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- Georges Simenon’s Maigret books (I feel that if I read these books, I’ll feel bad about not having read noir books in English and read those too, so this might be a huge time sink)
- Maurice Leblanc’s Arsène Lupin books (then I’d have to read Sherlock Holmes too)
- Oh, and Léo Malet’s Nestor Burma books, even though they’re comics
- Jean-Patrick Manchette’s books

Next year I want to read more genre fiction generally.

Félicitations, Noel! I am very curious to hear which books of your list you'll enjoy reading. Long ago, I enjoyed reading the fiction (and plays) of Sartre and de Beauvoir in French (their language being limpid, not too many words to look up in the dictionary ;).

Thanks for the recommendations, Ilse 😁 I was wondering whether it would be worth trying to read French philosophy in French. I guess the existentialists would be good since they wrote so much fiction (and I have an interest in existentialism). And félicitations!

Maigret and Lupin both sound like good ideas. I guess you could also read some more of the Obscure Cities?

Thanks Richard :) Yeah, I still have to finish that series.

I guess I am about B1 too and I found Simenon extremely hard. I don't know if he uses all the grammar that there is to find in France but it certainly felt like it. Virtually every other french author I have tried is simpler and more understandable (well he, fred vargas, and balzac have been the toughest for me)

Thanks Jan-Maat, I guess I’ll just have to see then.