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Le Monde - Les 100 livres du siècle

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

Members: 14 participating members (show all)

All members' list: [1] 2Sort: Score | Title | Author | Date | CK Order
1
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
53,165 members, 896 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: MGovers (1), Rubenwiering (1), ahef1963 (1), FlorianKarpfinger (3), thecoroner (8), FranzK72 (9), roby72 (20), mspixieears, cej1027

Score: 27.04

2
In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust
2,835 members, 35 reviews
4.5 stars (4.5 stars)

Lists: blancosa (1), FranzK72 (2), thecoroner (2), ukh (2), roby72 (2), Dilara86 (4), FlorianKarpfinger (6), Rubenwiering (13)

Score: 24.95

3
Ulysses
by James Joyce
18,120 members, 251 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (1), thecoroner (1), aulsmith (1), roby72 (1), ahef1963 (6), FlorianKarpfinger (10), mspixieears

Score: 23.18

4
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
25,804 members, 355 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (1), MGovers (2), Rubenwiering (2), aulsmith (4), roby72 (17), thecoroner (19), FranzK72 (27), cej1027

Score: 22.24

5
The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
29,675 members, 554 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: Jys-g (1), MGovers (3), ukh (4), ahef1963 (12), FranzK72 (31), roby72 (37), cej1027, mspixieears

Score: 20.75

6
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
26,589 members, 334 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: ukh (1), MGovers (4), Rubenwiering (4), roby72 (13), ahef1963 (14), FranzK72 (15), FlorianKarpfinger (25), mspixieears

Score: 20.03

7
Journey to the End of the Night
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
4,486 members, 63 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: Rubenwiering (3), blancosa (3), FranzK72 (4), thecoroner (6), ukh (6), roby72 (6), FlorianKarpfinger (20)

Score: 18.47

8
1984
by George Orwell
60,108 members, 963 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

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

Score: 17.43

9
Six Characters in Search of an Author
by Luigi Pirandello
987 members, 24 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: blancosa (2), aulsmith (5), roby72 (12), thecoroner (14), FranzK72 (16), ahef1963 (20), mspixieears

Score: 16.53

10
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
34,123 members, 506 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: blancosa (4), MGovers (7), FranzK72 (8), thecoroner (11), roby72 (11), ahef1963 (13), FlorianKarpfinger (24)

Score: 15.97

11
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
40,195 members, 535 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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

Score: 15.94

12
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
15,162 members, 169 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: ukh (3), thecoroner (4), FranzK72 (5), roby72 (7), FlorianKarpfinger (21), mspixieears

Score: 15.25

13
The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
20,066 members, 372 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: MGovers (8), ahef1963 (9), FlorianKarpfinger (14), FranzK72 (19), thecoroner (30), roby72 (31), cej1027

Score: 15.12

14
Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
9,761 members, 122 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (3), ahef1963 (8), FlorianKarpfinger (13), FranzK72 (21), roby72 (25), mspixieears

Score: 13.56

15
The Second Sex
by Simone de Beauvoir
1,419 members, 4 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (2), Dilara86 (2), thecoroner (16), roby72 (19), FranzK72 (23)

Score: 12.47

16
The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
6,893 members, 111 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: roby72 (4), thecoroner (5), FranzK72 (7), FlorianKarpfinger (18), mspixieears

Score: 12.28

17
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
10,971 members, 198 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (12), thecoroner (15), ahef1963 (15), roby72 (21), FlorianKarpfinger (28), mspixieears

Score: 12.2

18
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
10,241 members, 220 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

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

Score: 11.31

19
The Man Without Qualities
by Robert Musil
1,064 members, 21 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (3), thecoroner (3), roby72 (3), FlorianKarpfinger (17)

Score: 11.09

20
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
15,167 members, 236 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (4), FlorianKarpfinger (7), thecoroner (17), roby72 (18), FranzK72 (25)

Score: 10.99

21
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
14,552 members, 348 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: Rubenwiering (7), thecoroner (10), FranzK72 (14), roby72 (16), FlorianKarpfinger (27)

Score: 10.53

22
Man's Fate
by André Malraux
1,855 members, 27 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: ukh (5), Rubenwiering (11), FranzK72 (18), thecoroner (26), roby72 (30)

