Start with high-confidence french literary collections books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Encounter
Milan Kundera
Short Stories in French
Richard Coward
Proust's Duchess
Caroline Weber
The Seventh Function of Language
Laurent Binet, Sam Taylor
S/z
Roland Barthes, Richard Miller
Life Worth Living
Robert Zaretsky
Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander
Thérèse Raquin
Émile Zola, Mint Editions
At the Existentialist Café
Sarah Bakewell, Antonia Beamish
The Temptation to Exist
E. M. Cioran, Richard Howard
The Trouble With Being Born
The Skin of Dreams
Raymond Queneau, Chris Clarke
Nadja
André Breton, Mark Polizzotti
The Flowers of Evil
Charles Baudelaire, Nathan Brown
Conversations With Rilke
Maurice Betz, Will Stone
