Required & Recommended Books   Required: 1. Civilisation Progressive du Français, Niveau avancé. Jacques Pécheur. CLE international, 2010. ISBN: 9782090353655 2. Tableaux culturels de la France, 3rd. ed. J. Suzanne Ravisé. Hatier-Didier, 1994. (I have ordered copies through Amazon.)   Recommended: 3. a French reference grammar, such as Harper’s Grammar of French (Rosenberg, et al. Harper’s & Row, 1983. ISBN: 0-06-045581-0) or L'Essentiel de la grammaire française, 3e éd. 1995 Prentice Hall. ISBN-10: 0132947943 | ISBN-13: 978-0132947947 or A Comprehensive French Grammar, 6th ed. Glanville Price. Blackwell, 2008. ISBN: 9781405153850 or French Grammar and Usage, 3rd. ed. Roger Hawkins and Richard Towell. Routledge, 2010. ISBN: 9780340991244 4. a good Fren-Eng/Eng-Fren dictionary, such as Oxford-Hachette, 4th ed., 2007. ISBN-10: 0198614225 | ISBN-13: 978-0198614227. 5. a French-French dictionary, such as Le Petit Robert, 2000. ISBN-10: 2850366684 | ISBN-13: 978-2850366680 or Larousse (du Francais Contemporain Illustré ) 2008, ISBN-10: 0828878552 | ISBN-13: 978-0828878555.