Recommended Audiobooks from France

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

By: Muriel Barbery
Narrated by: Cassandra Morris & Barbara Rosenblat
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

An enchanting New York Times and international bestseller and award-winner about life, art, literature, philosophy, culture, class, privilege, and power, seen through the eyes of a 54-year old French concierge and a precocious but troubled 12-year-old girl.

Renée Michel is the 54-year-old concierge of a luxury Paris apartment building. Her... Read more

The Cheffe

A Cook's Novel

By: Marie NDiaye
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

From the celebrated French writer Marie NDiaye--Prix Goncourt-winning author of Three Strong Women--comes the story of the Cheffe: a woman who lives in the single-minded pursuit of creating incomparable culinary delights.

Born into poverty in southwestern France, as a teenager the Cheffe takes a job working for a wealthy couple in a neighboring... Read more

The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles

A Novel

A Joséphine Cortès Novel: Book #1

By: Katherine Pancol
Narrated by: Ellen Archer
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Le Divorce meets The Elegance of the Hedgehog in this hilariously entertaining mega-bestseller from France

When her chronically unemployed husband runs off to start a crocodile farm in Kenya with his mistress, Joséphine Cortès is left in an unhappy state of affairs. The mother of two—confident, beautiful teenage Hortense and shy, babyish Zoé—is... Read more

The Perfect Nanny

A Novel

By: Leila Slimani
Narrated by: Finty Williams
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

*Soon to be an HBO series starring Nicole Kidman and Maya Erskine*

She has the keys to their apartment. She knows everything. She has embedded herself so deeply in their lives that it now seems impossible to remove her.

One of the 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR of The New York Times Book Review, by the author of Adèle, Sex and Lies, In the Country of... Read more

The Red Notebook

By: Antoine Laurain
Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

“On one of his early morning walks around his Paris neighborhood bookshop owner Laurent finds a woman's bag left by a trash bin, nothing is left in it but a signed Modiano novel and a red notebook, with no name in it. Determined to find the owner of the bag Laurent breaks from his unadventurous life and follows the clues he finds in the notebook.... Read more

Delicacy

A Novel

By: David Foenkinos
Narrated by: Nicole Poole
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Natalie and François are the perfect couple, and perfectly happy. But after François dies suddenly, only seven years into their still blissful marriage, the widowed Natalie erects a fortress around her emotions into which no one can gain access. Until the most unlikely candidate appears: Markus, Natalie’s Swedish, geeky, and unassuming coworker. Read more

Vernon Subutex 1

A Novel

Vernon Subutex: Book #1

By: Virginie Despentes
Narrated by: Christopher Harper
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

From the provocative writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes comes volume one of her acclaimed trilogy of novels, Vernon Subutex—short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize and the basis for the TV series of the same name. But who is Vernon Subutex?

Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous music shop in Paris,... Read more

The Age of Reinvention

A Novel

By: Karine Tuil
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

An international bestseller and finalist for the Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary award, The Age of Reinvention is a "suspenseful...Gatsby-esque odyssey...laced with provocative observations of prejudice, politics, and sexism" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Top Manhattan criminal defense attorney Sam Tahar seems to have it... Read more

Syndrome E

By: Franck Thilliez
Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

The classic police procedural meets cutting-edge science in this huge international bestseller. Already a runaway bestseller in France, Syndrome E tells the story of beleaguered detective Lucie Henebelle, whose old friend has developed a case of spontaneous blindness after watching an extremely rare—and violent—film from the 1950s. Embedded in... Read more

Suspended Sentences

Three Novellas

By: Patrick Modiano
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot, Sean Runnette & Arthur Morey
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

In this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of memory and exploring the mysteries to be encountered there. Each novella in the volume—Afterimage, Suspended Sentences, and Flowers of Ruin—represents a sterling example of the... Read more

Happy People Read and Drink Coffee

By: Agnes Martin-Lugand
Narrated by: Mia Barron
Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Diane seems to have the perfect life. She is a wife, a mother, and the owner of Happy People Read and Drink Coffee, a cozy literary cafe in Paris. But when she suddenly loses her beloved husband and daughter in a tragic car accident, the world as she knows it instantly vanishes. Trapped and haunted by her memories, Diane retreats from friends... Read more

The End of Eddy

A Novel

By: Édouard Louis
Narrated by: Graham Halstead
Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy.“Every morning in the bathroom I would repeat the same phrase to myself over and over again . . . Today I’m really gonna be a tough guy.” Growing up in a poor village in northern France, all Eddy Bellegueule wanted was to be a man in the eyes of his family and... Read more

The Loyalties

A Novel

By: Delphine de Vigan
Narrated by: Susannah Jones & Jay Ben Markson
Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Adults are as lost as the children they should be protecting, as the lives of four people trapped in a conspiracy of silence hurtle toward a desperate and devastating act.
Twelve-year-old Théo and his friend Mathis have a secret. Their teacher, Hélène, suspects something is not right with Théo and becomes obsessed with rescuing him, casting aside... Read more

Ladivine

By: Marie NDiaye
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

On the first Tuesday of every month, Clarisse Rivière leaves her husband and young daughter and secretly takes the train to Bordeaux to visit her mother, Ladivine. Just as Clarisse's husband and daughter know nothing of Ladivine, Clarisse herself has hidden nearly every aspect of her adult life from this woman, whom she dreads and despises but... Read more

If Only It Were True Unabridged

By: Marc Levy
Narrated by: Michael McGlone
Length: TBA

*One of Time’s 50 Best Romance Novels to Read Right Now*

“Summer’s most romantic read.” —Glamour

A captivating and “simply magical” (New York Post) international bestseller that evokes the essence of romance and how far one will go for the one they love—the inspiration for the film Just Like Heaven starring Reese Witherspoon and Mark... Read more

Suite Francaise

By: Irene Nemirovsky
Narrated by: Daniel Oreskes & Barbara Rosenblat
Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

By the early 1940s, when Ukrainian-born Irène Némirovsky began working on what would become Suite Française—the first two parts of a planned five-part novel—she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz: a month later she was dead at the age of ... Read more

Sarah's Key

A Novel

By: Tatiana de Rosnay
Narrated by: Polly Stone
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Now a major motion picture!

From beloved international sensation and #1 New York Times bestselling author Tatiana de Rosnay come's her celebrated novel Sarah's Key.

Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a... Read more

After the Crash

A Novel

By: Michel Bussi
Narrated by: Daniel Philpott
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

“This old-fashioned crime novel by a French geography professor considers the miraculous survival of a three-month-old infant girl in an airplane crash in the Jura Mountains in which all perished -- including a second three-month-old baby. An 18-year struggle is unleashed between two rival sets of grandparents on opposite ends of the economic... Read more

The Three Musketeers

The d'Artagnan Romances: Book #1

By: Alexandre Dumas
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 22 hours 47 minutes

This historical romance, perhaps the greatest cloak-and-sword story ever written, relates the adventures of four fictional swashbuckling heroes who loyally served the French kings Louis XIII and Louis XIV.When the dashing young d’Artagnan arrives in Paris from Gascony, he becomes embroiled in three duels with the musketeers Athos, Porthos, and... Read more

The Reunion

By: Guillaume Musso
Narrated by: Clare Wille, David Rintoul, Samuel West & Cassie Layton
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

A glamorous prep school girl goes missing after a love affair with a teacher in this "immensely satisfying" thriller from France's #1 bestselling novelist (Harlan Coben).
Twenty-five years ago, on a campus paralyzed by a snowstorm, beautiful 19-year-old Vinca Rockwell ran away with her philosophy teacher after they began a secret affair. For... Read more