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
17164 Angela Davis Angela Davis 1974 American English
17164 The Invisible Bridge Julie Orringer 2010 American English
17164 Our Kind Of Traitor John le Carré 2010 British English
17164 4 3 2 1 Paul Auster 2017 American English
17164 Stone's Fall Iain Pears 2009 British English
17164 The Culture Code Daniel Coyle 2018 American English
17164 A Woman's Story Annie Ernaux 1988 French French
17164 Portraits Of Power Mark Gevisser 1996 Unknown English
17164 Soccer In Sun And Shadow Eduardo Galeano 1995 Uruguayan Spanish
17164 El Corazón Helado Almudena Grandes 2007 Spanish Spanish
16809 The Perfume Of The Woman In Black Gaston Leroux 1908 French French
17164 Through The Wall Cleveland Moffett 1909 American English
17164 813 Maurice Leblanc 1910 French French
17164 The Lone Wolf Louis Joseph Vance 2003 American English
17164 The Eight Strokes Of The Clock Maurice Leblanc 1923 French French
17164 The Mysterious Mickey Finn Elliot Paul 1938 American English
17164 The Patience Of Maigret Georges Simenon 1965 Belgian French
17164 Big Red Of Meadow Stable William Nack 1988 American English
17164 Days Of Grace Arnold Rampersad, Arthur Ashe 1993 American English
17164 Big Game, Small World Alexander Wolff 2002 Unknown English
17164 Free Speech Jacob Mchangama 2024 Unknown English
17164 It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track Ian Penman 2019 British English
17164 The Elements Of Marie Curie Dava Sobel 2024 Unknown English
17164 The Wages Of Destruction Adam Tooze 2006 British English
17164 The Penguin Complete Tales And Poems Of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe American English
17164 Rites Of Spring Modris Eksteins 1989 Canadian English
17164 The Rise And Triumph Of The Modern Self Carl R. Trueman 2020 American English
17164 The Collected Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde Irish English
17164 Rizal In Saga Nick Joaquin 1996 Philippine English
17164 The Confusion Neal Stephenson 2004 American English
17164 The System Of The World Neal Stephenson 2004 American English
17164 The Basic Political Writings Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1987 French French
17164 Yoga Emmanuel Carrère 2020 French French
17164 The Beatles Anthology The Beatles 2000 British English
17164 The Magician Michael Scott 2008 Irish English
17164 Dan Brown Omnibus Dan Brown 2004 American English
17164 Stranger Than We Can Imagine John Higgs 2015 British English
16907 Extraordinary Popular Delusions & The Madness Of Crowds Charles Mackay 1841 British English
17164 Gun Before Butter Nicolas Freeling 1963 British English
17164 Blitzed Norman Ohler 2015 German German
17164 The Great Movies Roger Ebert 2003 American English
17164 Aliens & Anorexia Chris Kraus 2000 American English
17164 Congo David Van Reybrouck 2010 Belgian Dutch
17164 An Intimate History Of Humanity Theodore Zeldin 1994 British English
Tales Of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe 1909 American English
17164 August Blue Deborah Levy 2023 British English
17113 Pied Piper Nevil Shute 1942 British English
17164 Revolutionary Spring Christopher Clark 2023 British English
17164 The World Simon Sebag Montefiore 2022 British English
17164 Un Monde à Portée De Main Maylis de Kerangal 2018 French French
16867 The Belly Of Paris Émile Zola 1873 French French
17080 Dostoevsky Joseph Frank 1864 American English
17164 Diego & Frida J. M. G. Le Clezio 1993 French French
17164 The Wealth And Poverty Of Nations David S. Landes 1998 American English
17087 Candide And Other Stories Voltaire 1759 French French
17164 The Lion And The Lily Ira Mukhoty 2023 Unknown English
17164 Svolení Vanessa Springora 2020 French French
17164 Time's Convert Deborah Harkness 2018 American English
