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Le Monde's Top 200 Books of the XX century

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1. Dialectic of Enlightenment (Verso Classics)
by Theodor W. Adorno
  
2. Le Grand Meaulnes (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Henri Alain-Fournier
  
3. The Human Race
by Robert Antelme
  
4. Alcools
by Guillaume Apollinaire
  
5. Aurelien
by Aragon
  
6. The Origins of Totalitarianism: Introduction by Samantha Power
by Hannah Arendt
  
7. The Hour of Our Death (Vintage)
by Philippe Aries
  
8. The Theatre and Its Double (Calderbook)
by Antonin Artaud
  
9. The Foundation Trilogy
by ISAAC ASIMOV
  
10. Amkoullel, l'enfant Peul
by Amadou Hampate Ba
  
11.
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 Writing Degree Zero
by Roland Barthes
  
12. Blue of Noon
by Georges Bataille
  
13. The Second Sex
by Simone De Beauvoir
  
14. Waiting for Godot: A Bilingual Edition: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
by Samuel Beckett
  
15.
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 Problems in General Linguistics
by Emile Benveniste
  
16. Under Satan's Sun/Sous Le Soleil De Satan
by Georges Bernanos
  
17. Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Friendship (Phoenix Fiction Series)
by Thomas Bernhard
  
18. The Hunting Party
by Pierre Christin
  
19.
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 Thomas the Obscure
by Maurice Blanchot
  
20. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum : Or How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
by Heinrich Böll
  
21. Ficciones (English Translation)
by Jorge Luis Borges
  
22. The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
  
23.
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 The Inheritors: French Students and Their Relations to Culture
by Pierre Bourdieu
  
24. The Martian Chronicles
by Ray Bradbury
  
25. The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
by Bertolt Brecht
  
26. Nadja
by Andre Breton
  
27. The Sleepwalkers
by Hermann Broch
  
28. Naked Lunch
by William S. Burroughs
  
29.
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 A change of heart
by Michel Butor
  
30. The Tartar Steppe
by Dino Buzzati
  
31. The Baron in the Trees
by Italo Calvino
  
32. La Bête est morte ! : La Guerre mondiale chez les animaux
by Calvo
  
33. The Stranger
by Albert Camus
  
34. The Normal and the Pathological
by Georges Canguilhem
  
35. In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
  
36. Explosion in a Cathedral
by Alejo Carpentier
  
37. The Philosophy of the Enlightenment
by Ernst Cassirer
  
38. Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook)
by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
  
39. Moravagine (New York Review Books Classics)
by Blaise Cendrars
  
40. Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry)
by Aime Cesaire
  
41. The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
  
42.
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 Fureur et Mystere
by Rene Char
  
43. No Orchids for Miss Blandish
by James Hadley Chase
  
44. Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
by Agatha Christie
  
45.
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 The Satin Slipper: The Worst Is Not the Surest
by Paul Claudel
  
46. Belle du Seigneur (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
by Albert Cohen
  
47. Sido (Le Livre De Poche)
by Colette
  
48. The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  
49. Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
  
50. Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers Series)
by Julio Cortazar
  
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