COUNTRY · FRANCEBooks set in France
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21 books · 20 authors · 1829–2025
21 books here
Most-set authors
Honoré de Balzac (2) · Jules Verne (1) · Daniel Kraus (1) · Anne Rice (1) · Stendhal (1) · A.S. Byatt (1)
Genres
literary fiction (6) · thriller & suspense (1) · romance (1)
Books set here
Set in France (12)
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
Angel Down
Daniel Kraus
WWI Western Front battlefield, Meuse-Argonne offensive
The Book of Goose
Yiyun Li
rural post-WWII village, childhood
Les Chouans
Honoré de Balzac
Chouan uprising setting
The Woman in the Wallpaper
Lora Jones
the Oberst wallpaper factory
Pierre and Jean
Guy de Maupassant
Norman port city family drama
The Black Docker
Bernard Dadié
dockworker life in Marseille port
Transit
Anna Seghers
wartime refugee port
Germinal
Émile Zola
coalfield miners strike
Eugénie Grandet
Honoré de Balzac
Grandet family home town
At Night All Blood Is Black
David Diop
WWI trench warfare setting
Clive Cussler The Iron Storm
Jack Du Brul
WWI trenches, Bell at the front
Also featuring France (9)
The Vampire Lestat
Anne Rice
Lestat boyhood homeland
The Red and the Black
Stendhal
Seminary setting
Possession
A.S. Byatt
Kernemet family manor, French excursion
Atonement
Ian McEwan
Robbie's wartime retreat
The Paris Express
Emma Donoghue
the journey origin
Isola
Allegra Goodman
protagonist hometown château
Burger's Daughter
Nadine Gordimer
Rosa's European exile
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
opera and cathedral scenes
Marble Hall Murders
Anthony Horowitz
setting of embedded Pünd story
Nearby books
The Woman in the Wallpaper
Lora Jones
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Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
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The Red Notebook
Antoine Laurain
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The Paris Express
Emma Donoghue
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The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Simone de Beauvoir
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The Day of the Jackal
Frederick Forsyth
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All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
39 km · Museum National d Histoire Naturelle