- 1605 – Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
- 1839 – La Chartreuse de Parme – Stendhal
- 1844 – Le Comte de Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
- 1851 – Moby Dick – Herman Melville
- 1856 – Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
- 1913 – Le Grand Meaulnes – Alain Fournier
- 1943 – Le Joueur d’Echecs – Stefan Zweig
- 1947 – Si c’est un Homme – Primo Levi
- 1951 – The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
- 1968 – Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
- 1969 – Les Valeureux – Albert Cohen
- 1989 – Liar’s Poker – Michael Lewis
- 1998 – Les Particules Elémentaires – Michel Houellebecq
- 2004 – The Places in Between – Rory Stewart
- 2005 – C’était François Mitterrand – Jacques Attali
- 2006 – Dictionnaire Amoureux du Golf – André-Jean Lafaurie
- 2010 – Life is What You Make of It – Peter Buffett
- 2016 – The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds – Michal Lewis
- 2022 – How the World Really Works – Vaclav Smil
