De første 50 værker på listen blev kommenteret i et essay af [[Frédéric Beigbeder]], ''[[Dernier inventaire avant liquidation]]'', hvor han fokuserede på den franske dominans, som prægede listen.
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== Det 20. århundredes 100 bøger ==
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! scope=col | nr.
! scope=col class="unsortable" | Titel
! scope=col class="unsortable" | Forfatter
! scope=col | År
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 1
| ''[[Den fremmede (roman)|Den fremmede]]''
| [[Albert Camus]] [[Fil:Nobel prize medal mod.png|20px]]
| [[1942]]
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| align="right" | 2
| ''[[På sporet af den tabte tid]]''
| [[Marcel Proust]]
| [[1913]]–[[1927]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 3
| ''[[Processen (roman)|Processen]]''
| [[Franz Kafka]]
| [[1925]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 4
| ''[[Den lille Prins]]''
| [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]]
| [[1943]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 5
| ''[[Menneskets lod]]''
| [[André Malraux]]
| [[1933]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 6
| ''[[Rejse til nattens ende]]''
| [[Louis-Ferdinand Céline]]
| [[1932]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 7
| ''[[Vredens druer]]''
| [[John Steinbeck]] [[Fil:Nobel prize medal mod.png|20px]]
| [[1939]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 8
| ''[[Hvem ringer klokkerne for]]''
| [[Ernest Hemingway]] [[Fil:Nobel prize medal mod.png|20px]]
| [[1940]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 9
| ''[[Den store Meaulnes]]'' {{no sprog}}
| [[Alain-Fournier]]
| [[1913]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 10
| ''[[Dagenes skum]]'' 
| [[Boris Vian]]
| [[1947]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 11
| ''[[Det andet køn]]'' 
| [[Simone de Beauvoir]]
| [[1949]]
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| align="right" | 12
| ''[[Mens vi venter på Godot]]''
| [[Samuel Beckett]] [[Fil:Nobel prize medal mod.png|20px]]
| [[1952]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 13
| ''[[Væren og intet]]'' {{no sprog}}
| [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Fil:Nobel prize medal mod.png|15px]]]
| [[1943]]
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| align="right" | 14
| ''[[Rosens navn]]''
| [[Umberto Eco]]
| [[1980]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 15
| ''[[GULAG øhavet]]''
| [[Aleksandr Solsjenitsyn]] [[Fil:Nobel prize medal mod.png|20px]]
| [[1973]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 16
| ''[[Paroles]]'' {{fr sprog}}
| [[Jacques Prévert]]
| [[1946]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 17
| ''[[Alcools]]'' {{fr sprog}}
| [[Guillaume Apollinaire]]
| [[1913]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 18
| ''[[Den Blå Lotus]]''
| [[Hergé]]
| [[1936]]
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| align="right" | 19
| ''[[Anne Franks dagbog]]''
| [[Anne Frank]]
| [[1947]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 20
| ''[[Tropisk elegi]]'' {{no sprog}}
| [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]]
| [[1955]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 21
| ''[[Fagre nye verden]]''
| [[Aldous Huxley]]
| [[1932]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 22
| ''[[1984 (roman)|1984]]''
| [[George Orwell]]
| [[1949]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 23
| ''[[Asterix og hans gæve gallere (tegneserie)|Asterix og hans gæve gallere]]''
| [[René Goscinny]] og [[Albert Uderzo]]
| [[1959]]
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| align="right" | 24
| ''[[Den skallede sangerinnen]]'' {{no sprog}}
| [[Eugène Ionesco]]
| [[1952]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 25
| ''[[Seksualteorien]]'' {{no sprog}}
| [[Sigmund Freud]]
| [[1905]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 26
| ''[[Det svarte verk]]'' {{no sprog}}
| [[Marguerite Yourcenar]]
| [[1968]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 27
| ''[[Lolita]]''
| [[Vladimir Nabokov]]
| [[1955]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 28
| ''[[Ulysses (roman)|Ulysses]]''
| [[James Joyce]]
| [[1922]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 29
| ''[[Tartarenes ørken]]'' {{no sprog}}
| [[Dino Buzzati]]
| [[1940]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 30
| ''[[Les Faux-monnayeurs]]'' {{fr sprog}}
| [[André Gide]] [[Fil:Nobel prize medal mod.png|20px]]
| [[1925]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 31
| ''[[Le Hussard sur le toit]]'' {{fr sprog}} ([[Husaren på taget|film]])
| [[Jean Giono]]
| [[1951]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 32
| ''[[Belle du Seigneur]]'' {{fr sprog}}
