James Baldwin

Giovanni's Room

 Honore de Balzac

Cousin Bette

Colette

The Complete Claudine

Charles Dickens

The Tale of Two Cities

Alexandre Dumas

Ange Pitou; Camille

Simone de Beauvoir

The Mandarins

Frederick Forsyth

The Day of the Jackal

Mavis Gallant

Overhead in a Balloon

Victor Hugo

The Hunchback of Notre Dame; 
Les Miserables

Henry James

The Ambassadors

George Perec

Life, a User's Manual

Jean Rhys

Quartet

Jules Romaine

The Depths and the Heights

Francoise Sagan

A Certain Smile;
A Fleeting Sorrow

George Sand

Horace

Leon Uris

Topaz

Emile Zola

The Belly of Paris;
Nana

Cara Black

"Aimee Leduc" series

Dean Fuller

"Alex Grismolet " series

J. Robert Janes

"Jean-Louis St. Cyr" series

Richard Grayson

"Police Inspector Jean
Paul Gautier" series

George Simenon

"Inspector Maigret" series