Listed below is a highly selective recommendation of works - mostly novels - that are rooted in the various French regions, and which would make good holiday reading.

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PARIS AND AROUND

Steven Barclay (ed) A Place in the World Called Paris

Julian Barnes   Metroland

Charles Baudelaire   Baudelaire's Paris , trans Laurence Kitchen

André Breton   Nadja

Blaise Cendrars   To the End of the World

Didier Daeninckx   Murder in Memoriam

Charles Dickens   A Tale of Two Cities

Gustave Flaubert   A Sentimental Education

Ernest Hemingway   A Moveable Feast

Victor Hugo   Les Misérables

Jack Kerouac   Satori in Paris

Henry Miller   Quiet Days in Clichy, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn

Anaïs Nin   Journals 1917-1974

George Orwell   Down and Out in Paris and London

Georges Perec   Life: A User's Manual

Raymond Queneau   Zazie dans le Métro

Paul Rambali   French Blues

Jean Rhys   Quartet, Good Morning Midnight

Jean-Paul Sartre   Roads to Freedom trilogy

Georges Simenon   Any Maigret thriller

Patrick Süsskind   Perfume

Michel Tournier   The Golden Droplet

Émile Zola   Nana, L'Assommoir, La Bête Humaine, La Curée, Le Ventre de Paris

CALAIS TO CHAMPAGNE

Julien Gracq   A Balcony in the Forest, The Opposing Shore

Émile Zola   Germinal, La Débâcle

John Berger   Pig Earth

Bernard Clavel   The Spaniard

Colette   My Mother's House

Pierre Gascar   Women and the Sun

Stendhal   Scarlet and Black

NORMANDY AND BRITTANY

Honoré de Balzac   Les Chouans

Colette   Ripening Seed

Sebastian Faulks   Birdsong

Gustave Flaubert   Madame Bovary

André Gide   Strait is the Gate

Pierre Loti   Pêcheur d'Islande

Guy de Maupassant   Selected Short Stories

Marcel Proust   Remembrance of Things Past

Jean Rouard   Fields of Glory, Of Illustrious Men

Jean-Paul Sartre   La Nausée

Alain Fournier   Le Grand Meaulnes

Rabelais   Gargantua and Pantagruel

George Sand   The Devil's Pool

Émile Zola   The Earth

BURGUNDY

Gabriel Chevallier   Clochemerle

ATLANTIC COAST

François Mauriac   Thérèse

THE PYRENEES

Pierre Loti   Ramuntcho

LANGUEDOC

Hannah Closs   High Are the Mountains

RHÔNE VALLEY AND PROVENCE

Lawrence Durrell   The Avignon Quintet

Jean Giono   The Horseman on the Roof, The Man Who Planted Trees, Joy of Man's Desiring

Marcel Pagnol   Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources

Émile Zola   Fortune of the Rougons

Colette   Collected Stories

Alexandre Dumas   The Count of Monte Cristo

F. Scott Fitzgerald   Tender is the Night

Graham Greene   Loser Takes All, May We Borrow Your Husband?

Katherine Mansfield   Selected Short Stories

Françoise Sagan   Bonjour Tristesse

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