Score: 10.29

23
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
55,316 members, 895 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: Rubenwiering (8), ahef1963 (10), MGovers (13), FlorianKarpfinger (15), FranzK72 (28), roby72 (34)

Thumbs down: cej1027

Score: 10.16

24
A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
8,838 members, 113 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (12), thecoroner (24), roby72 (24), FranzK72 (30), mspixieears

Score: 9.85

25
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
by Rainer Maria Rilke
1,868 members, 23 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: roby72 (5), FranzK72 (6), thecoroner (7), FlorianKarpfinger (19)

Score: 9.61

26
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
by Agatha Christie
6,239 members, 202 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

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

Score: 9.45

27
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
12,993 members, 157 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (16), thecoroner (20), FranzK72 (22), roby72 (22), FlorianKarpfinger (29)

Score: 9.31

28
Life: A User's Manual
by Georges Perec
2,795 members, 40 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: Dilara86 (3), roby72 (15), FranzK72 (17), thecoroner (18)

Score: 8.98

29
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
7,490 members, 220 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (17), thecoroner (22), FranzK72 (33), FlorianKarpfinger (33), roby72 (33)

Score: 8.82

30
Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
5,220 members, 78 reviews
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

Lists: roby72 (9), FranzK72 (10), thecoroner (13), FlorianKarpfinger (23)

Score: 8.49

31
Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry
3,189 members, 55 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: roby72 (8), thecoroner (12), FranzK72 (13), FlorianKarpfinger (22)

Score: 8.48

32
Lady Chatterley's Lover
by D. H. Lawrence
10,473 members, 162 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

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

Thumbs down: FranzK72

Score: 8.36

33
The Tartar Steppe
by Dino Buzzati
1,550 members, 39 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: Dilara86 (6), FranzK72 (20), thecoroner (28), roby72 (29)

Score: 7.91

34
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
by Sigmund Freud
1,085 members, 4 reviews
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)

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

Score: 7.67

35
Le Grand Meaulnes
by Alain-Fournier
2,543 members, 56 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: Rubenwiering (9), MGovers (14), FranzK72 (35), roby72 (38)

Score: 7.63

36
The Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
39,476 members, 392 reviews
4.52 stars (4.52 stars)

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

Thumbs down: FranzK72

Score: 7.53

37
Survival In Auschwitz
by Primo Levi
4,432 members, 83 reviews
4.31 stars (4.31 stars)

Lists: roby72 (14), thecoroner (23), FranzK72 (24), FlorianKarpfinger (26)

Score: 7.47

38
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
22,539 members, 310 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

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

Score: 7.44

40
Manhattan Transfer
by John Dos Passos
1,502 members, 18 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (27), roby72 (27), FlorianKarpfinger (31), FranzK72 (37)

Score: 6.83

41
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
25,037 members, 417 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (9), roby72 (10), FranzK72 (11), FlorianKarpfinger (39)

Thumbs down: cej1027

Score: 6.36

42
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
14,171 members, 139 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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

Score: 5.11

43
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
by Heinrich Böll
1,899 members, 38 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (34), roby72 (35), FranzK72 (38)

Score: 4.91

44
Our Lady of the Flowers
by Jean Genet
1,423 members, 9 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (6), FlorianKarpfinger (48)

Score: 4.08

45
Capital of Pain
by Paul Éluard
0 members, 0 reviews

Lists: Dilara86 (1)

Score: 4

46
The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells
12,429 members, 228 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (9), roby72 (43)

Score: 3.87

47
The Abyss
by Marguerite Yourcenar
1,196 members, 23 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: MGovers (15), thecoroner (29)

Score: 3.76

48
Bonjour Tristesse
by Françoise Sagan
2,505 members, 77 reviews
3.55 stars (3.55 stars)

Lists: Rubenwiering (12), FlorianKarpfinger (45)

Score: 3.69

49
Contempt
by Alberto Moravia
647 members, 7 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (26), roby72 (26)

Score: 3.54

50
Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology
by Jean-Paul Sartre
3,638 members, 11 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (21), FlorianKarpfinger (42)

Score: 3.44

51
Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
6,798 members, 85 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (35), roby72 (41)

Score: 3.23

52
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
17,906 members, 366 reviews
4.31 stars (4.31 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (36), roby72 (44)

Score: 3.19

53
The Counterfeiters
by André Gide
957 members, 5 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (32), FlorianKarpfinger (50)

