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List in Translation: The 100 Books of the Century

To hopefully increase the number of users (to more than 3), I have translated Marinette1429's list (available at the link). The list, derived from two magazine publishers, including Le Monde, shows only a slight bias toward French works.
For some EXTRA fun, see if you can translate the following works into their English equivalents before referring back to my list (they vary widely in difficulty):
L'Étranger (1)
À la recherche du temps perdu (2)
Les Raisins de la colère (7)
Le Nom de la rose (14)
Le Meilleur des mondes (21)
Les Faux-monnayeurs (30)
Cent ans de solitude (33)
Le Bruit et la Fureur (34)
La Vie mode d'emploi (43)
Gatsby le Magnifique (46)
Six personnages en quête d'auteur (53)
La Guerre des mondes (56)
Sur la route (67)
Le Choix de Sophie (82)
Le Grand Sommeil (96)
Au-dessous du volcan (99)
Les Enfants de minuit (100)
IMHO, the titles sound better in French, even if not originally written in that language.
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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 (André Malraux)
Man's Fate
5
André Malraux
Journey to the End of Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
Journey to the End of 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
The Lost Estate (Henri Alain-Fournier)
The Lost Estate
9
Henri Alain-Fournier
Froth on the Daydream (Boris Vian)
Froth on the Daydream
10
Boris Vian
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 Solhenitsyn)
The Gulag Archipelago
15
Aleksandr Solhenitsyn
Paroles (Jacques Prévert)
Paroles
16
Jacques Prévert
Alcools (Guiilaume Apollinaire)
Alcools
17
Guiilaume Apollinaire
The Adventures of Tintin: The Blue Lotus (Hergé)
The Adventures of Tintin: The Blue Lotus
18
Hergé
The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
The Diary of a Young Girl
19
Anne Frank
Tristes Tropiques (Claude Lévi-Strauss)
Tristes Tropiques
20
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
21
Aldous Huxley
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
22
George Orwell
Asterix the Gaul
Asterix the Gaul
23
The Bald Soprano (Eugene Ionesco)
The Bald Soprano
24
Eugene Ionesco
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
25
The Abyss (Marguerite Yourcenar)
The Abyss
26
Marguerite Yourcenar
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
27
Vladimir Nabokov
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
28
James Joyce
The Tartar Steppe (Dino Buzzati)
The Tartar Steppe
29
Dino Buzzati
The Counterfeiters (André Gide)
The Counterfeiters
30
André Gide
The Horseman on the Roof (Jean Giono)
The Horseman on the Roof
31
Jean Giono
Her Lover (Albert Cohen)
Her Lover
32
Albert Cohen
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
Thérèse Desqueyroux (François Mauriac)
Thérèse Desqueyroux
35
François Mauriac
Zazie in the Metro (Raymond Queneau)
Zazie in the Metro
36
Raymond Queneau
Confusion (Stefan Zweig)
Confusion
37
Stefan Zweig
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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