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| The Great Gatsby |
The Great Gatsby is a novel by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. The book was first published in 1925, and it has been republished in 1945 and 1953. There are two settings for the novel. The first setting is on Long Island's North Shore and the...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald | Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century | 1 | |
| The Catcher in the Rye |
The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger. Originally published for adults, it has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage confusion, angst, alienation, and rebellion. It has been translated into almost...
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J. D. Salinger | Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century | 2 | |
| The Grapes of Wrath |
The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. For it he won the annual National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for novels and it was cited prominently when he won the Nobel Prize in 1962.
Set during...
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John Steinbeck | Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century | 3 | |
| Ulysses |
Ulysses is a novel by the Irish author James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, in Paris. One of...
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James Joyce | Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century | 6 | |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four |
Nineteen Eighty-Four (first published in 1949) by George Orwell is a dystopian novel about Oceania, a society ruled by the oligarchical dictatorship of the Party. Life in the Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war, pervasive...
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George Orwell | Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century | 9 | |
| The Sound and the Fury |
The Sound and the Fury is a novel written by the American author William Faulkner. It employs a number of narrative styles, including the technique known as stream of consciousness, pioneered by 20th century European novelists such as James Joyce...
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William Faulkner | Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century | 10 | |
| Brave New World |
Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. Set in London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology and sleep-learning that combine to change society. The...
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Aldous Huxley | Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century | 16 | |
| Gone with the Wind |
Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936, is a romance novel written by Margaret Mitchell, who received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the book in 1937. The story is set in Clayton County, Georgia and Atlanta during the American Civil War and...
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Margaret Mitchell | Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century | 26 | |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls |
For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to a republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As a dynamiter, he is...
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Ernest Hemingway | Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century | 30 | |
| On the Road |
On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, written in April 1951, and published by Viking Press in 1957. It is a largely autobiographical work based on the spontaneous cross-country adventures of Kerouac and his friends during the...
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Jack Kerouac | Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century | 31 | |
| The Lord of the Rings |
The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by English philologist and University of Oxford professor J.R.R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier, less complex children's fantasy novel The Hobbit (1937), but...
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J. R. R. Tolkien | Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century | 40 | |
| Sophie's Choice |
Sophie's Choice is a novel by American author William Styron, that was published in 1979. It concerns a young American Southerner, an aspiring writer, who befriends the Jewish Nathan Landau and his beautiful lover Sophie, a Polish (but non-Jewish)...
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William Styron | Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century | 57 | |
| The War of the Worlds |
The War of the Worlds (1898), a science fiction novel by Herbert George Wells, is the first-person narrative of an unnamed protagonist's adventures in London and the countryside southwest of London as Earth is invaded by Martians. Written in 1895...
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H. G. Wells | Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century | 85 | |
| Lord Jim |
Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900.
An early and primary event is Jim's abandonment of a ship in distress on which he is serving as a mate. He is publicly...
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Joseph Conrad | Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century | 86 | |
| Midnight's Children |
Midnight's Children is a 1981 book by Salman Rushdie that deals with India's transition from British colonialism to independence and the partition of India. It is considered an example of postcolonial literature and magical realism. The story is...
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Salman Rushdie | Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century | 100 | |
| Lolita |
Lolita is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, written in English and published in 1955 in Paris and 1958 in New York. It was later translated by its Russian-native author into Russian. The novel is notable for its controversial subject: the protagonist and...
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov | Playboy's 25 Sexiest Novels Ever Written | 11 | |
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| Lady Chatterley's Lover | D. H. Lawrence | Playboy's 25 Sexiest Novels Ever Written | 48 | ||
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| Tropic of Cancer |
Tropic of Cancer is a novel by Henry Miller which has been described as "notorious for its candid sexuality" and as responsible for the "free speech that we now take for granted in literature." It was first published in 1934 by the Obelisk Press in...
