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List in Translation: The 100 Books of the Century

To hopefully increase the number of users (to more than 3), I have translated Marinette1429's list (available at the link). The list, derived from two magazine publishers, including Le Monde, shows only a slight bias toward French works.
For some EXTRA fun, see if you can translate the following works into their English equivalents before referring back to my list (they vary widely in difficulty):
L'Étranger (1)
À la recherche du temps perdu (2)
Les Raisins de la colère (7)
Le Nom de la rose (14)
Le Meilleur des mondes (21)
Les Faux-monnayeurs (30)
Cent ans de solitude (33)
Le Bruit et la Fureur (34)
La Vie mode d'emploi (43)
Gatsby le Magnifique (46)
Six personnages en quête d'auteur (53)
La Guerre des mondes (56)
Sur la route (67)
Le Choix de Sophie (82)
Le Grand Sommeil (96)
Au-dessous du volcan (99)
Les Enfants de minuit (100)
IMHO, the titles sound better in French, even if not originally written in that language.
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The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
2
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
3
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
4
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
5
Man's Fate (André Malraux)
Man's Fate (André Malraux)
6
Journey to the End of Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
Journey to the End of Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
7
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
8
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
9
The Lost Estate (Henri Alain-Fournier)
The Lost Estate (Henri Alain-Fournier)
10
Froth on the Daydream (Boris Vian)
Froth on the Daydream (Boris Vian)
11
The Second Sex (Simone De Beauvoir)
The Second Sex (Simone De Beauvoir)
12
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
13
Being and Nothingness (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Being and Nothingness (Jean-Paul Sartre)
14
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
15
The Gulag Archipelago (Aleksandr Solhenitsyn)
The Gulag Archipelago (Aleksandr Solhenitsyn)
16
Paroles (Jacques Prévert)
Paroles (Jacques Prévert)
17
Alcools (Guiilaume Apollinaire)
Alcools (Guiilaume Apollinaire)
18
The Adventures of Tintin: The Blue Lotus (Hergé)
The Adventures of Tintin: The Blue Lotus (Hergé)
19
The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
20
Tristes Tropiques (Claude Lévi-Strauss)
Tristes Tropiques (Claude Lévi-Strauss)
21
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
22
1984 (George Orwell)
1984 (George Orwell)
23
Asterix the Gaul
Asterix the Gaul
24
The Bald Soprano (Eugene Ionesco)
The Bald Soprano (Eugene Ionesco)
25
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
26
The Abyss (Marguerite Yourcenar)
The Abyss (Marguerite Yourcenar)
27
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
28
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
29
The Tartar Steppe (Dino Buzzati)
The Tartar Steppe (Dino Buzzati)
30
The Counterfeiters (André Gide)
The Counterfeiters (André Gide)
31
The Horseman on the Roof (Jean Giono)
The Horseman on the Roof (Jean Giono)
32
Her Lover (Albert Cohen)
Her Lover (Albert Cohen)
33
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
34
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
35
Thérèse Desqueyroux (François Mauriac)
Thérèse Desqueyroux (François Mauriac)
36
Zazie in the Metro (Raymond Queneau)
Zazie in the Metro (Raymond Queneau)
37
Confusion (Stefan Zweig)
Confusion (Stefan Zweig)
38
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
39
Lady Chatterley's Lover (D. H. Lawrence)
Lady Chatterley's Lover (D. H. Lawrence)
40
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
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