70 best French novels of the 20th century according to Eksmo

Given by Eksmo

69 Works 115,584 Books 2,015 Reviews ½ 3.8
Work
The Qumran Mystery (1996) by Eliette Abecassis
Le Grand Meaulnes (1959) by Alain-Fournier
Holy Week (1958) by Louis Aragon
Heliogabalus; or, the Crowned Anarchist (1934) by Antonin Artaud
The Fable and the Flesh (1941) by Marcel Aymé
Under Fire (1916) by Henri Barbusse
Le Matrimoine (1914) by Hervé Bazin
The Mandarins (1956) by Simone de Beauvoir
13,99 euros (2000) by Frédéric Beigbeder
The Diary of a Country Priest (1936) by Georges Bernanos
Planet of the Apes (1963) by Pierre Boulle
Kapitonas Pramustgalvis (1988) by Louis Henri Boussenard
Nadja (1928) by André Breton
The Plague (1947) by Albert Camus
One-Way (1994) by Didier van Cauwelaert
Gold: The Marvellous History of General John Augustus Sutter (1924) by Blaise Cendrars
Journey to the End of the Night (1983) by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Break of Day (1928) by Colette
The Iron King (1955) by Maurice Druon
Le notaire du Havre (1933) by Georges Duhamel
The Lover (1984) by Marguerite Duras
I'm Gone (1999) by Jean Echenoz
The Gods Will Have Blood (1912) by Anatole France
The Roots of Heaven (1957) by Romain Gary
Our Lady of the Flowers (1943) by Jean Genet
Days of Anger (1989) by Sylvie Germain
The Vatican Cellars (1914) by André Gide
The Horseman on the Roof (1951) by Jean Giono
The Elementary Particles (1998) by Michel Houellebecq
Spoilt Children (1939) by Philippe Hériat
The Hermit (1973) by Eugène Ionesco
Fanfan (1990) by Alexandre Jardin
The Beautiful Day (1928) by Joseph Kessel
Slowness (1995) by Milan Kundera
Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief (2007) by Maurice Leblanc
The Interrogation (1963) by J.M.G. Le Clézio
The Phantom of the Opera (1910) by Gaston Leroux
Le Testament Français (1995) by Andreï Makine
The Paper House (1970) by Françoise Mallet-Joris
Man's Hope (1937) by André Malraux
Thérèse Desqueyroux (1927) by François Mauriac
Climates (1928) by André Maurois
Weekend at Dunkirk (1950) by Robert Merle
Missing Person (1978) by Patrick Modiano
The Scapegoat (1985) by Daniel Pennac
Life: A User's Manual (1978) by Georges Perec
In Search of Lost Time (1913) by Marcel Proust
The Wedding (1985) by Yann Queffélec
Zazie in the Metro (1959) by Raymond Queneau
L'occupation américaine (1994) by Pascal Quignard
Story of O (1954) by Pauline Réage
In the Labyrinth (1959) by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Jean-Christophe (1913) by Romain Rolland
Les hommes de bonne volonté. Tome 1 : Le six octobre (1932) by Jules Romains
Bonjour Tristesse (1954) by Françoise Sagan
The Wisdom of the Sands (1948) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Golden Fruits (1963) by Nathalie Sarraute
Nausea (1959) by Jean-Paul Sartre
Pietr the Latvian (1929) by Georges Simenon
The Flanders Road (1960) by Claude Simon
The Ogre (1970) by Michel Tournier
Roses à crédit (L'Age de nylon) (1600) by Elsa Triolet
Les Eygletière, tome 1 (1965) by Henri Troyat
The Law (1957) by Roger Vailland
The Silence of the Sea (1942) by Vercors
Master of the World (1904) by Jules Verne
Froth on the Daydream (1946) by Boris Vian
Les Rajahs blancs (1986) by Gabrielle Wittkop
The Abyss (1968) by Marguerite Yourcenar

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