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The 100 Books of the Century is a grading of the books considered as the hundred best of the 20th century, drawn up in the spring of 1999 through a poll conducted by the French retailer Fnac and the Paris newspaper Le Monde. Starting from a preliminary list of 200 titles created by bookshops and journalists, 17,000 French voted by responding to the question, "Which books have stayed in your memory?" ( Quels livres sont rests dans votre mmoire ? ).[1] The list of acclaimed titles mixes great novels with poetry and theatre, as well as the comic strip. The rst fty works on the list were the subject of an essay by Frdric Beigbeder, The Last Inventory Before Liquidation, in which he notably drew attention to its French-centred character.

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1 The 100 Books of the Century 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

The 100 Books of the Century

# 1 Title The Stranger The Outsider Author Albert Camus Year 1942 Language French Country French Algeria, France France Austria-Hungary, Czechoslovakia France France France USA

In Search of Lost Time 2 Remembrance of Things Past 3 The Trial 4 The Little Prince 5 Man's Fate 6

Marcel Proust

19131927 French

Franz Kafka Antoine de SaintExupry Andr Malraux

1925 1943 1933 1932 1939

German French French French English

Journey to the End of Louis-Ferdinand the Night Cline John Steinbeck

7 The Grapes of Wrath

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For Whom the Bell Tolls Froth on the Daydream

Ernest Hemingway Alain-Fournier Boris Vian Simone de Beauvoir Samuel Beckett Jean-Paul Sartre

1940 1913 1947 1949 1952 1943 1980 1973 1946 1913 1936 1947 1955 1932 1949

English French French French French, English French Italian Russian French French French Dutch French English English French French, Romanian German French English, Russian English Italian French

USA France France France Ireland, France France Italy Soviet Union France France Belgium
Germany,

9 Le Grand Meaulnes 10

11 The Second Sex 12 Waiting for Godot 13 Being and Nothingness The Gulag Archipelago

14 The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco 15 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Jacques Prvert Guillaume Apollinaire Herg

16 Paroles 17 Alcools 18 The Blue Lotus 19

The Diary of a Young Anne Frank Girl Claude Lvi-Strauss Aldous Huxley

Netherlands

20 Tristes Tropiques 21 Brave New World

France UK UK France
Romania,

22 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell 23 Asterix the Gaul 24 The Bald Soprano 25 26 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality The Abyss Zeno of Bruges

Ren Goscinny 1959 and Albert Uderzo Eugne Ionesco Sigmund Freud Marguerite Yourcenar 1952 1905 1968

France

Austria France, Belgium Russia, USA Ireland Italy France

27 Lolita 28 Ulysses 29 The Tartar Steppe 30 The Counterfeiters

Vladimir Nabokov 1955 James Joyce Dino Buzzati Andr Gide 1922 1940 1925

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The Horseman on the Jean Giono Roof Albert Cohen One Hundred Years of Gabriel Garca Solitude Mrquez The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner

1951 1968 1967 1929 1927 1959 1927

French French Spanish English French French German English English German French French French

France
Greece,

32 Belle du Seigneur 33 34

Switzerland

Colombia USA France France Austria USA UK Germany France France France UK France USA Czechoslovakia, France Italy UK France France France Italy Germany France

35 Thrse Desqueyroux Franois Mauriac 36 Zazie in the Metro Raymond Queneau

37 Confusion of Feelings Stefan Zweig 38 Gone with the Wind 39 Lady Chatterley's Lover

Margaret Mitchell 1936 D. H. Lawrence Thomas Mann Franoise Sagan Vercors Arthur Conan Doyle 1928 1924 1954 1942 1978

40 The Magic Mountain 41 Bonjour Tristesse 42 Le Silence de la mer The Hound of the Baskervilles Under the Sun of Satan

43 Life: A User's Manual Georges Perec 44 45

19011902 English French English Czech Italian English French French French Italian German French

Georges Bernanos 1926 F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925 Milan Kundera Alberto Moravia 1967 1954 1926 1928 1944 1929 1921 1959 1967

46 The Great Gatsby 47 The Joke 48 49 A Ghost at Noon Contempt

The Murder of Roger Agatha Christie Ackroyd Andr Breton Louis Aragon Paul Claudel Luigi Pirandello

50 Nadja 51 Aurelien 52 The Satin Slipper 53 54 Six Characters in Search of an Author

The Resistible Rise of Bertolt Brecht Arturo Ui Michel Tournier

55 Friday

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56 The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells If This Is a Man 57 Survival in Auschwitz Les Vrilles de la vigne (French)
Tendrils of the Vine] [2]

1898 1947

English Italian

UK Italy
Orange Free State,

Primo Levi

58 The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 59 [Never translated: The 60 Capital of Pain 61 Martin Eden 63 Writing Degree Zero 64 The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum Colette Paul luard Jack London Roland Barthes Heinrich Bll Julien Gracq Michel Foucault Jack Kerouac Selma Lagerlf

19541955 English 1908 1926 1909 1967 1953 1974 1951 1966 1957 French French English Italian French German French French English

UK

France France USA Italy France Germany France France USA Sweden UK USA France France
Russia,

