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Best French BooksMichele Roberts' Top 12 French Books

George Sand

Marianne (1876)

Gustave Flaubert

A Simple Heart (in Three Tales, 1877)

Guy de Maupassant

A Woman's Life (1883)

Colette

Claudine at School (1900) and The Vagabond (1910)

Maryse Condé

I, Tituba—Black Witch of Salem (1986)

Sylvie Germain

Days of Anger (1989)

Jean Rouaud

Fields of Glory (1990) and Illustrious Men (1993)

Michel Houellebecq

Whatever (1994)

Marie Darrieussecq

Pig Tales (1996) and My Phantom Husband (1999)