Best French authors

French authors ranked by the scores readers give their books. France gave the novel some of its most durable adventures and dramas: Jules Verne's voyages, Victor Hugo's sweeping social epics, Guy de Maupassant's sharp short stories. French writing is known for style, ideas and a long literary tradition, and this ranking shows which French authors today's readers rate highest.

Ranked by each author’s score — the average of their books’ reader ratings on BookRank. Citizenship data: Wikidata.

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