We hope Travelers’ Tales Paris has inspired you to read on. A good place to start is the books from which we’ve made selections, and we have listed them below. Many general guidebooks are also worth reading and the best ones have annotated bibliographies or sections on recommended books and maps.
Applefield, David. Paris Inside-Out: The Insider’s Guide for Visitors, Residents, Professionals & Students on Living in Paris. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, Inc., 1995.
Ardagh, John. Cultural Atlas of France. Oxfordshire, England: Andromeda, 1991.
Baldwin, James. No Name in the Street. New York: Dell Publishing, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1986.
Barry, Joseph. The People of Paris. New York: Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1966.
Beauvoir, Simone de. Witness to my Life: Letters of Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir, 1926–1939. Translated by Lee Fahnestock and Norman McAfee. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1992.
Bernstein, Richard. Fragile Glory: A Portrait of France and the French. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1990.
Buzzi, Aldo. Journey to the Land of the Flies & Other Travels. Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein. New York: Random House, 1996.
Campbell, James. Exiled in Paris: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett, and Others on the Left Bank. New York: Scribner, 1995.
Camus, Albert. Notebooks 1942-1951. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1965.
Caro, Ina. The Road from the Past: Traveling Through History in France. New York: Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1994.
Carroll, Raymonde. Cultural Misunderstandings: The French-American Experience. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Daley, Robert. Portraits of France. London: Hutchinson, Random House, 1991.
D’Arnoux, Alexandra, Bruno De Laubadere, Gilles De Chabaneix (photographer). Secret Gardens of Paris. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2002.
Desmons, Gilles. Walking Paris: Thirty Original Walks In and Around Paris. New York: Contemporary Books, 1999.
Durrell, Lawrence. Spirit of Place: Letters and Essays on Travel. New Haven, Connecticut: Leete’s Island Books, Inc., 1969.
Feldkamp, Phyllis and Fred. The Good Life...or What’s Left of It. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., 1972.
Fitch, Noel Riley. Walks in Hemingway’s Paris: A Guide to Paris for the Literary Traveler. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992.
Flaubert, Gustave. Early Writings. Translated by Robert Berry Griffin. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1991.
Gentleman, David. David Gentleman’s Paris. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1991.
Gold, Herbert. Bohemia: Where Art, Angst, Love and Strong Coffee Meet. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1993.
Gopnik, Adam. Paris to the Moon. New York: Random House, 2001.
Green, Julian. Paris. Translated by J. A. Underwood. New York: Marion Boyers, 1991.
Guppy, Shusha. A Girl in Paris. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1991.
Heath, Gordon. Deep Are the Roots: Memoirs of a Black Expatriate. Amherst, Massachusetts: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1992.
Jordan, David P. Transforming Paris: The Life and Labors of Baron Haussmann. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Landes, Alison and Sonia. Pariswalks. New York: Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1991.
Loftus, Simon. Puligny-Montrachet: Journal of a Village in Burgundy. London: Ebury Press, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1993.
Maspero, François. Roissy Express: A Journey Through the Paris Suburbs. London: Verso, 1994.
Miller, Stuart. Understanding Europeans. Santa Fe, New Mexico: John Muir Publications, 1990.
Morris, Jan. Locations. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Nossiter, Adam. The Algeria Hotel: France, Memory, and the Second World War. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
Osborne, Lawrence. Paris Dreambook: An Unconventional Guide to the Splendor and Squalor of the City. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd., 1990.
Paris Notes. The newsletter for people who love Paris. Published by Mark Eversman. To subscribe send check or money order ($39.00 for 1 year, 10 issues) to Paris Notes, P. O. Box 3668, Manhattan Beach, California 90266 or call 310/545-2735.
Paul, Jim. What’s Called Love: A Real Romance. New York: Villard Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 1993.
Reuss, Henry S. and Margaret M. The Unknown South of France: A History Buff’s Guide. Boston: The Harvard Common Press, 1991.
Rochefort, Harriet Welty. French Toast: An American in Paris Celebrates the Maddening Mysteries of the French. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
Rosenblum, Mort. Secret Life of the Seine. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1994.
Weiss. Andrea. Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, London, 1995.
Wells, Patricia. The Food Lover’s Guide to Paris. New York: Workman Publishing, 1987.
White, Edmund. Our Paris: Sketches from Memory. New York: Ecco Press, 2002.
Williams, Ellen. The Historic Restaurants of Paris: A Guide to Century-Old Cafes, Bistros, and Gourmet Food Shops. New York: Little Bookroom, 2001.
Yee, Chiang. The Silent Traveller in Paris. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1956.