Recs if you like The Flowers of Evil...
French Literature Final Boss
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Based on my original post on having quests for French Literature, I made starter packs (check my profile 👀) but I'm thinking we just need a big dump! Thanks to everyone participating!
This list covers books across time by French authors (as in people that have the nationality no matter their origins) and can hopefully incentivize crossovers with the Francophonie mon amour list!
Check comments to see how I diversified the list!
Horror x Poetry
Poetry is an art form that can be used to interact with a lot of themes - my favorites are when dark topics or the horror genre itself come into the mix.
books for purple readers
book recs for purple readers according to read your color on substack | updated periodically
French Classic Literature
a non-exhaustive collection of works
French Classics Starter Pack I
Based on my original post on having quests for French Literature! Thanks to everyone that participated in the discussion and helped me put these together!
This list covers books published from the 12th to the 19th centuries. See comments for more info on the methodology I used!
See also:
- French Classics Starter Pack II
- French Modern Classics Starter Pack I
- Francophonie mon amour
- French Literature Final Boss
Essential Francophone Lit: Classics & Contemporary
A collection of acclaimed classic and contemporary Francophone literature. I chose to classify as Francophone rather than French in order to include authors who wrote in French but were/are not of French nationality, especially authors from colonised countries. Non-exhaustive as I'm not an expert I am keeping this list to one book per author but suggestions very welcome! :)
spooky/horror poetry
scary poems that will stick with you.
Hella long and old French Literature
As said in the name, this is a list to long (a bit boring) and old french literature that I would consider good books (because frenchies don't lack of those )
This is a list of books from the XIX c. (and before). Some books are just 150 pages long because they are plays
(Feel free to tell me if you want me to add books to the list, I will be adding some myself as I can't think about every book right now...)
St. John's College Senior Lit Reading List
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