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Le Monde - Les 100 livres du siècle

Based on award: Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century

Members: 14 participating members (show all)

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1
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
49,963 members, 846 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: MGovers (1), Rubenwiering (1), ahef1963 (1), FlorianKarpfinger (3), thecoroner (8), roby72 (20), mspixieears, cej1027

Score: 24.73

2
In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust
2,672 members, 32 reviews
4.51 stars (4.51 stars)

Lists: blancosa (1), thecoroner (2), ukh (2), roby72 (2), Dilara86 (4), FlorianKarpfinger (6), Rubenwiering (13)

Score: 21.58

3
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
24,244 members, 340 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (1), MGovers (2), Rubenwiering (2), aulsmith (4), roby72 (17), thecoroner (19), cej1027

Score: 20.48

4
Ulysses
by James Joyce
16,982 members, 236 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (1), aulsmith (1), roby72 (1), ahef1963 (6), FlorianKarpfinger (10), mspixieears

Score: 19.18

5
The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
27,308 members, 501 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: Jys-g (1), MGovers (3), ukh (4), ahef1963 (12), roby72 (37), cej1027, mspixieears

Score: 19.06

6
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
25,205 members, 316 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: ukh (1), MGovers (4), Rubenwiering (4), roby72 (13), ahef1963 (14), FlorianKarpfinger (25), mspixieears

Score: 18

7
1984
by George Orwell
56,620 members, 890 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (2), MGovers (5), Rubenwiering (5), ahef1963 (7), FlorianKarpfinger (11), roby72 (32), mspixieears

Score: 17.43

8
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
37,904 members, 502 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (2), FlorianKarpfinger (4), MGovers (6), Rubenwiering (6), roby72 (39), cej1027

Score: 15.94

9
Journey to the End of the Night
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
4,174 members, 57 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: Rubenwiering (3), blancosa (3), thecoroner (6), ukh (6), roby72 (6), FlorianKarpfinger (20)

Score: 15.64

10
Six Characters in Search of an Author
by Luigi Pirandello
874 members, 22 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: blancosa (2), aulsmith (5), roby72 (12), thecoroner (14), ahef1963 (20), mspixieears

Score: 14.53

11
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
32,580 members, 471 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: blancosa (4), MGovers (7), thecoroner (11), roby72 (11), ahef1963 (13), FlorianKarpfinger (24)

Score: 13.59

12
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
18,457 members, 335 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: MGovers (8), ahef1963 (9), FlorianKarpfinger (14), thecoroner (30), roby72 (31), cej1027

Score: 13.2

13
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
14,229 members, 157 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: ukh (3), thecoroner (4), roby72 (7), FlorianKarpfinger (21), mspixieears

Score: 12.57

14
Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
9,231 members, 116 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (3), ahef1963 (8), FlorianKarpfinger (13), roby72 (25), mspixieears

Score: 11.69

15
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
9,364 members, 214 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (5), FlorianKarpfinger (8), MGovers (9), roby72 (42), mspixieears

Score: 11.31

16
The Second Sex
by Simone de Beauvoir
1,231 members, 4 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (2), Dilara86 (2), thecoroner (16), roby72 (19)

Score: 10.64

17
Lady Chatterley's Lover
by D. H. Lawrence
9,881 members, 152 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: MGovers (10), ahef1963 (11), FlorianKarpfinger (16), roby72 (46), mspixieears

Score: 10.36

18
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
10,433 members, 190 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (15), ahef1963 (15), roby72 (21), FlorianKarpfinger (28), mspixieears

Score: 10.05

19
The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
6,461 members, 107 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: roby72 (4), thecoroner (5), FlorianKarpfinger (18), mspixieears

Score: 9.82

20
The Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
37,595 members, 383 reviews
4.53 stars (4.53 stars)

Lists: MGovers (11), ahef1963 (19), cej1027, mspixieears

Score: 9.53

21
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
by Agatha Christie
5,710 members, 186 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (3), FlorianKarpfinger (5), MGovers (12), roby72 (40)

Score: 9.45

22
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
14,335 members, 224 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (4), FlorianKarpfinger (7), thecoroner (17), roby72 (18)

Score: 9.2

23
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
13,670 members, 324 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: Rubenwiering (7), thecoroner (10), roby72 (16), FlorianKarpfinger (27)

