Reading List

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A mix of readings about France – in English, and of French classics – in French – to enhance your learning experience. Whether you read to pass an exam, or for pleasure, Anne recommends this list, which she compiled over the years, with the complicity of all of her students, whom she thanks warmly here. Feel free to leave your question or you comment if you’ve read the book.

in English … A Moveable Feast … Ernest Hemingway

in English … A Year in Provence … Peter Mayle

in English … Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology … Adam Gopnik

in English … Chasing Cezanne: A Novel … Peter Mayle

in English … Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France … Peter Mayle

in English … Entre Nous: A Woman’s Guide to Finding Her Inner French Girl … Debra Ollivier

in English … French Impressions : The Adventures of an American Family … John S. Littell

in English … French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew … Peter Mayle

in English … French or Foe?: Getting the Most Out of Visiting, Living and Working in France … Polly Platt

in English … I’ll Never Be French: Living in a Small Village in Brittany … Mark Greenside

in English … Me Talk Pretty One Day … David Sedaris

in English … Our Paris: Sketches from Memory … Edmond White

in English … Paris Tales … Translated by Helen Constantine

in English … Paris to the Moon … Adam Gopnik

in English … Postcards from France … Megan McNeil Libby

in English … The flâneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris … Edmond White – Bloomsbury

in English … The Most Beautiful Villages of Provence … Hugh Palmer

in English … Toujours Provence … Peter Mayle

in English … Travelers’ Tales France: True Stories

Niveau[1] 3 … Exercices De Style (French Edition) … Raymond Queneau

Niveau 3 … La Guerre des Boutons … Louis Pergaud

Niveau 3 … Le Petit Nicolas (French Edition) … Sempé & Goscinny

Niveau 3 … Le Petit Prince (French Edition) … Saint-Exupéry

Niveau 3 … Paris l’instant … Philippe et Martine Delerm

Niveau 4 … Bonjour Tristesse (French Edition) … Françoise Sagan

Niveau 4 … Germinal (French Edition) … Emile Zola

Niveau 4 … J’irai cracher sur vos tombes … Boris Vian

Niveau 4 … L’écume des jours … Boris Vian

Niveau 4 … L’Étranger (French Edition) … Albert Camus

Niveau 4 … La dame aux camélias (French Edition) … Alexandre Dumas (fils)

Niveau 4 … La Gloire de mon père (French Edition) … Marcel Pagnol

Niveau 4 … LA Premiere Gorgée De Bière Et Autres Plaisirs Minuscules (L’arpenteur) (French Edition) … Philippe Delerm

Niveau 4 … Le château de ma mère … Marcel Pagnol

Niveau 4 … Le Comte De Monte-Cristo (French Edition) … Alexandre Dumas

Niveau 4 … Le Lion … Joseph Kessel

Niveau 4 … Paul Et Virginie (French Edition) … Bernardin Saint-Pierre

Niveau 4 … Rhinocéros (French Edition) … Ionesco

Niveau 4 … Therese Desqueyroux (French Edition) … François Mauriac

Niveau 5 … Antigone (French Edition) … Jean Anouilh

Niveau 5 … Candide (French Edition) … Voltaire

Niveau 5 … Eugénie Grandet… (French Edition) … Honoré de Balzac

Niveau 5 … L’école des femmes … Molière

Niveau 5 … Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (French Edition) … Molière

Niveau 5 … Le Malade Imaginaire (French Edition) … Molière

Niveau 5 … Le Père Goriot (French Edition) … Honoré de Balzac

Niveau 5 … Le Rouge et le Noir (French Edition) … Stendhal

Niveau 5 … Les Jeux Sont Faits (French Edition) Jean-Paul Sartre

Niveau 5 … Madame Bovary (French Edition) … Flaubert

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