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
17120 Stone's Fall Iain Pears 2009 British English
17120 A Woman's Story Annie Ernaux 1988 French French
17120 Portraits Of Power Mark Gevisser 1996 Unknown English
17120 Soccer In Sun And Shadow Eduardo Galeano 1995 Uruguayan Spanish
17120 El Corazón Helado Almudena Grandes 2007 Spanish Spanish
16769 The Perfume Of The Woman In Black Gaston Leroux 1908 French French
17120 Through The Wall Cleveland Moffett 1909 American English
17120 813 Maurice Leblanc 1910 French French
17120 The Lone Wolf Louis Joseph Vance 2003 American English
17120 The Eight Strokes Of The Clock Maurice Leblanc 1923 French French
17120 The Mysterious Mickey Finn Elliot Paul 1938 American English
17120 The Patience Of Maigret Georges Simenon 1965 Belgian French
17120 Big Red Of Meadow Stable William Nack 1988 American English
17120 Days Of Grace Arnold Rampersad, Arthur Ashe 1993 American English
17120 Big Game, Small World Alexander Wolff 2002 Unknown English
17120 Free Speech Jacob Mchangama 2024 Unknown English
17120 It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track Ian Penman 2019 British English
17120 The Elements Of Marie Curie Dava Sobel 2024 Unknown English
17120 The Wages Of Destruction Adam Tooze 2006 British English
17120 The Penguin Complete Tales And Poems Of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe American English
17120 Rites Of Spring Modris Eksteins 1989 Canadian English
17120 The Rise And Triumph Of The Modern Self Carl R. Trueman 2020 American English
17120 The Collected Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde Irish English
17120 Rizal In Saga Nick Joaquin 1996 Philippine English
17120 The Confusion Neal Stephenson 2004 American English
17120 The System Of The World Neal Stephenson 2004 American English
17120 The Basic Political Writings Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1987 French French
17120 Yoga Emmanuel Carrère 2020 French French
17120 The Beatles Anthology The Beatles 2000 British English
17120 The Magician Michael Scott 2008 Irish English
17120 Dan Brown Omnibus Dan Brown 2004 American English
17120 Stranger Than We Can Imagine John Higgs 2015 British English
16887 Extraordinary Popular Delusions & The Madness Of Crowds Charles Mackay 1841 British English
17120 Gun Before Butter Nicolas Freeling 1963 British English
17120 Blitzed Norman Ohler 2015 German German
17120 The Great Movies Roger Ebert 2003 American English
17120 Aliens & Anorexia Chris Kraus 2000 American English
17120 Congo David Van Reybrouck 2010 Belgian Dutch
17120 An Intimate History Of Humanity Theodore Zeldin 1994 British English
17120 August Blue Deborah Levy 2023 British English
17083 Pied Piper Nevil Shute 1942 British English
17120 Revolutionary Spring Christopher Clark 2023 British English
17120 The World Simon Sebag Montefiore 2022 British English
17120 Un Monde à Portée De Main Maylis de Kerangal 2018 French French
16824 The Belly Of Paris Émile Zola 1873 French French
17050 Dostoevsky Joseph Frank 1864 American English
17120 Diego & Frida J. M. G. Le Clezio 1993 French French
17120 The Wealth And Poverty Of Nations David S. Landes 1998 American English
17042 Candide And Other Stories Voltaire 1759 French French
17120 The Lion And The Lily Ira Mukhoty 2023 Unknown English
17120 Svolení Vanessa Springora 2020 French French
17120 Time's Convert Deborah Harkness 2018 American English
16762 The Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe 1902 American English
17120 Il Paradiso Degli Orchi Daniel Pennac 1985 French Italian
17120 Threshold Rob Doyle 2020 Irish English
17120 Sphinx Anne Garréta 1986 French French
17120 Appeasement Tim Bouverie 2019 British English
17120 Karl Marx Francis Wheen 1999 British English
17120 Lipstick Traces Greil Marcus 1989 American English
