From Molière and Voltaire to Fitzgerald and Stein to Gopnik and Gavalda, the City of Lights brings out the writer in everyone. If you can't have Paris under your feet, you can have it in your imagination. These are our favorite books written or set in Paris, inspired by our story Literary Tour of Paris. Want even more? Here's even more Paris For Your Bookshelf.
by Ernest Hemingway
Paris comes alive on the page — as do Gertrude Stein, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, and the rest of Hemingway's glittery post-World War I circle of artists, writers, and bon vivants.