Score: 8.46

24
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
52,703 members, 861 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: Rubenwiering (8), ahef1963 (10), MGovers (13), FlorianKarpfinger (15), roby72 (34)

Thumbs down: cej1027

Score: 8.42

25
Man's Fate
by Andre Malraux
1,733 members, 24 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: ukh (5), Rubenwiering (11), thecoroner (26), roby72 (30)

Score: 8.35

26
A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
8,178 members, 100 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (12), thecoroner (24), roby72 (24), mspixieears

Score: 8.14

27
The Man Without Qualities
by Robert Musil
975 members, 19 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (3), roby72 (3), FlorianKarpfinger (17)

Score: 8.05

28
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
by Sigmund Freud
1,004 members, 3 reviews
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (21), roby72 (28), FlorianKarpfinger (32), mspixieears

Score: 7.67

29
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
12,212 members, 142 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (16), thecoroner (20), roby72 (22), FlorianKarpfinger (29)

Score: 7.46

30
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
21,620 members, 296 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (22), roby72 (36), FlorianKarpfinger (41), mspixieears

Score: 7.44

31
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
7,085 members, 204 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (17), thecoroner (22), FlorianKarpfinger (33), roby72 (33)

Score: 7.16

32
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
by Rainer Maria Rilke
1,738 members, 20 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: roby72 (5), thecoroner (7), FlorianKarpfinger (19)

Score: 7.05

33
Life: A User's Manual
by Georges Perec
2,645 members, 37 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: Dilara86 (3), roby72 (15), thecoroner (18)

Score: 7.01

34
Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry
2,972 members, 50 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: roby72 (8), thecoroner (12), FlorianKarpfinger (22)

Score: 6.38

35
Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
4,849 members, 74 reviews
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

Lists: roby72 (9), thecoroner (13), FlorianKarpfinger (23)

Score: 6.24

36
The Tartar Steppe
by Dino Buzzati
1,403 members, 36 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: Dilara86 (6), thecoroner (28), roby72 (29)

Score: 6.02

37
Le Grand Meaulnes
by Alain-Fournier
2,361 members, 49 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: Rubenwiering (9), MGovers (14), roby72 (38)

Score: 5.99

38
Survival In Auschwitz
by Primo Levi
4,113 members, 74 reviews
4.31 stars (4.31 stars)

Lists: roby72 (14), thecoroner (23), FlorianKarpfinger (26)

Score: 5.67

40
Manhattan Transfer
by John Dos Passos
1,409 members, 18 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (27), roby72 (27), FlorianKarpfinger (31)

Score: 5.21

41
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
13,312 members, 128 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (18), FlorianKarpfinger (37), roby72 (45)

Score: 5.11

42
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
23,875 members, 395 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (9), roby72 (10), FlorianKarpfinger (39)

Thumbs down: cej1027

Score: 4.16

43
Our Lady of the Flowers
by Jean Genet
1,330 members, 7 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (6), FlorianKarpfinger (48)

Score: 4.08

44
Capital of Pain
by Paul Éluard
0 members, 0 reviews

Lists: Dilara86 (1)

Score: 4

45
The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells
11,343 members, 215 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (9), roby72 (43)

Score: 3.87

46
The Abyss
by Marguerite Yourcenar
1,105 members, 21 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: MGovers (15), thecoroner (29)

Score: 3.76

47
Bonjour Tristesse
by Françoise Sagan
2,364 members, 71 reviews
3.55 stars (3.55 stars)

Lists: Rubenwiering (12), FlorianKarpfinger (45)

Score: 3.69

48
Being And Nothingness: An Essay On Phenomenological Ontology
by Jean-Paul Sartre
3,411 members, 11 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (21), FlorianKarpfinger (42)

Score: 3.44

49
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
by Heinrich Böll
1,769 members, 37 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (34), roby72 (35)

Score: 3.3

50
Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
6,456 members, 80 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (35), roby72 (41)

Score: 3.23

51
Gone With the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
16,819 members, 345 reviews
4.33 stars (4.33 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (36), roby72 (44)

Score: 3.19

52
Martin Eden
by Jack London
1,167 members, 21 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (38), roby72 (47)

Score: 3.14

53
Froth on the Daydream
by Boris Vian
1,576 members, 34 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: Dilara86 (5)

