The most popular French big city books

Big city books thrive on crowds, noise and possibility. New York, London, Tokyo and cities like them offer anonymity, ambition and chance encounters on every corner. Romance, crime, literary fiction and urban fantasy all find a home among the lights and the late trains. Only books in French are listed.

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Franny et Zooey
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Franny et Zooey

J. D. Salinger

1970 · 2010 edition

255 pages

Amande
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Amande

Won-pyung Sohn

2017 · 2022 edition

336 pages

Trust
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Trust

Hernán Díaz, 埃尔南·迪亚斯

2022 · 2023 edition

400 pages

Middlemarch
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Middlemarch

George Eliot, Viola Huggins

1873 · 2005 edition

1152 pages

Joyland
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Joyland

Nadine Gassie, 스티븐 킹

2013 · 2015 edition

324 pages

Trainspotting
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Trainspotting

Irvine Welsh

1993 · 2021 edition

456 pages

L'aliéniste
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L'aliéniste

Caleb Carr

1981 · 2015 edition

587 pages

Freedom
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Freedom

Jonathan Franzen

2010 · 2023 edition

792 pages

Ghosts
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Ghosts

Dolly Alderton

2020 · 2024 edition

416 pages

L'Équilibre du monde
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L'Équilibre du monde

Rohinton Mistry, 罗欣顿·米斯特里

1995 · 2001 edition

890 pages

Sous la glace
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Sous la glace

Louise Penny

2006 · 2013 edition

464 pages

Revival
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Revival

Stephen King, Стивен Кинг

2011 · 2017 edition

544 pages

Ulysse
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Ulysse

James Joyce, Don Gifford

1975 · 1941 edition

712 pages

Kitchen
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Kitchen

Banana Yoshimoto

1988 · 1996 edition

181 pages