bank Thad Carhart 2000 American English
17120 The Dada Painters and Poets Robert Motherwell 1978 American English
16994 Les Miserables (New Edition) (Paperback Blue Bird Kodansha) Les Miserables Unknown 1862 French French
16848 The Crisis Of The Modern World (Guenon, Rene. Works.) René Guénon 1927 French French
17120 Memory In The Flesh Ahlam Mosteghanemi 1993 Algerian Arabic
17120 Lying Low Diane Johnson 1990 American English
17120 Les Lois De L'ascension Céline Curiol 2021 French French
17004 The Woman Destroyed Simone de Beauvoir 1967 French French