Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century

36 books in the collection.

1999 Must-Read

Bonjour Tristesse

Françoise Sagan

First published 1954

 Cover of Fellowship of the Ring
1999 Must-Read

Fellowship of the Ring

J.R.R. Tolkien

First published 1954

 Cover of A Room of One's Own
Must-Read

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

First published 1929

 Cover of Being and Nothingness
Recommended

Being and Nothingness

Jean-Paul Sartre

First published 1943

 Cover of Brave New World
Must-Read

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

First published 1932

 Cover of For Whom the Bell Tolls
Must-Read

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway

First published 1940
Must-Read

Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell

First published 1936

 Cover of Lady Chatterley's Lover
Must-Read

Lady Chatterley's Lover

D.H. Lawrence

First published 1900

 Cover of Lolita
Must-Read

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

First published 1777

 Cover of Lord Jim
Must-Read

Lord Jim

Joseph Conrad

First published 1900

 Cover of Manhattan Transfer
Recommended

Manhattan Transfer

John Dos Passos

First published 1925

 Cover of Martin Eden
Recommended

Martin Eden

Jack London

First published 1909

 Cover of Nineteen Eighty-Four
Must-Read

Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell

First published 1949

 Cover of On the Road
Recommended

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

First published 1957

 Cover of Origins of Totalitarianism
Must-Read

Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt

First published 1951

 Cover of Sophie's Choice
Must-Read

Sophie's Choice

William Styron

First published 1979

 Cover of The Catcher in the Rye
Must-Read

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

First published 1945

 Cover of The Counterfeiters
Must-Read

The Counterfeiters

André Gide

First published 1925

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Must-Read

The General of the Dead Army

Ismail Kadare

First published 1963

 Cover of The Grapes of Wrath
Must-Read

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

First published 1939

 Cover of The Great Gatsby
Must-Read

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

First published 1920

 Cover of The Hound of the Baskervilles
Must-Read

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

First published 1900

 Cover of The Interrogation
Must-Read

The Interrogation

J. M. G. Le Clézio

First published 1963

 Cover of The Joke
Must-Read

The Joke

Milan Kundera

First published 1967

 Cover of The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
Must-Read

The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum

Heinrich Böll

First published 1974

 Cover of The Martian Chronicles
Must-Read

The Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury

First published 1950

 Cover of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Must-Read

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie

First published 1926

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Must-Read

The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco

First published 1980

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Must-Read

The Opposing Shore

Julien Gracq

First published 1951
Must-Read

The Strange Case of Peter the Lett

Georges Simenon

First published 1931

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Must-Read

The Stranger

Albert Camus

First published 1942

 Cover of The Tartar Steppe
Must-Read

The Tartar Steppe

Dino Buzzati

First published 1940

 Cover of The War of the Worlds
Must-Read

The War of the Worlds

H.G. Wells

First published 1897

 Cover of Ulysses
Must-Read

Ulysses

James Joyce

First published 1914

 Cover of Under the Volcano
Must-Read

Under the Volcano

Malcolm Lowry

First published 1947

 Cover of Zazie in the Metro
Must-Read

Zazie in the Metro

Raymond Queneau

First published 1959