List :: 100 Books of the Century by Le Monde

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  #11

  The Second Sex

  by Simone de Beauvoir

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 229

  90 points

  "Woman?"

  

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  #12

  Waiting for Godot

  by Samuel Beckett

  (11 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 138

  139 points

  "Estragon, sitting on a low mound, is trying to take off his boot. He pulls at it with both hands, panting. He gives up, exhausted, rests, tries again. As before. Enter Vladimir ESTRAGON: (giving up..."

  

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  #13

  Being and Nothingness

  by Jean-Paul Sartre

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 140

  138 points

  "Modern thought has realized considerable progress by reducing the existent to the series of appearances which manifest it."

  

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  #14

  The Name of the Rose

  by Umberto Eco

  (12 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 116

  166 points

  "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

  

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  #15

  The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

  by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 143

  136 points

  "How do people get to this clandestine Archipelago?"

  

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  #16

  Paroles

  by Jacques Prévert

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 247

  85 points

  

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  #17

  Alcools

  by Guillaume Apollinaire

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 249

  84 points

  

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  #18

  The Blue Lotus

  by Hergé

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 253

  83 points

  

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  #19

  The Diary of a Young Girl

  by Anne Frank

  (19 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 97

  193 points

  "On Friday, 12th June, I woke up at six o' clock and no wonder; it was my birthday"

  

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  #20

  Tristes Tropiques

  by Claude Lévi-Strauss

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 261

  81 points

  "I hate travelling and explorers.Je hais les voyages et les explorateurs."

  

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