French-language novels

1869/1870 novel by Jules Verne

novel sequence by Marcel Proust

five novels by François Rabelais

1963 French novel by Pierre Boulle

2015 novel by Michel Houellebecq

Zadig; or, The Book of Fate (; 1747) is a novella and work of philosophical fiction by the Enlightenment writer Voltaire. It tells the story of Zadig, a Zoroastrian philosopher in ancient Babylonia. The story of Zadig is a fictional story. Voltaire does not attempt any historical accuracy. The singular narrative and unique journey of Zadig still stands as a philosophical reference to “nothing is either good or bad without the comparison of one with the other.”

novel by Amélie Nothomb

novel by Guy de Maupassant

1846 novel by Honoré de Balzac

unfinished novel by Jan Potocki

novel by Milan Kundera

1832 novel by Honoré de Balzac

novel by Joël Dicker

novel by Milan Kundera

Vathek (alternatively titled Vathek, an Arabian Tale or The History of the Caliph Vathek) is a Gothic novel written by William Beckford. It was composed in French beginning in 1782, and then translated into English by Reverend Samuel Henley in which form it was first published in 1786 without Beckford's name as An Arabian Tale, From an Unpublished Manuscript, claiming to be translated directly from Arabic. The first French edition, titled simply as Vathek, was published in December 1786 (postdated 1787). During the twentieth century some editions include The Episodes of Vathek (Vathek et ses é

novel by Michel Houellebecq

novel by Samuel Beckett

1994 novel by Michel Houellebecq

novel by Samuel Beckett

1926 novel by Georges Bernanos

roman-fleuve by Roger Martin du Gard

novel by Milan Kundera

1968 novel by Albert Cohen

Bruges-la-Morte (French; The Dead [City of] Bruges) is a short novel by the Belgian author Georges Rodenbach, first published in 1892. The novel is notable for two reasons: it is an archetypal Symbolist novel, and was the first work of fiction illustrated with photographs.

1953 novel by Samuel Beckett

1886 novel by Octave Mirbeau

1951 novel by Julien Gracq

classic French novel

1986 novel by Amin Maalouf

2001 novel by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

novel by Amélie Nothomb (1992)

2000 novel by Amin Maalouf

2001 novel by Amélie Nothomb

1922 novel by Maurice Barrès

Colline is a 1929 novel by the French writer Jean Giono. It has also been published as Hill of Destiny. It tells the story of a small hamlet in Provence where the superstitious residents struggle against nature, as their settlement is struck by several misfortunes. Colline was Giono's debut novel. It is the first installment in the author's Pan trilogy; it was followed by the standalone novels Lovers are Never Losers and Second Harvest.

1931 novel by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

1952 novel by Marcel Proust

French novel 2017, Goncourt Prize winner

2001 novel by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

novel by Georges Simenon

fictional travelogue by Jean-Jacques Barthélemy

novel by August Strindberg

Moravagine is a 1926 novel by Blaise Cendrars, originally published by Grasset. It is a complex opus with a central figure, the eponymous Moravagine, who emerges as a doppelganger of the author whom the author is ridding himself of through the act of writing. It took Cendrars a decade to write the book (Cendrars makes reference to it as early as 1917), and he never stopped working on it. In 1956, the author partially rewrote the text and added a postface, as well as a section titled "Pro domo: How I wrote Moravagine". In his final revision, Cendrars says the book is definitely incomplete, as i

novel by Georges Simenon

1995 novel by Jacqueline Harpman

novel by Pierre Drieu la Rochelle

Péplum is a novel written in French by the Belgian author Amélie Nothomb. It was first published in 1996 by Éditions Albin Michel.

Antichrista (French: Antéchrista) is a Belgian novel by Amélie Nothomb. It was first published by "Éditions Albin Michel" in 2003 in France. It was translated into English in 2005.

2007 novel by Amélie Nothomb

novel by Octave Mirbeau

novel by Amélie Nothomb

2004 novel by Laurent Gaudé

novel by Tahar Ben Jelloun

novel by Amélie Nothomb

novel by Georges Simenon

Nedjma is a novel written by Kateb Yacine and published in 1956. It tells the story of four young men (Mustapha, Lakhdar, Rachid, Mourad) who fall in love with Nedjma, daughter of an Algerian and a French woman, during the French colonization of Algeria. It is set in the east of Algeria, with most of the action taking place in the region around Constantine and Annaba (referred to by its French name, Bône, in the text).

1897 novel by Émile Zola

1920 novel by Octave Mirbeau

novel by Jean Giono

2006 novel by Jean Teulé