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Books set in France




The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
A Year In Provence by Peter Mayle
My Life in France by Julia Child
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Perfume: the Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Fall by Albert Camus
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre A.F. Choderlos de Laclos
Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
Tartuffe by Molière
Germinal by Émile Zola
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser
Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette by Sena Jeter Naslund
The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette by Carolly Erickson
Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant
Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
Nana by Émile Zola
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
The Princesse de Cleves by Marie-Madeleine de LaFayette
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola
Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris by Sarah Turnbull
C'est La Vie: An American Woman Begins a New Life in Paris by Suzy Gershman
No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre
Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac
Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution by Michelle Moran
A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust
The Matchmaker of Périgord by Julia Stuart
Hunting and Gathering by Anna Gavalda
Camille by Alexandre Dumas-fils
The Misanthrope by Molière
Nicholas by René Goscinny
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
A Very Long Engagement by Sébastien Japrisot
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec
French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure by Mireille Guiliano
L'assommoir by Émile Zola
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
Nadja by André Breton
Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac
I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere by Anna Gavalda
Queen Margot, or, Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas
Antigone by Jean Anouilh
Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas
The Miser and Other Plays by Molière
Toujours Provence by Peter Mayle
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust (aka In Search of Lost Time)
A Novel Bookstore by Laurence Cossé
Froth on the daydream by Boris Vian (aka Foam on the Daze)
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel Barbery
Before Versailles: A Novel of Louis XIV by Karleen Koen
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King by Antonia Fraser
The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne
Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust
Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant
Manon Lescaut by L'Abbé Prévost
The Ladies' Paradise by Émile Zola
The Wall by Jean-Paul Sartre
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Encore Provence by Peter Mayle
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Paris Without End: The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife by Gioia Diliberto
The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland
Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes by Elizabeth Bard
Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong by Jean-Benoît Nadeau
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Fire in the Blood by Irène Némirovsky
Seven Ages of Paris by Alistair Horne
The Song of Roland by Anonymous
Une Vie by Guy de Maupassant (aka "A Woman's Life", and, "A Life: The Humble Truth")
The Holy Terrors by Jean Cocteau
La Bête humaine by Émile Zola (aka "The Beast Within")
The Counterfeiters by André Gide
Timeline by Michael Crichton
Complete Works by Arthur Rimbaud
The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier

The Matchmaker of Périgord by Julia Stuart

Ensemble, c'est tout

Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky

Leaving Van Gogh: A Novel by Carol Wallace

Resistance: A Frenchwoman's Journal of the War by Agnes Humbert

The Ninth Orphan
This international thriller novel is set primarily in France.

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Best from

Lance & James –
authors of The Ninth Orphan and Fiji

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough

Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910 by Jeffrey H. Jackson

I'd like to add my novel, Scent of Triumph, about a female French perfumer set during WWII. Some of you might have seen it when it was published in 2012. It's been completely revised with a new ending under the guidance of St. Martin's Press, who acquired it. Look for it in March, 2015 for a fabulous relaunch. Enjoy!

More books set in France
I'll Never Be French (no matter what I do): Living in a Small Village in Brittany by Mark Greenside

Anything Considered by Peter Mayle

Une soupe aux herbes sauvages- Emilie Carles. Sorry for the french title; it does exist in English as well. About life in a French village from 1906 till 1977

The Olive Season - Carol Drinkwater

More book set in France:



The Collector by Anne-Laure Thiéblemont (1st Marion Spicer Art Mystery)
Henri Duchemin and His Shadows by Emmanuel Bove
Henry V by William Shakespeare
Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England by Juliet Barker
Holy Smoke by Tonino Benacquista
L'Auberge by Julia Stagg
Mademoiselle Chanel by C.W. Gortner
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Paris Was Ours: Thirty-Two Writers Reflect on the City of Light
The Race for Paris by Meg Waite Clayton
The Travels of Daniel Ascher by Déborah Lévy-Bertherat
An Unfinished Business by Boualem Sansal
Villa America by Liza Klaussmann
The Witch of Painted Sorrows by M.J. Rose
The Woman in the Photograph by Dana Gynther


