Le Mondes 100 Books of the Century

No. Title Author Year Language

The Stranger The Outsider

Albert Camus

1942

French

In Search of Lost Time Remembrance of Things Past

Marcel Proust

1913 1927

French

3 The Trial

Franz Kafka

1925

German

4 The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupry

1943

French

5 Man's Fate

Andr Malraux

1933

French

6 Journey to the End of the Night

Louis-Ferdinand Cline

1932

French

7 The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

1939

English

8 For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway

1940

English

9 Le Grand Meaulnes

Alain-Fournier

1913

French

10 Froth on the Daydream

Boris Vian

1947

French

11 The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir

1949

French

12 Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett

1952

French

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Title

Author

Year

Language

13 Being and Nothingness

Jean-Paul Sartre

1943

French

14 The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco

1980

Italian

15 The Gulag Archipelago

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1973

Russian

16 Paroles

Jacques Prvert

1946

French

17 Alcools

Guillaume Apollinaire

1913

French

18 The Blue Lotus

Herg

1936

French

19 The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

1947

Dutch

20 Tristes Tropiques

Claude Lvi-Strauss

1955

French

21 Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

1932

English

22 Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell

1949

English

23 Asterix the Gaul

Ren Goscinny and Albert Uderzo

1959

French

24 The Bald Soprano

Eugne Ionesco

1952

French

25

Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality

Sigmund Freud

1905

German

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Title

Author

Year

Language

26

The Abyss Zeno of Bruges

Marguerite Yourcenar

1968

French

27 Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

1955

English

28 Ulysses

James Joyce

1922

English

29 The Tartar Steppe

Dino Buzzati

1940

Italian

30 The Counterfeiters

Andr Gide

1925

French

31 The Horseman on the Roof

Jean Giono

1951

French

32 Belle du Seigneur

Albert Cohen

1968

French

33 One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garca Mrquez

1967

Spanish

34 The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

1929

English

35 Thrse Desqueyroux

Franois Mauriac

1927

French

36 Zazie in the Metro

Raymond Queneau

1959

French

37 Confusion of Feelings

Stefan Zweig

1927

German

38 Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell

1936

English

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Title

Author

Year

Language

39 Lady Chatterley's Lover

D. H. Lawrence

1928

English

40 The Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann

1924

German

41 Bonjour Tristesse

Franoise Sagan

1954

French

42 Le Silence de la mer

Vercors

1942

French

43 Life: A User's Manual

Georges Perec

1978

French

44 The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

1901 1902

English

45 Under the Sun of Satan

Georges Bernanos

1926

French

46 The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1925

English

47 The Joke

Milan Kundera

1967

Czech

48

A Ghost at Noon Contempt

Alberto Moravia

1954

Italian

49 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie

1926

English

50 Nadja

Andr Breton

1928

French

51 Aurelien

Louis Aragon

1944

French

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Title

Author

Year

Language

52 The Satin Slipper

Paul Claudel

1929

French

53 Six Characters in Search of an Author

Luigi Pirandello

1921

Italian

54 The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

Bertolt Brecht

1941

German

55 Friday

Michel Tournier

1967

French

56 The War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells

1898

English

57

If This Is a Man Survival in Auschwitz

Primo Levi

1947

Italian

58 The Lord of the Rings

J. R. R. Tolkien

1954 1955

English

59

Les Vrilles de la vigne (French)

[Never translated: The Tendrils of the Vine]
[2]

Colette

1908

French

60 Capital of Pain

Paul luard

1926

French

61 Martin Eden

Jack London

1909

English

62 Ballad of the Salt Sea

Hugo Pratt

1967

Italian

63 Writing Degree Zero

Roland Barthes

1953

French

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Title

Author

Year

Language

64 The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum

Heinrich Bll

1974

German

65 The Opposing Shore

Julien Gracq

1951

French

66 The Order of Things

Michel Foucault

1966

French

67 On the Road

Jack Kerouac

1957

English

68 The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

Selma Lagerlf

1906 1907

Swedish

69 A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

1929

English

70 The Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury

1950

English

71 The Ravishing of Lol Stein

Marguerite Duras

1964

French

72 The Interrogation

J. M. G. Le Clzio

1963

French

73 Tropisms

Nathalie Sarraute

1939

French

74 Journal, 18871910

Jules Renard

1925

French

75 Lord Jim

Joseph Conrad

1900

English

76 crits

Jacques Lacan

1966

French

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Title

Author

Year

Language

77 The Theatre and its Double

Antonin Artaud

1938

French

78 Manhattan Transfer

John Dos Passos

1925

English

79 Ficciones

Jorge Luis Borges

1944

Spanish

80 Moravagine

Blaise Cendrars

1926

French

81 The General of the Dead Army

Ismail Kadare

1963

Albanian

82 Sophie's Choice

William Styron

1979

English

83 Gypsy Ballads

Federico Garca Lorca

1928

Spanish

84 The Strange Case of Peter the Lett

Georges Simenon

1931

French

85 Our Lady of the Flowers

Jean Genet

1944

French

86 The Man Without Qualities

Robert Musil

1930 1942

German

87 Furor and Mystery

Ren Char

1948

French

88 The Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salinger

1951

English

89 No Orchids For Miss Blandish

James Hadley Chase

1939

English

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Title

Author

Year

Language

90 Blake and Mortimer

Edgar P. Jacobs

1950

French

91 The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Rainer Maria Rilke

1910

German

92 Second Thoughts

Michel Butor

1957

French

93

The Burden of Our Time The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt

1951

German

94 The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

1967

Russian

95 The Rosy Crucifixion

Henry Miller

1949 1960

English

96 The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler

1939

English

97 Amers

Saint-John Perse

1957

French

98

Gaston Gomer Goof

Andr Franquin

1957

French

99 Under the Volcano

Malcolm Lowry

1947

English

100 Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie

1981

English