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Henry Miller | Playboy's 25 Sexiest Novels Ever Written | 84 | |
| To Kill a Mockingbird |
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author's...
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Harper Lee | 4 | ||
| The Color Purple |
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name.
Taking place mostly in...
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Alice Walker | 5 | ||
| Beloved |
Beloved is a novel by the American writer Toni Morrison, published in 1987. Set during 1873 soon after the American Civil War (1861–1865), it is based on the true story of the African-American slave, Margaret Garner, who temporarily escaped slavery...
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Toni Morrison | 7 | ||
| Lord of the Flies |
Lord of the Flies is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding about a group of British boys stuck on a deserted island who try to govern themselves, with disastrous results. Its stances on the already-controversial subjects of human...
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William Golding | 8 | ||
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| Of Mice and Men |
Of Mice and Men is a novella written by Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937, it tells the tragic story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers during the Great Depression in California, USA....
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John Steinbeck | 12 | ||
| Charlotte's Web |
Charlotte's Web is a children's novel by American author E. B. White, about a pig named Wilbur who is saved from being slaughtered by an intelligent spider named Charlotte. The book was first published in 1952, with illustrations by Garth Williams....
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E. B. White | 13 | ||
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce, first serialised in the magazine The Egoist from 1914 to 1915, and published first in book format in 1916 by B. W. Huebsch, New York. The first English edition...
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James Joyce | 14 | ||
| Catch-22 |
Catch-22 is a satirical and historical novel by the American author Joseph Heller. He began writing it in 1953, and the novel was first published in 1961. It is set during World War II in 1943 and is frequently cited as one of the great literary...
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Joseph Heller | 15 | ||
| Animal Farm |
Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before the Second World War. Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a...
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George Orwell | 17 | ||
| The Sun Also Rises |
The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel written by American author Ernest Hemingway about a group of American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. An...
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Ernest Hemingway | 18 | ||
| As I Lay Dying |
As I Lay Dying is a novel by the American author William Faulkner. He claimed to have written the novel in six weeks and that he did not change a word of it. Faulkner wrote it while working at a power plant, published in 1930, and described it as a ...
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William Faulkner | 19 | ||
| A Farewell to Arms |
A Farewell to Arms is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Ernest Hemingway concerning events during the Italian campaigns during the First World War. The book, which was first published in 1929, is a first-person account of American Frederic...
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Ernest Hemingway | 20 | ||
| Heart of Darkness |
Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the "100 best novels" and...
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Joseph Conrad | 21 | ||
| Winnie-the-Pooh |
Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) is the first volume of stories about Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne. It is followed by The House at Pooh Corner. The book focuses on the adventures of a teddy bear called Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends Piglet, a small toy...
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A. A. Milne | 22 | ||
| Their Eyes Were Watching God |
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a 1937 novel and the best-known work by African American writer Zora Neale Hurston. The novel narrates main character Janie Crawford's "ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger...
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Zora Neale Hurston | 23 | ||
| Invisible Man |
Invisible Man is a 1952 novel written by Ralph Ellison. It addresses many of the social and intellectual issues facing African-Americans early in the twentieth century, including black nationalism, the relationship between black identity and Marxism...
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Ralph Ellison | 24 | ||
| Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison | 25 | |||
| Native Son |
Native Son (1940) is a novel by American author Richard Wright. The novel tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, an African American living in utter poverty. Bigger lived in Chicago's South Side ghetto in the 1930s. The novel's treatment of...
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Richard Wright | 27 | ||
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) is a novel written by Ken Kesey. Set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, the narrative serves as a study of the institutional process and the human mind as well as a critique of Behaviorism and a celebration of...
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Ken Kesey | 28 | ||
| Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | 29 | |||
| The Old Man and the Sea |
The Old Man and the Sea is a novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. One of his most famous works,...
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Ernest Hemingway | 32 | ||
| The Call of the Wild |
The Call of the Wild is a novella by American author Jack London published in 1903. The story takes place in the extreme conditions of the Yukon during the 19th-century Klondike Gold Rush, where strong sled dogs were in high demand. After Buck, a...
