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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.

Journey to the End of the Night
1932 novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

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 Bridge over the River Kwai
novel by Pierre Boulle
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 Forty-five Guardsmen
novel by Alexandre Dumas père

Le Diable au corps
novel by Raymond Radiguet

Frère d'âme
novel by David Diop
The Thibaults
roman-fleuve by Roger Martin du Gard

Under Fire
novel by Henri Barbusse

Coup de Grâce
1939 French novel by Marguerite Yourcenar
Men of Good Will
roman-fleuve by Jules Romains

The Great Swindle
2013 novel by Pierre Lemaitre

Man’s Hope
novel by André Malraux
The Knight of Sainte-Hermine
1869 novel by Alexandre Dumas

Gilles
novel by Pierre Drieu la Rochelle

Castle to Castle
novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

North
1960 novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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short story by Maurice Renard

The Centurions
1960 novel by Jean Lartéguy
Fable for Another Time
novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline