French literature for language improvement

You can literally just google "french literature," but whatever.

François Rabelais – La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel ("Gargantua and Pantagruel")
17th century
Honoré d'Urfé – L'Astrée
Madame de Lafayette – La Princesse de Clèves
18th century
Abbé Prévost – Manon Lescaut
Voltaire – Candide, Zadig ou la Destinée
Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse
Denis Diderot – Jacques le fataliste (Jacques the Fatalist)
Montesquieu – Persian Letters
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos – Les Liaisons dangereuses
Marquis de Sade – Justine (Sade)
19th century
François-René de Chateaubriand – Atala, René
Benjamin Constant – Adolphe
Stendhal – Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black), La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma)
Honoré de Balzac – La Comédie humaine ("The Human Comedy", a novel cycle which includes Père Goriot, Lost Illusions, and Eugénie Grandet)
Alexandre Dumas – The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers
Victor Hugo – Notre Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), Les Misérables
Théophile Gautier – Mademoiselle de Maupin
Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary, Salammbô, L'Éducation sentimentale (Sentimental Education)
Jules Verne – Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea), Voyage au centre de la Terre (A Journey to the Center of the Earth), Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (Around the World in Eighty Days)
Edmond and Jules de Goncourt – Germinie Lacerteux
George Sand – La Petite Fadette
Guy de Maupassant – Bel Ami, La Parure (The Necklace), other short stories
Émile Zola – Thérèse Raquin, Les Rougon-Macquart (a novel cycle which includes L'Assommoir, Nana and Germinal)
20th century
André Gide – Les Faux-monnayeurs (The Counterfeiters), L'Immoraliste (The Immoralist)
Marcel Proust – À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time)
Albert Cohen
François Mauriac
Louis Aragon
Blaise Cendrars
André Breton – Nadja
Gaston Leroux – Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera)
Roger Martin du Gard – Les Thibault (The Thibaults)
Louis-Ferdinand Céline – Voyage au bout de la nuit (Journey to the End of the Night)
Colette – Gigi
Jean Genet – Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs
Julien Gracq – Le Rivage des Syrtes (The Opposing Shore)
André Malraux – La Condition Humaine (Man's Fate), L'Espoir (Man's Hope)
Albert Camus – L'Étranger (The Stranger)
Michel Butor – La Modification
Marguerite Yourcenar – Mémoires d'Hadrien

Yes, because difficult french literature is really what I need for my low skilled french.

>>8911501
Then google french YA fiction, jesus christ, you're one huge inept little shit.

if you have low skills, read la Fontaine, it's what kids learn in school.
here's a classic "le corbeau et le renard"

http://www.lesfables.fr/livre-1/le-corbeau-et-le-renard

>>8911523
Yes, recommend that he read a pile of shit. Clearly he wants simple French books that are also good.

start with the Gracq

Camus is very readable. As are Sartre's plays.

Despite being old, Molière's plays are a light enough read.