Tick off each book as you read it. 14 of these 74 French classics are free to read online at pagineapp.com/classics/french, with author guides and links to the rest.
Medieval to the age of Louis XIV
☐1.The Song of Roland — Anonymous (1100)
☐2.Gargantua and Pantagruel — François Rabelais (1532)
☐3.Essays — Michel de Montaigne (1580)
☐4.The Cid — Pierre Corneille (1637)
☐5.Tartuffe — Molière (1664)
☐6.The Misanthrope — Molière (1666)
☐7.The Miser — Molière (1668)
☐8.Fables — Jean de La Fontaine (1668)
☐9.Pensées — Blaise Pascal (1670)
☐10.The Imaginary Invalid — Molière (1673)
☐11.Phèdre — Jean Racine (1677)
☐12.The Princess of Clèves — Madame de La Fayette (1678)
The Enlightenment (18th century)
☐13.Persian Letters — Montesquieu (1721)
☐14.Manon Lescaut — Abbé Prévost (1731)
☐15.Candide — Voltaire (1759) · free on Pagine
☐16.The Social Contract — Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762)
☐17.Dangerous Liaisons — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1782)
☐18.The Marriage of Figaro — Pierre Beaumarchais (1784)
☐19.Jacques the Fatalist — Denis Diderot (1796)
Romanticism & realism (1830–1870)
☐20.The Red and the Black — Stendhal (1830) · free on Pagine
☐21.The Hunchback of Notre-Dame — Victor Hugo (1831) · free on Pagine
☐22.Indiana — George Sand (1832)
☐23.Eugénie Grandet — Honoré de Balzac (1833)
☐24.Père Goriot — Honoré de Balzac (1835) · free on Pagine
☐25.The Charterhouse of Parma — Stendhal (1839)
☐26.Lost Illusions — Honoré de Balzac (1843)
☐27.The Three Musketeers — Alexandre Dumas (1844) · free on Pagine
☐28.The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas (1844) · free on Pagine
☐29.Carmen — Prosper Mérimée (1845)
☐30.Twenty Years After — Alexandre Dumas (1845)
☐31.Cousin Bette — Honoré de Balzac (1846)
☐32.The Lady of the Camellias — Alexandre Dumas fils (1848)
☐33.The Man in the Iron Mask — Alexandre Dumas (1850)
☐34.Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert (1857) · free on Pagine
☐35.The Flowers of Evil — Charles Baudelaire (1857)
☐36.Les Misérables — Victor Hugo (1862) · free on Pagine
☐40.Journey to the Center of the Earth — Jules Verne (1864) · free on Pagine
☐41.From the Earth to the Moon — Jules Verne (1865)
☐42.Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea — Jules Verne (1870) · free on Pagine
☐43.Around the World in Eighty Days — Jules Verne (1872) · free on Pagine
☐44.The Mysterious Island — Jules Verne (1875)
☐45.Michael Strogoff — Jules Verne (1876)
Naturalism, Maupassant & the fin de siècle (1870–1900)
☐46.A Season in Hell — Arthur Rimbaud (1873)
☐47.Three Tales — Gustave Flaubert (1877)
☐48.L’Assommoir — Émile Zola (1877)
☐49.Nana — Émile Zola (1880)
☐50.Boule de Suif — Guy de Maupassant (1880)
☐51.The Necklace and Other Stories — Guy de Maupassant (1884)
☐52.Germinal — Émile Zola (1885) · free on Pagine
☐53.Bel-Ami — Guy de Maupassant (1885)
☐54.Pierre and Jean — Guy de Maupassant (1888)
☐55.The Beast Within — Émile Zola (1890)
☐56.Cyrano de Bergerac — Edmond Rostand (1897) · free on Pagine
20th-century French classics
☐57.The Immoralist — André Gide (1902)
☐58.Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar — Maurice Leblanc (1907)
☐59.The Phantom of the Opera — Gaston Leroux (1910) · free on Pagine
☐60.Swann’s Way — Marcel Proust (1913)
☐61.The Wanderer — Alain-Fournier (1913)
☐62.Chéri — Colette (1920)
☐63.Thérèse Desqueyroux — François Mauriac (1927)
☐64.Journey to the End of the Night — Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1932)
☐65.Man’s Fate — André Malraux (1933)
☐66.Nausea — Jean-Paul Sartre (1938)
☐67.The Stranger — Albert Camus (1942)
☐68.The Little Prince — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)
☐69.No Exit — Jean-Paul Sartre (1944)
☐70.The Plague — Albert Camus (1947)
☐71.The Second Sex — Simone de Beauvoir (1949)
☐72.Memoirs of Hadrian — Marguerite Yourcenar (1951)
☐73.Bonjour Tristesse — Françoise Sagan (1954)
☐74.The Lover — Marguerite Duras (1984)
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