Re: TOTW: A French Book Reading Resource
Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 11:07 pm
Thanks to MorkTheFiddle and others for checking.
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Thu Feb 14, 2019 8:53 am
Books in French
I am in my fourth year of studying French and have a B1 level, for what it is worth, from Dialang. I have found that it is absolutely necessary to maximize my time spent in learning my chosen language of French. I think it is possible that others may feel the same way and I would like to offer here an ongoing resource for people who are focused on reading books in French. Hopefully by having an ongoing resource for what authors people like, don’t like, and why it will save people time in their language learning efforts.
For starters, an excellent resource is this website that provides excellent and comprehensive reviews:
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/
Please suggest other websites that might be useful as well.
Everyone has their own tastes in reading and what my tastes are can be seen by the listing of books below that I have read and about which I would be glad to discuss with anyone who has questions. Since I read French books for a minimum of 2 hrs. each day, I will be adding to the list regularly. I of course encourage everyone to add their lists of books so we can ask questions re specific authors.
My list to date includes the following books:
Books I have read
*** That were found to be especially outstanding.
L'Armoire Magique C.S. Lewis
Harry Potter, à l'école des sorciers J.K Rowling
Harry Potter et Le Prisonnier D'Azkaban J.K Rowling
Le Petit Prince Saint Exupery
Le Retour de l'Enfant Prodigy A. Gide***
Bonjour Tristesse F. Sagan***
L'Amant Marguerite Duras***
La Symphonie pastorale A. Gide
L'école des sorciers JK Rowling
Stupeur Et Tremblements A. Nothomb***
L'Élégance du hérisson M. Barbery
La Carte et le Territoire M. Houellebecq
Le Sabotage amoureux A. Nothomb
Métaphysique des tubes A. Nothomb
Histoire du lion Personne S. Audeguy
Le lit defait F. Sagan
Les yeux jaunes des crocodiles K. Pancol
La Peste A. Camus
Le Sud Yves Berger
Mercure A. Nothomb
La biographie de la faim A. Nothomb
Thérèse Desqueyroux F. Mauriac***
Poil de carotte J. Renard
La Chambre Rouge Mallet-Joris
La Place A. Ernaux
La Douleur M. Duras***
Le Château de ma mère M. Pagnol
Les Années Annie Ernaux
La grammaire est un chanson douce E. Orsenna
Un Coeur Simple G. Flaubert
Le chant de l'océan M. Dupuy
Lambeaux C. Juliet
L'homme qui plantait des arbresJean Giono
J'irai cracher sur vos tombes B. Vian***
Un barrage contre le Pacifique M. Duras
Un Pedigree P. Modiano
Jean le bleu J. Giono
Sans famille H. Malot***
Le Château de mon père M. Pagnol
Un Sac de Billes J. Joffo***
Voyage au pays des arbres J.M.G. Le Clézio
35 kilos d’éspoir A. Gavalda
Please remember that value of this thread is based on what everyone contributes to it. The more people who contribute to it the greater the breadth and depth of possible choices for reading of books.
The particular value of this thread can be that since it is on the Language Learners Forum, we can all discuss the books in addition to content by suggesting the language level that might be appropriate: A1-C2.
katsu wrote:Madame Bovary
Has anyone else read this? What did you think?
French text: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14155
French audio: https://librivox.org/madame-bovary-french-by-gustave-flaubert/