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Les Misérables
1862 novel by Victor Hugo
The Three Musketeers
1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel by the French writer Alexandre Dumas. It was serialised from 1844 to 1846, then published in book form in 1846. It is one of his most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers (1844) and Man in the Iron Mask (1850). Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter, Auguste Maquet. It is regarded as a classic of French and world literature.
The Red and the Black
French novel by Stendhal (1830)
Twenty Years After
novel by Alexandre Dumas; sequel to The Three Musketeers
Salammbô
Salammbô is an 1862 historical novel by Gustave Flaubert. It is set in Carthage immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt (241–237 BCE). Flaubert's principal source was Book I of the Histories, written by the Greek historian Polybius. The novel was enormously popular when first published and jumpstarted a renewed interest in the history of the Roman Republic's conflict with the North African Phoenician outpost of Carthage.
The Charterhouse of Parma
novel by Stendhal (1839)
The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later
book by Alexandre Dumas, second sequel to The Three Musketeers
La Reine Margot
novel by Alexandre Dumas
Memoirs of Hadrian
novel by Marguerite Yourcenar
Man's Fate
1933 novel by André Malraux
La Princesse de Clèves
1678 novel usually attributed to Madame de La Fayette
The Accursed Kings
novel series by Maurice Druon
The Kindly Ones
2006 novel by Jonathan Littell
Lancelot-Grail
volume of medieval French works that are a major source of Arthurian legend
The Bridge over the River Kwai
novel by Pierre Boulle
L'Oeuvre au noir
1968 novel by Marguerite Yourcenar
The Notebook
1986 novel written by Ágota Kristóf
Himmlers Hirn heißt Heydrich
HHhH is the debut novel of French author Laurent Binet, published in 2010 by Grasset & Fasquelle. The book is a metafictional novel depicting Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague during World War II, along with the writing of the novel. The novel was awarded the 2010 Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman.
The Thibaults
roman-fleuve by Roger Martin du Gard
Han d'Islande
novel by Victor Hugo
Samarkand
1988 novel by Amin Maalouf
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
semi-autobiographical novel by Dai Sijie
Le Bossu
novel by Paul Féval
Dora Bruder
book by Patrick Modiano
The Companions of Jehu
1857 novel by Alexandre Dumas
A Chronicle of the Reign of Charles IX
novel by Prosper Mérimée
Mauprat
novel by George Sand
The Two Dianas
book by Alexandre Dumas père
The Alternative Hypothesis
2001 novel by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Travels of Anacharsis the younger in Greece
fictional travelogue by Jean-Jacques Barthélemy
The Order of the Day
French novel 2017, Goncourt Prize winner
Guignol's Band
novel by Céline
Men of Good Will
roman-fleuve by Jules Romains
The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels
trilogy of novels by Ágota Kristóf
Aphrodite: mœurs antiques
novel by Pierre Louÿs
At the Sign of the Reine Pédauque
1893 novel by Anatole France
The Proof
novel by Ágota Kristóf
Empress
novel
Cinq-Mars
1826 novel by Alfred de Vigny
Sophie's Misfortunes
novel by the Countess of Ségur
Dreams of My Russian Summers
1995 novel by Andreï Makine
Fable for Another Time
novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Désert
1980 novel by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio