1 |
The Stranger The Outsider |
Albert Camus |
1942 |
French |
2 |
In Search of Lost Time Remembrance of Things Past |
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 |