Two set on the island of Corsica:


Honorable Bandit: A Walk across Corsica by Brian Bouldrey
The Rose Cafe: Love and War in Corsica by John Hanson Mitchell

Here's a book set in France: The Paris Lawyer by Sylvie Granotier is a legal procedural that doubles as a psychological thriller. I wanted to translate this book because I found the author's psychological portrayal of the characters to be very moving and on target. It's a gripping and powerful whodunit that is also about reconciliation with those we have lost. It really spoke to me, personally. In it, as a child, Catherine Monsigny was the only witness to a heinous crime. Now, she is an ambitious rookie attorney in sophisticated modern-day Paris. She lands a major felony case that takes her to a peaceful village in central France, where the beautiful, rolling hills hold dark secrets. There, her own past comes back to haunt her. Edgar-award winning author Thomas H. Cook said it is "beautifully written and elegantly structured."

I vote for The Elegance of the Hedgehog

The Elegance of the Hedgehog is a good choice. I will also put in a plug for the other two books I recently translated, just for fun:
- Treachery in Bordeaux is a classic whodunit set in French wine country, with a great sense of place. It is the first in a 20-book series that is a hit on French TV.
- The 7th Woman. This is an edge-of-your-seat police procedural set in Paris. Seven meets CSI in the City of Light. It's already an international bestseller, was named Best Crime Fiction Novel of the Year and won France's prestigious Prix du Quai des Orfèvres.

Bonjour Tristesse by Francois Sagan, This is more a novella, a very quick read but a french classic. It was published in 1954 and caused quite a stir as the author was only 18 years old.

Ever so slightly off topic, but anyone have suggestions of new French books that are wildly popular in France?

Cara Black writes a mystery series set in Paris. The first book in the series is Murder in the Marais.

Hello,

I have just joined goodreads and this group. I saw that this is the appropriate place to list new books for goodreads authors for your group, so I would like to do so. Much of my first book takes place in France, so I am delighted to post some information about it here.

Best regards,
Matthias Leue

Fish Camping takes place during the time span of 1996 to 2002. It is a collection and recollection of family adventure travel stories, with a dash of humor, and involving culinary tidbits for the reader to devour. The stories usually take place during summer on the way to see family and relatives in Germany and France. Cultural observations are duly noted and expanded upon on these trips. Further travel stories take place in the USA, exploring California, Oregon and Arizona. A brief visit to the East Coast is included too. Numerous watercolors and drawings enhance what has not been left to the reader's imagination.

Hello everyone

This is a plug for my Saint Emilion Mystery "Broke the Grape's Joy"...

Assuming that the world doesn't end today, my book Broke the Grape's Joy will be available to download for FREE from the 21st to the 25th of December. You can read twenty 4* and 5* star reviews on amazon.co.uk as well as lots here on Goodreads!

Happy Christmas and happy reading.

Patrick.

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Broke the Grape's Joy

A new book Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d'Art

Paris

Great story in graphic novel format.

There's a Goodreads giveaway on now for this gripping Paris-based police procedural: The 7th Woman, by Frédérique Molay

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Or something by Georges Perec

Miss Darcy Falls in Love by Sharon Lathan

French Illusions: My Story as an American Au Pair in the Loire Valley

In a Dark Wood Wandering: A Novel of the Middle Ages

The Wolves of Paris

Blood Red, Sister Rose

Books set in the Alsace region of France:




