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Les Misérables
by
Victor Hugo
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 311,631 ratings
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Bite With Height
by
Lucy Felthouse (Goodreads Author)
3.35 of 5 stars 3.35 avg rating — 75 ratings
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A Moveable Feast
by
Ernest Hemingway
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 35,801 ratings
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A Tale of Two Cities
by
Charles Dickens
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 402,655 ratings
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by
Victor Hugo
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 57,240 ratings
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The Count of Monte Cristo
by
Alexandre Dumas
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 348,472 ratings
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The Three Musketeers
by
Alexandre Dumas
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 96,082 ratings
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Giovanni's Room
by
James Baldwin
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 10,203 ratings
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The Girl with No Shadow (Chocolat, #2)
by
Joanne Harris
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 6,742 ratings
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The Red and the Black
by
Stendhal
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 16,408 ratings
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
by
Emmuska Orczy
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 55,290 ratings
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Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
by
F. Scott Fitzgerald
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 2,433 ratings
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In Search of Lost Time
by
Marcel Proust
4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 3,479 ratings
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The Pigeon
by
Patrick Süskind
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 2,801 ratings
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Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris
by
Sarah Turnbull
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 5,542 ratings
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The Sun Also Rises
by
Ernest Hemingway
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 159,835 ratings
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Journey to the End of the Night
by
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 8,920 ratings
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Nana (Les Rougon-Macquart, #9)
by
Émile Zola
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 7,144 ratings
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Père Goriot
by
Honoré de Balzac
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 13,890 ratings
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Suite Française
by
Irène Némirovsky
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 29,851 ratings
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Down and Out in Paris and London
by
George Orwell
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 17,229 ratings
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The Mandarins
by
Simone de Beauvoir
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 1,417 ratings
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| 23 |
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Le Divorce
by
Diane Johnson
2.75 of 5 stars 2.75 avg rating — 2,919 ratings
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| 23 |
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The Sidewalk Artist
by
Gina Buonaguro (Goodreads Author)
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 177 ratings
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| 23 |
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The Ambassador's Daughter
by
Pam Jenoff (Goodreads Author)
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 288 ratings
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The Woman in the Fifth
by
Douglas Kennedy (Goodreads Author)
3.23 of 5 stars 3.23 avg rating — 1,253 ratings
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Chasing Sylvia Beach
by
Cynthia Morris (Goodreads Author)
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 47 ratings
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| 28 |
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Encounters in Paris
by
Carolyn Moncel (Goodreads Author)
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 26 ratings
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| 29 |
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Lovesong
by
Alex Miller
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 539 ratings
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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
by
David McCullough
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 7,604 ratings
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Manon Lescaut
by
Abbé Prévost
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 2,120 ratings
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Le Colonel Chabert
by
Honoré de Balzac
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 944 ratings
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Cousin Pons
by
Honoré de Balzac
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 305 ratings
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Cousin Bette
by
Honoré de Balzac
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 2,785 ratings
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Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois (The Last Valois, #1)
by
Alexandre Dumas
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 3,972 ratings
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Hopscotch
by
Julio Cortázar
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 7,881 ratings
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by
Patrick Süskind
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 86,957 ratings
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| 38 |
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Cheri & The Last of Cheri
by
Colette
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 1,457 ratings
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Gigi
by
Colette
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 302 ratings
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The Moon And Sixpence
by
W. Somerset Maugham
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 5,760 ratings
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Our Lady of the Flowers
by
Jean Genet
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 2,057 ratings
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Aiding and Abetting
by
Muriel Spark
3.19 of 5 stars 3.19 avg rating — 467 ratings
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales
by
Edgar Allan Poe
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 3,803 ratings
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Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief (Arsène Lupin, #1)
by
Maurice Leblanc
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 1,090 ratings
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Maigret in Montmartre
by
Georges Simenon
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
by
Antonia Fraser
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 1,964 ratings
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by
Gertrude Stein
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 3,326 ratings
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| 48 |
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
