to read in french, of course. I'm in the middle of L'Étranger but don't know what else is really around that level
>>8223878
Voltaire and victor hugo
>>8223878
If you liked L'Étranger you could go for other novel from Camus. The Plague is especially good imo.
Houellebecq is fun and very easy to read. Marguerite Duras is not overly complex and she is a god-tier writer (Un barrage contre le Pacifique).
>>8224020
Hugo is a bad suggestion, he probably won't understand 1/12 of the words he's reading.
I would recommend Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Jules Verne and Alexandre Dumas.
>>8224615
Vernes and Dumas are amazing, I concur
>>8224584
How is Balzac? I'm in a similar boat to OP (I read l'etranger and Sartre's La Nausée and am looking for the next thing)