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France
6 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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Where to Start with James Salter: A Reading Guide
Where to start with James Salter — whether to begin with A Sport and a Pastime or Light Years. A complete reading guide to the American writer's essential novels.
Where to Start with Peter Mayle: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Peter Mayle — how to approach A Year in Provence, the book that invented a genre, his warmly funny account of abandoning an advertising career to renovate a farmhouse in the Luberon and discover a way of life organised around food. A complete reading guide.
Best Books Set in Paris: Essential Reading List
The best books set in Paris — from A Moveable Feast and Les Misérables to The Count of Monte Cristo and A Tale of Two Cities. Literature's greatest city in its greatest books.
Where to Start with Sebastian Faulks: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Sebastian Faulks — whether to begin with Birdsong, Charlotte Gray, or A Week in December. A complete reading guide to his best novels.
Books About France: Essential Reading for Every Visitor
The best books set in France — from Provence to Paris, from WWII to the Belle Époque. Fiction, memoir, and history for travellers and Francophiles.
Books Like A Year in Provence: Expat Life, Food, and Life Abroad
Peter Mayle's account of buying a farmhouse in the Luberon and spending a year navigating Provençal life invented a genre. These books share its warmth, its pleasure in food and place, and its comedy of cultural collision — the outsider who falls in love with somewhere they were never supposed to belong.
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