3) The Da Vinci Code
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1. "Les Rois Maudits" series - Maurice Druon
2. "Wallander" series - Henning Mankell
3. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
4. L'écume des jours - Boris Vian
5. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
6. Candide, ou l'optimisme - Voltaire
7. Les fleurs du mal - Charles Baudelaire (poetry)
8. For Want of a Nail - Robert Sobel (person who likes historical fiction - you'll love this one)
9. Republic - Plato
10. De rerum natura - Lucretius (fascinating...and so forward-thinking too)
11. Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
12. Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
13. On Crimes and Punishment - Cesare Beccaria
14. De l'esprit des lois - Montesquieu
15. Hyperion Cantos - Dan Simmons
16. Forever War - Joe Haldemann
17. De bello gallico - Julius Caesar (love the dry style and the anthropological information on the tribes, lol)
18. De la démocratie en Amérique - Alexis de Tocqueville (every American should read this and weep for what they lost)
19. Surveiller et punir : naissance de la prison - Michel Foucault (L'archéologie du savoir is also good, but maybe a bit too heavy for this list)
20. Le malade imaginaire - Molière (play)
Honorable mention : De Oratore - Cicero (much better than Aristotle's Rhetoric imo)