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Jack London | 33 | ||
| To the Lighthouse |
To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. A landmark novel of high modernism, the text, which centres on the Ramsays and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920, skilfully manipulates temporal and psychological...
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Virginia Woolf | 34 | ||
| The Portrait of a Lady |
The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880–81 and then as a book in 1881. It is one of James's most popular long novels, and is regarded by critics as one of...
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Henry James | 35 | ||
| Go Tell It on the Mountain |
Go Tell It on the Mountain is a 1953 semi-autobiographical novel by James Baldwin. The novel examines the role of the Christian Church in the lives of African-Americans, both as a source of repression and moral hypocrisy and as a source of...
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James Baldwin | 36 | ||
| The World According to Garp | John Irving | 37 | |||
| All the King's Men |
All the King's Men is a novel by Robert Penn Warren first published in 1946. Its title is drawn from the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. In 1947 Warren won the Pulitzer Prize for All the King's Men.
It was adapted for film in 1949 and 2006; the 1949...
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Robert Penn Warren | 38 | ||
| A Room with a View |
A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edwardian England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the...
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E. M. Forster | 39 | ||
| Schindler's Ark | Thomas Keneally | 41 | |||
| The Age of Innocence |
The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's 12th novel, published in 1920, which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize. The story is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s. In 1920, The Age of Innocence was serialized in four parts in the Pictorial Review...
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Edith Wharton | 42 | ||
| The Fountainhead |
The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Ayn Rand. It was Rand's first major literary success and brought her fame and financial success. More than 6.5 million copies of the book have been sold worldwide.
The Fountainhead's protagonist, Howard Roark, is...
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Ayn Rand | 43 | ||
| Finnegans Wake | James Joyce | 44 | |||
| The Jungle |
The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by journalist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel with the intention of portraying the life of the immigrant in the United States, but readers were more concerned with the large portion of the book pertaining...
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Upton Sinclair, Jr. | 45 | ||
| Mrs Dalloway |
Mrs Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. It is one of Woolf's best-known novels.
Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond...
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Virginia Woolf | 46 | ||
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. Originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900, it has since been reprinted numerous times, most often under...
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L. Frank Baum | 47 | ||
| A Clockwork Orange |
A Clockwork Orange is a 1962 dystopian novella by Anthony Burgess. The novel contains an experiment in language: the characters often use an argot called "Nadsat", derived from Russian. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked A Clockwork Orange 65th on...
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Anthony Burgess | 49 | ||
| The Awakening |
The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899 (see 1899 in literature). Set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century, the plot centers around Edna Pontellier and her struggle to...
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Kate Chopin | 50 | ||
| My Ántonia | Willa Cather | 51 | |||
| Howards End |
Howards End is a novel by E. M. Forster, first published in 1910, which tells a story of social and familial relations in turn-of-the-century England. The main subject matter comprises the difficulties and benefits of relationships between people of...
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E. M. Forster | 52 | ||
| In Cold Blood |
In Cold Blood is a 1966 book by American author Truman Capote detailing the brutal 1959 murders of Herbert Clutter, a successful farmer from Holcomb, Kansas, his wife, and two of their four children. When Capote learned of the quadruple murder,...
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Truman Capote | 53 | ||
| Franny and Zooey |
Franny and Zooey is a book by American author J.D. Salinger which comprises his short story "Franny" and novella Zooey. The two works were published together as a book in 1961; the two stories originally appeared in The New Yorker in 1955 and 1957,...
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J. D. Salinger | 54 | ||
| The Satanic Verses |
The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie's fourth novel, first published in 1988 and inspired in part by the life of Muhammad. As with his previous books, Rushdie used magical realism and relied on contemporary events and people to create his characters...
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Salman Rushdie | 55 | ||
