Novels set in Paris
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Soazig Aaron: Le Non de Klara (Refusal)
Amédée Achard: Les rêveurs de Paris
Kathy Acker: Empire of the Senseless
Gilbert Adair: Buenas noches Buenos Aires
Gilbert Adair: Holy Innocents (Renamed: The Dreamers)
Fay Adams: Appointment in Paris
Ian Adams: End Game in Paris
Elizabeth Adler: The Last Time I saw Paris
Elizabeth Adler: Meet Me in Venice
Etel Adnan: Paris, When It’s Naked
Abd al Malik: La Guerre Des Banlieues N’aura Pas Lieu
Mohammed T Al-Rashid: Season Of Mists
Belinda Alexandra: Golden Earrings
Natal’ya Alexandrova: Тьма над Петроградом
Pierre Alexis, Viscount of Ponson du Terrail: Rocambole series (Rocambole)
Robert Alley: Last Tango in Paris
Susanne Alleyn: Aristide Ravel Mysteries
Lisa Alther: Five Minutes in Heaven
Gini Anding: Inspector Jean-Michel Jolivet series
Grace Andreacchi: Music for Glass Orchestra
Maria Andrianovai: Ангел Музыки, или Частная жизнь Жизели
Lisa Appignanesi: Paris Requiem
Louis Aragon: Paysan de Paris (Paris Peasant)
Jakob Arjouni: Chez Max (Chez Max)
Jiro Asada: 王妃の館
Herbert Asmodi: Die Dame aus den Tuilerien
Pierre Assouline: Double Vie
Pierre Assouline: Lutetia
Adriana Asti: La lettrice dei destini nascosti
Brigitte Aubert: Mort des bois (Death from the Woods)
Stéphane Audeguy: Fils unique (Only Son)
Ellis Avery: The Last Nude
Jean-Louis Baghio’o: Choutoumounou
Martha Baillie: Madame Balashovskaya’s Apartment
James Baldwin: Giovanni’s Room
Christine Balint: Ophelia’s Fan
David W. Ball: Empires of Sand
Terence Ball: Rousseau’s Ghost
Muriel Barbery: L’élégance du hérisson (The Elegance of the Hedgehog)
Toby Barlow: Babayaga
Djuna Barnes: Lady’s Almanack
Djuna Barnes: Nightwood
Julian Barnes: Metroland
Lisa Barr: Fugitive Colors
Nicolas Barreau: Le sourire des femmes (The Ingredients of Love,)
Michèle Barrière: Souper mortel aux étuves
Adam Barrist: The Concrete Lawyer
Elwyn Barron: Manders
Florence Whitfield Barton: The Sage and the Olive
Ron Base: The Strange
Jacques Baudou: Le vrai visage du Masque
Angeline Bauer: Die Seifensiederin
Vicki Baum: Rendezvous in Paris
Sarah Baylis: Utrillo’s Mother
Angela Becerra: Lo Que le Falta al Tiempo
Emma Becker: Monsieur
Gisèle Beetz: Chroniques métropolitaines
François Bégaudeau: Entre les murs (The Class)
Louis Begley: Shipwreck
Frédéric Beigbeder: Vacances dans le coma (Holiday in a Coma)
Charles Belfoure: The Paris Architect
René Belletto: La machine (Machine)
Denis Belloc: Néons (Neons)
Saul Bellow: Ravelstein
Tahar Ben Jelloun: Yeux baissés (With Downcast Eyes)
Tonino Benacquista: Homo erectus (The Thursday Night Men)
Maria Benedickt: Ein Hund in Teufels Küche
Arnold Bennett: The Lion’s Share
Nina Berberova: Мыс Бурь (Cape of Storms)
Nina Berberova: Книга счастья (The Book of Happiness)
Georges Bernanos: L’Imposture (The Imposter)
Arthur Bernard: Paris en 2040
Mathias Bernardi: La ville sans regard
Sarah Bernhardt: The Idol of Paris
Steve Berry: The Paris Vendetta
Élie Berthet: Les Cagnards de l’Hôtel-Dieu de Paris
Élie Berthet: Les Catacombes de Paris (The Catacombs of Paris)
Élie Berthet: Paris avant l’histoire
Patrick Besson: Les Frères de la consolation
Philippe Besson: En l’absence des hommes (In the Absence of Men)
