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Rentrée littéraire 2025
2025 literary season: our ten favourites!

The “rentrée littéraire”, an always long-expected event in France, is already in full swing! At the end of August, the race for the major autumn prizes already began. This year, nearly 500 novels, 484 to be exact, are about to be released: 344 novels written in French are being published this season, including 73 debut novels and 140 translations. To help you navigate this multitude of lines and words, here’s our short selection of 10 French and French-language favourites, all of which have a connection to foreign countries and origins, in the broadest sense of the terms. 

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