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List RulesFiction books that use Paris as a setting or major theme
This list is about the best books about Paris; it answers the question, “What are the best novels about Paris?” This famous French city is most popular for the Eiffel Tower, Moulin Rouge and the Louvre. Also referred to as the “City of Love”, the city’s famous artisans have been renowned for centuries. Writers like Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas were each inspired by Paris, and included it as settings in their most famous novels. The city is well-known for being particularly accepting and supportive to artists; many of them have flooded the gates of Paris in order to bask in its inspiring creative culture. The American novelist Ernest Hemingway, like many other writers emigrated to Paris, where he was introduced to such varying cultural figures such as Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein, who later became his mentor. The author James Joyce also flooded to Paris and lived there for over twenty years; he finished his novel “Ulysses” while there. Perhaps the most well-known fictional novel set in Paris is Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables,” which details the epic period of the French Revolution. It is a beautiful story of heroism, love and faithfulness at its finest. Whether you’re searching for action, adventure or romance, there is a novel about Paris waiting for you to read!
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192A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens2
142The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway3
164The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Victor Hugo4
142The Three Muskateers
Alexandre Dumas5
144Perfume
Patrick Süskind6
122Les Miserables
Victor Hugo7
102Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell8
126The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas9
84The Scarlet Pimpernel
Baroness Emma Orczy10
66Gigi
Colette11
66The Red and the Black
Stendhal12
46In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust13
46Hopscotch
Julio Cortázar14
42Le Divorce
Diane Johnson15
22Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald16
42Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin17
60Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Céline18
44Les Liaisons dangereuses
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos19
46Our Lady of the Flowers
Jean Genet20
62The Mandarins
Simone de Beauvoir21
62The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux22
42Nana
Émile Zola23
44Suite Française
Irène Némirovsky24
40Djinn
Alain Robbe-Grillet25
42Le Père Goriot
Honoré de Balzac