He wrote Les carnets du Major Thompson, which was published in 1954, and was followed by many sequels.

The books in the series pretended to be the observations of a retired British officer living in France, and were witty collections of comparisons between French and British society.

Daninos was also the author of Un Certain Monsieur Blot, a critique of French middle class taste and habits.

Les carnets du Major Thompson was filmed by Preston Sturges in 1955.

The Guardian's obituary considered that this sort of thing had been done before and sometimes done better, and that Daninos had uncritically repeated instead of critically examining national stereotypes.