A mix of readings about France – in English – and of French classics – in French – to enhance your learning experience. Whether you read to pass an exam, or for pleasure, I recommend this list, which I compiled over the years, with the complicity of all of my students, whom I thank warmly here. Feel free to leave your question or you comment if you’ve read a book.
In English
A Moveable Feast ... Ernest Hemingway
A Year in Provence ... Peter Mayle
Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology ... Adam Gopnik
Chasing Cezanne: A Novel ... Peter Mayle
Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France ... Peter Mayle
Entre Nous: A Woman's Guide to Finding Her Inner French Girl ... Debra Ollivier
French Impressions : The Adventures of an American Family ... John S. Littell
French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew ... Peter Mayle
French or Foe?: Getting the Most Out of Visiting, Living and Working in France ... Polly Platt
I'll Never Be French: Living in a Small Village in Brittany ... Mark Greenside
Me Talk Pretty One Day ... David Sedaris
Our Paris: Sketches from Memory ... Edmond White
Paris Tales ... Translated by Helen Constantine
Paris to the Moon ... Adam Gopnik
Postcards from France ... Megan McNeil Libby
The flâneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris ... Edmond White – Bloomsbury
The Most Beautiful Villages of Provence ... Hugh Palmer
Toujours Provence ... Peter Mayle
Travelers' Tales France: True Stories
Niveau 3 - en français
Exercices De Style (French Edition) ... Raymond Queneau
La Guerre des Boutons ... Louis Pergaud
Le Petit Nicolas (French Edition) ... Sempé & Goscinny
Le Petit Prince (French Edition) ... Saint-Exupéry
Paris l'instant ... Philippe et Martine Delerm
Niveau 4 - en français
Bonjour Tristesse (French Edition) ... Françoise Sagan
Germinal (French Edition) ... Emile Zola
J’irai cracher sur vos tombes ... Boris Vian
L’écume des jours ... Boris Vian
L'Étranger (French Edition) ... Albert Camus
La dame aux camélias (French Edition) ... Alexandre Dumas (fils)
La Gloire de mon père (French Edition) ... Marcel Pagnol
La Premiere Gorgée De Bière Et Autres Plaisirs Minuscules (L'arpenteur) (French Edition) ... Philippe Delerm
Le château de ma mère ... Marcel Pagnol
Le Comte De Monte-Cristo (French Edition) ... Alexandre Dumas
Le Lion ... Joseph Kessel
Paul Et Virginie (French Edition) ... Bernardin Saint-Pierre
Rhinocéros (French Edition) ... Ionesco
Therese Desqueyroux (French Edition) ... François Mauriac
Niveau 5 - en français
Antigone (French Edition) ... Jean Anouilh
Candide (French Edition) ... Voltaire
Eugénie Grandet... (French Edition) ... Honoré de Balzac
L’école des femmes ... Molière
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (French Edition) ... Molière
Le Malade Imaginaire (French Edition) ... Molière
Le Père Goriot (French Edition) ... Honoré de Balzac
Le Rouge et le Noir (French Edition) ... Stendhal
Les Jeux Sont Faits (French Edition) Jean-Paul Sartre
Madame Bovary (French Edition) ... Flaubert
“Stuff Parisians Like: Discovering the Quoi in the Je Ne Sais Quoi” by Olivier Magny? It is so funny! It a Parisian’s take on Parisians and is hilarious! i am now reading what I believe is his second book, “Into Wine: An Invitation to Pleasure.”