The Body Vanishes by Yves Jacquemard
Carnival by J. Robert Janes
Chaos Gate by Robert Walton
The Child Murderess: A Novel Adapted from an Eighteenth Century Play
Europa by Tim Parks
The Children of Alsace by René Bazin
The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau by Graeme Macrae Burnet
The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Having the Frenchman's Baby by Rebecca Winters
It's Particular by Bradley Basker
The Janeites by Nicolas Freeling
Just for the Holidays by Sue Moorcroft
The Kaiser's Reluctant Conscript by Dominik Richert
Late Harvest Havoc by Jean-Pierre Alaux
Lenz by Georg Büchner
Margaret's Print Shop: A Novel of the Anabaptist Reformation
The Ogre by Michel Tournier
I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of Nazi Terror by Pierre Seel
Solomon Kane: The Castle of the Devil by Scott Allie
Stifling Folds of Love by John Brooke
The Stone Leopard by Colin Forbes
A Time to Dance, a Time to Die The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518
Tempted to Love by Barbara Cartland
The Walnut Trees of Altenburg by André Malraux
The Widow by Nicolas Freeling

Books set in the Aquitaine region of France:



An Acre Of The Dordogne by Ian Burgess
At Home in France: Tales of an American and Her House Abroad by Ann Barry
The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
Blackbird Fly by Lise McClendon (1st book in Bennett Sisters series)
The Bordeaux Betrayal by Ellen Crosby
Born of Love by Barbara Cartland
Broke the Grape's Joy by Patrick Hilyer
Bruno, Chief Of Police by Martin Walker (1st book in series)
A Castle in the Backyard: The Dream of a House in France by Betsy Draine
The Caves of Perigord by Martin Walker
The Chase by Lorna Fergusson
The Cockleshell Raid - Bordeaux 1942 by Ken Ford
Cold Winter in Bordeaux by Allan Massie
A Coming Evil by Vivian Vande Velde
The Courts of Love by Jean Plaidy
Dark Summer in Bordeaux by Allan Massie
Dead and Breakfast by David A. Crossman
Deadly Slipper by Michelle Wan (1st book in Death in the Dordogne series)
Death in Bordeaux by Allan Massie
The Devil's Cave by Martin Walker
The Dordogne Deception
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir
A French Affair by Katie Fforde
French Secrets by Roisin McAuley
The Frenchman's Bride by Rebecca Winters
The Frontenac Mystery by François Mauriac
Hiss by Kassanna
A Gown of Thorns by Natalie Meg Evans
Grape Expectations: A Family's Vineyard Adventure in France by Caro Feely
The Gypsy Madonna by Santa Montefiore
A House in the Sunflowers by Ruth Silvestre
The House That Berry Built by Dornford Yates
Late Summer in the Vineyard by Jo Thomas
The Marriage Contract by Honoré de Balzac
The Matchmaker of Périgord by Julia Stuart
Ramuntcho by Pierre Loti
The Ripening Sun by Patricia Atkinson
Shadows in the Dordogne: A Travel Diary with Unexpected Interruptions
Sharpe's Siege by Bernard Cornwell
The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Francois Augieras
Stepping-Stones: A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne
Tales from the Dordogne by Rudolph Lea
Temptation of a Teacher by Barbara Cartland
Thérèse Desqueyroux by François Mauriac
The Third Girl by Nell Goddin (1st book in Molly Sutton series)
Treachery in Bordeaux by Jean-Pierre Alaux
A Vineyard in the Dordogne: How an English Family Made Their Dream of Wine and Sunshine Come True by Jeremy Josephs
Viper's Tangle by François Mauriac
Wade of Aquitaine by Ben Parris

Books set in the Auvergne region of France



The Alphonse Courrier Affair by Marta Morazzoni
Bones in High Places: A Reverend Oughterard Mystery by Suzette A. Hill
Children of La Hille: Eluding Nazi Capture During World War II
Chivalry: A Jake Savage Adventure by Mark Lord
Education and Identity in Rural France: The Politics of Schooling
Exiles by Anita Burgh
The Feasting Dead by John Metcalfe
French By Heart: An American Family's Adventures in La Belle France
A Good Place to Hide by Peter Grose
Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Duncker
Maigret in Vichy by Georges Simenon
Monsieur Pamplemousse on Probation by Michael Bond
Monsters of the Gevaudan: The Making of a Beast by Jay M. Smith
Mourjou: The Life and Food of an Auvergne Village by Peter Graham
The Night’s Dark Shade: A Novel of the Cathars by Elena Maria Vidal
On Pilgrimage by Jennifer Lash
Sell the Pig by Tottie Limejuice (1st book in series)
Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France by Caroline Moorehead
The Wisdom of Donkeys: Finding Tranquility in a Chaotic World