Score: 3.19

54
Martin Eden
by Jack London
1,277 members, 25 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (38), roby72 (47)

Score: 3.14

55
Froth on the Daydream
by Boris Vian
1,705 members, 37 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: Dilara86 (5)

Score: 2.68

56
The Blue Lotus
by Hergé
1,388 members, 17 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: Rubenwiering (10)

Score: 2.25

57
Thérèse Desqueyroux
by François Mauriac
579 members, 10 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: MGovers (16)

Score: 2

58
Asterix the Gaul
by René Goscinny
1,717 members, 26 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (23)

Score: 1.83

59
The Interrogation
by J. M. G. Le Clezio
372 members, 12 reviews
3.12 stars (3.12 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (29)

Score: 1.72

60
Under Satan's Sun
by Georges Bernanos
202 members, 2 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (34)

Score: 1.66

61
Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. von D.
by Stefan Zweig
563 members, 15 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (40)

Score: 1.59

62
The Joke
by Milan Kundera
3,060 members, 28 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (43)

Score: 1.56

63
The order of things: an archaeology of the human sciences
by Michel Foucault
2,748 members, 14 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (44)

Score: 1.55

64
The Origins of Totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt
1,937 members, 17 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (46)

Score: 1.54

65
Nadja
by André Breton
1,514 members, 9 reviews
3.45 stars (3.45 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (47)

Score: 1.53

66
Tristes Tropiques
by Claude Lévi-Strauss
1,265 members, 19 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (49)

Score: 1.51

67
Pietr the Latvian
by Georges Simenon
655 members, 33 reviews
3.33 stars (3.33 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (51)

Score: 1.5

68
The Silence of the Sea
by Vercors
340 members, 9 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (52)

Score: 1.49

69
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
by Bertolt Brecht
300 members, 3 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (53)

Score: 1.48

70
The Martian Chronicles
by Ray Bradbury
12,197 members, 224 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Score: 0

71
Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
4,721 members, 75 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Score: 0

72
Moravagine
by Blaise Cendrars
550 members, 8 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Score: 0

73
Zazie in the Metro
by Raymond Queneau
1,246 members, 18 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)
74
The Theater and Its Double
by Antonin Artaud
925 members, 9 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)
75
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
by Selma Lagerlöf
864 members, 17 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)
76
Paroles
by Jacques Prévert
695 members, 6 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)
77
Belle du Seigneur
by Albert Cohen
694 members, 10 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)
78
The Ravishing of Lol Stein
by Marguerite Duras
607 members, 9 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)
79
Friday, or, The Other Island
by Michel Tournier
569 members, 7 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)
80
Écrits: A Selection
by Jacques Lacan
569 members, 0 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)
81
Writing Degree Zero
by Roland Barthes
505 members, 2 reviews
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)
82
Alcools
by Guillaume Apollinaire
486 members, 6 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)
83
The Horseman on the Roof
by Jean Giono
411 members, 6 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)
84
Corto Maltese: The Ballad of the Salt Sea
by Hugo Pratt
393 members, 6 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)
85
The Opposing Shore
by Julien Gracq
353 members, 8 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)
86
The General of the Dead Army
by Ismail Kadare
346 members, 8 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)
87
The Bald Soprano
by Eugène Ionesco
304 members, 2 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)
88
Gypsy Ballads
by Federico García Lorca
300 members, 5 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)
89
No Orchids for Miss Blandish
by James Hadley Chase
286 members, 11 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)
90
A Change of Heart
by Michel Butor
260 members, 2 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)
91
Tropisms
by Nathalie Sarraute
184 members, 4 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)
92
The Journal of Jules Renard
by Jules Renard
177 members, 3 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)
93
Aurélien
by Louis Aragon
151 members, 2 reviews
4.36 stars (4.36 stars)
94
Passing Time
by Michel Butor
130 members, 2 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)
95
The Rosy Crucifixion: Sexus, Plexus, Nexus
by Henry Miller
106 members, 1 review
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)
97
Fureur et Mystère
by René Char
93 members, 1 review
3.45 stars (3.45 stars)
98
Capital of Pain / L'amour la poésie
by Paul Éluard
66 members, 1 review
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)
99
Seamarks
by Saint-John Perse
65 members, 0 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)
100
Gaston, tome 1
by André Franquin
46 members, 0 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)
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