- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
- The Trial by Franz Kafka
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Man's Fate by Andre Malraux
- Journey to the End of Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
- Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier
- Froth on the Daydream by Boris Vian
- The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
- Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
- Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
- The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
- The Gulag Archipelago by Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn
- Paroles by Jacques Prevert
- Alcools by Guillaume Apollinaire
- The Blue Lotus by Herge
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi-Strauss
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
- Asterix the Gaul by Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo
- The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco
- Three Essays of the Theory of Sexuality by Sigmund Freud
- The Abyss/ Zeno of Bruges by Marguerite Yourcenar
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
- The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide
- The Horseman on the Roof by Jean Giono
- Belle du Seigneur by Albert Cohen
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- Therese Desqueyroux by Francois Mauriac
- Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau
- Confusion of Feelings by Stefan Zweig
- Gone with the Wind by Margerte Mitchell
- Lady Chatterley's Lover by D H Lawrence
- The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
- Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
- Le Silence de la Mer by Vercors
- Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec
- The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Under the Sun of Satan by Georges Bernanos
- The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
- The Joke by Milan Kundera
- Contempt/ A Ghost at Noon by Albert Moravia
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
- Nadia by Andre Bretgon
- Aurelien by Louis Aragon
- The Satin Slipper by Paul Claudel
- Six Character in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello
- The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht
- Friday by Michel Tournier
- The War of the Worlds by H G Wells
- If This Is a Man by Primo Levi
- The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien
- The Tendrils of the Vine by Colette
- Capital of Pain by Paul Eduard
- Martin Eden by Jack London
- The Ballad of the Salty Sea by Hugo Pratt
- Writing Dehree Zero by Roland Bathes
- The Lost Honour of Katherine Blum by Heinrich Boll
- The Opposing Shore by Julien Grach
- The Order of Things by Michel Foucault
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- The Wonderful Adventure of Nils by Selma Lagerlof
- A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
- The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
- The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras
- The Interrogation by J M G Le Clezio
- Tropisms by Nathalie Sarraute
- Journal 1887 - 1910 by Jules Renard
- Lord Jim by Jospeh Conrad
- Ecrits by Jacques Lacan
- The Theatre and its Double by Antonin Artaud
- Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
- Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
- Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars
- The General of the Dead Army by Ismail Kadare
- Sophie's Choice by William Styron
- Gypsy Ballads by Federico Garcia Lorca
- The Strange Case of Peter the Lett by Georges Simenon
- Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
- The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
- Furor and Mystery by Rene Char
- The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
- No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley Chase
- Blake and Mortimer by Edgar P Jacobs
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Second Thoughts by Michel Butor
- The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- The Rosy Crucifixion by Henry Miller
- The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
- Amers by Saint-John Perse
- Gaston by Andre Franquin
- Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
- Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
This blog has lots of book reviews. I read biography, history books and fiction; I sometimes read other non-fiction book genres too.
Le Monde's 100 most memorable books of the twentieth century
It's always good to see the world as others see it as Rabbie Burns might have said. French newspaper Le Monde. They developed a list of 200 titles from booksellers and journalists (no author was allowed to appear twice) and then asked 17,000 French respondents "Quels livres sont restés dans votre mémoire?" (which books have stayed in your memory?).
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