Score: 2.68

54
The Blue Lotus
by Hergé
1,288 members, 14 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: Rubenwiering (10)

Score: 2.25

55
Thérèse Desqueyroux
by François Mauriac
543 members, 10 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: MGovers (16)

Score: 2

56
Asterix the Gaul
by René Goscinny
1,582 members, 26 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (23)

Score: 1.83

57
Contempt
by Alberto Moravia
595 members, 7 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)

Lists: roby72 (26)

Score: 1.77

58
Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. von D.
by Stefan Zweig
504 members, 14 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (40)

Score: 1.59

59
The Joke
by Milan Kundera
2,898 members, 26 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (43)

Score: 1.56

60
The order of things: an archaeology of the human sciences
by Michel Foucault
2,555 members, 12 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (44)

Score: 1.55

61
The Origins of Totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt
1,628 members, 15 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (46)

Score: 1.54

62
Nadja
by André Breton
1,422 members, 7 reviews
3.45 stars (3.45 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (47)

Score: 1.53

63
Tristes Tropiques
by Claude Lévi-Strauss
1,164 members, 19 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (49)

Score: 1.51

64
The Counterfeiters
by André Gide
888 members, 5 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (50)

Score: 1.5

65
Pietr the Latvian
by Georges Simenon
557 members, 32 reviews
3.35 stars (3.35 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (51)

Score: 1.5

66
The Silence of the Sea
by Vercors
321 members, 6 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (52)

Score: 1.49

67
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
by Bertolt Brecht
274 members, 3 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (53)

Score: 1.48

68
The Martian Chronicles
by Ray Bradbury
11,397 members, 214 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Score: 0

69
Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
4,473 members, 70 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Score: 0

70
Moravagine
by Blaise Cendrars
506 members, 5 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Score: 0

71
Zazie in the Metro
by Raymond Queneau
1,160 members, 18 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)
72
The Theater and Its Double
by Antonin Artaud
858 members, 9 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)
73
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
by Selma Lagerlöf
784 members, 17 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)
74
Belle du Seigneur
by Albert Cohen
655 members, 10 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)
75
Paroles
by Jacques Prevert
647 members, 6 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)
76
The Ravishing of Lol Stein
by Marguerite Duras
574 members, 10 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)
77
Écrits: A Selection
by Jacques Lacan
550 members, 0 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)
78
Friday, or, The Other Island
by Michel Tournier
530 members, 6 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)
79
Writing Degree Zero
by Roland Barthes
473 members, 2 reviews
3.55 stars (3.55 stars)
80
Alcools
by Guillaume Apollinaire
451 members, 6 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)
81
The Horseman on the Roof
by Jean Giono
386 members, 6 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)
82
The Interrogation
by J. M. G. Le Clezio
347 members, 12 reviews
3.19 stars (3.19 stars)
83
Corto Maltese: The Ballad of the Salt Sea
by Hugo Pratt
333 members, 3 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)
84
The Opposing Shore
by Julien Gracq
324 members, 8 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)
85
The General of the Dead Army
by Ismail Kadare
315 members, 8 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)
86
The Bald Soprano
by Eugène Ionesco
281 members, 2 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)
87
Gypsy Ballads
by Federico García Lorca
269 members, 5 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)
88
No Orchids for Miss Blandish
by James Hadley Chase
258 members, 11 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)
89
A Change of Heart
by Michel Butor
248 members, 2 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)
90
Under Satan's Sun
by Georges Bernanos
185 members, 2 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)
91
Tropisms
by Nathalie Sarraute
167 members, 3 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)
92
The Journal of Jules Renard
by Jules Renard
161 members, 2 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)
93
Aurélien
by Louis Aragon
141 members, 2 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)
94
Passing Time
by Michel Butor
124 members, 2 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)
95
The Rosy Crucifixion: Sexus, Plexus, Nexus
by Henry Miller
104 members, 1 review
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)
97
Fureur et Mystère
by René Char
85 members, 1 review
3.45 stars (3.45 stars)
98
Capital of Pain / L'amour la poésie
by Paul Éluard
65 members, 1 review
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)
99
Seamarks
by Saint-John Perse
61 members, 0 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)
100
Gaston, tome 1
by André Franquin
46 members, 0 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)
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