List :: 100 Books of the Century by Le Monde

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  #21

  Brave New World

  by Aldous Huxley

  (30 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 13

  664 points

  "A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories."

  

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  #22

  Nineteen Eighty-Four

  by George Orwell

  (69 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 3

  946 points

  "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

  

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  #23

  Asterix the Gaul

  by René Goscinny

  (8 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 272

  78 points

  

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  #24

  Four Plays

  by Eugene Ionesco

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 275

  77 points

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

  

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  #25

  Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality

  by Sigmund Freud

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 281

  76 points

  

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  #26

  The Abyss

  by Marguerite Yourcenar

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 284

  75 points

  

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  #27

  Lolita

  by Vladimir Nabokov

  (36 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 5

  856 points

  "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."

  

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  #28

  Ulysses

  by James Joyce

  (13 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 4

  925 points

  "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."

  

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  #29

  The Tartar Steppe

  by Dino Buzzati

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 295

  72 points

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

  

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  #30

  The Counterfeiters

  by Andre Gide

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 120

  162 points

  "The time has now come for me to hear a step in the passage," said Bernard to himself.

  

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