12 Recommendations: WLT’s Parisian Expat Reading List
![Strangers in Paris: New Writing Inspired by the City of Ligth](https://worldliteraturetoday.org/sites/default/files/2011/September/strangers-in-paris.jpg)
David Barnes & Megan Fernandes, eds.
Strangers in Paris: New Writing Inspired by the City of Light (Tightrope, 2011)
![Strangers in Paris: New Writing Inspired by the City of Ligth](https://worldliteraturetoday.org/sites/default/files/2011/September/paris-trance.jpg)
Geoff Dyer
Paris Trance (North Point Press, 2000)
![A Little Circle of Kindred Minds: Joyce in Paris](https://worldliteraturetoday.org/sites/default/files/2011/September/joyce-in-paris.jpg)
Conor Fennell
A Little Circle of Kindred Minds: Joyce in Paris (Green Lamp Media, 2011)
![Parise Cafe: The Select Crowd](https://worldliteraturetoday.org/sites/default/files/2011/September/paris-cafe1.jpg)
Noël Riley Fitch & Rick Tulka
Paris Café: The Sélect Crowd (Soft Skull, 2007)
![Paris Par Hasard](https://worldliteraturetoday.org/sites/default/files/2011/September/paris-par-hasard.jpg)
Terrence William Gelenter
Paris Par Hasard: From Bagels to Brioche (Paris through Expatriate Eyes, 2010)
![Paris to the Moon](https://worldliteraturetoday.org/sites/default/files/2011/September/paris-to-the-moon.jpg)
![Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology](https://worldliteraturetoday.org/sites/default/files/2011/September/americans-in-paris.jpg)
Adam Gopnik
Paris to the Moon (Random House, 2000) and Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology (Library of America, 2004)
![Strangers in Paris: New Writing Inspired by the City of Ligth](https://worldliteraturetoday.org/sites/default/files/2011/September/le-divorce.jpg)
![Le Mariage](https://worldliteraturetoday.org/sites/default/files/2011/September/le-mariage.jpg)
Diane Johnson
Le Divorce (Plume, 1998) and Le Mariage (Plume, 2001).
![Strangers in Paris: New Writing Inspired by the City of Ligth](https://worldliteraturetoday.org/sites/default/files/2011/September/time-was-soft-there.jpg)
![Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs](https://worldliteraturetoday.org/sites/default/files/2011/September/books-baguettes-and-bedbugs1.jpg)
Jeremy Mercer
Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare and Co. (St. Martin’s Press, 2005) and Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs (Phoenix, 2006)
![The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris](https://worldliteraturetoday.org/sites/default/files/2011/September/greater-journey.jpg)
McCullough, David
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (Simon & Schuster, 2011)
![Foreign Bodies](https://worldliteraturetoday.org/sites/default/files/2011/September/Foreign-Bodies.jpg)
Cynthia Ozick
Foreign Bodies (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010)
![Me Talk Pretty One Day](https://worldliteraturetoday.org/sites/default/files/2011/September/me-talk-pretty.jpg)
David Sedaris
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Back Bay Books, 2001)
![Never Any End to Paris](https://worldliteraturetoday.org/sites/default/files/2011/September/End-to-Paris.jpg)
Enrique Vila-Matas
Never Any End to Paris, tr. Anne McLean (New Directions, 2011)
WLT's Parisian Expat Reading List is a supplement to Michelle Johnson's interview with Alexander Maksik, "The Romance and Reality of Paris: A Conversation with Alexander Maksik."