Francophone literature

Lafcadio's Adventures: A Novel

by André Gide

Passing with cinematographic speed across the capitals of Europe, Nobel laureate André Gide’s Lafcadio’s Adventures is a brilliantly sly satire and one of the clearest articulations of his greatest theme:...

An Appropriate Place: A Novel

by Lise Bissonnette & Sheila Fischman

Full of the mordant wit and unflinching observations we've come to admire in Bissonette's earlier, award-winning novels and stories, An Appropriate Place is as much a commentary on the triumphs and self-deception...

The Investigation: A Novel

by Philippe Claudel & John Cullen

A wild, Kafka-esque romp through a dystopian landscape, probing thedarkly comic nature of the human condition.

The Investigator is a man quite like any other. He is balding, of medium build, dresses conservatively—in...

Prehistoric Times

by Eric Chevillard & Alyson Waters

Chevillard asks luminous and very funny questions about who we are, where we come from, and where we might be

Life is Short and Desire Endless

by Patrick Lapeyre

This delicious novel revolves around a classic love triangle: two men and one woman. She is English, they are French and American. The Frenchman is married, the American is not. None of this makes any difference....

In Another Life

by Marc Levy

An extraordinary story of love and vengeance in the international art world... A fast-paced and gripping tale...

Jonathan and Anna are in the final stages of planning their Bostonian high-society wedding, when...

Seven Days for an Eternity

by Marc Levy

They’ve tried to destroy each other for centuries, but they’ve failed… So God and the Devil plan a contest to finally decide who will rule eternity: each will send their top candidate to earth. The champions...

If Only It Were True 2

by Marc Levy

If life gave you a second chance to meet your first love again, would you risk everything to take it?

When Arthur returns to San Francisco after a self-imposed exile in Paris, he rediscovers his best friend,...

If Only It Were True

by Marc Levy

Arthur and Lauren are in love. They even live together. Well, it’s not exactly that simple.

Lauren is a ghost, but she’s in love with Arthur, the only one who can see her. But this isn’t a ghost story,...

All Those Things We Never Said

by Marc Levy

A romantic comedy set in a world that is larger than life... A story that entices the reader to believe the unbelievable...

As far back as Julia Walsh could remember, she always had a difficult relationship...

The Life of an Unknown Man

by Andreï Makine & Geoffrey Strachan

A deeply moving meditation on memory, history, love, and art by the author of Dreams of My Russian Summers In The Life of an Unknown Man, Andreï Makine explores what truly matters in life through the prism...

Lovers

by Daniel Arsand & Howard Curtis

Sébastien is fifteen years old and already versed in the medicinal arts when he meets the young nobleman Balthazar de Créon, whose life he saves after the latter is thrown from a horse. De Créon, struck by...

The Counterfeiters: A Novel

by André Gide

A young artist pursues a search for knowledge through the treatment of homosexuality and the collapse of morality in middle class France.

HHhH

by Laurent Binet & Sam Taylor

HHhH: “Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich”, or “Himmler’s brain is called Heydrich”. The most dangerous man in Hitler’s cabinet, Reinhard Heydrich was known as the “Butcher of Prague.” He was feared...

The Tyrant

by Jacques Chessex & Martin Sokolinsky

Semi-autobiographical, and Chessex’s bestselling novel to date, The Tyrant describes a tyrannical father’s destruction of a young teacher’s life.

The Devil in the Flesh

by Raymond Radiguet & Christopher Moncrieff

Hailed by Jean Cocteau as a "masterpiece," and by the Guardian as "Bret Easton Ellis's Less Than Zero, avant la lettre," this taut tale written by a teenager in the form of a frank "confession" is a gem of early...

The Messenger: A Novel

by Yannick Haenel & Ian Monk

Jan Karski, a young Polish diplomat turned cavalry officer, joined the Polish underground movement after escaping from a Soviet detention camp in 1939. He served as a courier for the underground, ferrying messages...

The House I Loved

by Tatiana de Rosnay

From the New York Times bestselling author of Sarah’s Key and A Secret Kept comes an absorbing new novel about one woman’s resistance during an époque that shook Paris to its very core. Paris, France:...

Delicacy: A Novel

by David Foenkinos

Natalie and François are the perfect couple, and perfectly happy. But after François dies suddenly, only seven years into their still blissful marriage, the widowed Natalie erects a fortress around her emotions...

Mai at the Predators' Ball

by Marie-Claire Blais & Nigel Spencer

In Mai at the Predators' Ball, Marie-Claire Blais, literary legend and four-time winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, offers a mesmerizing and unforgettable portrait of imaginary beings...