- The Stranger (The Outsider), Albert Camus (1942)
- Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust (1913-1927)
- The Trial, Franz Kafka (1925)
- The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1943)
- Man’s Fate, Andre Malraux (1933)
- Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1932)
- The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (1939)
- For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway (1940)
- Le Grand Meaulnes, Alain-Fournier (1913)
- Froth on the Daydream, Boris Vian (1947)
- The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir (1949)
- Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett (1952)
- Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre (1943)
- The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco (1980)
- The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1973)
- Paroles, Jacques Prevert (1946)
- Alcools, Guillaume Apollinaire (1913)
- The Blue Lotus, Herge (1936)
- The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank (1947)
- Tristes Tropiques, Claude Levi-Strauss (1955)
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (1932)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell (1949)
- Asterix the Gaul, Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo (1959)
- The Bald Soprano, Eugene Ionesco (1952)
- Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, Sigmund Freud (1905)
- The Abyss, Marguerite Yourcenar (1968)
- Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
- Ulysses, James Joyce (1922)
- The Tartar Steppe, Dino Buzzati (1940)
- The Counterfeiters, Andre Gide (1925)
- The Horseman on the Roof, Jean Giono (1951)
- Belle du Seigneur, Albert Cohen (1968)
- One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1967)
- The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner (1929)
- Therese Desqueyroux, Francois Mauriac (1927)
- Zazie in the Metro, Raymond Queneau (1959)
- Confusion of Feelings, Stefan Zweig (1927)
- Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell (1936)
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D. H. Lawrence (1928)
- The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann (1924)
- Bonjour Tristesse, Francoise Sagan (1954)
- Le Silence de la mer, Vercors (1942)
- Life: A User’s Manual, Georges Perec (1978)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle (1901-1902)
- Under the Sun of Satan, Georges Bernanos (1926)
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
- The Joke, Milan Kundera (1967)
- A Ghost at Noon (Contempt), Alberto Moravia (1954)
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie (1926)
- Nadja, Andre Breton (1928)
- Aurelien, Louis Aragon (1944)
- The Satin Slipper, Paul Claudel (1929)
- Six Characters in Search of an Author, Luigi Pirandello (1921)
- The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Bertolt Brecht (1959)
- Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique, Michel Tournier (1967)
- The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells (1898)
- If This Is a Man, Primo Levi (1947)
- The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien (1954-1955)
- Les Vrilles de la vigne, Colette (1908)
- Capitale de la douleur, Paul Eluard (1926)
- Martin Eden, Jack London (1909)
- Ballad of the Salt Sea, Hugo Pratt (1967)
- Writing Degree Zero, Roland Barthes (1953)
- The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, Heinrich Boell (1974)
- The Opposing Shore, Julien Gracq (1951)
- The Order of Things, Michel Foucault (1966)
- On the Road, Jack Kerouac (1957)
- The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, Selma Lagerloef (1906-1907)
- A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf (1929)
- The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury (1950)
- The Ravishing of Lol Stein, Marguerite Duras (1964)
- The Interrogation, J. M. G. Le Clezio (1963)
- Tropisms, Nathalie Sarraute (1939)
- Journal, 1887-1910, Jules Renard (1925)
- Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad (1900)
- Ecrits, Jacques Lacan (1966)
- The Theatre and its Double, Antonin Artaud (1938)
- Manhattan Transfer, John Dos Passos (1925)
- Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges (1944)
- Moravagine, Blaise Cendrars (1926)
- The General of the Dead Army, Ismail Kadare (1963)
- Sophie’s Choice, William Styron (1979)
- Gypsy Ballads, Federico Garcia Lorca (1928)
- The Strange Case of Peter the Lett, Georges Simenon (1931)
- Our Lady of the Flowers, Jean Genet (1944)
- The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil (1930-1932)
- Fureur et mystere, Rene Char (1948)
- The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger (1951)
- No Orchids For Miss Blandish, James Hadley Chase (1939)
- Blake and Mortimer, Edgar P. Jacobs (1950)
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, Rainer Maria Rilke (1910)
- Second Thoughts, Michel Butor (1957)
- The Burden of Our Time, Hannah Arendt (1951)
- The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov (1967)
- The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller (1949-1960)
- The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler (1939)
- Amers, Saint-John Perse (1957)
- Gaston (Gomer Goof), Andre Franquin (1957)
- Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry (1947)
- Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie (1981)