Calixthe Beyala: Petit Prince de Belleville (Loukoum: The ‘Little Prince’ Of Belleville)
Zillah Bethell: Le Temps des Cerises
Nella Bielski: C’était l’an 42 (The Year is ’42)
Joanna Biggar: That Paris Year
Pamela Binnings Ewen: Émilienne : A Novel of Belle Epoque Paris
Daniel Biyaoula: Agonies
Cara Black: Murder in the Bastille
Cara Black: Murder in Belville
Cara Black: Murder in the Marais
Marie-Claire Blais: Une liaison parisienne (A Literary Affair)
Vicente Blasco Ibañez: Los Cuatro Jinetes Del Apocalipsis (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse)
Olivier Bleys: Fantôme dans la tour Eiffel (The Ghost in the Eiffel Tower)
Nicholas Blincoe: Burning Paris
Robert Bober: Quoi de neuf sur la guerre? (What News Of The War?)
Roberto Bolaño: Monsieur Pain (Monsieur Pain)
Cindy Bonner: Right from Wrong
John P Boswell: Toasted Snow
Tony Boullemier: Leonie And The Last Napoleon
Pierre Bourgeade: L’autre face
Saidee Bourgoin: Sarah Martha in Paris
Elizabeth Bowen: The House in Paris
Donna Boyd: The Passion
Svetlana Boym: Ninochka
Mary Elizabeth Braddon: The Trail of the Serpent
André Breton: Nadja (Nadja)
Bex Brian: Promiscuous Unbound
Geneviève Brisac: Weekend de chasse à la mère (Losing Eugenio)
William Brodrick: The Sixth Lamentation
Louis Bromfield: Until the Day Break
Anita Brookner: Incidents in the Rue Langier
Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code
Alfredo Bryce Echenique: Guía Triste De París
Alfredo Bryce Echenique: La vida exagerada de Martín Romaña [The Exaggerated Life of Martín Romaña]
Cathy Marie Buchanan: The Painted Girls
Ken Bugul: Cendres et braises
Peter Burnett: Odium
Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Return of Tarzan
Dorothy Bussy Strachey: Olivia
Robert Olen Butler: Fair Warning
Eduardo Caballero Calderón: El buen salvaje
Morley Callaghan: That Summer in Paris
John Canaday: The Accomplice
Martín Caparrós: Valfierno
Alex Capus: Léon und Louise
Clancy Carlile: The Paris Pilgrims
John Dickson Carr: Inspector Bencolin mysteries
Charlotte Carter: Coq au vin
R. V. Cassill: Left Bank of Desire
Jean Cassou: Les massacres de Paris
Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Mort à credit (Death on the Installment Plan; UK: Death on Credit)
Robert W. Chambers: The Red Republic
Jeanne Champion: Suzanne Valadon
Myriam Chapman: Why She Married Him
Mehdi Charef: Thé au harem d’Archi Ahmed (Tea in the Harem)
Monique Charlesworth: The Children’s War
Ann Charney: Rousseau’s Garden
Noah Charney: The Art Thief
Maxime Chattam: Léviatemps
Maxime Chattam: Le requiem des abysses
Andrée Chedid: L’enfant multiple (The Multiple Child)
Harriet Scott Chessman: Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper
Tracy Chevalier: The Lady and the Unicorn
John Clarke: The Tournament
Stephen Clarke: A Year in the Merde
Catherine Clément: Voyage de Théo (Theo’s Odyssey)
Barbara Cleverly: Folly du Jour
Jean Cocteau: Grand écart (The Miscreant)
Paulo Coelho: O Zahir (The Zahir)
Virginia Coffman: Veronique
Colette: Claudine à Paris (Claudine in Paris)
Colette: Chéri (Chéri)
Colette: Fin de Chéri (Last of Chéri)
Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre: Is Paris Burning?
Beatrice Colin: Nude Untitled
Cyrus Colter: City of Light
Fran Cooper: These Dividing Walls
Glenn Cooper: The Tenth Chamber
Marie Corelli: Wormwood
Julio Cortázar: Rayuela (Hopscotch)
Laurence Cosse: Au bon roman (A Novel Bookstore)
Malick Coulibaly: Sans papier, sans Paris
Andrew Crumey: D’Alambert’s Principle
Julia Cunningham: The Silent Voice
Céline Curiol: Voix sans issue (Voice Over)
Bernard Dadié: Un Nègre à Paris (An African in Paris)
Pierre Daix: Picasso au Bateau-Lavoir
Alphonse Daudet: Les rois en exil (Kings in Exile)
Alphonse Daudet: Sapho
Anna Davis: The Shoe Queen
Abha Dawesar: That Summer in Paris
Honoré de Balzac: Virtually all of them
Simone de Beauvoir: Les Belles Images
Simone de Beauvoir: Linvitée (She Came to Stay)
Simone de Beauvoir: Les Mandarins (The Mandarins)
Simone de Beauvoir: Tous les hommes sont mortels (All Men Are Mortal)
Riccardo De Gennaro: La Comune 1871
Robert de Goulaine: Paris 60
Mary de Laszlo: The Best-Kept Secret
Guy de Maupassant: Bel-Ami (Bel-Ami)
Danuta de Rhodes: The Little White Car
Tatiana de Rosnay: Elle s’appelait Sarah (Sarah’s Key
Pablo de Santis: El enigma de París (The Paris Enigma)
Delphine de Vigan: Les Heures souterraines
Léon Louis Deffoux: Un communard
Etienne Dejoux: Souvenirs du Siège de Paris : 1870-1871
Arnaud Delalande: Notre-Dame Sous La Terre
Stéphane Denis: Les Derniers Jours
Jean-Philippe Depotte: Le crâne parfait de Lucien Bel
Jean-Philippe Depotte: Les démons de Paris
Jean-Philippe Depotte: Les jours étranges de Nostradamus
Leith Derwent: King Lazarus
Agnès Desarthe: Cinq photos de ma femme (Five Photos of My Wife)
Agnès Desarthe: Mangez-moi (Chez Moi)
Lucien Descaves: La colonne
Marie Desplechin: Sans moi (Sans moi)
Elizabeth Dewberry: His Lovely Wife
Fernando Díaz-Plaja: El afrancesado
Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities
Guido Dieckmann: Der Bader von St. Denis
Gioia Diliberto: I Am Madame X
Gioia Diliberto: The Collection
Anna Dillon: Season’s End
Jutta Ditfurth: Die Himmelsstürmerin
Jean Diwo: Les dames du Faubourg
Jean Diwo: Demoiselles des lumières
Philippe Djian: 37,2° le matin (Betty Blue: the Story of a Passion)
Anthony Doerr: All the Light We Cannot See
Monique Domovitch: Scorpio Rising
Pierre Drachline: Borinka
Nataša Dragnić: Jeden Tag, jede Stunde (Every Day, Every Hour)
Gerry & Joanne Dryansky: Fatima’s Good Fortune
George Du Maurier: Trilby
Georges Duhamel: Confession de minuit (Confession at Midnight) (in English included in the Salavin collection)
Alexandre Dumas: L’Affaire Clémenceau (The Clemenceau Case)
Alexandre Dumas: Ange Pitou (Ange Pitou, Taking the Bastille, Six Years Later)
Alexandre Dumas: Ascanio (Ascanio; Francis I)
Alexandre Dumas: La dame aux camélias
Alexandre Dumas: Filles, lorettes et courtisanes
Samantha Dunn: Failing Paris
Dominique Dupart: Myrha tonic
François Dupeyron: Le Grand Soir
Marguerite Duras: La Douleur
Marguerite Duras: Pluie d’été (Summer Rain)
Benoît Duteurtre: Gaieté parisienne
Geoff Dyer: Paris Trance
Jean Echenoz: Au Piano (Piano)
Jean Echenoz: Je m’en vais (I’m Gone; I’m Off)
Umberto Eco: Il cimitero di Praga
Umberto Eco: Il pendolo di Foucault (Foucault’s Pendulum)
Maria Edgeworth: Ormond
Willem Elsschot: Villa des Roses (Villa des Roses)
