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Oh Là Là ! Goodreads Best French Literature

"Best books written by French Authors" (Goodreads). An updated and much longer version (x4) of the list originally published in 2014 by Leigh Ann Zerr. Titles in English as far as possible, hopefully all authors' names with correct French spelling (please point out errors).
Note: Some duplicates were eliminated; some books were subdivided into their constituent works. In the near future I will publish a further challenge encompassing more works originally written in French, but mainly published in recent decades.
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The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
The Little Prince
1
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
Les Misérables
2
Victor Hugo
The Outsider (Albert Camus)
The Outsider
3
Albert Camus
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo
4
Alexandre Dumas
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
5
Gustave Flaubert
Candide (Voltaire)
Candide
6
Voltaire
The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)
The Three Musketeers
7
Alexandre Dumas
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
8
Victor Hugo
The Plague (Albert Camus)
The Plague
9
Albert Camus
The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire)
The Flowers of Evil
10
Charles Baudelaire
Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre Choderlos De Laclos)
Dangerous Liaisons
11
Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
The Red and the Black
12
Stendhal
The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux)
The Phantom of the Opera
13
Gaston Leroux
The Way by Swann's (Marcel Proust)
The Way by Swann's
14
Marcel Proust
Old Man Goriot (Honoré De Balzac)
Old Man Goriot
15
Honoré De Balzac
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
16
Jules Verne
Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Nausea
17
Jean-Paul Sartre
Germinal (Émile Zola)
Germinal
18
Émile Zola
The Fall (Albert Camus)
The Fall
19
Albert Camus
Around the World in Eighty Days (Jules Verne)
Around the World in Eighty Days
20
Jules Verne
Journey to the End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
Journey to the End of the Night
21
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Bel-Ami (Guy De Maupassant)
Bel-Ami
22
Guy De Maupassant
Cyrano De Bergerac (Edmond Rostand)
Cyrano De Bergerac
23
Edmond Rostand
Illuminations (Arthur Rimbaud)
Illuminations
24
Arthur Rimbaud
The Myth of Sisyphus (Albert Camus)
The Myth of Sisyphus
25
Albert Camus
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Jules Verne)
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
26
Jules Verne
Froth on the Daydream (Boris Vian)
Froth on the Daydream
27
Boris Vian
Gargantua and Pantagruel (François Rabelais)
Gargantua and Pantagruel
28
François Rabelais
The Second Sex (Simone De Beauvoir)
The Second Sex
29
Simone De Beauvoir
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
30
Marcel Proust
The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery)
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
31
Muriel Barbery
The Lady of the Camellias (Alexandre Dumas)
The Lady of the Camellias
32
Alexandre Dumas
Nana (Émile Zola)
Nana
33
Émile Zola
The Misanthrope (Molière)
The Misanthrope
34
Molière
Memoirs of Hadrian (Marguerite Yourcenar, Trans. Grace Frick)
Memoirs of Hadrian
35
Marguerite Yourcenar, Trans. Grace Frick
Bonjour Tristesse (Françoise Sagan)
Bonjour Tristesse
36
Françoise Sagan
The Drinking Den/L'assommoir (Émile Zola)
The Drinking Den/L'assommoir
37
Émile Zola
The Charterhouse of Parma (Stendhal)
The Charterhouse of Parma
38
Stendhal
Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert)
Sentimental Education
39
Gustave Flaubert
The Counterfeiters (André Gide)
The Counterfeiters
40
André Gide
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