18 books like The scapegoat
Fantômas
“One episode simply melts away as the next takes over” (The New York Times) in this deliciously sinister turn-of-the-century tale of a French evil genius run rampant. Three appalling crimes leave all of Paris aghast: the Marquise de Langruen is hacked to death, the Princess Sonia is robbed, and Lord Beltham is found dead, stuffed into a trunk. Inspector Juve knows that all the clues point to one…
Shares: France, Thriller
La Peste
The Plague (French: La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. It asks a number of questions relating to the nature of destiny and the human condition. The characters in the book, ranging from doctors to vacationers to fugitives, all help to show the effects the plague has on a populace.
Shares: Psychological, France, Continental european fiction
Madam, Will You Talk?
Widow Charity Selborne had been greatly looking forward to her driving holiday through France with her old friend Louise - long, leisurely days under the hot sun, enjoying the beauty of the parched Provencal landscape. But when Charity arrived at a plush resort in the picturesque French resort town of Avignon, she had no way of knowing that she was to become the principal player in the last act…
Shares: France, Travel, Thriller
Lourdes
Lourdes is the first of Zola's Three Cities collection. The story follows the pilgrimage of Pierre Froment while challenging the suitability of religious fervor.
Shares: France, Continental european fiction, Travel
El Dorado
Baroness Orczy's classic adventure novel El Dorado is the sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel and was first published in 1913. Set in 1794's Paris - which "despite the horrors that had stained her walls - has remained a city of pleasure, and the knife of the guillotine did scarce descend more often than did the drop-scenes on the stage."
Shares: Aristocracy, France, British
Là-bas
Là-Bas, translated as Down There or The Damned, is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans, first published in 1891. It is Huysmans' most famous work after À rebours. Là-Bas deals with the subject of Satanism in contemporary France, and the novel stirred a certain amount of controversy on its first appearance. It is the first of Huysmans' books to feature the character Durtal, a thinly…
Shares: France, Continental european fiction
La reine Margot
Roman historique - roman biographique.
Shares: France, Continental european fiction
Dark Matter
One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is kidnapped at gunpoint by a masked man, driven to an abandoned industrial site and injected with a powerful drug. As he wakes, a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend." But this life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife; his…
Shares: Psychological, Thriller
The other girl
When Officer Miranda Rader of the Hammond PD in Louisiana and her partner are called to investigate a murder, she finds a faded newspaper clipping about a terrible night from her long-buried past.
Shares: Psychological, Thriller
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) is a play and adventure novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution.
Shares: France, British, Continental european fiction
La Chute
Num bar de marinheiros em Amesterdão, um homem que se apresenta como juiz-penitente enceta conversa com um desconhecido. Entre copos de Genebra e deambulações pelas ruas daquela cidade de canais concêntricos, a fazer lembrar os círculos do inferno, recorda a sua vida passada como respeitável advogado parisiense, insuperável na defesa de causas nobres e nas conquistas amorosas. Mas à medida que a…
Shares: Psychological, Continental european fiction
Works (La chute / L'exil et le royaume)
Shares: Psychological, Continental european fiction
Shares: Psychological, Continental european fiction
The Searcher
Best Book of 2020New York Times |NPR | New York Post"This hushed suspense tale about thwarted dreams of escape may be her best one yet . . . Its own kind of masterpiece." --Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post"A new Tana French is always cause for celebration . . . Read it once for the plot; read it again for the beauty and subtlety of French's writing." --Sarah Lyall, The New York TimesCal…
Shares: Psychological, Thriller
Voskresenīe
Resurrection, the last full-length novel written by Leo Tolstoy, was published in 1899 after ten years in the making. A humanitarian cause—the pacifist Doukhobor sect, persecuted by the Russian government, needed funds to emigrate to Canada—prompted Tolstoy to finish the novel and dedicate its ensuing revenues to alleviate their plight. Ultimately, Tolstoy’s actions were credited with helping…
Shares: Aristocracy, Continental european fiction
La lenteur
After the gravity of The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Immortality, Slowness comes as a surprise: it is certainly Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, with, as the author himself says, "not a single serious word in it"; then, too, it is the first of his novels to have been written in French (in the eyes of the French public, turning him definitively into a "French…
Shares: France, Continental european fiction
Trionfo della morte
Trionfo della morte, apparso prima a puntate sulla “Tribuna illustrata” e su “Il mattino” e poi pubblicato in volume nel 1894, chiude il cosiddetto ciclo dei «Romanzi della Rosa» iniziato con Il piacere (1889) e proseguito con L’innocente (1892). È un testo fortemente influenzato dall’estetica wagneriana e dalle teorie superomistiche di Nietzsche. L’opera più che dalla trama appare sorretta dalla…
Shares: Continental european fiction, Travel
Princesse de Clèves
The Princess of Cleves is a French novel published in 1678 that is regarded as one of the first psychological novels. The plot is set in the royal court of Henry II of France.
Shares: France, Continental european fiction
Far Country
When a young Englishwoman named Jennifer Morton leaves London to visit relatives on their sheep ranch in the Australian outback, she falls in love both with the gloriously beautiful country and with Carl, a Czech refugee who was a doctor in his own land and now works as a lumberjack. They are brought together through dramatic encounters and strange twists of fate, but their relationship hangs in…
Shares: British, Travel