Here are some great books that will help you on your way.

Au Revoir to All That: Food, Wine and the End of France by Michael Steinberger

Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong: Why We Love France but Not the French by Jean-Benoît Nadeau

Suite Francaise by Irene Neminrovsky and Sandra Smith

Stuff Parisians Like: Discovering the Quoi in the Je Ne Sais Quoi by Olivier Magny

The Sweet Life In Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World’s Most Glorious – and Perplexing – City by David Lebovitz

Hungry For Paris: The Ultimate Guide to the City’s 102 Best Restaurants by Alec Lobrano

Eating & Drinking in Paris by Andy Herbach

Rick Steves’ Paris by Rick Steves

Paris, Paris: Journey Into the City of Light by David Downie

Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation by Charles Glass

And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris by Alan Riding

The Journal of Hélène Berr by Hélène Berr

A Train In Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France by Caroline Moorehead

Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France’s Greatest Treasure by Don Kladstrup

Suite Francaise by Sandra Smith

Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris

A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel

Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era by Caroline Moorehead

Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser

Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman (Grove Great Lives) by Stefan Zweig

A Tale of Two Cities (Dover Thrift Editions) by Charles Dickens

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

Books by Alan Furst (WWII spy novels, many of which are set in Paris)