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Start a French Book Club!

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10 Feb

It’s a new year and time to take on something new and fun. Why not start a French-themed book club with your French-loving friends? This could be a novel set in France, a non-fiction about French culture or history, a classic by a French author, or a contemporary read. It could even be a book en français if you read in French! Ooh la la!

Books set in France

  • All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
  • Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
  • The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
  • The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier
  • Chocolat by Joanne Harris
  • A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
  • The Paris Hours by Alex George
  • The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
  • A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
  • The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
  • Audry by Susan Hays
  • All The Ways We Said Goodbye: A Novel of Ritz Paris by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White
  • The Paris Secret by Natasha Lester
  • The Cartiers by Francesca Cartier Brickell
  • Mistress of the Ritz by Melanie Benjamin
  • The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
  • Bring Up Bébé by Pamela Druckerman
  • Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals by Ken Follet
  • Paris to the Past by Ina Caro
  • French Women Don’t Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano
  • A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke

Classic French Authors

  • Alexandre Dumas Count of Monte Cristo, Three Musketeers
  • Stendhal The Black and the Red, The Charterhouse of Parma
  • Voltaire Candide
  • Marcel Pagnol My Father’s Glory, My Mother’s Castle, Jean de Florette, Manon of the Spring
  • Honoré de Balzac Madame Bovary
  • Gaston Leroux Phantom of the Opera
  • Edmond Rostand Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Le Petit Prince
  • Victor Hugo Les Misérables, Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Contemporary French Authors

  • Katherine Pancol The Yellow Eyes of the Crocodile, The Slow Waltz of the Turtles, Central Park Squirrels are Sad on Monday
  • Frédérique Deghelt Jade’s Grandmother, The Life of Another
  • Patrick Suskind Perfume
  • Philippe Claudel Mr. Linh’s Granddaughter
  • Marc Lévy And If It Were True, To See You Again
  • Muriel Barbery The Elegance of the Hedgehog

French Poets

  • Charles Baudelaire
  • Paul Verlaine
  • Victor Hugo
  • Guillaume Apollinaire
  • Jacques Prévert
  • Pierre de Ronsard
  • Jean de la Fontaine
  • Christine de Pizan
  • André Breton

Your favorite read en français
Try reading a book you already know, but in French: it could be Harry Potter! Many publishers offer translations of your favorite novels, or even a bilingual (English on the left, French on the right) copy. I know this would help my French if I would do this. I love all things about France but my French could use some help!

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