Listed below is a highly selective
recommendation of works - mostly novels
- that are rooted in the various French
regions, and which would make good
holiday readin.
PARIS AND AROUND
Steven Barclay (ed) A Place
in the World Called Paris
Julian Barnes Metroland
Charles Baudelaire
Baudelaire's Paris , trans Laurence
Kitchen
André Breton Nadja
Blaise Cendrars To the
End of the World
Didier Daeninckx Murder
in Memoriam
Charles Dickens A Tale of
Two Cities
Gustave Flaubert A
Sentimental Education
Ernest Hemingway A
Moveable Feast
Victor Hugo Les
Misérables
Jack Kerouac Satori in
Paris
Henry Miller Quiet Days
in Clichy, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of
Capricorn
Anaïs Nin Journals
1917-1974
George Orwell Down and
Out in Paris and London
Georges Perec Life: A
User's Manual
Raymond Queneau Zazie
dans le Métro
Paul Rambali French Blues
Jean Rhys Quartet, Good
Morning Midnight
Jean-Paul Sartre Roads to
Freedom trilogy
Georges Simenon Any
Maigret thriller
Patrick Süsskind Perfume
Michel Tournier The
Golden Droplet
Émile Zola Nana,
L'Assommoir, La Bête Humaine, La Curée,
Le Ventre de Paris
CALAIS TO CHAMPAGNE
Julien Gracq A Balcony in
the Forest, The Opposing Shore
Émile Zola Germinal, La
Débâcle
ALSACE, FRANCHE-COMTÉ AND JURA
John Berger Pig Earth
Bernard Clavel The
Spaniard
Colette My Mother's House
Pierre Gascar Women and
the Sun
Stendhal Scarlet and
Black
NORMANDY AND BRITTANY
Honoré de Balzac Les
Chouans
Colette Ripening Seed
Sebastian Faulks Birdsong
Gustave Flaubert Madame
Bovary
André Gide Strait is the
Gate
Pierre Loti Pêcheur
d'Islande
Guy de Maupassant
Selected Short Stories
Marcel Proust Remembrance
of Things Past
Jean Rouard Fields of
Glory, Of Illustrious Men
Jean-Paul Sartre La
Nausée
THE LOIRE
Alain Fournier Le Grand
Meaulnes
Rabelais Gargantua and
Pantagruel
George Sand The Devil's
Pool
Émile Zola The Earth
BURGUNDY
Gabriel Chevallier
Clochemerle
ATLANTIC COAST
François Mauriac Thérèse
THE PYRENEES
Pierre Loti Ramuntcho
LANGUEDOC
Hannah Closs High Are the
Mountains
RHÔNE VALLEY AND PROVENCE
Lawrence Durrell The
Avignon Quintet
Jean Giono The Horseman
on the Roof, The Man Who Planted Trees,
Joy of Man's Desiring
Marcel Pagnol Jean de
Florette, Manon des Sources
Émile Zola Fortune of the
Rougons
CÔTE D'AZUR
Colette Collected Stories
Alexandre Dumas The Count
of Monte Cristo
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender is the Night
Graham Greene Loser Takes
All, May We Borrow Your Husband?
Katherine Mansfield
Selected Short Stories
Françoise Sagan Bonjour
Tristesse
