Books from France
344 popular french books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from France.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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Pierre and Luce by Romain Rolland EN
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Paris, 1918: Amidst the cries of fanatic patriots bent on war, a tender relationship slowly develops between two young Parisians, beginning with a first shy encounter and growing into a passionate love that in the end falls victim to the psychological and physical destruction all around them. --- The great French writer Romain Rolland (1866-1944, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1915) wrote his famous tragic love story "Pierre and Luce" at the end of World War I. Its protagonists recall the lovers of classical antiquity as well as those of the Middle Ages.
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Pina by Titaua Peu EN
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Winner of the 2017 Eugène Dabit Prize Winner of the 2019 French Voices Grand Prize From award-winning Tahitian author Titaua Peu comes Pina, a devastating novel about a family torn apart by secrets and the legacy of colonialism, held together by nine-year-old Pina, a girl shouldering the immeasurable weight of her family's traumas. Far from Tahiti's postcard-perfect beaches, Ma and Auguste and five of their nine children live a hand-to-mouth life in destitute, run-down Tenaho. Nine-year-old Pina, abused and neglected in equal measure, is the keeper of her family's secrets, though the weight of... continue
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Platform by Michel Houellebecq EN
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In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world teetering between satiety and fanaticism, to create one of the most shocking, hypnotic, and intelligent novels in years. In his early forties, Michel Renault skims through his days with as little human contact as possible. But following his father’s death he takes a group holiday to Thailand where he meets a travel agent—the shyly compelling Valérie—who begins to bring this half-dead man to life with sex of escalating intensity and audacity. Arcing with dreamlike swiftness from Paris to Pattaya ... continue
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Quatrevingt-treize by Victor Hugo FR
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Dans a Vendée de 1793, trois personnages s'affrontent : l'aristocrate Lantenac, fidèle à son passé, son petit-neveu Gauvain, tourné vers l'avenir généreux de la République, et le conventionnel Cimourdain, plus durement soucieux des exigences présentes de la Révolution et de la Terreur. Dans cette épopée où le romancier mêle la fiction de l'intrigue et la réalité de l'Histoire - Danton, Robespierre et Marat sont au centre du livre -, chacun des trois héros se trouve ainsi guidé par une certaine idée du devoir et de l'honneur. Et chacun sera conduit à une forme d'héroïsme qui n'écarte pas la mor... continue
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Querido Diego te abrazo Quiela by Elena Poniatowska ES
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Angelina Beloff, exiliada rusa, pintora, escribe desde la grisura, la pobreza y el frío del París de la primera posguerra a Diego Rivera, su compañero durante diez años, a quien no ha podido seguir en su regreso a México. Angelina escribe cartas amargas que el pintor, ya célebre en su tierra natal, deja sin respuesta. Elena Poniatowska ha recreado, en estas cartas imaginarias, el testimonio entrañable de una artista y amante abandonada, y con ello la saga de los tiempos idos en que los artistas eran gigantes, con todas sus virtudes y defectos. Una breve novela de gran finura.
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Res no s'oposa a la nit by Delphine de Vigan CA
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Un matí d'hivern, Delphine de Vigan va entrar a l'apartament de la seva mare, Lucile, i se la va trobar morta estirada al llit. Arran d'aquesta mort sobtada en circumstàncies poc clares, l'escriptora va decidir emprendre una recerca detectivesca per mirar de reconstruir el trencaclosques que havia estat la vida de Lucile Poirier. Una dona fascinant, d'una bellesa terriblement dolça i salvatge, seductora i bohemia, pero amb l'ànima marcada per un dolor profund i misteriós.Els centenars de fotografies preses durant anys, la cronica... continue
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Sans famille by Hector Malot, Christine Ferreira FR
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Un des premiers romans dont le héros est un enfant. Les aventures de Rémi, l'enfant trouvé, se passent dans la France du XIXe siècle. Une histoire émouvante qui nous touche encore aujourd'hui... Et qui finit bien. -- [l'Éditeur].
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Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay EN
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Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connect her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl's ordeal, from... continue