NEIGHBORHOOD · FRANCEBooks set in Paris
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27 books · 25 authors · 1830–2025
27 books here
Most-set authors
Robert Ludlum (2) · Arturo Pérez-Reverte (2) · Ernest Hemingway (1) · Matthew Blake (1) · Khaled Hosseini (1) · Jules Verne (1)
Genres
literary fiction (4) · thriller & suspense (3) · mystery & crime (2)
Books set here
Set in Paris (12)

A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway
1920s Hemingway memoir Paris

Count Zero
William Gibson
Marly art gallery scenes
Father Goriot
Honoré de Balzac
Maison Vauquer, Latin Quarter
Home
Leila Chudori
Exiles settle in Paris

Hopscotch
Julio Cortázar
Bohemian expatriate Paris
Immortality
Milan Kundera
Agnes daily life setting

Murder Takes a Vacation
Laura Lippman
Seine river cruise

Nana
Emile Zola
Second Empire Paris; Boulevard Haussmann theatre district, Montmartre

The Bourne Ultimatum
Robert Ludlum
Bourne vs Jackal pursuit
The Most Secret Memory of Men
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
narrator home base Paris
The Red and the Black
Stendhal
Hôtel de la Mole, Book 2

The Vampire Lestat
Anne Rice
18th-century vampire Paris
Also featuring Paris (15)
A Murder in Paris
Matthew Blake
primary narrative city

And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini
Pari adult life in Paris
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
passing through France

Black Notice
Patricia Cornwell
Paris morgue evidence collection
Foucault's Pendulum
Umberto Eco
Musée des Arts et Métiers pendulum

Heart the Lover
Lily King
Jordan works as au pair
Home
Leila S. Chudori
exiles restaurant, decades of life

Red Dragon
Thomas Harris
Jacobite court intrigue

The Bourne Identity
Robert Ludlum
European chase, extended scenes
The Club Dumas
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
rare book investigation Paris
The Court Dancer
Kyung-sook Shin
exile life in Paris
The Dumas Club
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Dumas manuscript investigation
The Woman in Suite 11
Ruth Ware
the cross-Europe flight
The Woman in the Wallpaper
Lora Jones
pre-Revolution turmoil

Transit
Anna Seghers
narrator flees through Paris
Nearby books

Madeline
Ludwig Bemelmans
0 km · 4 Rue de la Colombe
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo
0 km · Notre-Dame Cathedral

The Little Paris Bookshop
Nina George
1 km · Quai de la Tournelle

The Belly of Paris
Émile Zola
1 km · Les Halles

Sarah’s Key
Tatiana de Rosnay
1 km · 36 Rue de Saintonge

A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway
1 km · 74 Rue du Cardinal Lemoine

The Paris Wife
Paula McLain
1 km · 74 Rue du Cardinal Lemoine
Blow-Up and Other Stories
Julio Cortázar
1 km · Jardin des Plantes, Paris