French Books of the Year 2017
- Dec 12, 2017
- 2 min read
As you are leaving on holidays, why not have a look back on all the books we recommended to your thgoughout the year 2017?
From the 4th of January to the 20th of December, here are our favourites...
Notes on a Thesis by Tiphaine Rivière (Jonathan Cape)
The Arab of the Future II by Riad Sattouf (Two Roads)
The Prospector by J.M.G Le Clézio (Atlantic Books)
French Rhapsody by Antoine Laurain (Gallic Books)
The End of Eddy by Edouard Louis (Harvill Secker)
Don't Turn Out the Lights by Bernard Minier (Mulholland Books)
The Principle by Jérôme Ferrari (Europa Editions)
Retribution Road by Antonin Varenne (Maclehose Press)
Far from Phoenix by Laurent Seksik (Salammbo Press)
The Executioner Weeps by Frédéric Dard (Pushkin Press)
Octavio's Journey by Miguel Bonnefoy (Gallic Books)
Based on a True Story by Delphine de Vigan (Bloomsbury)
Black Moses by Alain Mabanckou (Serpent's Tail)
The French Art of War by Alexis Jenni (Atlantic Books)
Diary of a Vampire in Pyjamas by Mathias Malzieu (Quercus)
The Seventh Function of Language by Laurent Binet (Harvill Secker)
Hell's Gate by Laurent Gaudé (Gallic Books)
The Kingdom by Emmanuel Carrère (Allen Lane)
At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell (Vintage)
The Némirovsky Question by Susan Suleiman (Yale University Press)
Blue Self-Portrait by Noémie Lefebvre (Les Fugitives)
How To Get Rid of a Vampire (Using Ketchup, Garlic Cloves and a Bit of Imagination) by J.M Erre (Alma Books)
Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes (Maclehose Press)
Josephine Baker by Catel & Bocquet (SelfMadeHero)
Fibrils (The Rules of the Game vol.3) by Michel Leiris (Yale University Press)
Jihad and Death: The Global Appeal of Islamic State by Olivier Roy (Hurst)
The Awkward Squad by Sophie Hénaff (Maclehose Press)
The Portrait by Antoine Laurain (Gallic Books)
Three Days and A Life by Pierre Lemaître (Maclehose Press)
Now Let's Dance by Karine Lambert (Orion Books)
The King of Fools by Frédéric Dard (Pushkin Vertigo)
After the War by Hervé Le Corre (Maclehose Press)
Stalin's Meteorologist by Olivier Rolin (Harvill Secker)
Madame Bovary of the Suburbs by Sophie Divry (Maclehose Press)
The Rest of Their Lives by Jean-Pierre Didierlaurent (Pan Macmillan)
Daddy Long Legs by Nadine Brun-Cosme & Aurélie Guillerey (Pan Macmillan)
Anatomy: A Cutaway Look Inside the Human Body by Jean-Claude & Hélène Druvert (Thames & Hudson)
Translation as Transhumance by Mireille Gansel (Les Fugitives)
Letters to the Lady Upstairs by Marcel Proust (4th Estate)
Anquetil, alone by Paul Fournel (Profile Books)
Storms Under the Skin by Henri Michaux (Two Rivers Press)
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