The French press has only praise for Emmanuel Carrère, Lola Lafon, and Chloé Delaume's new novels. Make sure you've read them all to shine at your next literary outing, In the meantime, here's our take on them.

This year, we invite you to celebrate Women in Translation Month with the English debuts of Julia Kerninon (My Devotion, Europa), Hannelore Cayre (The Godmother, ), Kaouther Adimi (Our Riches, New Directions), or with Ananda Devi's latest novel, The Living Days (Femisnist Press).

If you have been following the French literary news, you may already know that a new translation of Gone with the Wind has been released this spring. In case you were planning on reading it, we encourage you to also consider reading any of the masterpieces on this list.

While the country went into lockdown, an array of new French Fiction landed in US bookstores. We selected some that seem to us a perfect fit for your summer.