17164 Il Paradiso Degli Orchi Daniel Pennac 1985 French Italian
17164 Threshold Rob Doyle 2020 Irish English
17164 Sphinx Anne Garréta 1986 French French
17164 Appeasement Tim Bouverie 2019 British English
17164 Karl Marx Francis Wheen 1999 British English
17164 Lipstick Traces Greil Marcus 1989 American English
17164 My Part Of Her Javad Djavahery 2017 Unknown French
17164 The Pomegranate Lady And Her Sons Goli Taraghi 2013 Iranian Persian
17164 Paris To The Moon Adam Gopnik 2000 American English
17164 Looking For The Stranger Alice Kaplan 2016 Unknown English
17164 Churchill Martin Gilbert 1991 British English
17164 The History Of The Medieval World Susan Wise Bauer 2010 American English
17164 Atlas Obscura Joshua Foer 2016 American English
17164 The Necromancer Michael Scott 2010 Irish English
17164 Länsimaisen Filosofian Historia Huipulta Huipulle, Sokrateesta Marxiin Esa Saarinen 1985 Finnish Finnish
17106 The Age Of Revolution, 1789 1848 Eric Hobsbawm 1962 British English
17164 Kafka Gilles Deleuze 1975 French French
17164 An Elemental Thing Eliot Weinberger 2007 American English
16906 A History Of Civilizations Fernand Braudel 1963 French French
17130 Heaven Has No Favorites Erich Maria Remarque 1961 German German
17164 The Beastly Beatitudes Of Balthazar B J. P. Donleavy 1967 American English
17164 Judgement Of Paris George Taber 2005 American English
17164 It's Not About The Bike Lance Armstrong 1999 American English
17164 Royal Succession Maurice Druon 1958 French French
17164 The Heirs Of The Kingdom Zoe Oldenbourg 1970 French French
17164 Falls The Shadow Sharon Kay Penman 1988 American English
17164 Duchess Of Milan Michael Ennis 1992 American English
17164 The Agony And The Ecstacy Irving Stone 1961 American English
17164 The Frenchwoman Jeanne Mackin 1989 Unknown English
17164 Rasero Francisco Rebolledo 1995 Mexican Spanish
17164 Vindication Frances Sherwood 1993 Unknown English
17164 The Literature Express Lasha Bugadze 2009 Georgian Georgian
17164 Inside The Cia Ronald Kessler 1992 American English
17164 True Believer Jack Carr 2019 American English
17164 Foreign Bodies Simon Schama 2023 British English
17164 Camille Pissarro Anka Muhlstein 2023 Unknown French
17164 The Revolutionary Temper Robert Darnton 2023 American English
17164 Pandora’s Box Peter Biskind 2023 Unknown Unknown
17164 Emperor Of Rome Mary Beard 2023 British English
17164 Revolutionary Spring Christopher Clark 2023 British English
17164 Paris Notebooks Mavis Gallant 2023 Canadian English
17164 Cosmic Scholar John Szwed 2023 Unknown English
17164 Young Queens Leah Redmond Chang 2023 Unknown English
17164 Still Born Guadalupe Nettel 2023 Mexican Spanish
17164 War And Punishment Mikhail Zygar 2023 Unknown Russian
17164 Retrospective Juan Gabriel Vásquez 2023 Colombian Spanish
17164 The Art Thief Michael Finkel 2023 Unknown English
17164 Tomorrow Perhaps The Future Sarah Watling 2023 Unknown English
17164 V Is For Victory Craig Nelson 2023 Unknown English
17164 A Life Of One’s Own Joanna Biggs 2023 Unknown English
17164 An Honorable Exit Éric Vuillard 2023 French French
17164 The World Simon Sebag Montefiore 2023 British English
17164 Mozart In Motion Patrick Mackie 2023 Unknown English
17164 The Earth Transformed Peter Frankopan 2023 British English
17164 The Postcard Anne Berest 2023 French French
17164 Camera Girl Carl Sferrazza Anthony 2023 Unknown English
17164 Writers And Missionaries Adam Shatz 2023 Unknown English
17164 Fatherland Burkhard Bilger 2023 Unknown English
17164 In Memoriam Alice Winn 2023 Unknown English
17164 Picasso The Foreigner Annie Cohen‑Solal 2023 Unknown French
17164 After Sappho Selby Wynn Schwartz 2023 Unknown English
17164 Beyond The Door Of No Return David Diop 2021 French French