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
17119 Y The Last Man Brian K. Vaughan 2002 American English
17119 The Alice Network Kate Quinn 2017 American English
17119 Paris, 1919 Margaret MacMillan 2001 Canadian English
16845 A Little History Of The World E. H. Gombrich 1936 Austrian German
17119 And The Mountains Echoed Khaled Hosseini 2013 American English
17119 Perfectly Ordinary People Nick Alexander 2023 British English
17119 Glamorama Bret Easton Ellis 1998 American English
17119 Villa Vortex Maurice G. Dantec 2003 French French
17119 A Column Of Fire Ken Follett 2017 British English
17119 His Last Bow Arthur Conan Doyle 1917 British English
17119 The Bourne Ultimatum Robert Ludlum 1990 American English
17119 The Bourne Supremacy Robert Ludlum 1986 American English
17119 1991 Franck Thilliez 2021 French French
17119 Femmes Blafardes Pierre Siniac 1981 French French
17119 L'homme à L'oreille Croquée Jean-Bernard Pouy 1994 French French
17119 The Godmother Hannelore Cayre 2017 French French
17119 Dernière Station Avant L'autoroute Hugues Pagan 1997 French French
17119 Moloch Thierry Jonquet 1998 French French
17119 L'ange Gardien Jérôme Leroy 2014 French French
17119 Les Biffins Marc Villard 2018 French Unknown
17119 Murder In Memoriam Didier Daeninckx 1984 French French
17119 Murder On The Eiffel Tower Claude Izner 2003 French French
17119 Tranchecaille Patrick Pécherot 2008 French French
17119 Benjamin Franklin Walter Isaacson 2003 American English
17119 The Wolf's Hour Robert R. McCammon 1989 American English
17119 Memoir Of A Russian Punk Eduard Limonov 1983 Russian Russian
16892 Fouché Stefan Zweig 1929 Austrian German
17119 The Victorian Internet Tom Standage 1998 British English
17119 The Neptune File Tom Standage 2000 British English
17119 All The Broken Places John Boyne 2022 Irish English
17119 The Swan Thieves Elizabeth Kostova 2010 American English
17119 Theodore Rex Edmund Morris 2001 American English
17119 Jitterbug Perfume Tom Robbins 1984 American English
17119 Art History Marilyn Stokstad 1995 American English
16979 Quiet Days In Clichy And The World Of Sex Henry Miller 1956 American English
17119 One Two Three Four Craig Brown 2020 British English
17119 The Pike Lucy Hughes-Hallett 2013 British English
17119 Like A Fiery Elephant Jonathan Coe 2004 British English
17119 Pushkin T. J. Binyon 2002 British English
17119 The Third Reich Michael Burleigh 2000 British English
17119 Berlioz: Volume Two David Cairns 1999 British English
17119 The Benn Diaries, 1940 90 Tony Benn 1987 British English
17119 Twilight Of The Elites Christophe Guilluy, Malcolm Debevoise 2019 French French
17119 Colonel Roosevelt Edmund Morris 2010 American English
17119 To The Last Man Jeff Shaara 2004 American English
17119 The Man In The Red Coat Julian Barnes 2019 British English
17119 Maigret In Court Georges Simenon 1960 Belgian French
17119 The Paris Wife Paula McLain 2011 American English
17119 Munich Robert Harris 2017 British English
17119 Between Two Kingdoms Suleika Jaouad 2021 Unknown English
17119 The Climate Book Greta Thunberg 2022 Swedish English
17119 Wandering Souls Cecile Pin 2023 Unknown English
17119 How To Stop Time Matt Haig 2017 British English
17119 The Perfume Collector Kathleen Tessaro 2013 Unknown English
17119 The Diving Bell And The Butterfly Jean-Dominique Bauby 1997 French French
17119 Lie With Me Philippe Besson 2017 French French
17119 Margaret Thatcher Charles Moore 2013 British English
17119 Churchill Roy Jenkins 2001 British English
17119 Islam And The West Bernard Lewis 1993 British English
17119 The Endtimes Of Human Rights Stephen Hopgood 2013 British English
17119 Bonk Mary Roach 2008 American English
17119 Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls David Sedaris 2013 American English
