Books about France

Lonely Planet Pocket Bordeaux

Lonely Planet, Nicola Williams

Lonely Planet Pocket Nice & Monaco : Detailed Itineraries | Travel Like a Local | Insider Tips | Covers Vieux Nice, Promenade, Cimiez, Monaco, and more

Lonely Planet, Chrissie McClatchie

Lonely Planet Pocket Paris

Lonely Planet, Ashley Parsons, Jean-Bernard Carillet, Fabienne Fong Yan, Catherine Le Nevez

Lonely Planet Provence & Southeast France Road Trips

Lonely Planet, Oliver Berry, Jean-Bernard Carillet, Gregor Clark, Hugh McNaughtan, Nicola Williams

Lonely Planet Provence & the Cote d'Azur

Lonely Planet, Chrissie McClatchie, Michael Frankel, Ashley Parsons

Lonely Planet The Tree Atlas

Lonely Planet, Matthew Collins

Mont Blanc Walks : 50 day walks and 4 multi-day treks

Hilary Sharp

Mountain Adventures in the Maurienne : Summer routes for a multi-activity holiday in the French Alps

Andy Hodges

Paddling France

Anna Richards

Pocket Rough Guide Paris: Travel Guide with eBook

Rough Guides

Rough Guides Bordeaux: Travel Guide with eBook

Rough Guides, Stuart Butler

Rough Guides City Stories: Paris Seasons

Rough Guides, Amy Hopkins

Rough Guides Corsica: Travel Guide with eBook

Rough Guides, Zoe Smith

Rough Guides Languedoc and Roussillon: Travel Guide with eBook

Rough Guides, Brian A. Catlos

Rough Guides Mini Paris: Travel Guide with eBook

Rough Guides, Daniel Stables

Rough Guides Walks and Tours Nice and the French Riviera: Top 14 Itineraries for Your Trip: Travel Guide with eBook

Rough Guides, Rachel Ifans

Rough Guides Walks and Tours Paris: Top 20 Itineraries for Your Trip: Travel Guide with eBook

Rough Guides, Rachel Ifans

Short Treks on Corsica : Five mountain and coastal treks including the Mare a Mare and Mare e Monti

Gillian Price

Spain * France: Catalunya & Barcelona : including Pyrenees-Orientales

Dana Facaros, Michael Pauls, Mary-Ann Gallagher

The GR5 Trail - Benelux and Lorraine : The North Sea to Schirmeck in the Vosges mountains

Carroll Dorgan

The GR5 Trail - Through the French Alps : From Lake Geneva to Nice, including GR52 to Menton

Paddy Dillon

The GR5 Trail - Vosges and Jura : Schirmeck to Lac Léman, and the GR53

Les Smith, Elizabeth Smith

The Mini Rough Guide to France: Travel Guide with eBook

Rough Guides

The Mini Rough Guide to Nice, Cannes & Monte Carlo: Travel Guide with eBook

Rough Guides

Lonesome Traveler

Jack Kerouac

My Four Seasons in France : A Year of the Good Life

Janine Marsh

My Twenty-Five Years in Provence

Peter Mayle

Narrow Dog To Carcassonne

Terry Darlington

Notes from the Cevennes : Half a Lifetime in Provincial France

Adam Thorpe

One More Croissant for the Road

Felicity Cloake

One Place de l’Eglise : A Year in Provence for the 21st century

Trevor Dolby

Paris

Julian Green, Lila Azam Zanganeh

Paris : The Passenger

Various

Paris Revealed : The Secret Life of a City

Stephen Clarke

Paris Was Yesterday : 1925-1939

Janet Flanner

Parisians

Graham Robb

Return to the Olive Farm

Carol Drinkwater

Riviera Living: Unlocking the Côte d’Azur Lifestyle

Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave : My Cemetery Journeys

Mariana Enriquez

The Cocktail Diaries : A Spirited Adventure

Sam Heughan

The Discovery of France

Graham Robb

The Flaneur

Edmund White

The French Riviera : A Literary Guide for Travellers

Ted Jones

The Olive Farm : A Memoir of Life, Love and Olive Oil in the South of France

Carol Drinkwater

The Olive Harvest : A Memoir of Love, Old Trees, and Olive Oil

Carol Drinkwater

The Olive Route : A Personal Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean

Carol Drinkwater

Mountain Rescue - Chamonix Mont Blanc : A Season with the World's Busiest Mountain Rescue Service

Anne Sauvy

Reeds Channel Almanac 2026

Perrin Towler, Simon Jollands