Pour une Bibliotheque Ideale
In the early 1950s Raymond Queneau asked several dozen French (or living in France) authors and critics to list the hundred books they would choose if they had to limit themselves to that number. He reproduced all their responses in the book Pour une Bibliothèque Idéale (Gallimard, 1956), along with the overall top 100 list reproduced bellow.
The list of respondents can be seen at
http://web.archive.org/web/20010223073820/w3.tvi.cc.nm.us/~rswigg/BIAuthorsPolled.html
I’m not sure if all of them have a list in the book, or just an answer explaining why they did not vote.
On the above page you can also find a link to Queneau’s own list.
Two more individual lists from the book are also online
Henry Miller’s:
http://web.archive.org/web/20001021225726/literarycritic.com/miller.htm
and Marianne Moore’s:
http://web.archive.org/web/20001022025805/literarycritic.com/moore1.htm
Other famous names include Jean Anouilh, Andre Breton, Paul Claudel (the only one who had a book included in the overall top 100), Jean Cocteau, Paul Eluard, and Georges Simenon.
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Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Wordsworth Royals Series) (Wordsworth Royals Series)by William Shakespeare
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