A Bánh Mi for Two by Trinity Nguyen (f/f YA, Sài Gòn)
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee (Historical m/m YA, all across Europe)
Abroad by Liz Jacobs (m/m NA duology, London)
The Pairing by Casey McQuiston (m/x, France, Italy, and Spain)
An Island Princess Starts a Scandal (Historical f/f, Paris) and Finding Joy (m/m, Addis Ababa) by Adriana Herrera
Bonus: Coming in 2026, Like We Were in Paris by Stephan Lee (m/m YA, Paris)
For part I, click here.
The Disenchantment by Celia Bell (1670s-80s)
Mademoiselle Revolution by Zoe Sivak (1790s)
Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis (1866)
The Paris Affair by Maureen Marshall (1886)
An Island Princess Stars a Scandal by Adriana Herrera (1889)
What’s Left of the Night by Ersi Sotiropoulos, translated into English from Greek by Karen Emmerich (1897)
The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher (1919)
The Last Nude by Ellis Avery (1927)
The Book of Salt by Monique Truong (1929)
The Perfume Thief by Timothy Schaffert (1941)
Bonus: For a more recent historical set in France but not Paris, check out Lie With Me by Philippe Besson, translated into English from French by Molly Ringwald (1984)
At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O’Neill (1916 Ireland)
The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood (1931 Berlin)
The Book of Salt by Monique Truong (1929 Paris)
History of a Pleasure Seeker by Richard Mason (1907 Amsterdam)
While England Sleeps by David Leavitt (1930s London and Spain)*
*There are strong accusations that Leavitt plagiarized Stephen Spender’s life for this novel. You may also want to check out Spender’s autobiography, World Within World, which contains an afterword addressing the allegations.
