French Literature- Intermediate
(mostly short and all pretty approachable!)
La Vénus d'Ille- Prosper Merimée
Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours- Jules Verne
L’Etranger- Albert Camus
L’Exil et le Royaume- Albert Camus
La Place- Annie Ernaux
Zazie dans le metro- Raymond Queneau
L’Art and Le Dieu de Carnage- Yasmina Reza
French Literature- Advanced
(worth a read, even if only in the English translation!)
Madame Bovary – Flaubert
Le père Goriot- Honoré de Balzac
Les Misérables -Victor Hugo
La guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu- Jean Giradoux
A la récherche de temps perdu – Marcel Proust
Les liasions dangereuses- Choderlos de Laclos
Le comte de Monte Cristo- Alexandre Dumas
Le deuxième sexe- Simone de Beauvoir
French Poems
(I’mma put in individual poems but these poets are all great)
Le Balcon- Charles Baudelaire
Le Dormeur du Val- Artur Rimbaud
Il pleut- Guillaime Apollinaire
Graphic novels/children’s
Le Petit Prince- Antoine de Sainte-Exupéry
Persepolis- Marjane Satrapi
Harry Potter, all books- JK Rowling, translated by Jean-François Ménard (really good translations!!)
Harry Potter- Fanfiction- The When Everything Changes Series
(skyrock was the place for French fanfiction in the noughties)
Book 1. http://wheneverythingchanges.skyrock.com/
Book 2. http://the-ghosts-of-past.skyrock.com/
English books in French- link to a post here
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These are mostly books that have been recommended to me by French people, or ones that I have come across during my first year of my degree. Inspired by this anon .
