Paris Reading Project

What started as a theme in my reading has become an obsession. This is a list of books, mostly fiction, set in the city of Paris, through which I am slowly making my way. If you have any ideas of books not on this list that need to be on it, especially examples of world literature with which I am probably not familiar, e-mail them to me (ionarts at gmail dot com) for inclusion.

Available from Amazon: André Breton, Nadja (1960) Daniel Pennac, The Fairy Gunmother (La fée carabine, 1987) Louis Aragon, Le Paysan de Paris (1926) (see post on April 24, 2004) Edith Wharton, Custom of the Country (1913) Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (1926) Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (1964) F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night (1934) Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1932) Gertrude Stein, Paris France (1940)

In French:

• Œuvres de François Villon (1431–1463), edited by Clément Marot
  
• Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris, 1405-1449
  
• Alexandre Dumas père, The Man in the Iron Mask (1846)
  
• Alexandre Dumas père, The Count of Monte Cristo
  
• Alexandre Dumas père, The Three Musketeers
  
• Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias [Camille]
  
• Henri Mürger, Scènes de la Vie de Bohème (1847-49)
  
• Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal (1861 ed. in French)
  
• Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil
  
• Charles Baudelaire, Petits poèmes en prose (Spleen de Paris)
  
• Charles Baudelaire, Curiosités esthétiques: L'art romantique
  
• Stendhal, Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black)
  
• Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris (1831)
  
• Abbé Prévost (Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles), Manon Lescaut
  
• Honoré de Balzac, An Episode under the Terror
  
• Honoré de Balzac, Bureaucracy
  
• Honoré de Balzac, Catherine de Medici
  
• Honoré de Balzac, A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
  
• Honoré de Balzac, Le Père Goriot
  
• Guy de Maupassant, La parure et autres contes parisiens
  
• Gérard de Nerval, Nuits d'octobre
  
• Gérard de Nerval, Promenades et souvenirs
  
• Gérard de Nerval, Les filles du feu
  
• Eugène Süe, Les Mystères de Paris
  
• Jules Verne, Paris in the Twentieth Century (1863)
  
• Marcel Proust, A la Recherche du Temps Perdu
  
• Guillaume Apollinaire, Le flâneur des deux rives
  
• Françoise Sagan, Chagrin de Passage
  
• Marguerite Duras, La pluie d'été
  
• Daniel Pennac, The Scapegoat, Monsieur Malaussène, Passion Fruit, The Fairy Gunmother, Write to Kill, Comme un roman, translated by Ian Monk (see post from August 17, 2003)

In English:

• Memorandums of a Residence in France in the Winter of 1815-16
  
• Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
  
• Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution (1837)
  
• George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)
  
• James Fenimore Cooper, A Residence in France (1836)
  
• Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress (1869)
  
• Henry James, The Ambassadors (1903)
  
• Henry James, The American (1877)
  
• Henry James, A Little Tour in France (1884)
  
• Henry James, Madame de Mauves (1874) (or Project Gutenberg text)
  
• Edith Wharton, Fighting France
  
• Edith Wharton, A Son at the Front (1923)
  
• Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (c. 1765-1768)
  
• Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books: Victor Hugo's Romances
  
• Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books: François Villon, Student, Poet, and Housebreaker
  
• Sinclair Lewis, Dodsworth (1929)
  
• Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue
  
• Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Roget
  
• Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kiliminjaro (1938)
  
• Gore Vidal, The Judgment of Paris (1952)
  
• Mary McCarthy, Birds of America (1971)
  
• Irwin Shaw, Paris! Paris!
  
• Janet Flanner, Paris Journal (1972)
  
• Henry Miller, Under the Roofs of Paris (Opus Pistorum), essentially pornography for which Miller was paid $1/page and written when he was in need of money back in California
  
• Brassaï, Conversations With Picasso
  
• Brassaï, The Secret Paris of the '30s
  
• Brassaï, Paris By Night
  
• Wambly Bald, On the Left Bank 1929-1933
  
• Ned Rorem, The Paris Diary
  
• Edmund White, The Farewell Symphony
  
• Edmund White, The Married Man
  
• Mavis Gallant, Paris Diary (1992, published in The New Yorker, December 24/31, 2001)
  
• Mavis Gallant, Paris Stories
  
• Adam Gopnik, Paris to the Moon
  
• Paris in Mind, edited by Jennifer Lee, an anthology of 29 excerpts of novels, memoirs, and so on relating to American experiences in Paris
  
• Irene Nemirovsky, Suite française
  
• Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah's Key
  
• Diane Johnson, Le Divorce (also Le Mariage and L'Affaire)

Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (1934)	Henry Miller, Quiet Days in Clichy (1940/56) (see post on December 27, 2004)	The Diary of Anaïs Nin (1931–32)
James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room (1956)	A. J. Liebling, Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris (1962)	Edmund White, The Flaneur (2001)
Jack Kerouac, Satori in Paris (1966)	Adam Gopnik, Paris to the Moon (2000)