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Recommended books (66)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world. All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from France. Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.

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No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre EN

Rating: 4     13 Votes
Country: Asia / France flag France
Description:
Four seminal plays by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. An existential portrayal of Hell in Sartre's best-known play, as well as three other brilliant, thought-provoking works: the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between theory and conflict, and an arresting attack on American racism.
Recommended: 01 Nov 2022

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On the Line : Notes from a Factory by Joseph Ponthus EN

0 Ratings
Country: Europe / France flag France
Description:
Joseph enlists with a temp agency and starts to pick up casual shifts in the fish processing plants and abattoirs of Brittany. A novel in verse that captures the mundane, the beautiful and the strange, in poignant contrast with the blood and sweat of the factory floor.
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Recommended: 10 Jun 2022

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Opium : jurnalul unei dezintoxicări

Opium : jurnalul unei dezintoxicări by Jean Cocteau RO

Rating: 2     1 Vote
Country: Europe / France flag France
Genre Memoir
Recommended: 29 Sep 2023

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Passion Simple

Passion Simple by Annie Ernaux FR

0 Ratings
Country: Europe / France flag France
Recommended: 31 Jan 2023

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Piciul by Alphonse Daudet RO

Rating: 3     1 Vote
Country: Europe / France flag France
Genre
Recommended: 23 Sep 2023

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Res no s'oposa a la nit by Delphine de Vigan CA

Rating: 4     1 Vote
Country: Europe / France flag France
Description:
Un matí d'hivern, Delphine de Vigan va entrar a l'apartament de la seva mare, Lucile, i se la va trobar morta estirada al llit. Arran d'aquesta mort sobtada en circumstàncies poc clares, l'escriptora va decidir emprendre una recerca detectivesca per mirar de reconstruir el trencaclosques que havia estat la vida de Lucile Poirier. Una dona fascinant, d'una bellesa terriblement dolça i salvatge, seductora i bohemia, pero amb l'ànima marcada per un dolor profund i misteriós.Els centenars de fotografies preses durant anys, la cronica... continue
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Recommended: 20 Sep 2023

37.

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay EN

Rating: 5     3 Votes
Country: Europe / France flag France
Description:
Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connect her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl's ordeal, from... continue
Recommended: 20 Jul 2022

38.

Shame (La honte) by Annie Ernaux FR

0 Ratings
Country: Europe / France flag France
Description:
J'ai toujours eu envie d'écrire des livres dont il me soit ensuite impossible de parler, qui rendent le regard d'autrui insoutenable. Mais quelle honte pourrait m'apporter l'écriture d'un livre qui soit à la hauteur de ce que j'ai éprouvé dans ma douzième année.
Recommended: 19 May 2022

39.

Şi dacă e adevărat ... by Marc Levy RO

Rating: 3     1 Vote
Country: Europe / France flag France
Description:
"Ce-o să-ţi spun nu e uşor de înţeles, e imposibil de admis, dar dacă ai vrea să-mi asculţi povestea…" Ce să crezi despre o femeie care-ţi alege dulapul din baie ca să-şi petreacă zilele în el? Care se miră că o poţi vedea? Care apare şi dispare brusc şi pretinde că este în comă profundă la celălalt capăt al oraşului? Pe ea trebuie să o duci la psihiatru, sau pe tine? Sau, dimpotrivă, trebuie să te laşi în voia acestei aventuri extravagante? Şi dacă este adevărat?… Dacă e adevărat că Arthur este singura persoană care poate împărţi ... continue
Recommended: 29 Sep 2023

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Sido/Het huis van mijn moeder / druk 1

Sido/Het huis van mijn moeder / druk 1 by Colette FR

0 Ratings
Country: Europe / France flag France
Description:
Bundeling van twee autobiografische verhalen van de Franse schrijfster over haar jeugd op het Franse platteland eind 19e eeuw en haar moeder.
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Recommended: 28 Sep 2022


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