Books set in the Brittany region of France (Bretagne)



All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Assignment in Brittany by Helen MacInnes
Asterix and the Picts by Jean-Yves Ferri
The Bored Bridegroom by Barbara Cartland
Bread of Three Rivers: The Story of a French Loaf by Sara Mansfield Taber
A Breath of French Air by H.E. Bates
Bride of Desire by Sara Craven
Celtic Legends of Brittany by O.L. Aubert
Chateau of Echoes by Siri Mitchell
Coastliners by Joanne Harris
The Dark Queen by Susan Carroll (1st book in series)
Death in Brittany by Jean-Luc Bannalec (1st book in Commissaire Dupin series)
Death Set to Music by Mark Hebden (1st book in Inspector Pel mystery series)
Folk Tales of Brittany by Elsie Masson
The French House: An American Family, a Ruined Maison, and the Village That Restored Them All
A Gift from Brittany by Marjorie Price
Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers (1st book of His Fair Assassin series)
Hot Water by P.G. Wodehouse
The Horse of Pride: Life in a Breton Village by Pierre-Jakez Helias
I'll Never Be French (no matter what I do): Living in a Small Village in Brittany
La Briere by Alphonse de Châteaubriant
The Last Knight by Candice Proctor
Le Loup Blanc by Paul Féval
Legends and Romances of Brittany by Lewis Spence
Liberty Silk by Kate Beaufoy
The Little Breton Bistro by Nina George
The Lords Of Vaumartin by Cecelia Holland
Losing the Light by Andrea Dunlop
Memoirs of a Breton Peasant by Jean-Marie Deguignet
Merlin The Hound Dog: Part One; In From The Cold by Freya Barrington
Merlin's Wood by Robert Holdstock (5th Book in Mythago Wood series)
The Mermaid's Song by Marianne Willman
The Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino
A Novel Bookstore by Laurence Cossé
Over Strand and Field: A Record of Travel Through Brittany by Gustave Flaubert
The Oysters of Locmariaquer by Eleanor Clark
The Portrait by Iain Pears
Princess of Bretagne by Vijaya Schartz (Curse of the Lost Isle #1)
Prince of Darkness by Sharon Kay Penman (4th book in Justin de Quincy series)
Princess of Glass by Jessica Day George
The Protector by Madeline Hunter
Querelle by Jean Genet
Saints & Changelings: Folk-Tales of Brittany by Agnes Ashton
Satori in Paris by Jack Kerouac
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
Seasons of the Moon by Julien Aranda
Sepulchre by Kate Mosse (2nd book in Languedoc series)
Twice Queen of France: Anne of Brittany by Mildred Allen Butler
The Wolf Hunt by Gillian Bradshaw
The Wolf's Sun by Karen Charbonneau
The Yellow Dog by Georges Simenon

The Iron King by Maurice Druon

The Strangled Queen by Maurice Druon

When a King Loses France by Maurice Druon

La loba de Francia by Maurice Druon

La flor de lis y el león by Maurice Druon

Les rois maudits Vols 1-7 by Maurice Druon

The Cardinal and the Queen by Evelyn Anthony

The French Bride by Evelyn Anthony

The Shadow Of The Sun by Sylvia Pell


The Sun Princess by Sylvia Pell


The King's Way by Francoise Chandernagor

Caroline Cherie Tome I 4 vols.Cecill Saint­Laurent

Books set in the Burgundy Region of France (Bourgogne)



Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Ash: A Secret History by Mary Gentle
Beneath the Morvan Moon by Courtney L. Mroch
Breakfast in Burgundy: A Hungry Irishman in the Belly of France
Bright Hair About the Bone by Barbara Cleverly
The Burgundian's Tale by Kate Sedley
Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks
Claudine's House by Colette
The Collected Stories by Colette
Consider the Oyster by M.F.K. Fisher
The Cook and the Gardener: A Year of Recipes and Notes from the French Countryside
The Dragonfly by Kate Dunn
Finding me in France by Bobbi French
Fire in the Blood by Irène Némirovsky
French Spirits: A House, a Village, and a Love Affair in Burgundy
French Twist by Roxanne St. Claire
The Gastronomical Me by M.F.K. Fisher
House of the Arrow by A.E.W. Mason
How to Eat a Small Country: A Family's Pursuit of Happiness, One Meal at a Time
The King's Grace by Anne Easter Smith
The Life of Elves by Muriel Barbery
Long Ago In France: The Years In Dijon by M.F.K. Fisher
Love & Death in Burgundy by Susan C. Shea
My Mother's House & Sido by Colette
Nightmare in Burgundy by Jean-Pierre Alaux
Pel & The Staghound by Mark Hebden
Philip the Good: The Apogee of Burgundy by Richard Vaughan
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France
Puligny Montrachet: Journal Of A Village In Burgundy by Simon Loftus
The Red Keep: A Story of Burgundy in 1165 by Allen French
In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy by G.A. Henty
Revenge of the Rose by Nicole Galland
Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World's Greatest Wine
A Skulk of Foxes by Richard Sutcliffe
Splendour Falls by Susanna Kearsley
A Sport And A Pastime by James Salter
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky (also set in Ile de France)
The Vanishing by Tim Krabbé
The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox
Waiting for You by Janice Sims
Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure
A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke

Books Set in the Centre Region of France



An Army of Angels: A Novel of Joan of Arc by Pamela Marcantel
Blood and Roses by Catherine Hokin
Blue Blood by Viviane Moore
The Cathedral by Joris-Karl Huysmans
The Cleaner of Chartres by Salley Vickers
The Dark Pageant by Edward Lucie-Smith
Death A L'Orange by Nancy Fairbanks
The Devil's Pool by George Sand
The Earth by Émile Zola
French Illusions: My Story as an American Au Pair in the Loire Valley
Gone with the Wine: Retirement Adventures in France by Rosanne Knorr
Grand Cru Heist by Jean-Pierre Alaux
History of the Franks by Gregory of Tours
Hope and Glory by Katherine Sutcliffe
In a Dark Wood Wandering: A Novel of the Middle Ages by Hella S. Haasse
Into the Fire by Manda Scott
Joan: The Mysterious Life of the Heretic Who Became a Saint by Donald Spoto
Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
Joan of Arc: In her own words by Joan of Arc
The Joys of My Life by Alys Clare (12th book in Hawkeye Mysteries series)
Keys to the Castle by Donna Ball
The Life and Prayers of Saint Joan of Arc by Wyatt North
The Little French Guesthouse by Helen Pollard (1st in La Cour des Roses series)
The Lost Estate byAlain-Fournier
The Maid: A Novel of Joan of Arc by Kimberly Cutter
The Maid and the Queen: The Secret History of Joan of Arc by Nancy Goldstone
Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation
The Mystery of the 99 Steps by Carolyn Keene
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Nobody's Boy by Hector Malot
Petite Fadette by George Sand (AKA Fanchon the Cricket)
Raboliot by Maurice Genevoix
Remote Man by Elizabeth Honey
The Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault
A Small City in France by Françoise Gaspard
The Splendour Falls by Susanna Kearsley
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust (1st book of In Search of Lost Time)
Vie de France: Sharing Food, Friendship, and a Kitchen in the Loire Valley

Books Set in the Champagne-Ardenne Region of France



6.41 by Jean-Philippe Blondel
The Carter of 'La Providence' by Georges Simenon (AKA Lock 14, Maigret Meets a Milord
Champagne: How the World's Most Glamorous Wine Triumphed Over War and Hard Times
The Cornerstone by Zoé Oldenbourg
A Day With A Noblewoman by Régine Pernoud
Feudal Society in Medieval France: Documents from the County of Champagne
A Farewell To France by Noel Barber
A French FairyFail by Jessica E. Larsen (1st book in A French FairyFail series)
The French Orphan by Michael Stolle (1st book in series)
The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden
House of Daughters by Sarah-Kate Lynch
The Girl at the Lion d'Or by Sebastian Faulks
Gossip from the Forest by Thomas Keneally
Heloise and Abelard by Étienne Gilson
Indigo Waters by Lisa Samson (1st book of Shades of Eternity series)
Jackdaws by Ken Follett
Joheved by Maggie Anton
Life in a Medieval City by Frances Gies
Losing Julia by Jonathan Hull
The Mercy Seller by Brenda Rickman Vantrease
A Midnight Clear by William Wharton
A Murky Business by Honoré de Balzac
Murder by Champagne by Keith Spicer
My Guardian Angel by Sylvie Weil
The Peasant of Ardenne Forest V4: A Novel by Eliza Parsons
Selected Works by Bernard of Clairvaux
The Spy and His Boy by Lyn Gala
Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger
Heresy by Sharan Newman
Tug of War by Barbara Cleverly
The Valley of Heaven and Hell - Cycling in the Shadow of Marie-Antoinette
Vintage by Olivia Darling
The Widow Clicquot by Tilar J. Mazzeo
Yvain, or The Knight With the Lion by Chrétien de Troyes

Books Set in the Franche-Comté Region of France



The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception by Emmanuel Carrère
The Book Collector by Charles Nodier
The Colloquy of Montbeliard by Jill Raitt
The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar
The Doomsday Key by James Rollins (6th book in Sigma Force series)
The Golden Lion of Granpere by Anthony Trollope
Holidays in Eastern France by Matilda Betham-Edwards
The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais
Leonarde's Ghost: Popular Piety and the Appearance of a Spirit in 1628
Little Gregory by Charles Penwarden
Maquis: The French Resistance at War. by George Millar
Mascarades by Jean Jacques Boissard
Pied Piper by Nevil Shute
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
Royal Bride by Joan Wolf (AKA The English Bride)
Three Months Under the Snow: The Journal of a Young Inhabitant of the Jura
Unauthorized Departure: A Mystery by Maureen O'Brien
The Woodcutter's Dog by Charles Nodier

Books Set in the Region of Île-de-France



The Accident Man by Tom Cain
Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Agatha Raisin and the Deadly Dance by M.C. Beaton
The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris by Sarah Turnbull
The Ambassador's Daughter by Pam Jenoff
The Ambassadors by Henry James
The American by Henry James
And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris by Alan Riding
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country by Erich Maria Remarque
Asphodel by H.D.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Ball At Sceaux by Honoré de Balzac
Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant
Belle Epoque by Elizabeth Ross
The Belly of Paris by Émile Zola
Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris by A.J. Liebling
Black Notice by Patricia Cornwell
The Blood of Others by Simone de Beauvoir
Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille
The Bones of Paris by Laurie R. King
The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
The Bookseller by Mark Pryor
Bringing Up Bebe by Pamela Druckerman
C'Est La Vie by Suzy Gershman
Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds
A Certain Smile by Françoise Sagan
The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas
Chéri and the Last of Chéri by Colette
The Chocolate Thief by Laura Florand (1st book of Amour et Chocolat series)
The Class by François Bégaudeau
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky by Chris Greenhalgh
Consolation by Anna Gavalda
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Counterfeiters by André Gide
Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Damned by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
The Day Of The Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris by David King
Death on the Installment Plan by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Death Sentence by Maurice Blanchot
Den of Thieves by Julia Golding
The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet
Die for Me by Amy Plum (1st book in the Revenants series)
Diva by Delacorta
Don't Tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Dreaming in French by Alice Kaplan
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
Eiffel's Tower by Jill Jonnes
Eldorado: More Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber
The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings
The Erotic Potential of My Wife by David Foenkinos
Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
Exiled from Almost Everywhere by Juan Goytisolo
An Expensive Place to Die by Len Deighton
The Fairy Gunmother by Daniel Pennac
Fantômas by Marcel Allain
Fermina Márquez by Valery Larbaud
Five Days in Paris by Danielle Steel
The Flaneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris
French Lessons by Ellen Sussman
French Milk by Lucy Knisley
The Fudge Family in Paris by Thomas Brown by Ellen Sussman
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
Gigi by Colette
Gilles by Pierre Drieu la Rochelle
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
The Girl with No Shadow by Joanne Harris (Chocolate #2)
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
A Good Woman by Danielle Steel
Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel Barbery
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Duncker
Have Mercy on Us All by Fred Vargas
Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar
The Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris
The House I Loved by Tatiana de Rosnay
The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen
How I Became Stupid by Martin Page
How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City by Joan DeJean
How To Be Parisian: Wherever You Are by Anne Berest
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
Hunting and Gathering by Anna Gavalda
I Always Loved You by Robin Oliveira
I Am Madame X by Gioia Diliberto
I Heart Paris by Lindsey Kelk
Identity by Milan Kundera
Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
It's Not Love, It's Just Paris by Patricia Engel