17119 The Weird And The Eerie Mark Fisher 2016 British English
17119 Sacré Bleu Christopher Moore 2012 American English
17119 Drawdown Paul Hawken 2017 American English
17119 Diplomacy Henry A. Kissinger 1994 American English
17119 My Adventures As An Illustrator Norman Rockwell 1995 American English
17119 France Tyler Brûlé 2024 Unknown Unknown
17119 The Three Musketeers, The Count Of Monte Cristo, And The Man In The Iron Mask Alexandre Dumas 2006 French French
17119 Inspector French’s Greatest Case Freeman Wills Crofts 1924 British English
17119 The First American H.W. Brands 2000 American English
17119 The Lexus And The Olive Tree Thomas L. Friedman 1999 American English
17119 In The Wake Of The Plague Norman F. Cantor 2001 American English
17119 The Revolt Of The Public And The Crisis Of Authority In The New Millennium Martin Gurri 2014 Unknown English
17119 France On Trial Julian Jackson 2023 Unknown English
17119 Of Walking In Ice Werner Herzog 1978 German German
17119 I'm Mostly Here To Enjoy Myself Glynnis MacNicol 2024 Unknown English
17119 The Endless Vessel Charles Soule 2023 Unknown English
17119 The Book Of Illusions Paul Auster 2002 American English
17119 Neither Here Nor There Bill Bryson 1992 American English
17119 The Expats Chris Pavone 2012 American English
17119 When You Are Engulfed In Flames David Sedaris 2008 American English
17119 Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles Margaret George 1992 American English
17119 There And Back: Diaries 1999 2009 Michael Palin 2024 British English
17119 Lessons Ian McEwan 2022 British English
17119 Village Weavers Myriam J.A. Chancy 2024 Unknown English
17119 The Camp Of The Saints Jean Raspail 1975 French French
17119 M Train Patti Smith 2015 American English
17119 Room To Dream David Lynch 2018 American English
17119 Theodore Roosevelt Trilogy Edmund Morris 1979 American English
17119 Французская волчица. Лилия и лев Maurice Druon 1959 French French
16769 Los Venenos De La Corona Maurice Druon 1956 French French
17119 A Matter Of Taste Lauren Samuelsson 2024 Unknown English
17119 The Devil Colony James Rollins 2011 American English
17119 The Doomsday Key James Rollins 2009 American English
17119 Henry Vi, Part 1 William Shakespeare 2000 British English
17119 Life On The Run Bill Bradley 1976 American English
17119 My Fourth Time, We Drowned Sally Hayden 2022 Irish English
17119 The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan 2015 British English
17119 The 33 Strategies Of War New Edition By Robert Greene Paperback Robert Greene 2006 American English
17119 The Flaneur Edmund White 2001 American English
17119 Our Films, Their Films Satyajit Ray 1983 Indian English
17119 Half Blood Blues Esi Edugyan 2011 Canadian English
17082 Existentialism From Dostoevsky To Sartre Walter A. Kaufmann 1956 American English
17119 Serotonin Michel Houellebecq 2019 French French
17119 Relatos Edgar Allan Poe 1996 American English
17119 Le Code De La Conscience Stanislas Dehaene 2014 French French
17019 Le Locataire Chimérique Roland Topor 1964 French French
17119 Dans Le Jardin De L'ogre Leïla Slimani 2014 French French
17119 Bury Me Standing Isobel Fonseca 1995 Unknown English
17119 Our Man In Rome Catherine Fletcher 2012 Unknown English
17119 Benevolence And Betrayal Alexander Stille 1991 American English
17119 More Work For Mother Ruth Schwartz Cowan 1983 American English
17119 At Home With André And Simone Weil Sylvie Weil 2009 Unknown French
17119 Simone De Beauvoir Toril Moi 2008 Unknown English
17119 Georges Perec David Bellos 1993 Unknown English
17119 Angela Davis Angela Davis 1974 American English
17119 The Invisible Bridge Julie Orringer 2010 American English
17119 Our Kind Of Traitor John le Carré 2010 British English
17119 4 3 2 1 Paul Auster 2017 American English