The Prix Goncourt winners of the 2010s
The top 3 according to 2 votes from people: And Their Children After Them — Nicolas Mathieu · The Map and the Territory — Michel Houellebecq · The French Art of War — Alexis Jenni. (Updated Feb 3, 2025.)
The ten novels awarded the Prix Goncourt from 2010 to 2019.
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Top 10
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1
And Their Children After Them — Nicolas Mathieu
2018. Adolescence in an industrial valley in eastern France in the 1990s.
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The Map and the Territory — Michel Houellebecq
2010. An artist, contemporary France and the author himself murdered in the novel.
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3
The French Art of War — Alexis Jenni
2011. France's colonial wars; a debut novel.
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The Sermon on the Fall of Rome — Jérôme Ferrari
2012. Two friends take over a bar in a Corsican village.
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The Great Swindle — Pierre Lemaitre
2013. Two WWI survivors run a war-memorial scam.
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6
Cry, Mother Spain — Lydie Salvayre
2014. The Spanish Civil War told through a mother and Bernanos.
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Compass — Mathias Énard
2015. A Viennese musicologist and the Orient, over one sleepless night.
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The Order of the Day — Éric Vuillard
2017. German industrialists and the Anschluss.
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9
Not Everybody Lives the Same Way — Jean-Paul Dubois
2019. A janitor jailed in Montreal remembers.
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10
Lullaby — Leïla Slimani
2016. A nanny kills the two children in her care.
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