Guy Endore: The Werewolf of Paris
Howard Engel: Murder in Montparnasse
Patricia Engel: It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris
Maria Espinosa: Longing
Alfred Fabre-Luce: Le Général en Sorbonne
Esmail Fassih: ثريا في غيبوبة (Sorraya in a Coma)
Christine Feehan: Dark Legend
Yuri Felsen: Обман (Deceit
Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Love in the Days of Rage
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Beautiful and the Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tender is the Night
Mary Flanagan: Adèle
Gustave Flaubert: L’Education sentimentale (Sentimental Education)
Wolfram Fleischhauer: Die Frau mit den Regenhänden
Nicholas Flokos: Nike
Frederick Forsyth: The Day of the Jackal
Paul Fournier: Le roman de Paris
Anatole France: Monsieur Bergeret à Paris (Monsieur Bergeret In Paris)
Luis Freire Sarria: César Vallejo Se Aburrió De Seguir Muerto En París
Dean Fuller: Alex Grismolet series
Ronald K Fried: Christmas In Paris, 2002
Alan Furst: Red Gold
Alan Furst: The World at Night
Peter Gadol: Light at Dusk
Mary Gaitskill: Veronica
Paul Gallico: Mrs Harris Goes to Paris
Adolfo García Ortega: Un Fin De Siglo
Tat_iana Garmash-Roffe: Частный визит в Пари
Elena Garro: Un corazón en un bote de basura
Romain Gary: La Vie devant soi (The Life Before Us)
David Gascoyne: April
Anna Gavalda: Ensemble, c’est tout (Hunting And Gathering)
John J. Gaynard: The Imitation of Patsy Burke
Nina George: The Little Paris Bookshop
Tess Gerritsen: Verrat in Paris [Betrayal in Paris]
Rabeah Ghaffari: To Keep the Sun Alive
William Gibson: Count Zero
William Gibson: The Difference Engine
André Gide: Les caves du Vatican (Lafcadio’s Adventures)
André Gide: Les faux-monnayeurs (The Counterfeiters)
Jacques Godbout: La concierge du Panthéon
Robert Goddard: Hand in Glove
Lisa Goldstein: The Dream Years
Karen Elizabeth Gordon: Paris Out of Hand (yes, I know it’s not a novel)
Juan Goytisolo: Paisajes después de la batalla (Landscapes after the Battle)
Jean-Christophe Grangé: Empire des loups (The Empire of the Wolves)
Richard Grayson: Inspector Gautier series
Andrew M. Greeley: The Bishop and the Beggar Girl of St. Germain
Julien Green: Autre sommeil (The Other Sleep)
Harlan Greene: The German Officer’s Boy
Sheldon Greene: Burnt Umber
Jon Courtenay Grimwood: NeoAddix
Undine Gruenter: Vertreibung aus dem Labyrinth
Faïza Guène: Kiffe kiffe demain (Just Like Tomorrow)
Jean-Michel Guenassia: Le Club des Incorrigibles Optimistes
Hervé Guibert: Les Gangsters (The Gangsters)
Cathérine Guigon: Les mystères du Sacré-Cúur
Louis Guilloux: Le sang noir (Bitter Victory)
Radclyffe Hall: The Well of Loneliness
Lady Mary Hamilton: Munster Village
Hollis Hampton-Jones: Comes the Night
Peter Handke: Die Stunde der wahren Empfindung (A Moment of True Feeling)
Peter Handke: Mein Jahr in der Niemandsbucht (My Year in the No-Man’s-Bay)
Isabella Hammad
Khadidjatou Hane: Des fourmis dans la bouche; The Parisian
Kristin Hannah: The Nightingale
Tom Hansen: This Is What We Do
Joanne Harris: The Girl with No Shadow
Watters Hartl: No One To Mourn
Mark Hebden: The Eyewitness
Anne Hébert: Les Chambres de bois (The Silent Rooms)
Anne Hébert: Est-ce que je te dérange? (Am I Disturbing You?)