| [[Albert Cohen]]
| [[1968]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 33
| ''[[Hundrede års ensomhed]]''
| [[Gabriel García Márquez]] [[Fil:Nobel prize medal mod.png|20px]]
| [[1967]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 34
| ''[[Brølet og vreden]]''
| [[William Faulkner]] [[Fil:Nobel prize medal mod.png|20px]]
| [[1929]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 35
| ''[[Thérèse Desqueyroux]]'' {{no sprog}}{{en sprog}}{{fr sprog}}
| [[François Mauriac]] [[Fil:Nobel prize medal mod.png|20px]]
| [[1927]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 36
| ''[[Zazie på metroen]]'' {{no sprog}}
| [[Raymond Queneau]]
| [[1959]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 37
| ''[[Følelsernes vildveje]]''
| [[Stefan Zweig]]
| [[1927]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 38
| ''[[Borte med blæsten]]''
| [[Margaret Mitchell]]
| [[1936]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 39
| ''[[Lady Chatterleys Elsker]]''
| [[D.H. Lawrence]]
| [[1928]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 40
| ''[[Trolddomsbjerget]]''
| [[Thomas Mann]] [[Fil:Nobel prize medal mod.png|20px]]
| [[1924]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 41
| ''[[Ett moln på min himmel]]'' {{sv sprog}}<br />''Bonjour tristesse'' {{fr sprog}}
| [[Françoise Sagan]]
| [[1954]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 42
| ''[[Le Silence de la mer]]'' {{fr sprog}}
| [[Vercors]]
| [[1942]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 43
| ''[[Livet - en brugsanvisning]]''
| [[Georges Perec]]
| [[1978]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 44
| ''[[Baskervilles Hund]]''
| [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]
| [[1901]]–[[1902]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 45
| ''[[Under djävulens färla]]'' {{sv sprog}}
| [[Georges Bernanos]]
| [[1926]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 46
| ''[[Den store Gatsby]]''
| [[Francis Scott Fitzgerald|F. Scott Fitzgerald]]
| [[1925]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 47
| ''[[En spøg]]''
| [[Milan Kundera]]
| [[1967]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 48
| ''[[Föraktet]]'' {{sv sprog}}
| [[Alberto Moravia]]
| [[1954]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 49
| ''[[Hvem dræbte?]]''
| [[Agatha Christie]]
| [[1926]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 50
| ''[[Nadja]]'' {{fr sprog}}{{sv sprog}}
| [[André Breton]]
| [[1928]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 51
| ''[[Aurelien]]'' {{no sprog}}
| [[Louis Aragon]]
| [[1944]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 52
| ''[[Le Soulier de Satin]]'' {{fr sprog}}<br />''Sidenskon'' {{sv sprog}}
| [[Paul Claudel]]
| [[1929]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 53
| ''[[Seks personer søker en forfatter]]'' {{no sprog}}
| [[Luigi Pirandello]] [[Fil:Nobel prize medal mod.png|20px]]
| [[1921]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 54
| ''[[The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui]]'' {{en sprog}}
| [[Bertolt Brecht]]
| [[1959]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 55
| ''[[Fredag eller den andra ön]]'' {{sv sprog}}<br />''Vendredi ou la Vie sauvage'' {{fr sprog}}
| [[Michel Tournier]]
| [[1967]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 56
| ''[[War of the Worlds|Klodernes kamp]]''
| [[H.G. Wells]]
| [[1898]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 57
| ''[[Hvis dette er et menneske]]''
| [[Primo Levi (forfatter)|Primo Levi]]
| [[1947]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 58
| ''[[Ringenes Herre]]''
| [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]
| [[1954]]–[[1955]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 59
| ''[[Les Vrilles de la vigne]]'' {{fr sprog}}
| [[Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette]]
| [[1908]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 60
| ''[[Smärtans huvudstad]]'' {{sv sprog}}
| [[Paul Éluard]]
| [[1926]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 61
| ''[[Martin Eden]]'' {{en sprog}}{{no sprog}}
| [[Jack London]]
| [[1909]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 62
| ''[[Balladen om det salte hav]]''
| [[Hugo Pratt]]
| [[1967]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 63
| ''[[Litteraturens nullpunkt]]'' {{no sprog}}
| [[Roland Barthes]]
| [[1953]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 64
| ''[[Katharina Blums tabte ære]]''
| [[Heinrich Böll]] [[Fil:Nobel prize medal mod.png|20px]]
| [[1974]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 65
| ''[[Vid Syrterns stränder]]'' {{sv sprog}}
| [[Julien Gracq]]
| [[1951]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 66
| ''[[Ordene og tingene]]''
| [[Michel Foucault]]
