Reading List from « Au Bon Roman », translated as « A Novel

Reading List from « Au Bon Roman », translated as « A Novel Bookstore »
Au Bon Roman is a book in which two literature lovers
create a bookshop only selling good novels.
For a full review, see :
http://bookaroundthecorner.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/aparisian-book-store/
A lot of books and writers are quoted is this novel.
I listed them according to the following rules :
- Author + book title when a particular book was given
- Author only when no book title was named.
I researched the authors afterwards, a lot of them were
unknown to me.
I hope I didn’t make any mistake.
Enjoy.
Reading List from « Au Bon Roman », translated as « A Novel Bookstore »
Author
Aguéev, M
Andrić, Ivo
Aragon, Louis
Arsand, Daniel
Audéguy, Stéphane
Austen, Jane
Aymé, Marcel
French title given in Au Bon Roman
Roman avec cocaïne
La Chronique de Travnik
Bosnian Chronicle
Genre
Novel
Novel
En silence
La Théorie des nuages
Orgueil et Préjugés
La Jument Verte
The Theory of Clouds
Pride and Prejudice
The Green Mare
Novel
Novel
Novel
Novel
Language
French
Serbo-Croatian
French
French
French
british
French
Aymé, Marcel
La Vouivre
The Sorceress
Novel
French
Aymé, Marcel
Aymé, Marcel
Balzac, Honoré de
Balzac, Honoré de
Uranus
La table-aux-crevés
Le Cousin Pons
La Duchesse de Langeais
Novel
Novel
Novel
Novel
French
French
French
French
Bartelt, Franz
Les Bottes rouges
Novel
French
Beck, Béatrix
Beck, Béatrix
Beck, Béatrix
Beck, Béatrix
Benoziglio, Jean-Luc
Le Muet
Léon Morin
Dom Juan des Forêts
L'Enfant chat
Louis Capet, suite et fin
Novel
Novel
Novel
Novel
Novel
French
Berger, John
La Cocadrille
Novel
British
Novel
French
Novel
Novel
French
Portuguese
French
French
English title
Pig Earth
Bernanos, Georges
Bernard, Marc
Bessa-Luís, Agustina
Bettencourt, Pierre
Pareils à des enfants
Le Confortable désespoir des femmes
L'Intouchable
Bianciotti, Hector
Alive
Classic
Published in 1933
Published in 1941. I've read it and I remember I liked it.
Published by PushkinPress, I understand it's a good reference.
French
Billetdoux, Raphaële
L'Ouverture des bras de l'homme
Novel
French
Blixen, Karen
Bobin, Christian
Bolaño, Roberto
Bolaño, Roberto
Bouvier, Nicolas
Byatt, Antonia Susan
Contes
Tales
Danish
French
Les Détectives sauvages
Nouvelles
The Savage Detectives: a novel
Le Conte du biographe
The Biographer's Tale
Novel
Spanish
Short stories
French
British
Comment
Written in 1936. Not found on Anglophone Wikipedia.
1961 Nobel Prize Winner
Surrealist
Written in 2000. Not found on Anglophone Wikipedia.
Published in 1948
Published in 1929
Classic
Classic
Published in 2000. Grand Prix de l'Humour Noir. Now I'm
curious
I know her by name but I've never read anything from her.
Prix Goncourt
How did they come with this translation of "Pig Earth" ? A
"cocadrille" is a basilic, like the one in Harry Potter.
Famous Works "Sous le Soleil de Satan", translated as "Under
the Sun of Satan". (There's a film version by Pialat, starring
Depardieu) and Diary of a Country Priest.
Famous work "Pareil à des enfants"
O Mosteiro is the original title.
Born in Argentina. Writes in French. Member of the Académie
Française. Ce que la nuit raconte au jour has been translated
as What the Night Tells the Day
Not found on Anglophone Wikipedia. Famous work "Mes
nuits sont plus belles que vos jours".
Classic
Chilian
Reading List from « Au Bon Roman », translated as « A Novel Bookstore »
Author
Cabanis, José
Caligaris, Nicole
Carey, Peter
French title given in Au Bon Roman
Les Jardins en Espagne
Ma Vie d'imposteur
English title
My Life as a Fake
Carrère, Emmanuel
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
Chevillard, Eric
Cholodenko, Marc
Colette
Crane, Stephen
Daussy, Ida
Oreille Rouge
Le Bateau ouvert
Au Pays du matin calme
The Open Boat
Genre
Novel
Language
French
French
English
Novel
French
Novel
Novel
Novel
Novel
Novel
French
French
French
French
English
French
Alive
Desbiolles, Maryline
Novel
French
Detambel, Régine
Di Nota, David
Drieu La Rochelle
Echenoz, Jean
Novel
Novel
Novel
French
French
French
French
Novel
French
French
Italian
Italian
Italian
Italian
French
French
French
French
French
French
Novel
French
Novel
Novel
Russian
English
Ravel
Ernaux, Annie
Frappat, Hélène
Fruttero et Lucentini
Fruttero et Lucentini
Fruttero et Lucentini
Gadda, Carlo-Emilio
Gailly, Christian
Gailly, Christian
Germain, Sylvie
Gide, André
Giono, Jean
Gracq, Julien
Sous réserve
L'Amant sans domicile fixe
La nuit du grand boss
La Femme du dimanche
The Sunday Woman
Be Bop
Dernier Amour
Magnus
Magnus
Novel
Le Hussard sur le toit
The Horseman on the Roof
Novel
Gran, Iegor
Les Troies Vies de Lucie
Grossman, Vassili
Hazzard, Shirley
Vie et destin
Le Grand Incendie
Holder, Eric
Les sentiers délicats
Short stories French
Kipling, Rudyard
Contes des collines
Fairy tales
Kristof, Agota
C'est égal
Short stories French
Life and Fate
The Great Fire: a novel
Comment
He seems to have written mostly essays and memoirs
Not found on Anglophone Wikipedia
Some of his books have been translated in English "Class
Trip" (also a movie by Claude Miller), "The Moustache" (a
movie too)
Classic
21 books so far. Never heard of him.
