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Folha's 100 best novels of the XX century

Sure, you’re working on Modern Library’s top 100 novels, but how about this for an international perspective?
From Folha, a Brazilian newspaper

(found at: http://diariograsiela.wordpress.com/2007/09/24/os-100-melhores-livros-da-literatura-universal-segundo-a-folha-de-sao-paulo/)

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1. Ulysses
by James Joyce
  
2. In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Proust Complete)
by Marcel Proust
  
3. The Trial
by Franz Kafka
  
4. Doctor Faustus (Everyman's Library)
by Thomas Mann
  
5.
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 The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
by Joao Guimaraes Rosa
  
6. The Castle: A new translation based on the restored text
by Franz Kafka
  
7. The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
  
8. The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
  
9. Man Without Qualities, The
by ROBERT MUSIL
  
10. Finnegans Wake (Penguin Modern Classics)
by James Joyce
  
11. Death of Virgil
by Hermann Broch
  
12. Heart of Darkness
by Joseph, Conrad
  
13. The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Albert Camus
  
14. The Unnamable (E-1117)
by Samuel Beckett
  
15. One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
16. Brave New World (P.S.)
by Aldous Huxley
  
17. Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
  
18. To the Lighthouse (Annotated)
by Virginia Woolf
  
19. The Ambassadors
by Henry James
  
20. Zeno's Conscience: A Novel
by Italo Svevo
  
21. Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
22. Paradiso
by Jose Lezama Lima
  
23. The Leopard (Everyman's Library Classics)
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
  
24. 1984: Centennial Edition
by George Orwell
  
25.
?
 Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre
  
26. The Alexandria Quartet Boxed Set (Alexandria Quartet)
by Lawrence Durrell
  
27. The Counterfeiters: A Novel
by Andre Gide
  
28. Malone Dies
by Samuel Beckett
  
29. The Tartar Steppe
by Dino Buzzati
  
30. Lord Jim: A Tale (Penguin Classics)
by Joseph Conrad
  
31. Orlando: A Biography (Wordsworth Classics)
by Virginia Woolf
  
32. The Plague
by Albert Camus
  
33. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
34. The Tin Drum (Vintage International)
by Gunter Grass
  
35. Pedro Paramo
by Juan Rulfo
  
36. Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook)
by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
  
37. Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story Of Franz Biberkopf (Continuum Impacts)
by Alfred Doblin
  
38. Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
  
39. Molloy
by Samuel Beckett
  
40. Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine)
by Andre Malraux
  
41. Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers Series)
by Julio Cortazar
  
42. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
by James Joyce
  
43. The City and the Mountains. by EA de Queiroz
by Ea De Queir[s
  
44. That Awful Mess on Via Merulana
by Carlo Emilio Gadda
  
45. The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
  
46. Auto-da-Fe
by Elias Canetti
  
47. Under the Volcano: A Novel (P.S.)
by Malcolm Lowry
  
48. The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount
by Italo Calvino
  
49.
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 Macunaima
by Mario De Andrade
  
50. Le Grand Meaulnes (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Henri Alain-Fournier
  
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