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Barclay, Steven and Barrows, Annie, eds. A Place in the World Called Paris. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1994. [Anthology of evocative descriptions of Paris by 20th century writers. Foreword by Susan Sontag].
Beevor, Antony and Cooper, Artemis. Paris After the Liberation, 1944- 1949. New York: Doubleday, 1994.
Bennett, Arnold. Paris Nights and Impressions of Places and People.New York: Doran, 1913.
Berlanstein, Lenard R. The Working People of Paris, 1871 - 1914. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1985.
Bernier, Olivier. Fireworks at Dusk: Paris in the Thirties. New York: Little, Brown, 1993.
Burchell, S.C. Imperial Masquerades: The Paris of Napoleon III. New York: Atheneum, 1971.
Cameron, Robert and Pierre Salinger. Above Paris. San Francisco: Cameron, 1984 [Color aerial photos of Paris neighborhoods and landmarks].
Cartier-Bresson, Henri. A Propos de Paris. Boston: Bulfinch, 1994. [130 black and white photos taken over 50 years]
Chelminski, Rudolph. Great Cities: Paris. Amsterdam: Time-Life, 1977.
Chevalier, Louis. The Assassination of Paris. Translated by David Jordan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. [Originally published in 1977 as L'assassinat de Paris].
Cole, Robert. A Traveller's History of Paris. New York: Interlink, 1994.
Deedes-Vincke, Patrick. Paris: the City and its Photographers. Boston: Bulfinch, 1992.
Edwards, Stewart. The Paris Commune, 1871. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971.
Edwards. Stewart. The Communards of Paris, 1871. Ithaca: Cornell, 1973.
Evenson, Norma. Paris: A century of Change, 1878 - 1978. New Haven: Yale, 1979. [heavily illustrated history documenting a century of urban change].
Farge, Arlette and others. The Vanishing Children of Paris: Rumor and Politics Before the Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991.
Friedrich, Otto. Olympia: Paris in the Age of Manet. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
Ganetti, Nicolai. The Rooftops of Paris. London: Peebles, 1976.
Glyn, Anthony. The Seine. New York: Putnams, 1966.
Green, Julian. Paris: Bilingual Edition. New York: Boyars, 1993. (18 essays in English and French about different parts of the city).
Hemingway, Ernest. The Moveable Feast. (Granada Paperbacks).
Hobson, Charles. Parisian Encounters; Great Loves and Passions. San Francisco: Chroncile, 1994. [The lives of several famous lovers are described, including Rodin and Camille, Henry Miller and Anais Nin, and Georges Sand and Chopin].
Horne, Alistair. The Fall of Paris: the Siege and the Commune, 1870- 1871. New York: St Martin's, 1965.
Isherwood. Robert M. Farce & Fantasy: Popular Entertainment in Eighteenth Century Paris. New York: Oxford, 1986.
Kete, Kathleen. The Beast in the Boudoir: Petkeeping in Nineteenth Century Paris. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1994.
Lottman, Herbert R. The Fall of Paris: June, 1940. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
Loyrette, Henri. Gustave Eiffel. New York: Rizzoli, 1985. (includes a chapter on the influence of the Tower on artists and the development of the tower as icon for France and Paris.)
Maspero, Francois. Roissy Express: A Journey Through the Paris Suburbs. Translated by Paul Jones. London: Verson, 1994.
Melly, George. Paris and the Surrealists. London: Thames and Hudson, 1992.
Morton, Brian. Americans in Paris: An Anecdotal Street Guide to the Homes and Haunts of Americans from Jefferson to Capote. New York: Quill, 1986.
Pardailhe-Galabrun, Annik. The Birth of Intimacy: Privacy & Domestic Life in Early Modern Paris. Jocelyn Phelps, Translator. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.
Pinkney, David. Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958.
Reid, Donald. Paris Sewers and Sewermen: Realities and Representations. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Rifkin, Adrian. Street Noises: Studies in Parisian Pleasures, 1900- 1940. New York: Saint Martin's, 1993.
Roche, Daniel.The People of Paris: An Essay on Popular Culture in the 18th Century. Translated by Marie Evans. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. [Originally published in 1981 as La Peuple de Paris]
Rood, Karen Lane, ed. American Writers in Paris, 1920-1939. Detroit: Gale, 1980.
Rosenblum, Mort. The Secret Life of the Seine. Reading (MA): Addison-Wesley, 1994.
Schulkind, Eugene,ed. The Paris Commune of 1871: the View from the Left. New York: Grove, 1974.
Shattuck, Roger. The Banquet years: The Arts in France 1885-1918: Alfred Jarry, Erik Satie, Henri Rousseau, Guillaume Apollinaire. London: Faber, 1958.
Siegel, Jerrold. Bohemian Paris:Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930. New York: Viking Penguin, 1986.
Steele, Valerie. Paris Fashion: A Cultural History. New York: Oxford, 1988.