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The 100 Books of the Century (French: Les cent livres du siècle) is a list of the hundred most memorable books of the 20th century, regardless of language, according to a poll performed during the spring of 1999 by the French retailer Fnac and the Paris newspaper Le Monde.
Overview<br>[edit]
Starting from a preliminary list of 200 titles created by bookshops and journalists, 17,000 French participants responded to the question, "Which books have stuck in your mind?" (Quels livres sont restés dans votre mémoire?) As Le Monde journalist Josyane Savigneau aptly clarified in her article, the list is not meant to encompass the 100 most distinguished French literary works of the 20th century, but rather to reflect the emotional connections of the French populace.[1]
The list includes both classic novels and genre fiction (Tolkien, Agatha Christie, A. C. Doyle), as well as poetry, drama and nonfiction literature (Freud's essays and the diary of Anne Frank). There are also comic books on the list, one album from each of these five Francophone or Italian series: Asterix, Tintin, Blake and Mortimer, Gaston and Corto Maltese. The large number of French novels of the list is due to the demographics of the surveyed group.[citation needed]
Likewise, comparable lists by English language sources—such as the two lists of Modern Library's 100 Best Novels published in 1998, one by the Board of the Modern Library and the other by readers who responded—disproportionately favor British and American authors. Non-English language works were not eligible for the two Modern Library lists.
List<br>[edit]
No.<br>Title<br>Author<br>Year<br>Language
The StrangerThe Outsider<br>Albert Camus<br>1942<br>French
In Search of Lost TimeRemembrance of Things Past<br>Marcel Proust<br>1913–27<br>French
The Trial<br>Franz Kafka<br>1925<br>German
The Little Prince<br>Antoine de Saint-Exupéry<br>1943<br>French
Man's Fate<br>André Malraux<br>1933<br>French
Journey to the End of the Night<br>Louis-Ferdinand Céline<br>1932<br>French
The Grapes of Wrath<br>John Steinbeck<br>1939<br>English
For Whom the Bell Tolls<br>Ernest Hemingway<br>1940<br>English
Le Grand Meaulnes<br>Alain-Fournier<br>1913<br>French
10<br>Froth on the Daydream<br>Boris Vian<br>1947<br>French
11<br>The Second Sex<br>Simone de Beauvoir<br>1949<br>French
12<br>Waiting for Godot<br>Samuel Beckett<br>1952<br>French
13<br>Being and Nothingness<br>Jean-Paul Sartre<br>1943<br>French
14<br>The Name of the Rose<br>Umberto Eco<br>1980<br>Italian
15<br>The Gulag Archipelago<br>Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn<br>1973<br>Russian
16<br>Paroles<br>Jacques Prévert<br>1946<br>French
17<br>Alcools<br>Guillaume Apollinaire<br>1913<br>French
18<br>The Blue Lotus<br>Hergé<br>1936<br>French
19<br>The Diary of a Young Girl<br>Anne Frank<br>1947<br>Dutch
20<br>Tristes Tropiques<br>Claude Lévi-Strauss<br>1955<br>French
21<br>Brave New World<br>Aldous Huxley<br>1932<br>English
22<br>Nineteen Eighty-Four<br>George Orwell<br>1949<br>English
23<br>Asterix the Gaul<br>René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo<br>1959<br>French
24<br>The Bald Soprano<br>Eugène Ionesco<br>1952<br>French
25<br>Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality<br>Sigmund Freud<br>1905<br>German
26<br>The AbyssZeno of Bruges<br>Marguerite Yourcenar<br>1968<br>French
27<br>Lolita<br>Vladimir Nabokov<br>1955<br>English
28<br>Ulysses<br>James Joyce<br>1922<br>English
29<br>The Tartar Steppe<br>Dino Buzzati<br>1940<br>Italian
30<br>The Counterfeiters<br>André Gide<br>1925<br>French
31<br>The Horseman on the Roof<br>Jean Giono<br>1951<br>French
32<br>Belle du Seigneur<br>Albert Cohen<br>1968<br>French
33<br>One Hundred Years of Solitude<br>Gabriel García Márquez<br>1967<br>Spanish
34<br>The Sound and the Fury<br>William Faulkner<br>1929<br>English
35<br>Thérèse Desqueyroux<br>François Mauriac<br>1927<br>French
36<br>Zazie in the Metro<br>Raymond Queneau<br>1959<br>French
37<br>Confusion of Feelings<br>Stefan Zweig<br>1927<br>German
38<br>Gone with the Wind<br>Margaret Mitchell<br>1936<br>English
39<br>Lady Chatterley's Lover<br>D. H. Lawrence<br>1928<br>English
40<br>The Magic Mountain<br>Thomas Mann<br>1924<br>German
41<br>Bonjour Tristesse<br>Françoise Sagan<br>1954<br>French
42<br>Le Silence de la mer<br>Vercors<br>1942<br>French
43<br>Life: A User's Manual<br>Georges Perec<br>1978<br>French
44<br>The Hound of the Baskervilles<br>Arthur Conan Doyle<br>1901–02<br>English
45<br>Under the Sun of Satan<br>Georges Bernanos<br>1926<br>French
46<br>The Great Gatsby<br>F. Scott Fitzgerald<br>1925<br>English
47<br>The Joke<br>Milan Kundera<br>1967<br>Czech
48<br>Contempt/A...