62 Ballad of the Salt Sea Hugo Pratt

65 The Opposing Shore 66 The Order of Things 67 On the Road 68 The Wonderful Adventures of Nils The Martian Chronicles The Ravishing of Lol Stein

19061907 Swedish 1929 1950 1964 English English French French French French English French French English Spanish French Albanian, French

69 A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf 70 71 Ray Bradbury Marguerite Duras

72 The Interrogation 73 Tropisms 74 Journal, 18871910 75 Lord Jim 76 crits 77 The Theatre and its Double

J. M. G. Le Clzio 1963 Nathalie Sarraute Jules Renard Joseph Conrad Jacques Lacan Antonin Artaud John Dos Passos Blaise Cendrars Ismail Kadare 1939 1925 1900 1966 1938 1925 1926 1963

France UK

France
Russian Empire,

France France USA Argentina France, Switzerland Albania

78 Manhattan Transfer 79 Ficciones 80 Moravagine 81 The General of the Dead Army

Jorge Luis Borges 1944

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82 Sophie's Choice 83 Gypsy Ballads 84 85 86 The Strange Case of Peter the Lett Our Lady of the Flowers The Man Without Qualities The Catcher in the Rye

William Styron Federico Garca Lorca Georges Simenon Jean Genet Robert Musil Ren Char J. D. Salinger

1979 1928 1931 1944

English Spanish French French

USA Spain Belgium France Austria France USA UK Belgium Austria-Hungary, Switzerland France
Germany,

19301932 German 1948 1951 1939 1950 1910 1957 1951 French English English French German French English, German Russian

87 Furor and Mystery 88 89

No Orchids For Miss James Hadley Blandish Chase Edgar P. Jacobs The Notebooks of Rainer Maria Malte Laurids Brigge Rilke Michel Butor Hannah Arendt

90 Blake and Mortimer 91

92 Second Thoughts The Burden of Our Time 93 The Origins of Totalitarianism 94 The Master and Margarita

USA

Mikhail Bulgakov 1967 Henry Miller Raymond Chandler Saint-John Perse Andr Franquin Malcolm Lowry Salman Rushdie

Soviet Union USA USA France Belgium UK India, UK

95 The Rosy Crucixion 96 The Big Sleep 97 Amers 98 Gaston Gomer Goof

19491960 English 1939 1957 1957 1947 1981 English French French English English

99 Under the Volcano 100 Midnight's Children

Note: Language and Country refer to the author's career generally, not to the book specically.

See also
The 100 Best Books of All Time (Norway and Sweden) List of Nobel laureates in Literature (Sweden) including Camus, Steinbeck, Hemingway, Beckett,
Sartre, Solzhenitsyn, Gide, Garca Mrquez, Faulkner, Mauriac, Mann, Pirandello, Bll, Lagerlf, Le Clzio,

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and Perse

List of recipients of the Grand Prize of the Acadmie franaise (France) including de SaintExupry, Cohen, Mauriac, Bernanos, and Tournier

List of recipients of the Prix Goncourt (France) including Proust, Malraux, de Beauvoir, Tournier,
Gracq, and Duras

List of recipients of the Prix Renaudot (France) including Cline, Perec, Aragon, Le Clzio, and
Beigbeder

List of recipients of the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (France) including Kundera, Borges,
Kadare, and Styron

List of recipients of the Prix Mdicis (France) including Eco, Perec, and Kundera List of recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (USA) including Steinbeck, Hemingway,
Faulkner, Mitchell, and Styron

List of recipients of the Booker Prize (UK) including Rushdie List of recipients of the European Literary Award (Austria) including de Beauvoir, Eco,
Ionesco, Kundera, Duras, and Rushdie

List of recipients of the Jerusalem Prize (Israel) including de Beauvoir, Ionesco, Kundera, and
Borges

List of recipients of the Strega Prize (Italy) including Eco, Buzzati, Moravia, and Levi List of recipients of the Prince of Asturias Award (Spain) including Kadare List of recipients of the Cervantes Prize (Spain) including Borges Western canon Great Books of the Western World Modern Library 100 Best Novels (USA) all were rst published in English TIME's List of the 100 Best Novels (USA) all were rst published in English The Big Read (UK)

References
1. ^ crivains et choix sentimentaux (http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/ACHATS /acheter.cgi?offre=ARCHIVES&type_item=ART_ARCH_30J&objet_id=46796) , Josyane Savigneau, Le Monde, 15 October 1999. 2. ^ The Collected Stories of Colette (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1983) includes a story called "A Fable: The Tendrils of the Vine".

External links
Newsweek's Top 100 Books (http://www.librarything.com/bookaward /Newsweek's+Top+100+Books%3A+The+Meta-List) Books o' the Ages: A Millennial/Centennial/Decennial/Annual Reassessment (http://www.complete-review.com/quarterly/vol1/issue1/dialog2.htm) , overview of Best of Century lists Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Monde%27s_100_Books_of_the_Century" Categories: Lists of books | 20th-century books | Lists of novels | 20th-century novels | French literature | Philosophy books | Top book lists This page was last modied on 9 September 2011 at 04:37. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of use for details.

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