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Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century - The French Taste for Books

Best books of last 100 years according to Le Monde newspaper and French bookstore Fnac.
It's really patriotic - the list contains a lot of good French classics and some German and Spanish too. It's an interesting alternative for other top lists with predominance of English-language literature.
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The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
1
Albert Camus
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
2
Marcel Proust
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
3
Franz Kafka
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
The Little Prince
4
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
Man's Fate
Man's Fate
5
Journey to the End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
Journey to the End of the Night
6
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
7
John Steinbeck
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
8
Ernest Hemingway
Le Grand-Meaulnes D'Alain-Fournier
Le Grand-Meaulnes D'Alain-Fournier
9
Froth on the Daydream Boris Vian
Froth on the Daydream Boris Vian
10
The Second Sex (Simone De Beauvoir)
The Second Sex
11
Simone De Beauvoir
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
Waiting for Godot
12
Samuel Beckett
Being and Nothingness (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Being and Nothingness
13
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
The Name of the Rose
14
Umberto Eco
The Gulag Archipelago (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
The Gulag Archipelago
15
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Paroles De Jacques Prévert
Paroles De Jacques Prévert
16
Alcools De Guillaume Apollinaire
Alcools De Guillaume Apollinaire
17
Blue Lotus
Blue Lotus
18
The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
The Diary of a Young Girl
19
Anne Frank
Tristes Tropiques De Claude Lévi-Strauss
Tristes Tropiques De Claude Lévi-Strauss
20
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
21
Aldous Huxley
Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
Nineteen Eighty-Four
22
George Orwell
Asterix the Gaul
Asterix the Gaul
23
Bald Soprano
Bald Soprano
24
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
25
L'oeuvre Au Noir De Marguerite Yourcenar
L'oeuvre Au Noir De Marguerite Yourcenar
26
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
27
Vladimir Nabokov
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
28
James Joyce
The Tartar Steppe
The Tartar Steppe
29
The Counterfeiters (André Gide)
The Counterfeiters
30
André Gide
The Horseman on the Roof
The Horseman on the Roof
31
Belle Du Seigneur
Belle Du Seigneur
32
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
33
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
34
William Faulkner
Therese Desqueyroux
Therese Desqueyroux
35
Zazie in the Metro
Zazie in the Metro
36
Confusion of Feelings
Confusion of Feelings
37
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind
38
Margaret Mitchell
Lady Chatterley's Lover (D.H. Lawrence)
Lady Chatterley's Lover
39
D.H. Lawrence
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
The Magic Mountain
40
Thomas Mann
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