• 1 The Stranger Albert Camus 1942 French
  • 2 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust 1913–1927 French
  • 3 The Trial Franz Kafka 1925 German
  • 4 The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1943 French
  • 5 Man's Fate André Malraux 1933 French
  • 6 Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1932 French
  • 7 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 1939 English
  • 8 For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway 1940 English
  • 9 Le Grand Meaulnes Alain-Fournier 1913 French
  • 10 Froth on the Daydream Boris Vian 1947 French
  • 11 The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir 1949 French
  • 12 Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett 1952 French
  • 13 Being and Nothingness Jean-Paul Sartre 1943 French
  • 14 The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco 1980 Italian
  • 15 The Gulag Archipelago Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1973 Russian
  • 16 Paroles Jacques Prévert 1946 French
  • 17 Alcools Guillaume Apollinaire 1913 French
  • 18 The Blue Lotus Hergé 1936 French
  • 19 The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank 1947 Dutch
  • 20 Tristes Tropiques Claude Lévi-Strauss 1955 French
  • 21 Brave New World Aldous Huxley 1932 English
  • 22 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell 1949 English
  • 23 Asterix the Gaul René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo 1959 French
  • 24 The Bald Soprano Eugène Ionesco 1952 French / Romanian
  • 25 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality Sigmund Freud 1905 German
  • 26 The Abyss Zeno of Bruges Marguerite Yourcenar 1968 French
  • 27 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 1955 English
  • 28 Ulysses James Joyce 1922 English
  • 29 The Tartar Steppe Dino Buzzati 1940 Italian
  • 30 The Counterfeiters André Gide 1925 French
  • 31 The Horseman on the Roof Jean Giono 1951 French
  • 32 Belle du Seigneur Albert Cohen 1968 French
  • 33 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez 1967 Spanish
  • 34 The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 1929 English
  • 35 Thérèse Desqueyroux François Mauriac 1927 French
  • 36 Zazie in the Metro Raymond Queneau 1959 French
  • 37 Confusion of Feelings Stefan Zweig 1927 German
  • 38 Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1936 English
  • 39 Lady Chatterley's Lover D. H. Lawrence 1928 English
  • 40 The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann 1924 German
  • 41 Bonjour Tristesse Françoise Sagan 1954 French
  • 42 Le Silence de la mer Vercors 1942 French
  • 43 Life: A User's Manual Georges Perec 1978 French
  • 44 The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle 1901–1902 English
  • 45 Under the Sun of Satan Georges Bernanos 1926 French
  • 46 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925 English
  • 47 The Joke Milan Kundera 1967 Czech
  • 48 A Ghost at Noon Contempt Alberto Moravia 1954 Italian
  • 49 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie 1926 English
  • 50 Nadja André Breton 1928 French
  • 51 Aurélien Louis Aragon 1944 French
  • 52 The Satin Slipper Paul Claudel 1929 French
  • 53 Six Characters in Search of an Author Luigi Pirandello 1921 Italian
  • 54 The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Bertolt Brecht 1941 German
  • 55 Friday Michel Tournier 1967 French
  • 56 The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1898 English
  • 57 If This Is a Man Se questo è un uomo, Survival in Auschwitz Primo Levi 1947 Italian
  • 58 The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 1954–1955 English
  • 59 Les Vrilles de la vigne Colette 1908 French
  • 60 Capital of Pain Paul Éluard 1926 French
  • 61 Martin Eden Jack London 1909 English
  • 62 Ballad of the Salt Sea Hugo Pratt 1967 Italian
  • 63 Writing Degree Zero Roland Barthes 1953 French
  • 64 The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum Heinrich Böll 1974 German
  • 65 The Opposing Shore Julien Gracq 1951 French
  • 66 The Order of Things Michel Foucault 1966 French
  • 67 On the Road Jack Kerouac 1957 English
  • 68 The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Selma Lagerlöf 1906–1907 Swedish
  • 69 A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf 1929 English
  • 70 The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury 1950 English
  • 71 The Ravishing of Lol Stein Marguerite Duras 1964 French
  • 72 The Interrogation J. M. G. Le Clézio 1963 French
  • 73 Tropisms Nathalie Sarraute 1939 French
  • 74 Journal, 1887–1910 Jules Renard 1925 French
  • 75 Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1900 English
  • 76 Écrits Jacques Lacan 1966 French
  • 77 The Theatre and its Double Antonin Artaud 1938 French
  • 78 Manhattan Transfer John Dos Passos 1925 English
  • 79 Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges 1944 Spanish
  • 80 Moravagine Blaise Cendrars 1926 French
  • 81 The General of the Dead Army Ismail Kadare 1963 Albanian
  • 82 Sophie's Choice William Styron 1979 English
  • 83 Gypsy Ballads Federico García Lorca 1928 Spanish
  • 84 The Strange Case of Peter the Lett Georges Simenon 1931 French
  • 85 Our Lady of the Flowers Jean Genet 1944 French
  • 86 The Man Without Qualities Robert Musil 1930–1942 German
  • 87 Furor and Mystery René Char 1948 French
  • 88 The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger 1951 English
  • 89 No Orchids For Miss Blandish James Hadley Chase 1939 English
  • 90 Blake and Mortimer Edgar P. Jacobs 1950 French
  • 91 The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Rainer Maria Rilke 1910 German
  • 92 Second Thoughts Michel Butor 1957 French
  • 93 The Origins of Totalitarianism
  • The Burden of Our Time Hannah Arendt 1951 German
  • 94 The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 1967 Russian
  • 95 The Rosy Crucifixion Henry Miller 1949–1960 English
  • 96 The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler 1939 English
  • 97 Amers Saint-John Perse 1957 French
  • 98 Gaston Gomer Goof André Franquin 1957 French
  • 99 Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry 1947 English
  • 100 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie 1981 English
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