
Books on France Reading Challenge 2013 hosted @ Words and Peace
I wasn’t planning on signing up for a reading challenge or anything this 2013 but I noticed that I was reading a lot of books set in France lately and have a number of books on my to-read pile that’s set in France or written by a French author so I figured, why not? =) Basically this challenge includes any books set in France or contains any French themes; the full list can be found on the challenge main page.
LEVELS:
- LEVEL 1, “un peu” = 3 books (one per quarter for instance)
- LEVEL 2, “beaucoup”= 6 books
- LEVEL 3, “passionnément” = 12 books (one/month, for instance)
- LEVEL 4, “à la folie”= 52 books (one/week, for instance)
These are the books I’m planning to read that are on my to-read list at present. This list is, of course, subject to change:
- Denyse Beaulieu’s The Perfume Lover: A Personal History of Scent (ARC; set in France, focuses on the perfume industry there) — review
- Alexandre Dumas’ La dame aux camelias (French author; set in France) — review
- Edward Rutherfurd’s Paris: the novel (ARC; set in France) — review
- Maurice Druon’s The Iron King, book 1 of the Accursed Kings (French author; set in France) — review
- Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary (French author; set in France) — review
- Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo (French author; set in France) — review
- Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame of Paris (French author; set in France) — review
- Honore de Balzac’s Pere Goriot (French author; set in France) — review
- Honore de Balzac’s Cousin Bette (French author; set in France) — review
- Benjamin Constable’s Three Lives of Tomomi Ishikawa (ARC; partly set in France) — review
- Paulita Kincer’s The Summer of France (set in France) — review
- Deanna Raybourn’s A Spear of Summer Grass (partly set in France) — review
- Alan Furst’s Mission to Paris (eGalley; set in France) — review
- Laurie R. King’s The Bones of Paris (eGalley/ARC; set in France) — review
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s The Watcher in the Shadows (set in France) — review
- Jojo Moyes’ The Girl You Left Behind (eGalley; partly set in France) — review
- Isabelle Lafleche’s J’adore Paris (set in Paris) — review
- Guy de Maupassant’s Bel-Ami (French author; set in France) — review
- Ayse Kulin’s Last Train to Istanbul (eGalley; partly set in France) — review
- Christopher Angel’s The Mona Lisa Speaks (set in France) — review
- M.K. Tod’s Unravelled (partly set in France) — review
- Susan Conley’s Paris Was the Place (set in France) — preview post
- P.S. Duffy’s The Cartographer of No-Man’s Land (party set in France) — review
And naturally most of the books on my list are classics xP We’ll see how this goes!
Edit: Just heard that re-reads are acceptable for this challenge. I’ve been hoping to re-read the following at some point so I’ll add them to the list as incentive ^_~
- Anna Gavalda’s Ensemble C’est Tout (Hunting and Gathering; French author; set in France) — commentary
- Sebastien Japrisot’s A Very Long Engagement (French author; set in France) — review
- Irene Nemirovsky’s All Our Worldly Goods (emigrated to France; set in France) — commentary
don’t forget to post your recap for Books On France challenge: http://www.blenza.com/linkies/links.php?owner=wordsandpeace&postid=15Nov2012b&meme=10452
Thanks for the heads up! Will post mine shortly (since I’m more or less done ;))