Anne Hébert: Habit de lumière (A Suit of Light)
Anne Hébert: Héloïse (Héloïse)
Ernest Hemingway: A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises
Henriot: Paris en l’an 3000
G. A. Henty: A Girl of the Commune
Hans Herlin: Der letzte Frühling in Paris (The Last Spring in Paris)
Willem Frederik Hermans: Au Pair
William Herrick: Kill Memory
Georgette Heyer: These Old Shades
Patricia Highsmith: Ripley Under Ground
Oscar Hijuelos: A Simple Habana Melody
Jo Hoestlandt: Grande peur sous les étoiles (Star of Fear, Star of Hope)
W. Wolfgang Holdheim: Die Suche nach dem Epos
Naomi Holoch: Offseason
Lucy Hamilton Hooper: Under The Tricolor Or The American Colony In Paris
Kate Horsley: Black Elk In Paris
Sara Houghteling: Pictures at an Exhibition
Victor Hugo: Les Misérables
Victor Hugo: Notre Dame de Paris
E Howard Hunt: The Violent Ones
Nancy Huston: Empreinte de l’ange (The Mark of the Angel)
J. K Huysmans: Là-Bas (Down There)
J. K Huysmans: Marthe (Marthe)
J. K Huysmans: A vau-l’eau (Downstream; With the Flow)
Michael Ignatieff: Asya
Monique Ilboudo: Le mal de peau
Antoni Jach: The Layers of the City
Henry James: The Ambassadors
Henry James: The American
J. Robert Janes: Carousel
J. Robert Janes: Mayhem
J. Robert Janes: Sandman
Sébastien Japrisot: La dame dans l’auto avec des lunettes et un fusil (The Lady In The Car With Glasses And A Gun)
Bruno Jasieński: Palę Paryż (I Burn Paris)
Radhika Jha: Smell
Diane Johnson: Le Divorce
Diane Johnson: Le Mariage
Laurel Johnson: The Alley of Wishes
Gail Jones: Dreams Of Speaking
Gwyneth Jones: Phoenix Café
James Jones: The Merry Month of May
Kaylie Jones: A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries
Bertène Juminer: La revanche de Bozambo (Bozambo’s Revenge)
Ernst Jünger: Eine gefährliche Begegnung [A Dangerous Encounter]
Ward Just: Ambition & Love
Ward Just: The Translator
Naim Kattan: Les fruits arrachés (Paris Interlude)
Ismail Kadare: Hija (L’ombre) [The Shadow]
Susan Kay: Phantom
Kabouna Keita: L’enfant cadeau
Douglas Kennedy: The Woman In The Fifth
Joseph Kessel: Belle De Jour
Lily King: The Pleasing Hour
Michael Kleeberg: Das amerikanische Hospital
Arthur Koestler: The Age of Longing
Sheila Kohler: The Bay of Foxes
Anne Korkeakivi: An Unexpected Guest
William Kotzwinkle: Fata Morgana
Judith Krantz: Spring Collection
Nancy Kricorian: Dreams of Bread and Fire
Julia Kristeva: Samouraïs (The Samurai)
Allen Kurzweil: A Case of Curiosities
Paul LaFarge: Haussmann
Louise L. Lambrichs: Journal d’Hannah (Hannah’s Diary)
Albert Lamorisse: Le ballon rouge (The Red Balloon)
Jake Lamar: Ghosts of Saint-Michel
Jake Lamar: Rendezvous Eighteenth
Charles Lancar: Les marchands
John Lanchester: Debt to Pleasure
Simon Lane: Fear
Simon Lane: Still Life with Books
Andrew Lazarus: The Street of Four Winds
Martine Le Coz: Céleste
Patricia Le Roy: The Angels Of Russia
Gaston Leroux: Le fantôme de l’Opéra (Phantom of the Opera)
