{"id":240,"date":"2007-10-29T10:37:49","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T18:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/10\/books-of-adult-fiction-set-in-paris-authors-a-through-h\/"},"modified":"2007-10-30T10:24:25","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T18:24:25","slug":"books-of-adult-fiction-set-in-paris-authors-a-through-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/10\/books-of-adult-fiction-set-in-paris-authors-a-through-h\/","title":{"rendered":"Books of adult fiction set in Paris, authors A through H"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve compiled a list of adult fiction books set in Paris from information from book clubs, publishers’ lists, book blogs, and my own reading. These are alphabetized by the author’s last name.\u00c2\u00a0I haven’t separated them into genres, nor do I sort the books as\u00c2\u00a0great or ho-hum or\u00c2\u00a0truly awful. When possible, I’ve indicated the original publication date in parentheses after the title.<\/p>\n

You may be aware of a glut of recent books set in Paris.\u00c2\u00a0many in the chick lit category. I’ve read a lot of grousing about these books, but I suspect many are well researched and it’s the writing<\/em> that’s bad, so choose what interests you.<\/p>\n

ADLER, Elizabeth. Leonie.<\/em><\/p>\n

AIKEN, Joan. The Girl from Paris.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

APPIGNANESI, Lisa. Paris Requiem.<\/em><\/p>\n

BAGESHAWE, Louise. Sparkles.<\/em><\/p>\n

BAKER, Sam. Fashion Victim.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

BALDWIN, James. Giovanni’s Room.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Giovanni's<\/a><\/p>\n

BALZAC, Honore de. Cousin Bette <\/em>and Le Pere Goriot<\/em> (1853).<\/p>\n

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BAXTER, John. We’ll Always Have Paris.<\/em><\/p>\n

BLACK, Cara. Murder in Clichy, Murder in the Bastille, Murder in Bellville, Murder in the Ile St. Louis<\/em> (2007), Murder in the Marais,\u00c2\u00a0Murder in Montmartre<\/em> (2006), and Murder in the Sentier<\/em> (2002).<\/p>\n

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BOYLE, Elizabeth. Brazen Heiress.<\/em><\/p>\n

BRADFORD, Barbara Taylor. Three Weeks in Paris<\/em> and A Sudden Change of Heart<\/em>.<\/p>\n

BRISCOE, Peter. The Best Read Man in France.<\/em><\/p>\n

BRODRICK, William. The 6th Lamentation.<\/em><\/p>\n

BROWN, Dan. The Da Vinci Code.<\/em><\/p>\n

BULL, Bartle. China Star.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

CADBURY, Deborah. The Lost King of France:\u00c2\u00a0 Revolution, revenge and the search for Louis XVII<\/em> (2003).<\/p>\n

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COLLETTE. The Complete Claudine.<\/em><\/p>\n

COLLINS, Jackie. Lucky.<\/em><\/p>\n

CONRAN, Shirley. Lace<\/em> (1982). Adapted into a TV mini-series.<\/p>\n

CORDER, Zizou. Lionboy.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

DASWANI, Kavita. Salaam, Paris.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

DAVIS, Katharine. Capturing Paris: A Novel.<\/em><\/p>\n

DAWESAR, Abha. That Summer in Paris.<\/em><\/p>\n

de BEAUVOIR, Simone. The Mandarins<\/em> and She Came to Stay<\/em> (1943).<\/p>\n

de MAUPAUSSANT, Guy. Bel-Ami<\/em> (1885).\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Bel-Ami<\/a><\/p>\n

DICKENS, Charles.\u00c2\u00a0A Tale of Two Cities<\/em> (1859).<\/p>\n

DONLEAVY, James Patrick. The Ginger Man.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

DUMAS, Alexandre. Ange Pitou <\/em>and Camille.<\/em><\/p>\n

DUNDY, Elaine. Dud Avocado.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

EBERSTADT, Isabel. Natural Victims.<\/em><\/p>\n

EDGE, Arabella. The God of Spring.<\/em> Story of Theodore Gericault’s painting The Raft of the Medusa<\/em>.<\/p>\n

ENGEL,\u00c2\u00a0Howard. Murder in Montparnasse: A Mystery of Literary Paris<\/em> (1999).<\/p>\n

\"Murder<\/a><\/p>\n

FITCH, Noel Riley. A Paris Cafe: The Select Crowd.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

FLAUBERT,\u00c2\u00a0Gustave. Sentimental Education<\/em> (1870) <\/em>and Madame Bovary<\/em> (1857).<\/p>\n

FLORAND, Laura. Blame It on Paris.<\/em><\/p>\n

FORSYTH, Frederick. The Day of the Jackal.<\/em><\/p>\n

FRIED, Ronald K. Christmas in Paris, 2002<\/em>. Yes, “2002” is part of the title.<\/p>\n

FURST, Alan. The Foreign Correspondent.<\/em><\/p>\n

GAITSKILL, Mary. Veronica.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

GALLANT, Mavis. Overhead in a Balloon <\/em>and Paris Stories <\/em>(2002).<\/p>\n

GALLICO, Paul. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Mrs<\/p>\n

GODDARD, Robert. In Pale Battalions<\/em>.<\/p>\n

GREENWOOD, Kerry. Murder in Montparnasse: A Phryne\u00c2\u00a0Fisher Mystery.<\/em><\/p>\n

HOLDEN, Julia. One Dance in Paris<\/em> (2007).<\/p>\n

HOLLY, Emma. Personal Assets.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

HOTCHNER, A. E. The Man Who Lived at the Ritz.<\/em><\/p>\n

HUGO, Victor. Les Miserables<\/em> (1862)\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame<\/em> (1831,\u00c2\u00a0originally published\u00c2\u00a0as Notre-Dame de Paris).<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

(See the next post for Paris-set adult fiction books by authors I through Z.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve compiled a list of adult fiction books set in Paris from information from book clubs, publishers’ lists, book blogs, and my own reading. These are alphabetized by the author’s last name.\u00c2\u00a0I haven’t separated them into genres, nor do I sort the books as\u00c2\u00a0great or ho-hum or\u00c2\u00a0truly awful. When possible, I’ve indicated the original publication […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}