History
The Discovery of France, Parisians, Graham Robb
Seven Ages of Paris, The Age of Napoleon, Alistair Horne
Our Paris: Sketches from Memory, Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris, The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris, Edmund White
Caesar’s Footprints: A Cultural Excursion to Ancient France – Journeys Through Roman Gaul, Bijan Omrani
The Dream of Scipio, Iain Pears
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, Barbara W. Tuchman
The Golden Age of Burgundy: The Magnificent Dukes and their Courts, Joseph Calmette
A Brief History of the Hundred Years War, Desmond Seward
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life, Alison Weir
Joan of Arc: her story, Regine Pernoud
The Maid and the Queen: The Secret History of Joan of Arc, Nancy Goldstone
The Flower of Chivalry: Bertrand du Guesclin and the Hundred Years War, Richard Vernier
The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France, Eric Jager
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France, Leonie Frieda
The Rival Queens: Catherine de’ Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom, Nancy Goldstone
The Splendid Century: Life in the France of Louis XIV, W.H. Lewis
The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV, Anne Somerset
A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment, Philipp Blom
Marie Antoinette: The Journey, Antonia Fraser
A Place of Greater Safety, Hilary Mantel
Citizens, Simon Schama
The Days of the French Revolution, Christopher Hibbert
Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution, Ruth Scurr
Lafayette, Improbable Patriot: The Secret History of Monsieur de Beaumarchais, the French Playwright Who Saved the American Revolution, Harlow Giles
Napoleon Bonaparte, Alan Schon
Napoleon’s the Art of War and Power, Napoléon Bonaparte
The Black Count, Tom Reiss
Eiffel’s Tower and the World’s Fair: Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count, Jill Jonnes
Paris Babylon, Rupert Christensen
The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940, France: The Dark Years 1940-1944, A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle, Julian T. Jackson
Paris at War: 1939-1944, David Drake
The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis, Matthew Cobb
Outwitting the Gestapo, Lucie Aubrac
The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France’s Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando, Paul Kix
Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against Hitler, Lynne Olson
The Liberation of Paris: How Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and von Choltitz Saved the City of Light, Jean Edward Smith
Paris: After the Liberation 1944-1949, Antony Beevor
The Gothic Image: Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century, Émile
Mâle
Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society, Robert L. Herbert
Toulouse-Lautrec: A Life, Julia Frey
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies, The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism, Ross King
The Piano Works of Claude Debussy, E. Robert Schmitz
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier, Thad Carhart
Bohemian Paris: Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse and the Birth of Modern Art, Dan Franck
Paris City of Dreams, Dawn of the Belle Epoque, Twilight of the Belle Epoque, When Paris Sizzled, Paris on the Brink, Mary Mc Auliffe
French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew, Peter Mayle
The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World’s Most Glorious – and Perplexing – City, My Paris Kitchen: Recipes and Stories, David Lebovitz
Philosophy
The Social Contract, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean Jacques Rousseau: restless genius, Leo Damrosch
Discourse on Method, Meditations on First Philosophy, and Rules for the Direction of the Mind, René Descartes
Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen: The Defense of Reason in Descartes’s Meditations, Harry G. Frankfurt, Rebecca Goldstein (Foreword)
Descartes’ Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason, Russell Shorto
Gaston Bachelard: A Philosophy of the Surreal, Zbigniew J Kotowicz
Écrits: A Selection, Jacques Lacan
Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture, How to Read Lacan, Slavoj Žižek
Deconstruction and the Remainders of Phenomenology: Sartre, Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, by Tilottama Rajan
The Foucault Reader: An Introduction to Foucault’s Thought, Paul Rabinow
Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference, Dissemination, Margins of Philosophy, Specters of Marx, Spurs: Nietzsche’s Styles, The Truth in Painting, Jacques Derrida
Desert Islands: And Other Texts, 1953-1974, Two Regimes of Madness: Texts and Interviews 1975-1995, Gilles Deleuze
Organs Without Bodies: Deleuze and Consequences, Slavoj Žižek
The Conspiracy of Art: Manifestos, Interviews, Essays, Jean Baudrillard, Sylvère Lotringer (Editor)
The A to Z of Existentialism, Stephen Michelman
Literature
Tartuffe, Moliere
Les Misérables, Notre Dame de Paris, Ninety-Three, Victor Hugo
The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and Les Miserables, Mario Vargas Llosa
Germinal, Emile Zola
Madame Bovary, Temptations of St Anthony, Salammbô, Gustave Flaubert
The Family Idiot, Jean Paul Sartre
Tales of Charles Perrault, Angela Carter ed.
