Best French Literature

1.
The Little Prince
The Little Prince 4.33 avg rating — 2,375,010 ratings
2.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables 4.21 avg rating — 830,165 ratings
3.
The Stranger
The Stranger 4.03 avg rating — 1,315,198 ratings
4.
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo 4.32 avg rating — 991,918 ratings
5.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,615 ratings
6.
Candide
Candide
by: Voltaire
3.76 avg rating — 294,493 ratings
7.
The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers 4.10 avg rating — 340,199 ratings
8.
The Plague
The Plague 4.02 avg rating — 300,280 ratings
9.
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame 4.02 avg rating — 213,344 ratings
10.
Les Fleurs du Mal
Les Fleurs du Mal 4.20 avg rating — 77,694 ratings
11.
The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black
by: Stendhal
3.86 avg rating — 81,040 ratings
12.
Les Liaisons dangereuses
Les Liaisons dangereuses 4.05 avg rating — 57,178 ratings
13.
The Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom of the Opera 3.96 avg rating — 267,534 ratings
14.
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 66,153 ratings
15.
Père Goriot
Père Goriot 3.85 avg rating — 64,947 ratings
16.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2) 3.89 avg rating — 270,571 ratings
17.
Germinal
Germinal 4.20 avg rating — 41,603 ratings
18.
Around the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in Eighty Days 3.95 avg rating — 274,933 ratings
19.
Nausea
Nausea 3.93 avg rating — 134,139 ratings
20.
Bel-Ami
Bel-Ami 3.86 avg rating — 47,104 ratings
21.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac 4.06 avg rating — 89,306 ratings
22.
The Fall
The Fall 4.03 avg rating — 127,514 ratings
23.
Journey to the End of the Night
Journey to the End of the Night 4.19 avg rating — 46,242 ratings
24.
L'Ă©cume des jours
L'écume des jours 3.92 avg rating — 41,527 ratings
25.
The Second Sex
The Second Sex 4.18 avg rating — 45,859 ratings
26.
Illuminations
Illuminations 4.32 avg rating — 13,673 ratings
27.
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth 3.85 avg rating — 218,523 ratings
28.
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The Elegance of the Hedgehog 3.80 avg rating — 195,778 ratings
29.
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays 4.22 avg rating — 63,593 ratings
30.
La dame aux camélias
La dame aux camélias 4.04 avg rating — 59,073 ratings
31.
The Misanthrope
The Misanthrope 3.76 avg rating — 24,905 ratings
32.
Nana
Nana 3.84 avg rating — 27,055 ratings
33.
In Search of Lost Time
In Search of Lost Time 4.34 avg rating — 13,694 ratings
34.
The Lover
The Lover 3.71 avg rating — 68,130 ratings
35.
The Charterhouse of Parma
The Charterhouse of Parma
by: Stendhal
3.79 avg rating — 19,481 ratings
36.
Bonjour tristesse
Bonjour tristesse 3.73 avg rating — 66,182 ratings
37.
Memoirs of Hadrian
Memoirs of Hadrian 4.22 avg rating — 34,171 ratings
38.
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Gargantua and Pantagruel 3.65 avg rating — 16,002 ratings
39.
Sentimental Education
Sentimental Education 3.81 avg rating — 24,076 ratings
40.
Tartuffe
Tartuffe 3.66 avg rating — 42,281 ratings
41.
Eugénie Grandet
Eugénie Grandet 3.79 avg rating — 25,135 ratings
42.
L'Assommoir
L'Assommoir 4.08 avg rating — 18,731 ratings
43.
The Man in the Iron Mask (Le vicomte de Bragelonne, #4)
The Man in the Iron Mask (Le vicomte de Bragelonne, #4) 3.99 avg rating — 66,592 ratings
44.
Suite Française
Suite Française 3.86 avg rating — 77,015 ratings
45.
Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot 3.84 avg rating — 217,089 ratings
46.
The Counterfeiters
The Counterfeiters 3.83 avg rating — 10,131 ratings
47.
The Ladies' Paradise (Les Rougon-Macquart #11)
The Ladies' Paradise (Les Rougon-Macquart #11) 3.98 avg rating — 19,763 ratings
48.
The Complete Essays
The Complete Essays 4.23 avg rating — 21,555 ratings
49.
Le Grand Meaulnes
Le Grand Meaulnes 3.72 avg rating — 14,904 ratings
50.
The Elementary Particles
The Elementary Particles 3.80 avg rating — 48,801 ratings
51.
Twenty Years After (Trilogie des Mousquetaires #2)
Twenty Years After (Trilogie des Mousquetaires #2) 4.09 avg rating — 25,155 ratings
52.