Books Set in the Region of Île-de-France (Continued)



Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Just One Day by Gayle Forman (1st book in series)
The King in the Window by Adam Gopnik
Kissing My Old Life Au Revoir by Eliza Watson
L'Assommoir by Émile Zola
Ladies Almanack by Djuna Barnes
The Ladies' Paradise by Émile Zola
The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas-fils
The Last Nude by Ellis Avery
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde by Peter Ackroyd
The Last Time I Saw Paris by Lynn Sheene
Les Diaboliques by Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly
Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Lessons in French by Hilary Reyl
Life A User's Manual by Georges Perec
Liquidate Paris by Sven Hassel
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
The Little White Car by Danuta de Rhodes
Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel
The Lollipop Shoes by Joanne Harris
Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac
Love from Paris by Alexandra Potter
The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris by Jenny Colgan
Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 by Francine Prose
Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes by Elizabeth Bard
Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Scott Chessman
Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution by Michelle Moran
The Magician by Michael Scott
The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris by Ann Mah
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Mission to Paris. by Alan Furst
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Murder in the Marais by Cara Black (1st Aimee Leduc Investigation)
Murder on the Eiffel Tower by Claude Izner (Ist book of Victor Legris series)
My Life in France by Julia Child
My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine
Nana by Émile Zola
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
No and Me by Delphine de Vigan
A Novel Bookstore by Laurence Cossé
The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs by Elaine Sciolino
Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
P.S. from Paris by Marc Levy
The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan
Paris by Edward Rutherfurd
Paris: A Love Story by Kati Marton
A Paris Apartment by Michelle Gable
The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
Paris by the Book by Liam Callanan
Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down by Rosecrans Baldwin
Paris in Love by Eloisa James
Paris Letters by Janice Macleod
Paris Love Match by Nigel Blackwell
Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light by Amy Thomas
Paris Nocturne by Patrick Modiano
Paris: The Biography of a City by Colin Jones
Paris: The Secret History by Andrew Hussey
Paris France by Gertrude Stein
Paris Metro: A Novel by Wendell Steavenson
Paris Metro Tales by Helen Constantine
Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light by David Downie
Paris Spleen: Little Poems in Prose
Paris Stories by Mavis Gallant by Charles Baudelaire
Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
Paris to the Past: Traveling through French History by Train by Ina Caro
Paris Was Ours by Penelope Rowlands
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
The Paris Winter by Imogen Robertson
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb
Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thad Carhart
The President's Hat by Antoine Laurain
Pure by Andrew Miller
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art by Christopher Moore
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
A Secret Kept by Tatiana de Rosnay
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
Seven Ages of Paris by Alistair Horne
Seven Letters from Paris by Samantha Verant
Shakespeare & Company by Sylvia Beach
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.
When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944
A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler
Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau

Hello everyone,

My recently published novel Paris, Rue des Martyrs is set in Paris... Merci!

