Love to Read: Join a French Book Club to Discuss Books in French
Reading opens a world of countless benefits.
Plan 0
Read alone
49€ covers one year for 1 person and includes:
+200 worksheets and synopsis
+200 video with subtitles in French
+100 quizzes
No call.
Join
Plan 1
Membership
25€ covers one month of class for 1 person and includes:
Pre-call preparation items
1-hour call each week
Follow-up emails
Limited to 6 French learners
Plan 2
Join and Support
Get the exact same membership benefits of Plan 1 and support the club
Pre-call preparation items
1-hour call each week
Follow-up emails
Weekly homework correction
Limited to 6 French learners
Plan 3
One year
199€ covers one year of class for 1 person and includes:
Pre-call preparation items
1-hour call each week
Follow-up emails
Limited to 6 French learners
Choose your group
- Group B: every Monday at 7pm (Paris time)
- Group D: every Thursday at 3pm (Paris time)
- Group E: every Friday at 2pm (Paris time)
- Group F: every Saturday at 7pm (Paris time) (beginner +)
- Group H: every Wednesday at 7pm (Paris time)
Next books (B2-C2)
Here’s the book for June 2026: Les belles images by Simone de Beauvoir
The Beautiful Images is a novel by Simone de Beauvoir, published in 1966. It follows a woman from the Parisian upper-middle class in the prosperous 1960s, living in a seemingly perfect modern environment. Through her eyes, the book examines social norms, the image people project, and the pressure of appearances. Beauvoir offers a sharp yet elegant critique of consumer society and the roles imposed on women. A concise, ironic, and strikingly relevant novel about inauthenticity and the search for meaning.
Here’s the book for May 2026: Charlotte by David Foenkinos
Charlotte Salomon is born into a family stricken by suicide and a country at war. But there is something exceptional about her – she has a gift, a talent for painting. And she has a great love, for a brilliant, eccentric musician. But just as she is coming into her own as an artist, death is coming to control her country. The Nazis have come to power and, as a Jew in Berlin, Charlotte’s life is narrowing, and she knows every second is precious.
Inspiring, unflinching, terrible and hopeful, Charlotte is the heartbreaking true story of a life filled with curiosity, animated by genius and cut short by hatred
Here’s the book for April 2026: un homme qui dort by Georges Perec
Un homme qui dort (A Man Asleep) by Georges Perec is a short, hypnotic novel written in the second person. It follows a 25-year-old Parisian student who, one day, simply stops everything: he abandons his studies, his friends, his ambitions, and even the smallest daily routines. The narrative becomes an inventory of absence and progressive detachment, cataloguing what the man no longer possesses or desires. Through a flat, repetitive, almost medical voice, Perec explores radical indifference, voluntary disappearance into sleep and emptiness. The book is both a quiet existential experiment and one of the most striking portraits of depression and withdrawal in modern French literature.
Here’s the book for February 2026: L’armée des ombres by Joseph Kessel
It was in London, in 1943, that Joseph Kessel, an unrivaled storyteller and the foremost chronicler of our time, wrote Army of Shadows. This is not only one of his masterpieces but the symbolic novel of the Resistance, which the author presents as follows: “France no longer has bread, wine, or fire. But above all, it no longer has laws. Civil disobedience, individual or organized rebellion, have become duties toward the fatherland.”Never has France waged a higher or more beautiful war than those fought in the cellars where its free newspapers are printed, on the nocturnal fields and secret coves where it welcomes its free friends and from which its free children depart, in the torture chambers where, despite the pincers, the red-hot needles, and the crushed bones, French men and women die as free human beings.Everything you are about to read here was lived by people of France.
Here’s the book for January 2026: La maison Tellier et autres nouvelles by Guy de Maupassant
This collection of nine realist short stories explores everyday life, provincial customs, and human desires with irony and subtlety. The title story follows the girls from a Rouen brothel closed for a countryside First Communion, revealing tenderness and social hypocrisy. The other tales (Sur l’eau, Une partie de campagne, Boule de Suif, etc.) depict ordinary people facing greed, loneliness, or love, often with a biting twist. A concise, impactful classic of naturalism.
Next books (A2-B1)
Here’s the book for April 2026: Bel ami by Maupassant.
A book suitable for level B1. You don’t have to buy the book.
French Reading Club FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
WHAT SHOULD MY LEVEL OF FRENCH BE?
The book club is perfect for you whether you have an intermediate or advanced French level.
WHAT MATERIAL DO I NEED?
You need four things: a stable internet connection, a computer, the book of the month, and Zoom, the free video conferencing tool. You will have to order the book yourself early enough to make sure you receive it before our first class.
WHAT SHOULD MY LEVEL OF FRENCH BE?
Yes, your book will be only in French. And we’ll only speak French during our calls.
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