Les Rougon-Macquart Books in Order
cycle of twenty novels by French writer Émile Zola
Publication order
In the order the books were originally released.
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Buy on Amazon1871 · Émile Zola
La Curée is the second novel in Émile Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart series, published in 1872. It explores the theme of property speculation and the…
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Buy on Amazon1874 · Émile Zola
La Conquête de Plassans (1874), published in English as The Conquest of Plassans and A Priest in the House, is the fourth novel in Émile Zola’s…
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Buy on Amazon1875 · Émile Zola
La Teuse entre dans l'église, pose son balai et son plumeau contre l'autel. Elle a terminé la lessive du semestre et traverse l'église pour sonner…
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Buy on Amazon1876 · Émile Zola
Son Excellence Eugène Rougon is the sixth novel in Émile Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. It was first published in 1876 as a serial in the newspaper…
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L'Assommoir was published as a serial in 1876 and as a book in 1877. It is the seventh novel in Émile Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart series. The story…
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This novel is a study of alcoholism and poverty in working-class Paris. Gervaise Macquart runs away to Paris with her lover Lantier to work as a…
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1879 · Émile Zola
Zola includes the family tree of the Rougon-Macquart in this volume because many readers asked for it, and it helps them navigate the large number of…
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Buy on Amazon1882 · Émile Zola
Pot-Bouille is the tenth novel in Émile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series. It critiques the social norms of the bourgeoisie during the Second French…
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Buy on AmazonYear unknown · Émile Zola
Jean walked this morning with a blue seed bag tied around his waist, holding the opening with his left hand. With his right hand, every three steps,…
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Buy on Amazon1888 · Émile Zola
Le Rêve is the sixteenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. The story follows an orphan girl who falls in love with a nobleman. The…
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Buy on Amazon1891 · Émile Zola
L'Argent ("Money") is the eighteenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It was first serialized in the periodical Gil Blas starting…
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Buy on Amazon1886 · Émile Zola
L'Œuvre is the fourteenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It was first serialized in the periodical Gil Blas in December 1885 and…
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Companion & related books
Related titles and editions that sit outside the main numbered order.
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Buy on Amazon1884 · Émile Zola
La joie de vivre is the twelfth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It was first published in the periodical Gil Blas in 1883. The…
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Buy on Amazon1891 · Émile Zola
Aristide Rougon, known as Saccard, is a failed property speculator determined to make his way once more in Paris, scheming and manipulating his way…
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Buy on AmazonYear unknown · Émile Zola
La Bete humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, is a tale of murder, passion, and possession that is also a…
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Buy on Amazon1893 · Émile Zola
In the heat of a July afternoon, the room, with its shutters carefully closed, was filled with great calm. From the three windows, only thin beams of…
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Buy on Amazon1890 · Émile Zola
La Bête humaine is an 1890 novel by Émile Zola, the seventeenth in his Les Rougon-Macquart series. The story centers on railway workers operating the…
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Buy on Amazon1892 · Émile Zola
La Débâcle (1892), also translated as The Debacle and The Downfall, is a novel by Émile Zola and the penultimate novel in his Les Rougon-Macquart…
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Buy on Amazon1871 · Émile Zola
This novel explores how a family, a small group of individuals, behaves within society as it grows and develops, giving rise to ten or twenty people…
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Buy on Amazon1883 · Émile Zola
"The Ladies Paradise" is an 1883 novel by Émile Zola. It follows Denise Baudu, a 20-year-old woman who moves to Paris with her younger brothers and…
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Buy on Amazon1880 · Émile Zola
Nana is a novel by Émile Zola that explores the life of its eponymous character, a woman who rises from the underworld to exploit society. Zola uses…
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Buy on Amazon1873 · Émile Zola
In the middle of the great silence and the desert of the avenue, the market carts climbed toward Paris, their wheels bouncing with a rhythmic clatter…
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Buy on Amazon1885 · Émile Zola
Germinal is the thirteenth novel in Émile Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. It highlights the exploitation of the working class and the struggles of the…
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Frequently asked questions
What order should I read the Les Rougon-Macquart books in?
Read them in publication order, starting with “La curée”. Start with “La curée.”
How many books are in the Les Rougon-Macquart series?
We list 31 books by Émile Zola , published between 1871–1893.
Where can I buy the Les Rougon-Macquart books?
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Reading order compiled from author/publisher guidance and verified bibliographic data. Spotted an error? We continuously correct the catalog.