While there are many courses and tutorials online, learning from a book is still one of the best ways to greatly improve your skills. Below I have selected top France books.
- Rick Steves France 2019 (2019)
- Lonely Planet France (Travel Guide) (2019)
- DK Eyewitness Travel Guide France (2018)
- Fodor’s Essential France (Full-color Travel Guide) (2017)
- Frommer’s France (Complete Guides) (2018)
- 100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go (2014)
- The Most Beautiful Villages of France: The Official Guide (2019 Edition) (2019)
- French Phrasebook: +1400 French Phrases to travel in France with confidence! (2015)
- Rick Steves France 2020 (Rick Steves Travel Guide) (2019)
- Rick Steves Best of France (2018)
- Michelin Green Guide France: Travel Guide (Green Guide/Michelin) (2019)
- France in the World: A New Global History (2019)
- My Life in France (2007)
- My Good Life in France (2017)
- Lonely Planet Best of France (Travel Guide) (2019)
Rick Steves France 2019 (2019)
Planning a one- to two-week trip? Check out Rick Steves Best of France.
Lonely Planet France (Travel Guide) (2019)
Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher* is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Grab a café crème at a Parisian sidewalk cafe, take in glacial panoramas above Chamonix and explore the Champagne-soaked city of Reims – all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of France and begin your journey now!
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide France (2018)
This guide will show you the wide range of sights that France has to offer, from the beautiful cities of Paris, Lille, and Nice filled with art galleries and historic sights; the châteaux of the Loire Valley and the remarkable Mont-St.-Michel; to the beauty of the Pyrenees and Alps, Brittany beaches, the glamorous French Riviera, and Corsica’s wild landscape. Learn about regional French cuisines and wines, architecture, art, and literature.
Fodor’s Essential France (Full-color Travel Guide) (2017)
Written by locals, Fodor’s travel guides have been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for more than 80 years. Unforgettable artwork, heavenly villages, and dream cities–there are so many reasons to visit France that deciding where to go and what to do can be a bit overwhelming. Fodor’s Essential France takes the guesswork out of choosing the perfect French experiences by compiling the top choices chosen by Fodor’s army of France-based writers.
Frommer’s France (Complete Guides) (2018)
Take the guesswork out of vacation planning. Frommer’s hires only seasoned experts, journalists who live in France either full-time or part-time, which means their advice doesn’t have to be second-guessed. It’s savvy, dependable, and not based on one or two short trips to France, but on a lifetime of exploration.
100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go (2014)
Told in a series of stylish, original essays, New York Times travel bestseller 100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go is for the serious Francophile and anyone who loves crisp stories well told. Like all great travel writing, this collection goes beyond the guidebook and offers insight not only about where to go but why to go there.
The Most Beautiful Villages of France: The Official Guide (2019 Edition) (2019)
From the half-timbered Alsatian houses of Eguisheim to the vines and lavender fields of Montclus in the Languedoc-Roussillon, this illustrated guide unveils the beauty of rural France, providing complete visitor’s information for these exceptionally preserved destinations.Carefully selected each year, the French villages featured in this official guide are replete with historical, architectural, and natural riches.
French Phrasebook: +1400 French Phrases to travel in France with confidence! (2015)
French phrase book with audio Do you want to visit France? Or what about eating out at a French restaurant? Maybe you want to impress your friends with some common French phrases.
Rick Steves France 2020 (Rick Steves Travel Guide) (2019)
Planning a one- to two-week trip? Check out Rick Steves Best of France.
Rick Steves Best of France (2018)
Planning a longer trip? Rick Steves France 2018 is the classic, in-depth guide to exploring the country, updated annually.Looking for a quick getaway? Try Rick Steves Pocket Paris.
Michelin Green Guide France: Travel Guide (Green Guide/Michelin) (2019)
The updated Green Guide France presents this beautiful country's star-rated attractions, accompanied by regional introductions, cultural background, detailed maps and recommendations for a range of great hotels and restaurants.
France in the World: A New Global History (2019)
Bringing together an impressive group of established and up-and-coming historians, this bestselling history conceives of France not as a fixed, rooted entity, but instead as a place and an idea in flux, moving beyond all borders and frontiers, shaped by exchanges and mixtures.
My Life in France (2007)
The bestselling story of Julia’s years in France—and the basis for Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams—in her own words. Although she would later singlehandedly create a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, Julia Child was not always a master chef.
My Good Life in France (2017)
One grey dismal day, Janine Marsh was on a trip to northern France to pick up some cheap wine. She returned to England a few hours later having put in an offer on a rundown old barn in the rural Seven Valleys area of Pas de Calais. This was not something she’d expected or planned for. Janine eventually gave up her job in London to move with her husband to live the good life in France. Or so she hoped.
Lonely Planet Best of France (Travel Guide) (2019)
Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher* is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Embrace the sights and sounds of Paris, sample tangy olives at the weekly market in Provence and explore the vineyards of Champagne – all with your trusted travel companion.
Best France Books You Should Read
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OECD Economic Surveys : France, 1994-1995.
Author(s): OECD
ID: 2146417, Publisher: Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development, Year: Set. 1995, Size: 10 Mb, Format: pdf
Hands-On Software Architecture with C# 8 and .NET Core 3
Author(s): Gabriel Baptista, Francesco Abbruzzese
ID: 2461457, Publisher: Packt Publishing, Year: November 2019, Size: 12 Mb, Format: pdf
Traditional and Innovative Approaches in Seismic Engineering
Author(s): Giresini, Linda; Taddei, Francesca
ID: 2422998, Publisher: MDPI AG, Year: March 2018, Size: 9 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not final. Some books are truly hot items according to Chicago Tribune, others are drafted by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant links you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.