Don Juan
Don Juan 3.55 avg rating — 17,064 ratings
53.
Papillon
Papillon 4.23 avg rating — 74,103 ratings
54.
Rhinoceros / The Chairs / The Lesson
Rhinoceros / The Chairs / The Lesson 4.02 avg rating — 6,052 ratings
55.
Thérèse Raquin
Thérèse Raquin 3.73 avg rating — 36,712 ratings
56.
Une vie
Une vie 3.86 avg rating — 15,187 ratings
57.
Antigone
Antigone 3.77 avg rating — 29,267 ratings
58.
No Exit and Three Other Plays
No Exit and Three Other Plays 4.08 avg rating — 29,808 ratings
59.
Exercises in Style
Exercises in Style 4.05 avg rating — 12,556 ratings
60.
Le Petit Nicolas
Le Petit Nicolas 4.14 avg rating — 40,493 ratings
61.
The Mysterious Island (Captain Nemo, #3)
The Mysterious Island (Captain Nemo, #3) 4.13 avg rating — 57,774 ratings
62.
La Gloire de mon père
La Gloire de mon père 4.02 avg rating — 10,539 ratings
63.
Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs
Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs 4.35 avg rating — 1,408 ratings
64.
Le Malade imaginaire
Le Malade imaginaire 3.62 avg rating — 18,689 ratings
65.
The Man Who Laughs
The Man Who Laughs 4.24 avg rating — 14,670 ratings
66.
Life: A User's Manual
Life: A User's Manual 4.18 avg rating — 9,833 ratings
67.
Lost Illusions
Lost Illusions 4.16 avg rating — 12,141 ratings
68.
La BĂŞte humaine
La Bête humaine 4.04 avg rating — 12,706 ratings
69.
Jacques the Fatalist
Jacques the Fatalist 3.80 avg rating — 9,455 ratings
70.
Perrault's Fairy Tales
Perrault's Fairy Tales 4.10 avg rating — 15,024 ratings
71.
L'avare
L'avare 3.56 avg rating — 36,136 ratings
72.
The Social Contract
The Social Contract 3.78 avg rating — 55,686 ratings
73.
Selected Short Stories
Selected Short Stories 4.14 avg rating — 3,324 ratings
74.
Cousin Bette
Cousin Bette 3.85 avg rating — 10,501 ratings
75.
Against Nature
Against Nature 3.80 avg rating — 14,807 ratings
76.
La Symphonie pastorale
La Symphonie pastorale 3.62 avg rating — 7,249 ratings
77.
The Immoralist
The Immoralist 3.55 avg rating — 13,269 ratings
78.
Complete Works
Complete Works 4.40 avg rating — 9,350 ratings
79.
Manon Lescaut
Manon Lescaut 3.31 avg rating — 16,170 ratings
80.
Les Rois maudits
Les Rois maudits 4.54 avg rating — 2,770 ratings
81.
Nadja
Nadja 3.54 avg rating — 12,671 ratings
82.
The Princesse de Clèves
The Princesse de Clèves 3.35 avg rating — 18,135 ratings
83.
Confessions
Confessions 3.59 avg rating — 9,158 ratings
84.
Phèdre
Phèdre 3.69 avg rating — 23,845 ratings
85.
Boule de Suif (21 contes)
Boule de Suif (21 contes) 3.76 avg rating — 9,595 ratings
86.
Zazie in the Metro
Zazie in the Metro 3.65 avg rating — 9,349 ratings
87.
Wind, Sand and Stars
Wind, Sand and Stars 4.12 avg rating — 20,390 ratings
88.
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult 3.52 avg rating — 14,376 ratings
89.
De Fabels van La Fontaine
De Fabels van La Fontaine 4.02 avg rating — 15,246 ratings
90.
Pensées
Pensées 3.94 avg rating — 14,064 ratings
91.
The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays
The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays 3.97 avg rating — 1,282 ratings
92.
The Nun
The Nun 3.75 avg rating — 8,504 ratings
93.
The Earth
The Earth 4.09 avg rating — 2,451 ratings
94.
No Exit
No Exit 4.11 avg rating — 44,796 ratings
95.
Le Silence de la mer
Le Silence de la mer
by: Vercors
3.85 avg rating — 6,112 ratings
96.
La Curée
La Curée 3.87 avg rating — 6,094 ratings
97.
Persian Letters
Persian Letters 3.64 avg rating — 7,952 ratings
98.
Rhinocéros
Rhinocéros 3.83 avg rating — 19,081 ratings
99.
The Last Day of a Condemned Man
The Last Day of a Condemned Man 3.96 avg rating — 37,228 ratings
100.
L'École des Femmes
L'École des Femmes 3.62 avg rating — 9,871 ratings
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