article: Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century
links: Lady Chatterley's Lover André Franquin 1926 1960 Russian language Czechoslovakia The Grapes of Wrath In Search of Lost Time 1980 1908 1964 Eugène Ionesco 1932 1907 Virginia Woolf Lolita Agatha Christie Mikhail Bulgakov Jack London Rainer Maria Rilke Greece Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1942 The Stranger (novel) Ray Bradbury 1950 Switzerland 1955 1936 André Gide 1951 Austria Albania Spanish language The Little Prince 1909 Nobel Prize in Literature The Hound of the Baskervilles Swedish language William Faulkner Marcel Proust 20th century Hergé Nineteen Eighty-Four The Adventures of Tintin Luigi Pirandello The Master and Margarita Thomas Mann The Diary of a Young Girl Orange Free State Soviet Union Brave New World Lord Jim 1900 Czech Republic Ernest Hemingway Primo Levi J. D. Salinger Heinrich Böll French language Argentina France Arthur Conan Doyle Henry Miller Jacques Lacan Albert Camus The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Salman Rushdie George Orwell William Styron Colombia James Joyce Romanian language Ireland Michel Tournier Guillaume Apollinaire 1901 Netherlands The Great Gatsby Romania One Hundred Years of Solitude 1953 1905 Marguerite Duras Anne Frank Being and Nothingness Austria-Hungary 1963 Jorge Luis Borges Sweden Selma Lagerlöf Germany 1957 Russia Stefan Zweig 1939 Czech language 1949 The Bald Soprano The Martian Chronicles Jean Genet Sigmund Freud Italian language 1940 1968 Waiting for Godot 1978 Michel Foucault J. R. R. Tolkien Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Satin Slipper Gabriel García Márquez The Gulag Archipelago 1902 1929 Bertolt Brecht Roland Barthes 1922 D. H. Lawrence J. M. G. Le Clézio André Breton Dutch language The War of the Worlds 1973 1944 Under the Volcano 1959 Georges Simenon 1931 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Milan Kundera Ismail Kadare India 1930 Le Monde 1948 Jean-Paul Sartre John Steinbeck 1981 F. Scott Fitzgerald Vladimir Nabokov German language 1952 Booker Prize 1928 1947 1943 1938 Gone with the Wind 1933 1898 Spain H. G. Wells 1967 Claude Lévi-Strauss Malcolm Lowry Joseph Conrad Hannah Arendt 1906 1925 Paris Umberto Eco On the Road Belgium Ulysses (novel) 1966 Federico García Lorca Margaret Mitchell The Catcher in the Rye Franz Kafka 1924 Edgar P. Jacobs Russian Empire 1910 Albert Uderzo 1927 1913 The Lord of the Rings 1954 Aldous Huxley Raymond Chandler Italy 1974 Samuel Beckett 1946 Simone de Beauvoir Jack Kerouac 1921 Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1979 Albanian language Jacques Prévert