French books

French books

Browse by title, story setting, or Wikipedia coverage. Ordered by how often each title is looked up on French Wikipedia.

All titles7,885 books and other written works ordered by French Wikipedia lookups, drawn from 77,253 catalogue records.Where they are set1,440 titles placed across France's thirteen metropolitan regions, and one list for the ones set elsewhere.Only in French7,817 titles — 10% of the list — found only on French Wikipedia.

About this catalogue. We hold no text of any book on this list. A title is here because it has an article on French Wikipedia, drawn from Wikidata (CC0) and ranked by how often that article is looked up — never sales, never a bestseller list, never a difficulty figure. The most looked-up titles in this ranking include Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, Les Trois Mousquetaires, Demain, dès l'aube, L'Étranger, Les Misérables. A book in any variety of French counts — Quebec, Belgium, Switzerland, Haiti and francophone Africa are all on this list, not only books from France.

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