| [[1966]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 67
| ''[[On the Road (roman)|Vejene]]''
| [[Jack Kerouac]]
| [[1957]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 68 
| ''[[Nils Holgersens forunderlige rejse gennem Sverige]]''
| [[Selma Lagerlöf]] [[Fil:Nobel prize medal mod.png|20px]]
| [[1906]]–[[1907]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 69
| ''[[Et eget rom]]''
| [[Virginia Woolf]]
| [[1929]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 70
| ''[[Krøniker fra Mars]]''
| [[Ray Bradbury]]
| [[1950]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 71
| ''[[Lol V. Steins hänförelse]]'' {{sv sprog}}
| [[Marguerite Duras]]
| [[1964]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 72
| ''[[Rapport om Adam]]''
| [[Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio]] [[Fil:Nobel prize medal mod.png|20px]]
| [[1963]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 73
| ''[[Tropismer]]'' {{no sprog}}
| [[Nathalie Sarraute]]
| [[1939]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 74
| ''[[Journal, 1887–1910]]'' {{fr sprog}}{{en sprog}}
| [[Jules Renard]]
| [[1925]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 75
| ''[[Lord Jim]]''<br />''Forlis''
| [[Joseph Conrad]]
| [[1900]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 76
| ''[[Écrits]]'' {{fr sprog}}
| [[Jacques Lacan]]
| [[1966]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 77
| ''[[Det Dobbelte Teater]]''
| [[Antonin Artaud]]
| [[1938]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 78
| ''[[Manhattan Transfer]]'' {{en sprog}}
| [[John Dos Passos]]
| [[1925]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 79
| ''[[Fiktioner]]''
| [[Jorge Luis Borges]]
| [[1944]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 80
| ''[[Moravagine]]'' {{fr sprog}}{{en sprog}}
| [[Blaise Cendrars]]
| [[1926]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 81
| ''[[Den døde hærs general]]''
| [[Ismail Kadaré]]
| [[1963]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 82
| ''[[Sophies valg]]''
| [[William Styron]]
| [[1979]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 83
| ''[[Sigøynerballader]]'' {{no sprog}}
| [[Federico García Lorca]]
| [[1928]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 84
| ''[[Maigret og togmordet]]'' <ref>[http://www.trussel.com/maig/danish.htm Maigret in Danish] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017134953/http://www.trussel.com/maig/danish.htm |date=17. oktober 2013 }}  {{en sprog}}</ref><br />''Pieter fra Letland''
| [[Georges Simenon]]
| [[1931]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 85
| ''[[Blomster til en forræder]]'' 
| [[Jean Genet]]
| [[1944]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 86
| ''[[Manden uden egenskaber]]''
| [[Robert Musil]]
| [[1930]]–[[1932]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 87
| ''[[Fureur et mystère]]'' {{fr sprog}}
| [[René Char]]
| [[1948]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 88
| ''[[Forbandede ungdom]]''<br />''Griberen i rugen''
| [[J. D. Salinger]]
| [[1951]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 89
| ''[[Sällan blommor till bruden]]'' {{sv sprog}}
| [[James Hadley Chase]]
| [[1939]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 90
| [[Blake og Mortimer]]
| [[Edgar P. Jacobs]]
| [[1950]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 91
| ''[[Malte Laurids Brigges optegnelser]]''  <br />''Die Aufzeichungen des Malte Laurids Brigge'' {{de sprog}}
| [[Rainer Maria Rilke]]
| [[1910]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 92
| ''[[La Modification]]'' {{fr sprog}}
| [[Michel Butor]]
| [[1957]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 93
| ''[[The Origins of Totalitarianism]]'' {{en sprog}}<br />''Elemente und Ursprünge totaler Herrschaft'' {{de sprog}}
| [[Hannah Arendt]]
| [[1951]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 94
| ''[[Mesteren og Margarita]]''
| [[Mikhail Bulgakov]]
| [[1967]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 95  
| Trilogi: ''[[Sexus]]'', ''[[Plexus]]'', ''[[Nexus (roman)|Nexus]]''
| [[Henry Miller]]
| [[1949]]–[[1960]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 96
| ''[[Den lange søvn]]''
| [[Raymond Chandler]]
| [[1939]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 97
| ''[[Amers]]'' {{fr sprog}}
| [[Saint-John Perse]] [[Fil:Nobel prize medal mod.png|20px]]
| [[1957]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 98 
| ''[[Vakse Viggo]]''
| [[André Franquin]]
| [[1957]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 99
| ''[[Under vulkanen]]'' {{sv sprog}}
| [[Malcolm Lowry]]
| [[1947]]
|----------------------------------
| align="right" | 100
| ''[[Midnatsbørn]]''
| [[Salman Rushdie]]
| [[1981]]
|}
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