17120 My Part Of Her Javad Djavahery 2017 Unknown French
17120 The Pomegranate Lady And Her Sons Goli Taraghi 2013 Iranian Persian
17120 Paris To The Moon Adam Gopnik 2000 American English
17120 Looking For The Stranger Alice Kaplan 2016 Unknown English
17120 Churchill Martin Gilbert 1991 British English
16797 The Talented Mr. Ripley / Ripley Under Ground / Ripley's Game Patricia Highsmith 1955 American English
17120 The History Of The Medieval World Susan Wise Bauer 2010 American English
17120 Atlas Obscura Joshua Foer 2016 American English
17120 The Necromancer Michael Scott 2010 Irish English
17120 Länsimaisen Filosofian Historia Huipulta Huipulle, Sokrateesta Marxiin Esa Saarinen 1985 Finnish Finnish
17074 The Age Of Revolution, 1789 1848 Eric Hobsbawm 1962 British English
17120 Kafka Gilles Deleuze 1975 French French
17120 An Elemental Thing Eliot Weinberger 2007 American English
16863 A History Of Civilizations Fernand Braudel 1963 French French
17116 Heaven Has No Favorites Erich Maria Remarque 1961 German German
17120 The Beastly Beatitudes Of Balthazar B J. P. Donleavy 1967 American English
17120 Judgement Of Paris George Taber 2005 American English
17120 It's Not About The Bike Lance Armstrong 1999 American English
17120 Royal Succession Maurice Druon 1958 French French
17120 The Heirs Of The Kingdom Zoe Oldenbourg 1970 French French
17120 Falls The Shadow Sharon Kay Penman 1988 American English
17120 Duchess Of Milan Michael Ennis 1992 American English
17120 The Agony And The Ecstacy Irving Stone 1961 American English
17120 The Frenchwoman Jeanne Mackin 1989 Unknown English
17120 Rasero Francisco Rebolledo 1995 Mexican Spanish
17120 Vindication Frances Sherwood 1993 Unknown English
17120 The Literature Express Lasha Bugadze 2009 Georgian Georgian
17120 Inside The Cia Ronald Kessler 1992 American English
17120 True Believer Jack Carr 2019 American English
17120 Foreign Bodies Simon Schama 2023 British English
17120 Camille Pissarro Anka Muhlstein 2023 Unknown French
17120 The Revolutionary Temper Robert Darnton 2023 American English
17120 Pandora’s Box Peter Biskind 2023 Unknown Unknown
17120 Emperor Of Rome Mary Beard 2023 British English
17120 Revolutionary Spring Christopher Clark 2023 British English
17120 Paris Notebooks Mavis Gallant 2023 Canadian English
17120 Cosmic Scholar John Szwed 2023 Unknown English
17120 Young Queens Leah Redmond Chang 2023 Unknown English
17120 Still Born Guadalupe Nettel 2023 Mexican Spanish
17120 War And Punishment Mikhail Zygar 2023 Unknown Russian
17120 Retrospective Juan Gabriel Vásquez 2023 Colombian Spanish
17120 The Art Thief Michael Finkel 2023 Unknown English
17120 Tomorrow Perhaps The Future Sarah Watling 2023 Unknown English
17120 V Is For Victory Craig Nelson 2023 Unknown English
17120 A Life Of One’s Own Joanna Biggs 2023 Unknown English
17120 An Honorable Exit Éric Vuillard 2023 French French
17120 The World Simon Sebag Montefiore 2023 British English
17120 Mozart In Motion Patrick Mackie 2023 Unknown English
17120 The Earth Transformed Peter Frankopan 2023 British English
17120 The Postcard Anne Berest 2023 French French
17120 Camera Girl Carl Sferrazza Anthony 2023 Unknown English
17120 Writers And Missionaries Adam Shatz 2023 Unknown English
17120 Fatherland Burkhard Bilger 2023 Unknown English
17120 In Memoriam Alice Winn 2023 Unknown English
17120 Picasso The Foreigner Annie Cohen‑Solal 2023 Unknown French
17120 After Sappho Selby Wynn Schwartz 2023 Unknown English
17120 Beyond The Door Of No Return David Diop 2021 French French
17120 Monet Jackie Wullschläger 2023 Unknown English
17120 On Savage Shores Caroline Dodds Pennock 2023 Unknown English
17120 The 48 Laws Of Power robert green 1998 Unknown English
17120 The Maze Of Bones Rick Riordan 2008 American English