12 books so far
Classic
American 19th century
Not found on Wikipedia
Almost a book per year since 1988. Never heard of her.
Anchise won the Prix Femina
16 books so far
I boycott this one. Racist
Prix Goncourt for "Je m'en vais" ("I'm off")
Wrote about her abortion, Alzheimer's disease, the death of her
mother and breast cancer. Cheerful woman. Exactly the kind
of books I don't want to read.
Not found on Wikipedia
British
Classic
Classic. Film version with Juliette Binoche
Classic
This book is "literature under constraint" : 3 different stories
can be read : one by reading the left pages, one by reading the
right pages and the last one by reading left & right pages.
Ukranian
Not found on Anglophone Wikipedia. Mademoiselle
Chambon is also a movie.
Classic
Hungarian writer who writes in French. Her trilogy has been
translated in English
Reading List from « Au Bon Roman », translated as « A Novel Bookstore »
French title given in Au Bon Roman
Author
Laclavetine, Jean-Marie
Laurrent, Eric
Clara Stern
Leiris, Michel
Aurora
Malraux, André
Marcus Aurelius
Mauriac, André
McCarthy, Cormac
Michon, Pierre
Michon, Pierre
Michon, Pierre
Michon, Pierre
English title
Pensées
Trilogie des confins
Vies minuscules
Maîtres et serviteurs
Rimbaud, le fils
La Grande Beune
Small Lives
Masters and Servants
The Origin of the World
Millet, Catherine
Montaigne
Ortese, Anna Maria
Ortese, Anna Maria
Oster, Christian
Paley, Grace
Pamuk, Orhan
Paulhan, Jean
Peake, Mervyn
Perez-Reverte
Perrault, Charles
Perros, Georges
Pourrat, Henri
Proust, Marcel
Les Essais
Alonso et les visionnaires
L'Iguane
L'Imprévu
Enorme changement de dernière minute
Neige
Philosophy
Novel
French Folktales
Classic
Classic
Classic
French
Novel
Titus Groan
The Painter of Battles: a Novel
Surrealist
British
French
Un Pédigree
Comment
Notable work "Les Emmurés"
French
Ancient Rome
French
American
French
French
French
French
Novel
Novel
Modiano, Patrick
Alive
French
French.
L'Amour dans un climat froid
La princesse de Clèves
The Iguana
The Unforeseen
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Snow
Language
French
French
Novel
Mitford, Nancy
Mme de Lafayette
Titus d'enfer
Le Peintre des batailles
Contes
Papiers collés
Le Trésor des Contes
Jean Santeuil
Love in a Cold Climate
The Princess of Cleves
Genre
Novel
Novel
Novels &
poems
Novel
Philosophy
Novel
Novel
Novel
Novel
Novel
Novella
French
Italian
Italian
Novel
French
Short stories American
Novel
Turkish
French
British
Spanish
Folktales
French
French
Folktales
French
Novel
French
Warning. According to Wikipedia "she is best known as the
author of the 2002 memoir The Sexual Life of Catherine M.;
the book details her sexual history, from childhood
masturbation to an adult fascination with group sex. The book
was reviewed by Edmund White as "the most explicit book
about sex ever written by a woman"."
Classic
This one has not been translated in English but some others
have been.
Classic
Writes crime fiction, novels and children books.
Nobel Prize Winner
Classic
Not sure it's been translated
Classic
Reading List from « Au Bon Roman », translated as « A Novel Bookstore »
Author
Renard, Jules
Revaz, Noëlle
Rhys, Jean
Rolin, Jean
Rolin, Jean
Roubaud, Jacques
French title given in Au Bon Roman
English title
Rapport aux bêtes
L'Organisation
Terminal frigo
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Sapienza, Goliarda
Saramago, José
Schwarz-Bart, André
Senges, Pierre
Stendhal
Stendhal
Stendhal
Tabucchi, Antonio
Tesson, Sylvain
L'Art de la joie
L'Autre comme moi
Le Dernier des Justes
Réfutation majeure
Mina de Vanghel
Le rose et le vert
La Chartreuse de Parme
Tristano meurt
Le Petit traité sur l'immensité du monde
The Double
The Last of the Just
Mina de Vanghel
Pink and the Green
The Charterhouse of Parma
Novels &
biography
Poetry
Troyat, Henri
Tsvetaïeva, Marina
Valejo, François
Enrique Vila-Matas
Visage, Bertrand
Volodine, Antoine
Waugh, Evelyn
Welty, Eudora
White, Patrick
Genre
Novel
Novel
Novels
Novel
Novel
Novel
Philosophy /
Novels
Novel
Novel
Novel
Novel
Novel
Novel
Novel
Vivre dans le feu
Le Voyage des grands hommes
Mal de Montano
Montano's Malady
Grandeur et décadence
Decline and Fall
Madame Solario
Madame Solario
Novel
Language
French
French
British
French
French
French
Alive
constrained writing
Original title : L'Arte Della Gioia
French
Italian
Portuguese
French
French
French
French
French
Italian
French
Classic
Prix Goncourt
Not found on Anglophone Wikipedia
Classic
Classic
Classic
French
Russian
French
Spanish
French
French
British
American
Australian
Comment
Classic
Wrote historical novels about Russia and biography of Russian
writers (Pushkin, Tolstoy, Chekov)
English orthograph : Tsvetaeva
I'm not sure he's been translated