Janet Lewis: The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron
Wyndham Lewis: Tarr
Simon Liberati: Anthologie des apparitions (Anthology Of Apparitions)
Christian Liger: Le roman de Rossel
Joan Lingard: The Kiss
Martin Lloyd: Rue Amélie
Henri Loevenbruck:
Jean Lorrain: Monsieur de Phocas (Monsieur de Phocas)
Robet Ludlum: The Bourne Identity
Robet Ludlum: The Paris Option
Robet Ludlum: The Tristan Betrayal
Alain Mabanckou: Black Bazar (Black Bazaar)
Sep Macandal: Coussin-couverture et les blancs-manants
Harold F Machlan: Black Veils over Paris
V R Main: A Woman With No Clothes On
Andreï Makine: Le testament français (Dreams of My Russian Summers)
Alexander Maksik: You Deserve Nothing
Daniel Mannix: Wolves of Paris
Dominique Manotti: Sombre sentier (Rough Trade)
Hilary Mantel: A Place Of Greater Safety
Paul et Victor Margueritte: La commune
Bruce Marshall: The Bank Audit
Paule Marshall: The Fisher King
Vanina Marsot: Foreign Tongue
Gilles Martin-Chauffier: Paris en temps de paix
Peter Matthiessen: Partisans
W. Somerset Maugham: Christmas Holiday
W. Somerset Maugham: The Magician
W. Somerset Maugham: The Razor’s Edge
Claude Mauriac: La Marquise sortit à cinq heures (The Marquise Went Out at Five)
Megan McAndrew: Dreaming in French
Mary McCarthy: Birds of America
Fiona McGregor: Au Pair
Paula McLain: The Paris Wife
Robert Merle: Paris, ma bonne ville
Gordon Merrick: The Quirk
Nicholas Meyer: The Canary Trainer
Pierre Michon: Les Onze (The Eleven)
Andrew Miller: Lovesong
Andrew Miller: Oxygen
Andrew Miller: Pure
Henry Miller: Quiet Days In Clichy
Henry Miller: Tropic of Cancer
Pierre Miquel: Le magasin de chapeaux
Judith Claire Mitchell: The Last Day of the War
Nancy Mitford: Don’t Tell Alfred
Patrick Modiano: Cathérine Certitude (Catherine Certitude)
Patrick Modiano: Du plus loin de l’oubli (Out of the Dark)
PPatrick Modiano: Voyage de noces (Honeymoon)
Most of Patrick Modiano: ‘s novels take place at least in part in Paris
Mohamed Mokeddem: Paris, l’autre désert
Xabi Molia: Avant de disparaître
Silvia Molina: Muchacha en azul [Girl in Blue]
Maurice Montégut: Le mur
Brian Moore: Doctor’s Wife
Madeline Moore: As You Desire
Víctor Mora: París flash-back
Claude Morgan: Le poids du monde
Ferdinand Mount: The Condor’s Head
Taslima Nasreen: French Lover
Yves Navarre: Lady Black
Hamida Na’na: الوطن في العينين : رواية (The Homeland)
Irène Némirovsky: Chiens et les loups (The Dogs And The Wolves)
Irène Némirovsky: David Golder
Irène Némirovsky: Les mouches d’automne
Jill Neville: The Love Germ
Jill Neville: Swimming the Channel
Kwamé N’Ghoran: L’amant sans maîtresse
Anaïs Nin: Cities of the Interior
Julia O’Faolain: Adam Gould
Susanne O’Leary: Diplomatic Incidents
Joseph Olshan: The Conversion
Kate O’Riordan: Memory Stones
Baroness Orczy: Scarlet Pimpernel novels
Julie Orringer: The Invisible Bridge
Elsa Osorio: Cielo de Tango
Cynthia Ozick: Foreign Bodies
Elliot Paul: Mayhem in B-Flat
Roman Payne: Rooftop Soliloquy
