Need a recommendation
 

For a book that was originally written in French (and has been translated to English), or one that is set in France.

Here you go. This one is both:

http://www.amazon.com/Suite-Francais...4262038&sr=8-1

Glad you asked. Here are two great ones by the same author. I understand he's the first French author to be successful in the American market since Camus, and he's of course very influenced by Camus. Platform begins with an echo of the beginning of The Stranger. I loved these novels.

http://www.amazon.com/Platform-Miche...4261793&sr=1-2

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/037...VVA45EF238AGBY

Personally, I think I like Platform best, but just barely. (Part of the novel is set in Thailand.) The Elementary Particles is probably considered by critics to be his best, but just barely.

Other than the obvious?

Les Miserables
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Three Muskateers
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

I love Dumas. Add Twenty Years After. It includes The Man in the Iron Mask, and is a sequal to The Three Musketeers.

Of course, there's always Madam Bovary. It has the most disturbing scene I've ever read in fiction, though. As far as adultury novels go, it's right there with Anna Karenina.

I've never read Twenty Years After. I suppose I now need to read it.

Not a single work by Emile Zola?

Verite
Fecundite
The Fortune of the Rougons
Les Quatres Evangiles
J'accuse
Therese Raquin.

He was a proponent of French naturalism.

I vote for Camus. I loved The Stranger, The Plague, The Rebel, et al.

Although Stranger and Plague take place in Algiers, not France, no?

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday. I can't be sure.

Classic.

How about a book by Milan Kundera? (some of his are written in French).

Proust's In Search of Lost Time...