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Le Monde - Les 100 livres du siècle

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

Members: 15 participating members (show all)

All members' list: [1] 2Sort: Score | Title | Author | Date | CK Order
1
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
54,378 members, 916 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
2,864 members, 35 reviews
4.51 stars (4.51 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
18,527 members, 261 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
26,399 members, 367 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
30,811 members, 577 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
27,199 members, 350 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
4,603 members, 64 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
61,556 members, 984 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
1,042 members, 24 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 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
34,829 members, 518 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 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
41,131 members, 557 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
15,510 members, 172 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
20,738 members, 390 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
9,996 members, 125 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

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

Score: 13.56

15
The Second Sex
by Simone de Beauvoir
1,489 members, 7 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

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

Score: 12.47

16
The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
7,062 members, 115 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
11,155 members, 206 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
10,602 members, 224 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

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

Score: 11.31

19
The Man Without Qualities
by Robert Musil
1,112 members, 22 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

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

Score: 11.09

20
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
15,460 members, 241 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
14,955 members, 363 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

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

Score: 10.53

22
Man's Fate
by André Malraux
1,925 members, 29 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 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
56,384 members, 904 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
9,093 members, 120 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
1,921 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
6,458 members, 208 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
13,286 members, 164 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
2,866 members, 43 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
7,711 members, 224 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
5,387 members, 80 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
3,296 members, 62 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
10,677 members, 165 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
1,631 members, 40 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

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

Score: 7.91

34
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
by Sigmund Freud
1,131 members, 6 reviews
3.62 stars (3.62 stars)

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

Score: 7.67

35
Le Grand Meaulnes
by Alain-Fournier
2,611 members, 57 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

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

Score: 7.63

36
The Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
40,241 members, 398 reviews
4.53 stars (4.53 stars)

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

Thumbs down: FranzK72

Score: 7.53

37
If This Is A Man
by Primo Levi
4,545 members, 84 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
22,832 members, 313 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

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

Score: 7.44

40
Manhattan Transfer
by John Dos Passos
1,559 members, 18 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

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

Score: 6.83

41
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
25,503 members, 432 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 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
14,494 members, 141 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
1,952 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
1,446 members, 8 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
12,769 members, 237 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (9), roby72 (43)

Score: 3.87

47
The Abyss
by Marguerite Yourcenar
1,228 members, 24 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: MGovers (15), thecoroner (29)

Score: 3.76

48
Bonjour Tristesse
by Françoise Sagan
2,572 members, 80 reviews
3.55 stars (3.55 stars)

Lists: Rubenwiering (12), FlorianKarpfinger (45)

Score: 3.69

49
Contempt
by Alberto Moravia
658 members, 7 reviews
3.62 stars (3.62 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (26), roby72 (26)

Score: 3.54

50
Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology
by Jean-Paul Sartre
3,725 members, 11 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (21), FlorianKarpfinger (42)

Score: 3.44

51
Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
6,992 members, 86 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (35), roby72 (41)

Score: 3.23

52
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
18,305 members, 378 reviews
4.31 stars (4.31 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (36), roby72 (44)

Score: 3.19

53
The Counterfeiters
by André Gide
996 members, 6 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (32), FlorianKarpfinger (50)

Score: 3.19

54
Martin Eden
by Jack London
1,320 members, 25 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (38), roby72 (47)

Score: 3.14

55
Froth on the Daydream
by Boris Vian
1,754 members, 37 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: Dilara86 (5)

Score: 2.68

56
The Blue Lotus
by Hergé
1,419 members, 19 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: Rubenwiering (10)

Score: 2.25

57
Thérèse Desqueyroux
by François Mauriac
587 members, 12 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: MGovers (16)

Score: 2

58
Asterix the Gaul
by René Goscinny
1,771 members, 27 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (23)

Score: 1.83

59
The Interrogation
by J. M. G. Le Clezio
379 members, 12 reviews
3.06 stars (3.06 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (29)

Score: 1.72

60
Under Satan's Sun
by Georges Bernanos
226 members, 3 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
582 members, 15 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (40)

Score: 1.59

62
The Joke
by Milan Kundera
3,127 members, 32 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
2,833 members, 14 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (44)

Score: 1.55

64
The Origins of Totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt
2,061 members, 18 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (46)

Score: 1.54

65
Nadja
by André Breton
1,556 members, 12 reviews
3.47 stars (3.47 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (47)

Score: 1.53

66
Tristes Tropiques
by Claude Lévi-Strauss
1,304 members, 19 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (49)

Score: 1.51

67
Pietr the Latvian
by Georges Simenon
706 members, 34 reviews
3.36 stars (3.36 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (51)

Score: 1.5

68
The Silence of the Sea
by Vercors
356 members, 9 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (52)

Score: 1.49

69
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
by Bertolt Brecht
316 members, 3 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (53)

Score: 1.48

70
The Martian Chronicles
by Ray Bradbury
12,496 members, 232 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Score: 0

71
Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
4,822 members, 78 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Score: 0

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

Score: 0

73
Zazie in the Metro
by Raymond Queneau
1,283 members, 20 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)
74
The Theater and Its Double
by Antonin Artaud
948 members, 9 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)
75
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
by Selma Lagerlöf
927 members, 18 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)
76
Paroles
by Jacques Prévert
715 members, 7 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)
77
Belle du Seigneur
by Albert Cohen
713 members, 11 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)
78
The Ravishing of Lol Stein
by Marguerite Duras
629 members, 9 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)
79
Friday, or, The Other Island
by Michel Tournier
583 members, 8 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)
80
Écrits: A Selection
by Jacques Lacan
576 members, 0 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)
81
Writing Degree Zero
by Roland Barthes
527 members, 2 reviews
3.62 stars (3.62 stars)
82
Alcools
by Guillaume Apollinaire
503 members, 8 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)
83
The Horseman on the Roof
by Jean Giono
422 members, 6 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)
84
Corto Maltese: The Ballad of the Salt Sea
by Hugo Pratt
414 members, 7 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)
85
The Opposing Shore
by Julien Gracq
366 members, 9 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)
86
The General of the Dead Army
by Ismail Kadare
362 members, 8 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)
87
Gypsy Ballads
by Federico García Lorca
330 members, 5 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)
88
The Bald Soprano
by Eugène Ionesco
313 members, 2 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)
89
No Orchids for Miss Blandish
by James Hadley Chase
309 members, 11 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)
90
A Change of Heart
by Michel Butor
269 members, 3 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)
91
Tropisms
by Nathalie Sarraute
193 members, 4 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)
92
The Journal of Jules Renard
by Jules Renard
185 members, 2 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)
93
Aurélien
by Louis Aragon
159 members, 3 reviews
4.36 stars (4.36 stars)
94
Passing Time
by Michel Butor
132 members, 3 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)
95
The Rosy Crucifixion: Sexus, Plexus, Nexus
by Henry Miller
107 members, 1 review
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)
97
Fureur et Mystère
by René Char
99 members, 2 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)
98
Capital of Pain / L'amour la poésie
by Paul Éluard
68 members, 1 review
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)
99
Seamarks
by Saint-John Perse
67 members, 0 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)
100
Gaston, tome 1
by André Franquin
48 members, 0 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)
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