List :: 100 Books of the Century by Le Monde

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  #61

  Martin Eden

  by Jack London

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 441

  40 points

  "The one opened the door with a latch-key and went in, followed by a young fellow who awkwardly removed his cap. He wore rough clothes that smacked of the sea, and he was manifestly out of place in..."

  

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  #62

  The Ballad of the Salt Sea

  by Hugo Pratt

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 446

  39 points

  

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  #63

  Writing Degree Zero

  by Roland Barthes

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 449

  38 points

  

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  #64

  The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

  by Heinrich Böll

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 238

  87 points

  "Für den folgenden Bericht gibt es einige Neben- und drei Hauptquellen, die hier am Anfang einmal genannt, dann aber nicht mehr erwähnt werden."

  

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  #65

  The Opposing Shore

  by Julien Gracq

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 455

  36 points

  

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  #66

  The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

  by Michel Foucault

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 456

  35 points

  

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  #67

  On the Road

  by Jack Kerouac

  (15 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 18

  543 points

  "I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up."

  

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  #68

  The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

  by Selma Lagerlöf

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 252

  83 points

  

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  #69

  A Room of One's Own

  by Virginia Woolf

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 468

  32 points

  "But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction -- what has that got to do with a room of one's own? I will try to explain."

  

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  #70

  The Martian Chronicles

  by Ray Bradbury

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 473

  31 points

  "One minute it was Ohio winter, with doors closed, windows locked, the panes blind with frost, icicles fringing every roof, children skiing on slopes, housewives lumbering like great black bears in..."

  

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