Set in France

• Marguerite Audoux: Marie Claire (1910), original French title: Marie-Claire 
• Enid Bagnold: The Happy Foreigner (1920)
• Muriel Barbery: The Elegance of the Hedgehog (2006), original French title: L’élégance du hérisson
• Julian Barnes: Flaubert’s Parrot (1984)
• Simone de Beauvoir: The Blood of Others (1945), original French title: Le sang des autres
• Tahar Ben Jelloun: A Palace in the Old Village (2009), original French title: Au pays
• Antoine Blondin: A Monkey in Winter (1959), original French title: Un singe en hiver
• Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Journey to the End of the Night (1932), original French title: Voyage au bout de la nuit
• Colette: The Cat (1933), original French title La chatte
  –,  Gigi et autres nouvelles (1944), title story translated into English as Gigi
• Philippe Djian: Betty Blue (1985), original French title: 37°2 le matin
  
• Jean Echenoz: I’m Off (1999), original French title: Je m’en vais
• Annie Ernaux: A Man’s Place (1984), original French title: La Place
  -, A Woman’s Story (1989), original French title: Une Femme
• André Gide: Lafcadio’s Adventures (1914), original French title: Les Caves du Vatican
• Michel Houellebecq: Submission (2015), original French title: Soumission
• Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio: Desert (1980), original French title: Désert
• Rose Macaulay: The World My Wilderness (1950)
• William Somerset Maugham: Christmas Holiday (1939)
• Patrick Modiano: So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighbourhood (2014), original French title: Pour que tu ne te perdes pas dans le quartier
• Anaïs Nin: The Winter of Artifice (1939), originally written in English
• Suzanne Normand: Five Women in a Galley (1927), original French title: Cinq femmes sur une galère
• Katherine Pancol: The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles (2006), original French title: Les yeux jaunes des crocodiles
• Pitigrilli (pseudonym of Dino Segre): The Man Who Searched for Love (1929), original Italian title: L’esperimento di Pott
• Raymond Queneau: The Blue Flowers (1965), original French title: Les fleurs bleues
• Erich Maria Remarque: The Night in Lisbon (1962), original German title: Die Nacht von Lissabon
• Jean Rhys: Good Morning, Midnight (1939)
• Françoise Sagan: Bonjour Tristesse (1954), original French title: Bonjour tristesse
• Dino Segre  »»» see Pitigrilli
• Annemarie Selinko: Désirée (1951), original German title: Désirée
• Claude Simon: The Trolley (2001), original French title: Le tramway
• Irving Stone: Lust for Life (1934)
• Patrick Süskind: The Pigeon (1988), original German title: Die Taube
• Marcelle Tinayre: To Arms! (1915; also translated into English as Sacrifice), original French title: La Veillée des armes. Le départ; Août 1914
• Mario Vargas Llosa: The Way to Paradise (2003), original Spanish title: El paraíso en la otra esquina
• Boris Vian: Mood Indigo (1946; also  translated as Foam of the Daze and Froth on the Daydream), original French title: L’écume des jours