Mario Pei: The Sparrows of Paris
Chantal Pelletier: Chant du bouc (Goat Song)
Daniel Pennac: All of them
Georges Perec: La vie: Mode d’emploi (Life: A User’s Manual)
Georges Perec: La disparition (A Void)
Anne Perry: Dish Taken Cold
Nathalie Peyneau: La tactique du bonheur
Marge Piercy: City of Darkness, City of Light
Mazarine Pingeot: Premier roman (First Novel)
Boris Poplavsky: Аполлон Безобразов (Apollon Bezobrazov)
Abel Posse: El inquietante día de la vida
Melville Davisson Post: Monsieur Jonquelle
Jim Powell: The Breaking of Eggs
Francine Prose: Three Pigs in Five Days in Guided Tours of Hell
Marcel Proust: A la recherche du temps perdu
Eça de Queiroz: A cidade e as serras (The City And The Mountains_
Raymond Queneau: Les derniers jours (The Last Days)
Raymond Queneau: Vol d’Icare (The Flight of Icarus)
Raymond Queneau: Zazie dans le métro (Zazie)
Raymond Radiguet: Bal du Comte d’Orgel (Count d’Orgel Opens the Ball; later: Count d’Orgel)
Raymond Radiguet: Diable au corps (The Devil in the Flesh)
Domnica Radulescu: Black Sea Twilight
Michel Ragon: Un Si Bel Espoir
Patrick Rambaud: Les aventures de mai
Erich Maria Remarque: Arc de triomphe (Arch of Triumph)
Rétif de la Bretonne: Les Nuits de Paris
Dan Rhodes: This is Life
Jean Rhys: Quartet
Jean Rhys: Good Morning, Midnight
Anne Rice: The Vampire Armand
Bill Richardson: Waiting for Gertrude
Mordecai Richler: Barney’s Version
Alyson Richman: The Mask Carver’s Son
Judith Merkle Riley: The Oracle Glass
Rainer Maria Rilke: Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge (The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge)
Luis Eduardo Rivera: Velador de noche, soñador de día
Enrique Riverón: El Arte y El Amor en Montparnasse, Paris 1923-1930
Jean Rolin: La clôture
Romain Rolland: Jean-Christophe à Paris
Jules Romains: Les Hommes de bonne volonté (The Men of Good Will)
Jacqueline Rose: Albertine
Tatiana de Rosnay: Sarah’s Key
Joseph Roth: Beichte eines Mörders (Confession of a Murderer)
Gilles Rozier: Un amour sans résistance (Love without Resistance)
Josh Russell: Yellow Jack
Edward Rutherfurd: Paris
Thomté Ryam: En attendant que le bus explose
Juan José Saer: Pesquisa (The Investigation)
Françoise Sagan: Chagrin de passage (A Fleeting Sorrow)
Cécil Saint-Laurent: La communarde
George Sand: Horace (Horace)
al-Habib Salimi_: روائح ماري كلير (The Scents of Marie-Claire)
Lydie Salvayre: Compagnie des spectres (The Company Of Ghosts)
Cora Sandel: Alberte og Friheten (Alberta and Freedom)
Jean-Paul Sartre: L’Age de raison (The Age of Reason)
Jean-Paul Sartre: Le Sursis (The Reprieve)
Walter Satterthwait: Masquerade
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt: Die Schule der Egoisten
Aurélien Scholl: Les ingénues de Paris
Nina Schuyler: The Painting
Gail Scott: My Paris
Leïla Sebbar: Shérazade (Sherazade)
Leïla Sebbar: La Seine etait rouge (The Seine Was Red)
Richard Sennett: Palais-Royal
Mary Lee Settle: Charley Bland
