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Le Monde's 100 Books of the 20th Century

I wanted to see another country's perspective of the top 100 books of the 20th century, and fortunately found this list from Le Monde, the French paper-of-record and one of the most respected newspapers in the world. Here is a brief description of how the list, which is ranked as below, was compiled: 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?". 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.
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The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
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In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
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The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
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The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
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Man's Fate (André Malraux)
Man's Fate (André Malraux)
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Journey to the End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
Journey to the End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
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The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
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For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
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The Lost Estate (Henri Alain-Fournier)
The Lost Estate (Henri Alain-Fournier)
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Froth on the Daydream (Boris Vian)
Froth on the Daydream (Boris Vian)
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The Second Sex (Simone De Beauvoir)
The Second Sex (Simone De Beauvoir)
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Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
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Being and Nothingness (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Being and Nothingness (Jean-Paul Sartre)
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The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
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The Gulag Archipelago (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
The Gulag Archipelago (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
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Paroles: Selected Poems (Jacques Prévert)
Paroles: Selected Poems (Jacques Prévert)
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Alcools (Guiilaume Apollinaire)
Alcools (Guiilaume Apollinaire)
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The Blue Lotus (Hergé)
The Blue Lotus (Hergé)
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The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
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Tristes Tropiques (Claude Lévi-Strauss)
Tristes Tropiques (Claude Lévi-Strauss)
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Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
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Asterix the Gaul (René Goscinny, Albert Uderzo)
Asterix the Gaul (René Goscinny, Albert Uderzo)
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The Bald Soprano (Eugène Ionesco)
The Bald Soprano (Eugène Ionesco)
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Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (Sigmund Freud)
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (Sigmund Freud)
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The Abyss (Marguerite Yourcenar)
The Abyss (Marguerite Yourcenar)
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Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
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Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
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The Tartar Steppe (Dino Buzzati)
The Tartar Steppe (Dino Buzzati)
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The Counterfeiters (André Gide)
The Counterfeiters (André Gide)
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The Horseman on the Roof (Jean Giono)
The Horseman on the Roof (Jean Giono)
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Her Lover (Belle Du Seigneur) (Albert Cohen)
Her Lover (Belle Du Seigneur) (Albert Cohen)
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
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The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
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Therese Desqueyroux
Therese Desqueyroux
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Zazie in the Metro (Raymond Queneau)
Zazie in the Metro (Raymond Queneau)
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Confusion of Feelings
Confusion of Feelings
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Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
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Lady Chatterley's Lover (D.H. Lawrence)
Lady Chatterley's Lover (D.H. Lawrence)
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The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
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