by
Antonia Fraser
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 15,607 ratings
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| 49 |
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Selected Letters
by
Madame de Sévigné
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Stael
by
J. Christopher Herold
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism
by
Ross King
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 2,906 ratings
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Oscar Wilde in Paris
by
Herbert R. Lottman
3.2 of 5 stars 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Explosive Acts: Toulouse-Lautrec, Oscar Wilde, Felix Feneon, and the Art & Anarchy of the Fin de Siecle
by
David Sweetman
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Eiffel's Tower: And the World's Fair Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count
by
Jill Jonnes
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 990 ratings
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The Wiccan Diaries (The Wiccan Diaries, #1)
by
T.D. McMichael (Goodreads Author)
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Madeline
by
Ludwig Bemelmans
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 72,027 ratings
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City of Lights: The Trials and Triumphs of Ilyse Charpentier
by
Melika Dannese Lux (Goodreads Author)
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Anna and the French Kiss (Anna and the French Kiss, #1)
by
Stephanie Perkins (Goodreads Author)
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 55,823 ratings
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Neophyte (The Wiccan Diaries, #2)
by
T.D. McMichael (Goodreads Author)
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Eight of Jacks
by
T.D. McMichael (Goodreads Author)
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Little White Car
by
Danuta de Rhodes
3.42 of 5 stars 3.42 avg rating — 200 ratings
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Elihu Washburne : The Diary and Letters of America's Minister to France During the Siege and Commune of Paris
by
Michael Hill
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Foreign Tongue: A Novel of Life and Love in Paris
by
Vanina Marsot
3.28 of 5 stars 3.28 avg rating — 264 ratings
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That Paris Year
by
Joanna Biggar
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Paris Journal, 1956-65
by
Janet Flanner
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light
by
David Downie (Goodreads Author)
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 225 ratings
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| 67 |
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Paris Journal, 1944-1955
by
Janet Flanner
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
by
Peter Ackroyd
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 205 ratings
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Thérèse Raquin
by
Émile Zola
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 4,984 ratings
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Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939
by
Janet Flanner
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 116 ratings
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The Belly of Paris (Les Rougon-Macquart, #3)
by
Émile Zola
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 1,109 ratings
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Being Geniuses Together, 1920 1930
by
Robert McAlmon
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Ladies' Paradise (Les Rougon-Macquart, #11)
by
Émile Zola
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 2,470 ratings
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The Nightinghouls of Paris
by
Robert McAlmon
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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La Bête humaine (Les Rougon-Macquart, #17)
by
Émile Zola
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 2,218 ratings
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Shakespeare and Company
by
Sylvia Beach
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 321 ratings
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Rendezvous Eighteenth
by
Jake Lamar
3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Paris to the Moon
by
Adam Gopnik
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 6,397 ratings
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The Lives of Lee Miller
by
Antony Penrose
4.37 of 5 stars 4.37 avg rating — 57 ratings
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5 Reasons to Leave a Lover - A Novella and Other Short Stories
by
Carolyn Moncel (Goodreads Author)
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Bel-Ami
by
Guy de Maupassant
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 7,394 ratings
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Seven Ages of Paris
by
Alistair Horne
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 608 ratings
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Wild Heart: A Life: Natalie Clifford Barney and the Decadence of Literary Paris
by
Suzanne Rodriguez
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Lost Illusions
by
Honoré de Balzac
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 2,502 ratings
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The Wild Ass's Skin
by
Honoré de Balzac
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 1,535 ratings
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Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand
by
George Sand
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Horace
by
George Sand
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 84 ratings
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La Dame aux Camélias
by
Alexandre Dumas-fils
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 7,536 ratings
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The American
by
Henry James
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 2,512 ratings
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Madame de Treymes
by
Edith Wharton
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1931-1932)
by
Anaïs Nin
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 4,673 ratings
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Tropic of Cancer
by
Henry Miller
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 23,533 ratings
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Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
by
Marcel Proust
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 13,080 ratings
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I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere
by
Anna Gavalda
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 3,042 ratings
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Das Fräulein von Scuderi (Reclam Universal-Bibliothek, Nr. 25)
by
E.T.A. Hoffmann
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 411 ratings
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Fantômas
by
Marcel Allain
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 497 ratings
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Tout Maigret Coffret en 2 volumes : Tomes 1 et 2
by
Georges Simenon
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Death in the Clouds (Hercule Poirot #12)
by
Agatha Christie
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 8,206 ratings
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The Day of the Jackal
by
Frederick Forsyth
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 36,429 ratings
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The Club Dumas
by
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 14,608 ratings
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