Reading list French Literature AUTHOR Century BOOK French title Honoré de Balzac 19th ✔ Father Goriot ✔ Le Père Goriot ✔ Eugénie Grandet ✔ Eugénie Grandet ✔ The Chouans ✔ Les Chouans ✔ The Lily of the Valley ✔ Le Lys dans la vallée ✔ ✔ Une ténébreuse affaire ✔ The Magic Skin ✔ La peau de chagrin ✔ Colonel Chabert ✔ Le colonel Chabert ✔ The Woman of Thirty ✔ La femme de trente ans ✔ Béatrix ✔ Béatrix ✔ Letters of Two Brides ✔ Mémoire de deux jeunes mariées ✔ The Deputy of Arcis ✔ Le député d'Arcis Hervé Bazin 20th ✔ Vipère au poing Simone de 20th ✔ The Second Sex ✔ Le deuxième sexe Beauvoir André Breton 20th ✔ Mad Love ✔ L'amour fou Albert Camus 20th ✔ The Stranger ✔ L'Etranger ✔ The Just Assassins ✔ Les justes ✔ The Plague ✔ La peste Louis Ferdinand 20th ✔ Journey to the End of ✔ Voyage au bout de la Céline the Night nuit Philippe Claudel 21th ✔ Grey Souls ✔ Les âmes grises Benjamin 19th ✔ Adolphe ✔ Adolphe Constant Philippe Djian 20th -21th ✔ Maudit Manège ✔ Echine Maurice Druon 20th ✔ The Accursed Kings ✔ Les rois maudits Alexandre Dumas 19th ✔ The count of Monte ✔ Le comte de Monte Cristo Cristo Alexandre Dumas 19th ✔ The lady of the ✔ La dame aux camélias (Fils) Camellias Marguerite Duras 20th ✔ The lover ✔ L'amant ✔ The war ✔ La douleur Paul Eluard 20th ✔ The Capital of Pain ✔ Capitale de la douleur Romain Gary 20th ✔ The Ski Bum ✔ Adieu Gary Cooper ✔ The Life Before Us ✔ La vie devant soi ✔ Promise at Dawn ✔ La promesse de l'aube ✔ The Roots of Heaven ✔ Les racines du Ciel ✔ White Dog ✔ Chien blanc ✔ Your Ticket is No ✔ Au delà de cette limite Longer Valid votre ticket n'est plus valable Jean Giono 20th ✔ The Horseman on the ✔ Le hussard sur le toit Roof ✔ Regain Jean Giraudoux 20th ✔ Antigone ✔ Antigone André Gorz 21th ✔ Lettre à D. Benoite et Flora 20th ✔ Journal à quatre mains Groult Philippe Grimbert 21th ✔ Un secret Victor Hugo 19th ✔ Hernani ✔ Hernani ✔ Ninety-Three ✔ Quatre-ving-treize ✔ The Hunchback of ✔ Notre Dame de Paris Notre-Dame Eugène Ionesco 20th ✔ Rhinoceros ✔ Rhinocéros Choderlos de 18th ✔ Dangerous Liaisons ✔ Les liaisons Laclos dangereuses Madame de 17th ✔ Princess of Cleves ✔ La princesse de Clèves Lafayette Amin Maalouf 20th ✔ The Crusades Through ✔ Les croisades vues par Arab Eyes les Arabes ✔ Leo Africanus ✔ Léon l'Africain Guy de 19th ✔ The Horla ✔ Le Horla Maupassant ✔ A Life: the Humble ✔ Une Vie Truth François Mauriac 20th ✔ Thérèse Desqueyroux ✔ Thérèse Desqueyroux ✔ Viper's Tangle ✔ Le Noeud de vipère Molière 17th ✔ Tartuffe the Imposter ✔ Tartuffe ou l'Imposteur ✔ Dom Juan ✔ Dom Juan ✔ The Misanthrope ✔ Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabiliaire amoureux ✔ Scapin's Deceits ✔ Les Fourberies de Scapin ✔ The Bourgeois ✔ Le Bourgeois Gentleman Gentilhomme ✔ The Miser ✔ L'Avare ✔ The Imaginary Invalid ✔ Le Malade imaginaire Amélie Nothomb 20-21th ✔ Fear and Trembling ✔ Stupeur et tremblements Marcel Pagnol 20th ✔ Marius ✔ Marius ✔ Fanny ✔ Fanny ✔ Cesar ✔ Cesar Daniel Pennac 20th ✔ The scape goat ✔ Au bonheur des ogres ✔ The Fairy Gunmother ✔ La fée carabine ✔ Write to Kill ✔ La petite marchande de ✔ Monsieur Malaussène prose ✔ Monsieur Malaussène Marcel Proust 20th ✔ In Search of Lost Time ✔ A la recherche du temps perdu Raymond 20th ✔ Exercices in Style ✔ Exercices de style Queneau ✔ Zazie in the metro ✔ Zazie dans le métro Raymond 20th ✔ The Devil in the Flesh ✔ Le diable au corps Radiguet Edmond Rostand 20th ✔ Cyrano de Bergerac ✔ Cyrano de Bergerac Françoise Sagan 20th ✔ The Unmade Bed ✔ Le Lit défait ✔ Bonjour Tristesse ✔ Bonjour tristesse ✔ Scars on the Soul ✔ Des bleus à l'âme Antoine de Saint 20th ✔ The Little Prince ✔ Le Petit Prince Exupéry Jean-Paul Sartre 20th ✔ No Exit ✔ Huis clos Stendhal 19th ✔ The Charterhouse of ✔ La chartreuse de Parme Parma Boris Vian 20th ✔ Froth on the Daydream ✔ L'écume des jours Voltaire 18th ✔ Candide ✔ Candide ou l'Optimisme Marguerite 20th ✔ Memoirs of Hadrian ✔ Les mémoires Yourcenar d'Hadrien Martin Winckler 20th ✔ Sachs Disease ✔ La maladie de Sachs Emile Zola 19th ✔ The Ladies' Paradise ✔ Au bonheur des Dames ✔ Germinal ✔ Germinal ✔ The Belly of Paris ✔ Le ventre de Paris ✔ Nana ✔ Nana ✔ Therese Raquin ✔ Thérèse Raquin .