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French Literature
- 1Albert Camus (1913-1960) - The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus
- 2Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) - The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo
- 3André Gide (1869-1951) - The Immoralist, Strait is the Gate
- 4Denis Diderot (1713-1784) - Jacques the Fatalist, Rameau’s Nephew
- 5François Rabelais (c. 1483-1553) - Gargantua and Pantagruel
- 6Georges Perec (1936-1982) - Life A User’s Manual, W or the Memory of Childhood
- 7Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) - Madame Bovary, Sentimental Education
- 8Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) - La Comédie Humaine, Eugénie Grandet
- 9Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) - Fables
- 10Jean Genet (1910-1986) - The Thief’s Journal, Our Lady of the Flowers
- 11Jean Racine (1639-1699) - Phèdre, Andromaque
- 12Julian Barnes (b. 1946) - Flaubert’s Parrot, The Sense of an Ending
- 13Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise Of The Music Of Language
- 14Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961) - Journey to the End of the Night, Death on Credit
- 15Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- 16Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) - Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources
- 17Marcel Proust – In Search of Lost Time, Pleasures and Days (1896), Jean Santeuil (unfinished, published posthumously 1952), Against Sainte-Beuve (unfinished, published posthumously 1954), Swann’s Way (1913), In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (1919), The Guermantes Way (1920–21), Sodom and Gomorrah (1921–22), The Prisoner (1923, posthumous), The Fugitive (1925, posthumous), Time Regained - 1927, posthumous
- 18Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) - The Lover, Hiroshima mon amour
- 19Michel Butor (1926-2016) - Passing Time, Degrees
- 20Michel Tournier (1924-2016) - Friday, or, The Other Island, The Erl-King
- 21Paul Valéry (1871-1945) - The Young Fate, The Cemetery by the Sea
- 22Stendhal (1783-1842) - The Red and the Black, The Charterhouse of Parma
- 23The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays - Albert Camus
- 24Victor Hugo (1802-1885) - Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame