Headings (e.g. “Part I” or “Book 1”) link to all the posts corresponding to that section of the book. The titles in quotes for each chapter are my own personal epithets for each chapter and are not quotes of anything Victor Hugo wrote.

Part I: Fantine

Book 1: A Good Man

• Chapter 1, “Gossip and Deep Lore”
• Chapter 2, “It’s Fangirl Time”
• Chapter 3, “In Defense of Donkeys”
• Chapter 4, “The bishop has read Utopia!”
• Chapter 5, “The Real MVP”
• Chapter 6, “The Silverware Appears”
• Chapter 7, “Gangs Need God Too”
• Chapter 8, “Debate Me, Bro”
• Chapter 9, “Ma’am, Are You Okay”
• Chapter 10, “A Real G”
• Chapter 11, “What Does ‘Not Political’ Even Mean”
• Chapter 12, “Hugo Gets Petty”
• Chapter 13, “Do either of you know anything about snail CPR?”
• Chapter 14, “He’s Just Bishop”

Book 2: The Fall

• Chapter 1, “What Is Wrong With This Town”
• Chapter 2, “Nextdoor Is Running Wild”
• Chapter 3, “Now We’re Cooking”
• Chapter 4, “Let’s Just Casually Talk About Cheese Dairies”
• Chapter 5, “How to Answer Awkward Questions”
• Chapter 6, “The Gritty Origin Story”
• Chapter 7, “What Prison Does to a MF”
• Chapter 8, “About the Sea”
• Chapter 9, “French Holidays Will Get You”
• Chapter 10, “Insomnia Besties”
• Chapter 11, “Hear Me Out: Jean Valjean is a Cat”
• Chapter 12, “We Have Attained Peak Bishop”
• Chapter 13, “Tough Look For Our Guy Valjean”
  

Book 3: In the Year 1817

• Chapter 1, “Everything Happens So Much”
• Book 2, “I’m Getting Bad Vibes”
• Chapter 3, “Je téléphone à la police“
• Chapter 4, “He’s a Leg Guy”
• Chapter 5, “[Frenchness Intensifies]”
• Chapter 6, “Queen of the Dinnerwhores”
• Chapter 7, “Throw the Whole Man Away”
• Chapter 8, “Fantine and I Are Right (About Horses)”
• Chapter 9, “Goodbye, Douchebags”

Book 4: Entrusting Sometimes Means Giving Away

• Chapter 1, “Mathing My Way Through the Fantine Timeline”
• Chapter 2, “Trashy Baby Names Were Already a Thing”
• Chapter 3, “Fantine, Check On Your Kid!”

Book 5: The Descent

• Chapter 1, “An Industry Ripe for Disruption”
• Chapter 2, “Big Bishop Energy”
• Chapter 3, “The Platonic Ideal of a Rich Guy”
• Chapter 4, “I Am Distraught”
• Chapter 5, “Enter Javert”
• Chapter 6, “The Cart Scene”
• Chapter 7, “It’s a Happy Ending, So Why is There More Book”
• Chapter 8, “Doing Nothing is Free”
• Chapter 9, “Hell is Other People (This Person Specifically)”