- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
- The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- The Stranger (L’Étranger) by Albert Camus
- The Plague by Albert Camus
- The Fall by Albert Camus
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
- In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
- Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
- Germinal by Émile Zola
- Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola
- Nana by Émile Zola
- The Red and the Black by Stendhal
- The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
- Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
- The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
- The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet
- Candide by Voltaire
- Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
- Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
- The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
- The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
- She Came to Stay by Simone de Beauvoir
- Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- Death on Credit by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- The Immoralist by André Gide
- The Counterfeiters by André Gide
- The Lover by Marguerite Duras
- Moderato Cantabile by Marguerite Duras
- Hiroshima Mon Amour by Marguerite Duras
- Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
- A Certain Smile by Françoise Sagan
- Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
- Coup de Grâce by Marguerite Yourcenar
- The Book of My Mother by Albert Cohen
- Belle du Seigneur by Albert Cohen
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
- The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq
- Atomised (The Elementary Particles) by Michel Houellebecq
- Platform by Michel Houellebecq
- Submission by Michel Houellebecq
- The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq
- Alex by Pierre Lemaitre
- The Great Swindle by Pierre Lemaitre
- HHhH by Laurent Binet
- The Seventh Function of Language by Laurent Binet
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
- Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
- The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
- The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
- Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant
- The Horla by Guy de Maupassant
- Gigi by Colette
- Chéri by Colette
- Claudine at School by Colette
- The Prone Gunman by Jean-Patrick Manchette
- Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette
- Camille by Pierre Lemaitre
- Irène by Pierre Lemaitre
- The Suicide Shop by Jean Teulé
- Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau
- Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
- Life: A User’s Manual by Georges Perec
- W, or the Memory of Childhood by Georges Perec
- Things: A Story of the Sixties by Georges Perec
- Missing Person by Patrick Modiano
- Honeymoon by Patrick Modiano
- So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighborhood by Patrick Modiano
- Dora Bruder by Patrick Modiano
- Out of the Dark by Patrick Modiano
- The Patagonian Hare by Claude Lanzmann
- The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
- Oscar and the Lady in Pink by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
- The Most Beautiful Book in the World by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
- The President’s Hat by Antoine Laurain
- The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain
- French Rhapsody by Antoine Laurain
- How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are by Anne Berest
- The Little Communist Who Never Smiled by Lola Lafon
- The Waitress Was New by Dominique Fabre
- The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles by Katherine Pancol
- Hunting and Gathering by Anna Gavalda
- Someone I Loved by Anna Gavalda
- 99 Francs by Frédéric Beigbeder
- Windows on the World by Frédéric Beigbeder
- The Girl Who Reads on the Métro by Christine Féret-Fleury
- Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin
- Anomalie by Hervé Le Tellier
- The Life Before Us by Romain Gary
- The Roots of Heaven by Romain Gary
- Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary
- The Violin of Auschwitz by Maria Àngels Anglada
- The Disappearance by Georges Perec
- The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
- The Book of Proper Names by Amélie Nothomb