BEST PARIS READING

Since the opening of the Bookshop in 1982, we have carried a wide selection of books about Paris. Far from being a complete list, these are our suggestions of books to read that feature our City.

Paris Stories
Mavis Gallant

Paris Was Yesterday
Janet Flanner

Women of the Left Bank:
Paris, 1900-1940
Shari Benstock

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein

Into a Paris Quartier
Diane Johnson

A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway
Book Guide
Dolly Wilde
Joan Schenkar

A Place in the World Called Paris
Steven Barclay (ed.)

Paris to the Moon
Adam Gopnik

Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology
Adam Gopnik (ed.)


Shakespeare and Co.
Sylvia Beach

Between Meals
A.J. Liebling

The Flaneur
Edmund White

Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller

The Left Bank:
French Writers and Artists
between the Two Wars
Herbert Lottman

Black Sun
Geoffrey Wolf

Black Girl in Paris
Youngblood Shay

Wild Girls: The Love Story of Natalie Barney & Romaine Brooks
Diana Souhami

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion
in a Paris Atelier
Thad Carhart
Paris Then and Now
Peter & Oriel Caine

Paris, Paris
David Downie & Alison Harris

Paris Trance
Geoff Dyer

Henry and June
Anais Nin

Remembrance of Things Paris:
60 Years of Writing from Gourmet
Ruth Reichl

A Corner in the Marais
Alex Karmel

Paris in the Fifities
Stanley Karnow

Paris, When It’s Naked
Etel Adnan

Paris in Mind
Jennifer Lee
Paris Books

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