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)
