List: 100 Books of the Century by Le Monde

Tristes Tropiques

Claude Lévi-Strauss

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

Asterix the Gaul

René Goscinny

Four Plays

Eugene Ionesco

The Bald Soprano: Anti-play Scene: A middle class English interior, with English armchairs.

Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality

Sigmund Freud

The Abyss

Marguerite Yourcenar

The Tartar Steppe

Dino Buzzati

One September morning, Giovanni Drogo, being newly commissioned, set out from the city for Fort Bastiani; it was his first posting.

The Horseman on the Roof

Jean Giono

Belle Du Seigneur

Albert Cohen

Thérèse Desqueyroux

François Mauriac

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palette to tap, at three, on the teeth.