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Le Monde - Les 100 livres du siècle

Based on award: Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century

Members: 13 participating members (show all)

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1
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
49,222 members, 839 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: Rubenwiering (1), ahef1963 (1), FlorianKarpfinger (3), thecoroner (8), roby72 (20), mspixieears, cej1027

Score: 20.73

2
In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust
2,627 members, 31 reviews
4.5 stars (4.5 stars)

Lists: blancosa (1), thecoroner (2), ukh (2), roby72 (2), Dilara86 (4), FlorianKarpfinger (6)

Score: 19.48

3
Ulysses
by James Joyce
16,762 members, 232 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (1), aulsmith (1), roby72 (1), ahef1963 (6), FlorianKarpfinger (10), mspixieears

Score: 19.18

4
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
23,908 members, 335 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (1), Rubenwiering (2), aulsmith (4), roby72 (17), thecoroner (19), cej1027

Score: 17.12

5
The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
26,699 members, 485 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: Jys-g (1), ukh (4), ahef1963 (12), roby72 (37), cej1027, mspixieears

Score: 16.02

6
Journey to the End of the Night
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
4,110 members, 56 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: Rubenwiering (3), blancosa (3), thecoroner (6), ukh (6), roby72 (6), FlorianKarpfinger (20)

Score: 15.64

7
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
24,858 members, 310 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: ukh (1), Rubenwiering (4), roby72 (13), ahef1963 (14), FlorianKarpfinger (25), mspixieears

Score: 15.17

8
1984
by George Orwell
55,614 members, 867 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (2), Rubenwiering (5), ahef1963 (7), FlorianKarpfinger (11), roby72 (32), mspixieears

Score: 14.75

9
Six Characters in Search of an Author
by Luigi Pirandello
854 members, 22 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: blancosa (2), aulsmith (5), roby72 (12), thecoroner (14), ahef1963 (20), mspixieears

Score: 14.53

10
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
37,413 members, 496 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (2), FlorianKarpfinger (4), Rubenwiering (6), roby72 (39), cej1027

Score: 13.39

11
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
14,068 members, 150 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: ukh (3), thecoroner (4), roby72 (7), FlorianKarpfinger (21), mspixieears

Score: 12.57

12
Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
9,106 members, 114 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (3), ahef1963 (8), FlorianKarpfinger (13), roby72 (25), mspixieears

Score: 11.69

13
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
32,120 members, 468 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: blancosa (4), thecoroner (11), roby72 (11), ahef1963 (13), FlorianKarpfinger (24)

Score: 11.14

14
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
18,061 members, 330 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (9), FlorianKarpfinger (14), thecoroner (30), roby72 (31), cej1027

Score: 10.82

15
The Second Sex
by Simone de Beauvoir
1,217 members, 4 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (2), Dilara86 (2), thecoroner (16), roby72 (19)

Score: 10.64

16
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
10,325 members, 187 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (15), ahef1963 (15), roby72 (21), FlorianKarpfinger (28), mspixieears

Score: 10.05

17
The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
6,378 members, 106 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: roby72 (4), thecoroner (5), FlorianKarpfinger (18), mspixieears

Score: 9.82

18
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
14,129 members, 221 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (4), FlorianKarpfinger (7), thecoroner (17), roby72 (18)

Score: 9.2

19
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
9,256 members, 213 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (5), FlorianKarpfinger (8), roby72 (42), mspixieears

Score: 9

20
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
13,429 members, 321 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: Rubenwiering (7), thecoroner (10), roby72 (16), FlorianKarpfinger (27)

Score: 8.46

21
Man's Fate
by Andre Malraux
1,693 members, 24 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ukh (5), Rubenwiering (11), thecoroner (26), roby72 (30)

Score: 8.35

22
A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
8,027 members, 97 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (12), thecoroner (24), roby72 (24), mspixieears

Score: 8.14

23
Lady Chatterley's Lover
by D. H. Lawrence
9,761 members, 147 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (11), FlorianKarpfinger (16), roby72 (46), mspixieears

Score: 8.11

24
The Man Without Qualities
by Robert Musil
948 members, 16 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (3), roby72 (3), FlorianKarpfinger (17)

