Les Rougon-Macquart

“Les Rougon-Macquart is the collective title given to a cycle of twenty novels by French writer Émile Zola. Subtitled Histoire naturelle et sociale d’une famille sous le Second Empire (Natural and social history of a family under the Second Empire), it follows the lives of the members of the two titular branches of a fictional family living during the Second French Empire (1852–1870) and is one of the most prominent works of the French naturalism literary movement.”

• The Fortune of the Rougons (1871)
• His Excellency Eugène Rougon (1876)
• The Kill (1872)
• Money (1891)
• The Dream (1888)
• The Conquest of Plassans (1874)
• Pot Luck (1882)
• The Ladies Paradise (1883)
• The Sin of Abbé Mouret (1875)
• A Love Story (1878)
• The Belly of Paris (1873)
• The Bright Side of Life (1884)
• The Assommoir (1877)
• The Masterpiece (1886)
• The Beast Within (1890)
• Germinal (1885)
• Nana (1880)
• The Earth (1887)
• The Debacle (1892)
• Doctor Pascal (1893)