L'Assommoir by Émile Zola: “He had "The History of Ten Years" by Louis Blanc (except for the first volume), Lamartine's "The Girondins" in installments, "The Mysteries of Paris" and "The Wandering Jew" by Eugene Sue, and a quantity of booklets on philosophic and humanitarian subjects picked up from used book dealers.”
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert: “He wanted to learn the shoe-trick, in order to visit the thieves' taverns of the city, like Rodolphe in the _Mysteries of Paris_”
Peter Ibbetson by George du Maurier: “and _Les Mystères de Paris, Le Juif Errant_, and others.”
On the Road by Jack Kerouac: “Out of his seabag he fished a copy of Eugene Sue's Mysteries of Paris and, adjusting the front of his T-shirt, began reading on the street corner with a pedantic air.”
The Comedians by Graham Greene: “"There were Les Misérables in three volumes, Les Mystères de Paris with the last volume missing..." — described on Brown's family library shelves.”
Nights of Plague by Orhan Pamuk: “did not appreciate melodramatic coincidences in his detective novels (such as in Eugène Sue's The Mysteries of Paris)”
On Literature by Umberto Eco: “discussed with the character Rudolph of Gerolstein migrating from it”