Books like Chez Krull by Georges Simenon

A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust is a seminal French literary work.

When Vianne Rocher opens a chocolate boutique in the French village of Lansquenet, her sweet delicacies ignite a clash between the community’s devotion to Lent and a newfound passion for chocolate.

Monsieur Perdu, a literary apothecary aboard a Seine barge, prescribes novels to heal broken hearts. When his own love remains a mystery, he journeys south of France to find closure and prove stories can mend souls.

When the patriarch of the House of Peine dies, his will forces the lifelong heir, Clementine, to share the Champagne vineyard with two estranged half-sisters she never knew existed.

A facsimile edition of the manuscript and corrected printed version of Part 1 of Illusions Perdues by Honoré de Balzac.

The Girl with No Shadow follows widow Yanne Charbonneau, who runs a Montmartre chocolaterie and raises her daughters in quiet anonymity, until an enigmatic stranger upends her world and forces a difficult choice between running again or confronting danger.

A clever cat in a pair of boots helps his master, a young miller's son, rise from poverty to become the Marquis of Carabas, winning a castle, fortune, and a princess’s hand in this beloved French fairy tale.

A wickedly funny and observant novel about the delicate questions of love, death and money.Amy Hawkins, Californian millionairess, is travelling in Europe, to find her culture, her roots and a cause to which she might devote her considerable fortune. She lands at one of the finest small hotels in the French Alps – a hotel noted for skiing and its famous cooking lessons – and soon finds that Americans are not the flavour of the month in France.A few days into her trip, she narrowly survives an avalanche. Two of the hotel's other guests, English publisher Adrian Venn and his much younger wife Kerry, are not as fortunate and both lie comatose in a nearby hospital. Amy steps in as Adrian's children – young and old, legitimate and illegitimate - assemble in Valmeri to protect their interests should he not pull through, and in her innocence sets in motion a series of events in France and England that threaten to topple carefully built family alliances once and for all.Add one or two small affaires and soon it is, as the French would say, a situation.

Trilby follows Trilla O'Ferrall, a naïve artist's model in Paris who falls under the hypnotic spell of the sinister musician Svengali, who transforms her into Europe’s most dazzling soprano.

Tracy Chevalier’s first English‑language novel follows Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin, two women centuries apart in France, whose lives are intertwined by a family legacy that shapes their destinies amid historical upheaval.

La terre, a novel by Émile Zola.