It seems that everyone is compiling lists fit to educate the coming year. Classically trained, and not one to be culturally outdone, I have also compiled a short list of French Classics, save one: “The Golden Ass”.
I plan on re-reading them all in 2008. They are all available in French and in English and are truly great books. Do your own googling, I ain’t linking…. you might stumble upon something great, instead of following my leads. These are all books I read as a kid and remember vividly. Twelve in all, one per month.
1- Candide, Voltaire.
2- L’Ingénu, Voltaire.
3- La Chevelure, Guy de Maupassant.
4- Le Horla, Guy de Maupassant.
5- Gargantua, François Rabelais.
6- Pantagruel, François Rabelais.
7- The Golden Ass, Lucius Apuleius.
8- Michel Strogoff, Jules Verne
9- Les Mystères de Paris, Eugene Sue.
10- La Gloire de mon père, Marcel Pagnol.
11- Le Château de ma mère, Marcel Pagnol
12- Vol de nuit, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
PS: So much for those top tens, top twelve is where it’s out.