Lists of Bests: Le Monde's Top 200 Books of the XX century http://www.listsofbests.com/list/59726 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:30:57 GMT en-us 0 50 200 50 0 Dialectic of Enlightenment (Verso Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5290273 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5290273"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31KG87X5RTL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theodor W. Adorno</div> Le Grand Meaulnes (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/696077 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/696077"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182725.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henri Alain-Fournier</div> The Human Race http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/84705 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/84705"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0810160617.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114550309_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Antelme</div> Alcools http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5276629 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5276629"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Xz0feN5EL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Guillaume Apollinaire</div> Aurelien http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5280057 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5280057"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VB2Z8MCCL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aragon</div> The Origins of Totalitarianism: Introduction by Samantha Power http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/354163 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/354163"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805242252.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hannah Arendt</div> The Hour of Our Death (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4952512 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4952512"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DAy1saokL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philippe Aries</div> The Theatre and Its Double (Calderbook) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/584290 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/584290"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0714542342.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056469844_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Antonin Artaud</div> The Foundation Trilogy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/95449 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/95449"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0380508567.01-A251OCPEA3DDRH._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by ISAAC ASIMOV</div> Amkoullel, l'enfant Peul http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1744452 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1744452"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/229030641X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1071201084_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amadou Hampate Ba</div> Writing Degree Zero http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4788261 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roland Barthes</div> Blue of Noon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/186656 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/186656"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0714530735.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Georges Bataille</div> The Second Sex http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2763091 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2763091"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000NIKF0E.01-A2BEAAEKVZ1HHQ._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44142868_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simone De Beauvoir</div> Waiting for Godot: A Bilingual Edition: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/428498 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/428498"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802118216.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Beckett</div> Problems in General Linguistics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5280059 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emile Benveniste</div> Under Satan's Sun/Sous Le Soleil De Satan http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/695192 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/695192"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0803261802.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Georges Bernanos</div> Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Friendship (Phoenix Fiction Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/577124 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/577124"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226043924.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Bernhard</div> The Hunting Party http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/245394 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/245394"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0967240174.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pierre Christin</div> Thomas the Obscure http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2857659 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maurice Blanchot</div> The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum : Or How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2798 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2798"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140187286.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Heinrich Böll</div> Ficciones (English Translation) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24040 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24040"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802130305.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056491821_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jorge Luis Borges</div> The Master and Margarita http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1016046 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1016046"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1411683056.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mikhail Bulgakov</div> The Inheritors: French Students and Their Relations to Culture http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/622192 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pierre Bourdieu</div> The Martian Chronicles http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9893 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9893"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0380973839.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V40765206_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ray Bradbury</div> The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/348979 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/348979"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1559705434.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056517070_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bertolt Brecht</div> Nadja http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24188 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24188"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802150268.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andre Breton</div> The Sleepwalkers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/919347 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/919347"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679764062.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hermann Broch</div> Naked Lunch http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1543158 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1543158"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000G2SXYC.01-A34BGT9FQIAQY3._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44591493_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William S. Burroughs</div> A change of heart http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5292312 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michel Butor</div> The Tartar Steppe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/735106 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/735106"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1567923046.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dino Buzzati</div> The Baron in the Trees http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4083 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4083"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156106809.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Italo Calvino</div> La Bête est morte ! : La Guerre mondiale chez les animaux http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5280074 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5280074"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5109M63MJWL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Calvo</div> The Stranger http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2639472 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2639472"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1406711284.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> The Normal and the Pathological http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5280078 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5280078"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51F0D8AYEPL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Georges Canguilhem</div> In Cold Blood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/325297 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/325297"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375507906.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438385_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Truman Capote</div> Explosion in a Cathedral http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/209042 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/209042"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/081663808X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alejo Carpentier</div> The Philosophy of the Enlightenment http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2182120 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2182120"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0691019630.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45092825_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernst Cassirer</div> Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107802 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107802"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811216543.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louis-Ferdinand Celine</div> Moravagine (New York Review Books Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69737 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69737"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590170636.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V64034289_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Blaise Cendrars</div> Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94395 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94395"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0819564524.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aime Cesaire</div> The Big Sleep http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11237 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11237"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394758285.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122538385_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Chandler</div> Fureur et Mystere http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5280123 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rene Char</div> No Orchids for Miss Blandish http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2414096 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2414096"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000IPYIVY.01-A34OFMG1ZO6MU6._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Hadley Chase</div> Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1160057 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1160057"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1579126278.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Agatha Christie</div> The Satin Slipper: The Worst Is Not the Surest http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66857 <div id="position">45</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Claudel</div> Belle du Seigneur (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5301742 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5301742"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MMGT50H5L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Cohen</div> Sido (Le Livre De Poche) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/990564 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/990564"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/2253005231.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056548698_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colette</div> The Hound of the Baskervilles http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/787921 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/787921"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0763630640.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</div> Lord Jim http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2656785 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2656785"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0786157887.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44258031_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11221 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11221"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394752848.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julio Cortazar</div>