Score: 8.05

25
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
by Sigmund Freud
995 members, 3 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (21), roby72 (28), FlorianKarpfinger (32), mspixieears

Score: 7.67

26
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
12,001 members, 140 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (16), thecoroner (20), roby72 (22), FlorianKarpfinger (29)

Score: 7.46

27
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
21,314 members, 288 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (22), roby72 (36), FlorianKarpfinger (41), mspixieears

Score: 7.44

28
The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
37,179 members, 375 reviews
4.52 stars (4.52 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (19), cej1027, mspixieears

Score: 7.33

29
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
by Agatha Christie
5,605 members, 182 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (3), FlorianKarpfinger (5), roby72 (40)

Score: 7.31

30
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
6,965 members, 203 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (17), thecoroner (22), FlorianKarpfinger (33), roby72 (33)

Score: 7.16

31
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
by Rainer Maria Rilke
1,700 members, 20 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: roby72 (5), thecoroner (7), FlorianKarpfinger (19)

Score: 7.05

32
Life: A User's Manual
by Georges Perec
2,603 members, 36 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

Lists: Dilara86 (3), roby72 (15), thecoroner (18)

Score: 7.01

33
Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry
2,916 members, 49 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: roby72 (8), thecoroner (12), FlorianKarpfinger (22)

Score: 6.38

34
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
51,702 members, 850 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: Rubenwiering (8), ahef1963 (10), FlorianKarpfinger (15), roby72 (34)

Thumbs down: cej1027

Score: 6.32

35
Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
4,745 members, 72 reviews
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

Lists: roby72 (9), thecoroner (13), FlorianKarpfinger (23)

Score: 6.24

36
The Tartar Steppe
by Dino Buzzati
1,381 members, 35 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: Dilara86 (6), thecoroner (28), roby72 (29)

Score: 6.02

37
Survival In Auschwitz
by Primo Levi
4,048 members, 73 reviews
4.3 stars (4.3 stars)

Lists: roby72 (14), thecoroner (23), FlorianKarpfinger (26)

Score: 5.67

39
Manhattan Transfer
by John Dos Passos
1,381 members, 18 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (27), roby72 (27), FlorianKarpfinger (31)

Score: 5.21

40
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
13,122 members, 127 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (18), FlorianKarpfinger (37), roby72 (45)

Score: 5.11

41
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
23,580 members, 387 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (9), roby72 (10), FlorianKarpfinger (39)

Thumbs down: cej1027

Score: 4.16

42
Our Lady of the Flowers
by Jean Genet
1,315 members, 7 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (6), FlorianKarpfinger (48)

Score: 4.08

43
Capital of Pain
by Paul Éluard
0 members, 0 reviews

Lists: Dilara86 (1)

Score: 4

44
Le Grand Meaulnes
by Alain-Fournier
2,310 members, 49 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: Rubenwiering (9), roby72 (38)

Score: 3.92

45
The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells
11,173 members, 215 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (9), roby72 (43)

Score: 3.87

46
Bonjour Tristesse
by Françoise Sagan
2,320 members, 71 reviews
3.54 stars (3.54 stars)

Lists: Rubenwiering (12), FlorianKarpfinger (45)

Score: 3.69

47
Being And Nothingness: An Essay On Phenomenological Ontology
by Jean-Paul Sartre
3,368 members, 11 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (21), FlorianKarpfinger (42)

Score: 3.44

48
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
by Heinrich Böll
1,747 members, 37 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (34), roby72 (35)

Score: 3.3

49
Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
6,324 members, 79 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (35), roby72 (41)

Score: 3.23

50
Gone With the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
16,550 members, 345 reviews
4.33 stars (4.33 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (36), roby72 (44)

Score: 3.19

51
Martin Eden
by Jack London
1,142 members, 21 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (38), roby72 (47)

Score: 3.14

52
Froth on the Daydream
by Boris Vian
1,546 members, 34 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: Dilara86 (5)

Score: 2.68

53
The Blue Lotus
by Hergé
1,264 members, 14 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: Rubenwiering (10)

Score: 2.25

54
Asterix the Gaul
by René Goscinny
1,559 members, 24 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (23)

Score: 1.83

55
Contempt
by Alberto Moravia
592 members, 7 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)

Lists: roby72 (26)