The Wild Ass’s Skin, Lost Illusions, A Harlot High and Low, Esther Happy: How a courtesan Can Love, What Love Costs an Old Man, The End of Evil Ways,
Vautrin’s last Avatar, The Unknown Masterpiece, Gambara, Cousin Pons, Cousin Bette, The Wrong Side of Paris, Honoré de Balzac
Balzac, Graham Robb
Balzac’s Omelette: A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honoré de Balzac, Anka Muhlstein
In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust, Edmund White
The Flowers of Evil, Selected Writings on Art and Literature, Charles Baudelaire
La Folie Baudelaire, Roberto Calasso
Baudelaire, Jean Paul Sartre
Rimbaud: complete works, Schmidt
Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel, Edmund White
Justine, 120 Days of Sodom, Philosophy in the Boudoir, Juliette, The Crimes of Love, Marquis de Sade
The Sadeian Woman, Angela Carter
The Fan-Maker’s Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade, Rikki Ducornet
The Marquis de Sade: A Life, Neil Schaeffer
Story of the Eye, Blue of Noon, The Impossible: A Story of Rats followed by Dianus and by The Oresteia, Literature and Evil, The Tears of Eros, Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927–1939, Georges Bataille
Là-Bas, En Route, The Cathedral, The Oblate of St. Benedict, Joris-Karl Huysmans
Approximate Man and Other Writings, Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries, Chanson Dada: Selected Poems, Tristan Tzara
Tata Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara, Marius Hentea
Selected Writings of Artaud Susan Sontag ed., Heliogabalus; or, the Crowned Anarchist, The Theatre And Its Double, Antonin Artaud
Rhinoceroses and other plays, Notes and Counternotes, Eugene Ionesco
The Thief’s Journal, Our Lady of the Flowers, The Balcony, Treasures of the Night: collected poems, The Declared Enemy, Fragments of the Artwork, Prisoner of Love, Jean Genet
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr, Jean Paul Sartre
Genet: a biography, Edmund White
Existentialism is a Humanism, Nausea, No Exit, The Wall, Being and Nothingness, To Freedom Condemned, We Have Only This Life to Live: The Selected Essays of Jean-Paul Sartre 1939-1975, Literary Essays, Truth and Existence, Existential Psychoanalysis, Notebooks for an Ethics, Critique of Dialectical Reason, Jean Paul Sartre
Sartre: A Philosophical Biography, Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction, Thomas R. Flynn
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others, Sarah Bakewell
The Second Sex, The Mandarins, Conversations with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir
The Stranger, The Plague, The Fall, The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947, The Rebel, The Possessed, Albert Camus
A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning, Robert Zaretsky
La Batarde, Mad in Pursuit, Thérèse and Isabelle, Violette Leduc
Journey to the End of Night, Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Project for a Revolution in New York, Repetition, Recollections of the Golden Triangle, Topology of a Phantom City, For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction, Ghosts in the Mirror, The Erotic Dream Machine: Interviews with Alain Robbe-Grillet on His Films Fragola & Smith, Alain Robbe-Grillet
Collected Stories of Collette
Verlaine: Selected Poems
Pierre Reverdy, Caws ed
Selected Writing, Apollonaire
Mallarme: Prose and Poetry, Caws
Mallarmé or the Poet of Nothingness, Jean Paul Sartre
The Holy Terrors, The White Book, Intimate Relations, The Art of Cinema, Past Tense: the Cocteau Diaries, Professional Secrets, On My Contemporaries: Recollections of Proust, Piaf, Colette, Jean Cocteau
Selected Works of Alfred Jarry
Nadja, The Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, Arcanum 17: With Apertures, Conversations: The Autobiography of Surrealism, Andre Breton
Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton, Mark Polizzotti
The Adventures of Telemachus, Paris Peasant, Louis Aragon
Selected Poems, The Word as Archipelago, Leaves of Hypnos, Rene Char
The Apocrypha, The Inquisitory, Mahu or The Material, Robert Pinget
Thomas the Obscure, The Last Man, Death Sentence, The Madness of the Day, The Infinite Conversation, The Space of Literature, The Writing of the Disaster, The Unavowable Community, Community of Lovers, Maurice Blanchot
Maurice Blanchot: A Critical Biography, Christophe Bident
The Hélène Cixous Reader, Cixous, Sellers ed, foreword Jacques Derrida
Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine, Verena Andermatt Conley
The Life Before Us, Romaine Gary
Life: a user’s manual, La Boutique Obscure: 124 Dreams, Wishes, Thoughts of Sorts, Georges Perec
The Malady of Death, The War, The North China Lover, Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras: Apocalyptic Desires, Leslie Hill
Zazie in the Metro, The Last Days, Odile, Children of Clay, Pierrot Mon Ami, Saint Glinglin, The Blue Flowers, The Flight of Icarus, Sunday of Life, Stories and Remarks, Elementary Morality, Letters Numbers Forms: Essays 1928-70, Raymond Queneau
You Don’t Love Yourself, Portrait of a Man Unknown, The Planetarium, The Golden Fruits, Here, Use of Speech, Nathalie Sarraute,
Gilles and Jeanne, The Ogre, Michel Tournier
Compass, Tell Them of Elephants Battles and Kings, Mathias Enard
Memiors of Hadrian, The Abyss, Fires, That Mighty Sculptor Time, The Dark Brain of Piranesi and Other Essays, Dreams and Destinies, Marguerite Yourcenar
The Office of Gardens and Ponds, Didier Decoin
Cinema: The Archaeology of Film and the Memory of A Century, Godard on Godard: Critical Writings, Jean-Luc Godard
Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard, Richard Brody
Dollhouse Park Conservatory & Imaginarium 