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This book is on the following 52 lists:

• 1st on Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century (Le Monde)
• 2nd on The 500 best books of all time from Culture Café users (Culture Café)
• 3rd on The 50 best French language books from 1900 to today (Le Temps)
• 4th on Top 100 World Literature Titles (Perfection Learning)
• 6th on 100 Best Novels, in Translation, Since 1900 (CounterPunch)
• 7th on The 101 Favorite Novels of 'Le Monde' Readers (Le Monde)
• 13th on The 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century (Folha de São Paulo)
• 20th on 'The perfect library': the 196 books selected by 133 personalities (XLSemanal and Zenda)
• 20th on Waterstone's Books of the Century (LibraryThing)
• 22nd on 50 Books to Read Before You Die (Complex)
• 25th on Our Users' Top 100 Favorite Books of All Time (The Greatest Books Users)
• 26th on 100 Essential Books (Bravo! Magazine)
• 30th on The Books That Built The French (TNS-Sofres/SNCF–Lire)
• 32nd on TrueLit's Top 100 Favorite Books (2023) (/r/TrueLit)
• 47th on El Pais Favorite Books of 100 Spanish Authors (El Pais)
• 49th on The Top 10: The Greatest Books of All Time (The Top 10 (Book))
• 57th on The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time (The Novel 100)
• 63rd on Harvard Book Store Staff's Favorite 100 Books (Harvard Book Store)
• 68th on The Complete 500: OCLC (OCLC)
• 80th on The Greatest Books of All Time (Reader's Digest)
• 82nd on The Telegraph’s 100 Novels Everyone Should Read (Telegraph)
• 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read (The Guardian)
• 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (The Book)
• 100 Books, 100 Companions (Zeit Online)
• 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (Amazon.com (USA))
• 100 Most Influential Books of the Century (Boston Public Library)
• 200 Books That Shaped 200 Years of Literature (The Center for Fiction)
• 222 Best Books of All Time That Deserve a Spot on Your Bookshelf, With Picks from Bestselling Authors and Indie Booksellers (Parade)
• 50 Best Cult Books (Telegraph)
• 50 Books to Read Before You Die (Barnes and Noble)
• Best Books Ever (Book Depository)
• Books that Shaped the Century (LOGOS 20th Century Books Project)
• For The Love of Books (For The Love of Books)
• Harold Bloom's The Western Canon (The Western Canon (Book) by Harold Bloom)
• Select 100 (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
• The 100 Best Books in the World (AbeBooks.de (in German))
• The 100 Novels You Must Read in Your Lifetime (Esquire)
• The Best Classics (The Times)
• The Bigger Read List (English PEN)
• The Booklist Century: 100 Books, 100 Years (BookList)
• The Book of Great Books: A Guide to 100 World Classics (Book)
• The Books You've Always Meant to Read (Waterstones)
• The College Board: 101 Great Books Recommended for College-Bound Readers (The College Board, an American not-for-profit organization)
• The Graphic Canon (Book)
• The Hundred Most Influential Books Since The War (WW2) (Central and East European Publishing Project)
• The New Lifetime Reading Plan (The New Lifetime Reading Plan)
• The New York Public Library's Books of the Century (New York Public Library)
• The Well-Educated Mind (Book)
• Top 100 Works in World Literature (Norwegian Book Clubs, with the Norwegian Nobel Institute)
• Världsbiblioteket (The World Library) (Tidningen Boken)
• What Harvard Professors Think Greatest Books Ever: Top 20 List (1977) (The Boston Globe (Newspaper))
• ZEIT-Bibliothek der 100 Bücher (Die Zeit)