Below is a list of fiction and nonfiction books set in France compiled by the Heights Libraries Matchmakers. If you have even a bit of Francophile in you, there is certainly a title on this list that will transport you to that wondrous land.
FICTION
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke
Chocolat: A Novel by Joanne Harris
Murder on the Eiffel Tower by Claude Izner
The Paris Wife: A Novel by Paula McClain
Left Bank by Kate Muir
Suite Francaise: A Novel by Irene Nemirovsky and translated by Sandra Smith
The Matchmaker of Perigord: A Novel by Julia Stuart
French Lessons: A Novel by Ellen Sussman
The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
NON-FICTION
A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition by Ernest Hemingway
Paris in Love: A Memoir by Eloisa James
Petite Anglaise: A True Story by Catherine Sanderson
The Sharper your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World’s Most Famous Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family’s Century of Art and Loss by Edmund de Waal
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough
Le Road Trip: A Traveler’s Journal of Love and France by Vivian Swift
Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
Paris, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down by Rosecrans Baldwin
Almost French: Love and A New Life in Paris by Sarah Turnbull
The Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Olive Oil in the South of France by Carol Drinkwater
Words in A French Life: Lessons in Love and Language from the South of France by Kristin Espinasse
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You can also view another version of Ooh, La La!: I Love Paris (and France) at Riffle by clicking on the book list title.