Novels set in Paris

1862 novel by Victor Hugo

2003 novel by Dan Brown

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.

novel by Victor Hugo

1859 novel by Charles Dickens

1835 novel by Honoré de Balzac

French novel by Stendhal (1830)

novel by Ernest Hemingway

1932 novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

1910 novel by Gaston Leroux

five novels by François Rabelais

1848 novel by Alexandre Dumas fils

1985 novel by Patrick Süskind

novel by Agatha Christie

Bel-Ami (, "Dear Friend") is the second novel by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885; an English translation titled Bel Ami, or, The History of a Scoundrel: A Novel first appeared in 1903.

novel by Gustave Flaubert

1934 novel by Henry Miller

novel by Abbé Prévost

novel by Honoré de Balzac (1831)

1976 novel by Anne Rice

1927 novel by Agatha Christie

1935 novel by Agatha Christie

1925 novel by André Gide

1945 novel by Erich Maria Remarque

novel by Hector Malot

novel by Alexandre Dumas

1886 novel by Jules Verne

novel by Émile Zola

'''''' , published as a serial in 1876, and in book form in 1877, is the seventh novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Usually considered one of Zola's masterpieces, the novel—a study of alcoholism and poverty in the working-class districts of Paris—was a huge commercial success and helped establish Zola's fame and reputation throughout France and the world.

novel by Jules Verne published posthumously in 1994

1971 novel by Frederick Forsyth

novel by Honoré de Balzac between 1837 and 1843; consists of three parts, starting in provincial France, thereafter moving to Paris, and finally returning to the provinces

novel by Julio Cortázar

1915 novel and bildungsroman by William Somerset Maugham

2010 novel by Umberto Eco

1928 novel by Radclyffe Hall

1919 novel by W Somerset Maugham

1884 novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans

French erotic novel, influential for BDSM

Poetic novel of six cantos by Comte de Lautréamont

1959 novel by Raymond Queneau

1883 novel by Émile Zola

1873 novel by Émile Zola

novel by Denis Diderot

novel by Muriel Barbery

1846 novel by Honoré de Balzac

1991 novel by Bernard Werber

novel by Robert Ludlum

novel by Patrick Modiano

novella by Colette

novel by Honoré de Balzac

2001 German novel by W.G. Sebald

unfinished historical novel by Aleksandr Pushkin, based on the life of his maternal great-grandfather, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, a black African brought to Russia during the reign of Peter the Great

1839 novel by Honoré de Balzac

1956 novella by James Baldwin

1903 novel by Henry James

novel by Michel Houellebecq

2007 novel by Brian Selznick

2006 novel by Mario Vargas Llosa

novella by Honoré de Balzac