Score: 1.77

56
The Abyss
by Marguerite Yourcenar
1,071 members, 21 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (29)

Score: 1.72

57
Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. von D.
by Stefan Zweig
489 members, 14 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (40)

Score: 1.59

58
The Joke
by Milan Kundera
2,853 members, 26 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (43)

Score: 1.56

59
The order of things: an archaeology of the human sciences
by Michel Foucault
2,521 members, 12 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (44)

Score: 1.55

60
The Origins of Totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt
1,535 members, 15 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (46)

Score: 1.54

61
Nadja
by André Breton
1,406 members, 7 reviews
3.45 stars (3.45 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (47)

Score: 1.53

62
Tristes Tropiques
by Claude Lévi-Strauss
1,147 members, 18 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (49)

Score: 1.51

63
The Counterfeiters
by André Gide
856 members, 5 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (50)

Score: 1.5

64
Pietr the Latvian
by Georges Simenon
536 members, 29 reviews
3.32 stars (3.32 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (51)

Score: 1.5

65
The Silence of the Sea
by Vercors
307 members, 6 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (52)

Score: 1.49

66
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
by Bertolt Brecht
268 members, 3 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (53)

Score: 1.48

67
The Martian Chronicles
by Ray Bradbury
11,221 members, 211 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Score: 0

68
Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
4,385 members, 69 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Score: 0

69
Moravagine
by Blaise Cendrars
494 members, 5 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Score: 0

70
Zazie in the Metro
by Raymond Queneau
1,137 members, 17 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)
71
The Theater and Its Double
by Antonin Artaud
845 members, 9 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)
72
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
by Selma Lagerlöf
771 members, 17 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)
73
Thérèse Desqueyroux
by François Mauriac
739 members, 11 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)
74
Belle du Seigneur
by Albert Cohen
642 members, 10 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)
75
Paroles
by Jacques Prevert
638 members, 6 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)
76
The Ravishing of Lol Stein
by Marguerite Duras
568 members, 8 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)
77
Écrits: A Selection
by Jacques Lacan
543 members, 0 reviews
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)
78
Friday, or, The Other Island
by Michel Tournier
516 members, 6 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)
79
Writing Degree Zero
by Roland Barthes
473 members, 2 reviews
3.52 stars (3.52 stars)
80
Alcools
by Guillaume Apollinaire
445 members, 6 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)
81
The Horseman on the Roof
by Jean Giono
374 members, 6 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)
82
The Interrogation
by J. M. G. Le Clezio
340 members, 12 reviews
3.18 stars (3.18 stars)
83
Corto Maltese: The Ballad of the Salt Sea
by Hugo Pratt
331 members, 3 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)
84
The Opposing Shore
by Julien Gracq
316 members, 8 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)
85
The General of the Dead Army
by Ismail Kadare
310 members, 8 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)
86
La Cantatrice chauve
by Eugène Ionesco
273 members, 2 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)
87
Gypsy Ballads
by Federico García Lorca
267 members, 5 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)
88
No Orchids for Miss Blandish
by James Hadley Chase
249 members, 11 reviews
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)
89
La modification
by Michel Butor
245 members, 2 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)
90
Under Satan's Sun
by Georges Bernanos
178 members, 2 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)
91
Tropisms
by Nathalie Sarraute
162 members, 3 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)
92
The Journal of Jules Renard
by Jules Renard
156 members, 2 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)
93
Aurélien
by Louis Aragon
139 members, 2 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)
94
Passing Time
by Michel Butor
123 members, 2 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)
95
The Rosy Crucifixion: Sexus, Plexus, Nexus
by Henry Miller
104 members, 1 review
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)
96
Fureur et Mystère
by René Char
84 members, 1 review
3.42 stars (3.42 stars)
97
Le soulier de satin
by Paul Claudel
84 members, 1 review
3.3 stars (3.3 stars)
98
Capital of Pain / L'amour la poésie
by Paul Éluard
63 members, 1 review
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)
99
Seamarks
by Saint-John Perse
61 members, 0 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)
100
Gaston, tome 1
by André Franquin
45 members, 0 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)
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