Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century

Given by Le Monde

Other Names: Le Monde, les 100 livres du siècle (French)
100 Works 954,170 Books 14,841 Reviews 4.0
A poll conducted by the French newspaper Le Monde about the books that best stayed in your memory from the 20th century.
Year Awarded:
1999
WorkOrder Label
The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus
1
In Search of Lost Time (1913) by Marcel Proust
2
The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka
3
The Little Prince (1943) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
4
Man's Fate (1933) by André Malraux
5
Journey to the End of the Night (1983) by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
6
The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck
7
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway
8
Le Grand Meaulnes (1959) by Alain-Fournier
9
Froth on the Daydream (1946) by Boris Vian
10
The Second Sex (1953) by Simone de Beauvoir
11
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts (1953) by Samuel Beckett
12
Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (1943) by Jean-Paul Sartre
13
The Name of the Rose (1980) by Umberto Eco
14
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: Parts I-VII (Complete) (1917) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
15
Paroles (1946) by Jacques Prévert
16
Alcools (1913) by Guillaume Apollinaire
17
The Blue Lotus (The Adventures of Tintin) (1934) by Hergé
18
The Diary of a Young Girl (1947) by Anne Frank
19
Tristes Tropiques (1955) by Claude Lévi-Strauss
20
Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley
21
1984 (1949) by George Orwell
22
Asterix the Gaul (1961) by René Goscinny
23
The Bald Soprano (1950) by Eugène Ionesco
24
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905) by Sigmund Freud
25
The Abyss (1968) by Marguerite Yourcenar
26
Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
27
Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce
28
The Tartar Steppe (1940) by Dino Buzzati
29
The Counterfeiters (1925) by André Gide
30
The Horseman on the Roof (1951) by Jean Giono
31
Belle du Seigneur (1968) by Albert Cohen
32
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
33
The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner
34
Thérèse Desqueyroux (1927) by François Mauriac
35
Zazie in the Metro (1959) by Raymond Queneau
36
Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. von D. (1927) by Stefan Zweig
37
Gone with the Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell
38
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1960) by D. H. Lawrence
39
The Magic Mountain (1924) by Thomas Mann
40
Bonjour Tristesse (1954) by Françoise Sagan
41
The Silence of the Sea (1942) by Vercors
42
Life: A User's Manual (1978) by Georges Perec
43
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) by Arthur Conan Doyle
44
Under Satan's Sun (1926) by Georges Bernanos
45
The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
46
The Joke (1969) by Milan Kundera
47
Contempt (1954) by Alberto Moravia
48
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) by Agatha Christie
49
Nadja (1928) by André Breton
50
Aurélien: Le monde réel (1944) by Louis Aragon
51
The Satin Slipper; or, The Worst Is Not the Surest (1929) by Paul Claudel
52
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) by Luigi Pirandello
53
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1941) by Bertolt Brecht
54
Friday, or, The Other Island (1967) by Michel Tournier
55
The War of the Worlds (1897) by H. G. Wells
56
If This Is a Man (1947) by Primo Levi
57
The Lord of the Rings (1954) by J. R. R. Tolkien
58
Les Vrilles de la vigne (1908) by Colette
59
Capital of Pain / L'amour la poésie (1966) by Paul Eluard
60
Martin Eden (1909) by Jack London
61
Corto Maltese Vol. 02: Ballad of the Salty Sea (1967) by Hugo Pratt
62
Writing Degree Zero (1953) by Roland Barthes
63
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975) by Heinrich Böll
64
The Opposing Shore (1951) by Julien Gracq
65
The order of things: an archaeology of the human sciences (1966) by Michel Foucault
66
On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac
67
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1906) by Selma Lagerlöf
68
A Room of One's Own (1929) by Virginia Woolf
69
The Martian Chronicles (1950) by Ray Bradbury
70
The Ravishing of Lol Stein (1964) by Marguerite Duras
71
The Interrogation (1963) by J.M.G. Le Clézio
72
Tropisms (1939) by Nathalie Sarraute
73
The Journal of Jules Renard (1960) by Jules Renard
74
Lord Jim (1900) by Joseph Conrad
75
Écrits: A Selection (1966) by Jacques Lacan
76
The Theater and Its Double (1936) by Antonin Artaud
77
Manhattan Transfer (1927) by John Dos Passos
78
Fictions (1944) by Jorge Luis Borges
79
Moravagine (1926) by Blaise Cendrars
80
The General of the Dead Army (1970) by Ismaîl Kadaré
81
Sophie's Choice (1979) by William Styron
82
Gypsy Ballads (1928) by Federico García Lorca
83
Pietr the Latvian (1929) by Georges Simenon
84
Our Lady of the Flowers (1943) by Jean Genet
85
The Man Without Qualities (1930) by Robert Musil
86
Furor and Mystery (1962) by René Char
87
The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger
88
No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1939) by James Hadley Chase
89
Blake & Mortimer - L'Intégrale : Le Secret de l'Espadon (1977) by Edgar P. Jacobs
90
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910) by Rainer Maria Rilke
91
A Change of Heart (1957) by Michel Butor
92
The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) by Hannah Arendt
93
The Master and Margarita (1966) by Mikhail Bulgakov
94
The Rosy Crucifixion: Sexus, Plexus, Nexus (1949) by Henry Miller
95
The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler
96
Seamarks (1957) by Saint-John Perse
97
Gaston, tome 1 (1997) by André Franquin
98
Under the Volcano (1947) by Malcolm Lowry
99
Midnight's Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie
100

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