Non-fiction books set in France:

- The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs by Tyler Hamilton

- The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss

Hi everyone, I've just joined and enjoy books from all over the world. I have written a historical romance, 'Storks in a Blue Sky' set in Alsace, France, and North Devon, England, both places I love.

US/Canada

-Australia/NZ edition

Clotilde's Edible Adventures in Paris by Clotilde Dusoulier

Dancing to the Precipice: Lucie Dillon, Marquise de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution by Caroline Moorehead

Into a Paris Quartier by Diane Johnson

The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner

The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn

The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City by David Lebovitz

Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay

Hi everyone! It's been a few months since I've checked in. I've been awfully busy writing. My latest book is partly set in Paris. FLAWLESS is the first in a fun contemporary women's fiction series, with a touch of romance.

Flawless

Next up is a relaunch by St. Martin's Press of my historical novel, Scent of Triumph, about a female French perfumer. It's also set in Paris and Grasse, as well as other European and US locations. The launch date is March 2015. (Amazon has been running preorder specials, so you might want to preorder there...I always love a sale!)

Scent of Triumph: A Novel of Perfume and Passion

My next books are set in Spain and Italy... so lots more coming for armchair travelers :)

Hi, Gerard Kelly’s debut novel ‘The Boy Who Loved Rain’ is set in Brittany. Here's a link to it.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Under False Flags: A Novel

Partially set in NE France during WWII.

Books set in Languedoc-Roussillon


Amandine by Marlena de Blasi
Arrazat's Aubergines: Inside a Languedoc Kitchen by Patrick Moon
Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
Bone-mend and Salt by E.A. Stewart (1st book in Accidental Heretics series)
The Burning Times by Jeanne Kalogridis
Carcassonne Dreams by Catherine Parr
The Cathars: Dualist Heretics in Languedoc in the High Middle Ages
Cities of the Flesh by Zoé Oldenbourg
City of Wisdom and Blood by Robert Merle
Clouds over the Montagne Noire by Catherine Parr
Cockney in Corbiere by Robert Griffiths
Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette
The Friar of Carcassonne: The Last Days of the Cathars: Revolt Against the Inquisition in the Last Days of the Cathars
The Girl in the Blue Beret by Bobbie Ann Mason
Head Over Heels in France: Falling in Love in the Lot by Samantha Brick
Hot Sun, Cool Shadow: Savoring the Food, History, and Mystery of the Languedoc
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse (1st book in the Languedoc series)
A Long Way from Paris by E.C. Murray
Love's First Light by Jamie Carie
Massacre at Montségur: A History of the Albigensian Crusade by Zoé Oldenbourg
The Mouseproof Kitchen by Saira Shah
Narrow Dog To Carcassonne by Terry Darlington
Never Mind by Edward St. Aubyn (1st in The Patrick Melrose Novels series)
The Night Rainbow by Claire King
Notes From the Languedoc by Rupert Wright
Pagan's Daughter by Catherine Jinks
The Peasants of Languedoc by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
Perfect Heresy by Stephen O'Shea
Rat Scabies and the Holy Grail: Can a Punk Rock Legend Find What Monty Python Couldn't?
Rogue Flamingo by L.A. Kent
The Runaway Princess by Christina Dodd (1st book in Princess series)
Sanctuary by David A. McIntee
Shepherd's Prayer by Katja Willemsen
Signs Of The Heart: Love And Death In Languedoc by Christopher Hope
The Silent Land by Graham Joyce
Silk by Alessandro Baricco
Song at Dawn by Jean Gill
Sweet Enchantress by Parris Afton Bonds
Tales of Languedoc by Ernest Clifford Peixotto
The Tapestry of Love by Rosy Thornton
Thunder on the Right by Mary Stewart
The Treasure of Montségur: A Novel of the Cathars by Sophy Burnham
Treasure of Sainte Foy by MacDonald Harris
Virgile's Vineyard: A Year in the Languedoc Wine Country by Patrick Moon
The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier
Watermark: A Novel of the Middle Ages by Vanitha Sankaran
Werewolves of Montpellier by Jason