The Stranger

1 Albert Camus 1942 French

The Outsider
In Search of Lost Time
2 Marcel Proust 1913–27 French
Remembrance of Things Past
3 The Trial Franz Kafka 1925 German
8 For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway 1940 English
11 The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir 1949 French
13 Being and Nothingness Jean-Paul Sartre 1943 French
14 The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco 1980 Italian
15 The Gulag Archipelago Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1973 Russian
20 Tristes Tropiques Claude Lévi-Strauss 1955 French
21 Brave New World Aldous Huxley 1932 English
22 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell 1949 English
25 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality Sigmund Freud 1905 German
The Abyss
26 Marguerite Yourcenar 1968 French
Zeno of Bruges
27 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 1955 English
28 Ulysses James Joyce 1922 English
29 The Tartar Steppe Dino Buzzati 1940 Italian
33 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez 1967 Spanish
40 The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann 1924 German
41 Bonjour Tristesse Françoise Sagan 1954 French
43 Life: A User's Manual Georges Perec 1978 French
47 The Joke Milan Kundera 1967 Czech
48 Contempt/A Ghost at Noon Alberto Moravia 1954 Italian
49 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie 1926 English
50 Nadja André Breton 1928 French
53 Six Characters in Search of an Author Luigi Pirandello 1921 Italian
54 The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Bertolt Brecht 1941 German
56 The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1898 English
58 The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 1954–55 English
62 Ballad of the Salt Sea Hugo Pratt 1967 Italian
63 Writing Degree Zero Roland Barthes 1953 French
64 The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum Heinrich Böll 1974 German
66 The Order of Things Michel Foucault 1966 French
67 On the Road Jack Kerouac 1957 English
68 The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Selma Lagerlöf 1906–07 Swedish
69 A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf 1929 English
76 Écrits Jacques Lacan 1966 French
77 The Theatre and its Double Antonin Artaud 1938 French
79 Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges 1944 Spanish
81 The General of the Dead Army Ismail Kadare 1963 Albanian
83 Gypsy Ballads Federico García Lorca 1928 Spanish
84 The Strange Case of Peter the Lett Georges Simenon 1931 French
86 The Man Without Qualities Robert Musil 1930–42 German
88 The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger 1951 English
94 The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 1967 Russian