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The 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century (Folha De São Paulo)

Folha de São Paulo, also known as simply Folha, is a Brazilian daily newspaper founded in 1921 under the name Folha da Noite and published in São Paulo by the Folha da Manhã company. Folha got ten critics and writers to choose the one hundred best novels published since 1900.
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Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
1
James Joyce
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
2
Marcel Proust
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
3
Franz Kafka
Doctor Faustus (Thomas Mann)
Doctor Faustus
4
Thomas Mann
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (João Guimarães Rosa)
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
5
João Guimarães Rosa
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle
6
Franz Kafka
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
The Magic Mountain
7
Thomas Mann
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
8
William Faulkner
The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil)
The Man Without Qualities
9
Robert Musil
Finnegans Wake (James Joyce)
Finnegans Wake
10
James Joyce
The Death of Virgil (Hermann Broch)
The Death of Virgil
11
Hermann Broch
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
12
Joseph Conrad
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
13
Albert Camus
The Unnamable (Samuel Beckett)
The Unnamable
14
Samuel Beckett
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
15
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
16
Aldous Huxley
Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs Dalloway
17
Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
18
Virginia Woolf
The Ambassadors (Henry James)
The Ambassadors
19
Henry James
Confessions of Zeno
Confessions of Zeno
20
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
21
Vladimir Nabokov
Paradiso (Jose Lezama Lima)
Paradiso
22
Jose Lezama Lima
The Leopard (Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa)
The Leopard
23
Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
Nineteen Eighty-Four
24
George Orwell
Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Nausea
25
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Alexandria Quartet (Lawrence Durrell)
The Alexandria Quartet
26
Lawrence Durrell
The Counterfeiters (André Gide)
The Counterfeiters
27
André Gide
Malone Dies (Samuel Beckett)
Malone Dies
28
Samuel Beckett
The Tartar Steppe (Dino Buzzati)
The Tartar Steppe
29
Dino Buzzati
Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad)
Lord Jim
30
Joseph Conrad
Orlando (Virginia Woolf)
Orlando
31
Virginia Woolf
The Plague (Albert Camus)
The Plague
32
Albert Camus
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
33
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Tin Drum (Günter Grass)
The Tin Drum
34
Günter Grass
Pedro Paramo (Juan Rulfo)
Pedro Paramo
35
Juan Rulfo
Journey to the End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
Journey to the End of the Night
36
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Alfred Döblin)
Berlin Alexanderplatz
37
Alfred Döblin
Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
Doctor Zhivago
38
Boris Pasternak
Molloy (Samuel Beckett)
Molloy
39
Samuel Beckett
Man's Fate (André Malraux)
Man's Fate
40
André Malraux
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