List :: 100 Books of the Century by Le Monde

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  #41

  Bonjour Tristesse

  by Françoise Sagan

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 355

  60 points

  "A strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sadness."

  

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  #42

  Le Silence de La Mer

  by Vercors

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 359

  59 points

  

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  #43

  Life

  by Georges Perec

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 152

  130 points

  " PreambleTo begin with, the art of jigsaw puzzles seems of little substance....PART ONE, CHAPTER ONEYes, it could begin this way, right here, just like that, in a rather slow and ponderous way, in..."

  

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  #44

  The Hound of the Baskervilles

  by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  (17 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 166

  119 points

  "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and..."

  

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  #45

  Under Satan's Sun

  by Georges Bernanos

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 371

  56 points

  

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  #46

  The Great Gatsby

  by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  (97 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 1

  994 points

  "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."

  

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  #47

  The Joke

  by Milan Kundera

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 381

  54 points

  "So here I was, home again after all those years. Standing in the main square (which I had crossed countless times as a child, as a boy, as a young man), I felt no emotion whatsoever; all I could..."

  

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  #48

  Contempt

  by Alberto Moravia

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 384

  53 points

  "During the first two years of our married life my relations with my wife were, I can now assert, perfect."

  

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  #49

  The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

  by Agatha Christie

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 393

  52 points

  "Mrs Ferrars died on the night of the 16th-17th September—a Thursday."

  

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  #50

  Nadja

  by André Breton

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 395

  51 points

  "Who am I?"

  

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