Robert Sheckley: Soma Blues
Philip Shelby: Gatekeeper
Samuel Shimon: An Iraqi in Paris
Ursula Sigismund: Suzanne Valadon, Modell und Malerin
Antanas Sileika: Woman in Bronze
Georges Simenon: The Maigret Novels
Alfred Sirven: Le jésuite rouge
Janet Skeslien Charles: The Paris Library
Paul Smaïl: Vivre me tue (Smile)
Sarah Smith: The Knowledge of Water
Fernando Solana Olivares: Parisgótica
Susan Sontag: The Benefactor
Philippe Soupault: Dernières nuits de Paris (Last Nights Of Paris)
H. de Vere Stacpoole: Monsieur de Rochefort
Matthew Stadler: Allan Stein
Oliver Stanley: Hôtel Victoire
Danielle Steel: Five Days in Paris
Gertrude Stein: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Samuel M. Steward: Parisian Lives
Monica Stirling: Some Darling Folly
Eugène Sue: Les mystères de Paris (The Mysteries of Paris)
Vladimir Sverzhin: Чего стоит Париж?
Brina Svit: Con Brio
Philippe Tapon: A Parisian from Kansas
Philippe Tapon: The Mistress
Kate Taylor: Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen
Iseult Teran: Dolce Vita
James Thackara: The Book of Kings
Adam Thorpe: No Telling
Elena Tolstaya: Очарование зла
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester: Don Juan [Don Juan]
Lola Lemire Tostevin: The Jasmine Man
Jean-Philippe Toussaint: Monsieur
Jean-Philippe Toussaint: La Salle de bain (The Bathroom)
Rose Tremain: The Way I Found Her
Michel Tremblay: Des nouvelles d’Edouard (News From Edouard)
Henri Troyat: Toute ma vie sera mensonge (An Act of Treachery)
Juana Trullás: El diario de la Dama de las Camelias
Monique Truong: The Book of Salt
Frederic Tuten: The Green Hour
Zoé Valdés: El Todo Cotidiano
Jules Vallès: L’insurgé
Didier van Cauwelaert: Out of My Head
Margaret Vandenburg: An American in Paris
Peter Vansittart: Hermes in Paris
Fred Vargas: Pars vite et reviens tard (Have Mercy On Us All)
Jean Vautrin: Le cri du peuple (The Voice of the People)
Jules Verne: Paris au XXe siècle (Paris in the Twentieth Century)
Enrique Vila-Matas: París no se acaba nunca (Never Any End to Paris)
Colette Vivier: Maison des quatre-vents (The House of the Four Winds)
Victor Walter: The Craftsmen
Paul Watkins: The Forger
Bernard Werber: Fourmis (Empire of the Ants)
Paul West: Rat Man of Paris
Edith Wharton: A Son at the Front
William Wharton: Last Lovers
William Wharton: Scumbler
Edmund White: The Married Man
John A. Williams: The Man Who Cried I Am
Thomas Wiseman: The Time Before the War
Shay Youngblood: Black Girl in Paris
Eric Zencey: Panama
Emile Zola: L’Assommoir (The Drinking Den)
Emile Zola: Au bonheur des dames (The Ladies’ Delight)
Emile Zola: La curée (The Kill)
Emile Zola: Le débâcle (Le débâcle)
Emile Zola: Paris (Paris)
Emile Zola: Thérèse Raquin (Thérèse Raquin)
Emile Zola: Le Ventre de Paris (The Belly of Paris; The Fat and the Thin)
See also: Gilles Thomas: Les catacombes : Histoire du Paris souterrain (about books set in the Catacombs of Paris)
35 of Your Favorite Novels Set in Paris