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Aimez-vous Brahms?
1959 novel by Françoise Sagan

Under the Sun of Satan
1926 novel by Georges Bernanos

Le Diable au corps
novel by Raymond Radiguet

L'Argent
'''' ("Money") is the eighteenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It was serialized in the periodical Gil Blas'' beginning in November 1890 before being published in novel form by Charpentier et Fasquelle in March 1891.
Captain Fracasse
novel by Théophile Gautier (1863)

Thérèse the Philosopher
novel ascribed to Jean-Baptiste de Boyer
Une Page d'amour
novel by Émile Zola (1878)

Les Chouans
novel by Honoré de Balzac

Whatever
1994 novel by Michel Houellebecq

La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret
novel by Émile Zola

La Curée
novel by Émile Zola
Scenes of Bohemian Life
1851 novel by Henri Murger

Chanson douce
French novel
Vanina Vanini
short story by Stendhal

La Joie de vivre
novel by Émile Zola

Lokis
novella by Prosper Mérimée
The Girl with the Golden Eyes
novel by Honoré de Balzac

The Horseman on the Roof
1951 novel by Jean Giono

The Mysteries of Paris
novel by Eugène Sue

Week-end at Zuydcoote
novel by Robert Merle

Pot-Bouille
Pot-Bouille is the tenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It was serialized between January and April 1882 in the periodical before being published in book form by Charpentier in 1883.

Story of the Eye
book by Georges Bataille

The Devil in Love
novel by Jacques Cazotte

Poil de carotte
1894 novel by Jules Renard

Promise at Dawn
book
City of Joy
novel by Dominique Lapierre

La Terre
novel by Émile Zola

La Petite Fadette
1849 novel by French novelist George Sand
Adolphe
Adolphe is a classic French novel by Benjamin Constant, first published in 1816. It tells the story of an alienated young man, Adolphe, who falls in love with an older woman, Ellénore, the Polish mistress of the Comte de P***. Their illicit relationship serves to isolate them from their friends and from society at large. The book eschews all conventional descriptions of exteriors for the sake of detailed accounts of feelings and states of mind.
An Iceland Fisherman
1886 novel by Pierre Loti

A Man Asleep
1974 novel by Georges Perec

Le Rêve
novel by Émile Zola

The Three Robbers
2007 movie based on the eponymous children's book from 1962

David Golder
1929 novel by Irène Némirovsky

Le Bossu
novel by Paul Féval

Albert Savarus
novel by Honoré de Balzac
La Rabouilleuse
novel by Honoré de Balzac
M. Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran
2001 novel by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
semi-autobiographical novel by Dai Sijie
The Diary of a Country Priest
classic French novel

Moderato Cantabile
1958 novel by Marguerite Duras

If Only It Were True
1999 novel by Marc Levy

Atlantida
1919 novel by Pierre Benoît

Lucien Leuwen
novel by Stendhal

Pierre et Jean
novella by Guy de Maupassant

The Possibility of an Island
2005 novel by Michel Houellebecq

I Spit on Your Graves
novel by Vernon Sullivan
Arthur series
book series for children by Luc Besson and Celine Garcia
Chicken with Plums
graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi

The Companions of Jehu
1857 novel by Alexandre Dumas

The Perfume of the Lady in Black
1908 novel by Gaston Leroux

Graziella
Graziella is an 1852 novel by the French author Alphonse de Lamartine. It tells of a young French man who falls for a fisherman's granddaughter – the eponymous Graziella – during a trip to Naples, Italy; they are separated when he must return to France, and she soon dies. Based on the author's experiences with a tobacco-leaf folder while in Naples in the early 1810s, Graziella was first written as a journal and intended to serve as commentary for Lamartine's poem "Le Premier Regret".
All Men Are Mortal
1946 novel by Simone de Beauvoir

Coup de Grâce
1939 French novel by Marguerite Yourcenar

Emmanuelle
novel by Emmanuelle Arsan

La Duchesse de Langeais
1832 novel by Honoré de Balzac

Hunting and Gathering
book by Anna Gavalda

The Day of the Dolphin
1967 novel by Robert Merle

Will O' the Wisp
1931 novel by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

Mauprat
novel by George Sand