THE BEST FRENCH NOVELS OF 20TH CENTURY

1. In Search of Lost Time 1913-27 Marcel Proust
2. The Stranger 1942 Albert Camus
3. Journey to the End of Night 1932 Louis-Ferdinand Céline
4. Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable 1951-53 Samuel Beckett
5. Memoirs of Hadrian 1951 Marguerite Yourcenar
6. Belle du Seigneur 1968 Albert Cohen
7. The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels 1986-1991 Ágota Kristóf
8. Nausea 1938 Jean-Paul Sartre
9. Froth on the Daydream, 1947 Boris Vian
10. Small Lives 1984 Pierre Michon
11. The Plague 1947 Albert Camus
12. The Counterfeiters 1925 André Gide
13. Promise at Dawn 1960 Romain Gary
14. Life A User's Manual, 1978 Georges Perec
15. Man's Fate 1933 André Malraux
16. The Elementary Particles 1998 Michel Houellebecq
17. Le Grand Meaulnes, 1913 Alain-Fournier 
18. A Man's Place 1983 Annie Ernaux
19. The Opposing Shore, 1951 Julien Gracq
20. The Erl-King, 1970 Michel Tournier 
21. La Jalousie, 1957 Alain Robbe-Grillet 
22. The Fall, 1956 Albert Camus 
23. Beauty on Earth 1927 Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
24. Zazie in the Metro, 1959 Raymond Queneau
25. Nadja 1928 André Breton
26. Second Thoughts, 1957 Michel Butor
27. The Interrogation, 1963 J. M. G. Le Clézio
28. Our Lady of the Flowers, 1943 Jean Genet
29. Nadja, 1928 André Breton
30. Locus Solus, 1914 Raymond Roussel 
31. The Golden Fruits, 1963 Nathalie Sarraute
32. Texaco 1992 Patrick Chamoiseau
33. The Immoralist, 1902 Andre Gide
34. The Lover, 1984 Marguerite Duras
35. Thomas the Obscure, 1941 Maurice Blanchot
36. Moravagine 1926 Blaise Cendrars
37. All the World's Mornings 1991 Pascal Quignard.
38. Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician, 1911 Alfred Jarry
39. Strait Is the Gate, 1909 Andre Gide
40. How It Is, 1961 Samuel Beckett
41. The Life Before Us 1975 Romain Gary
42. Thérèse Desqueyroux 1927 François Mauriac. 
43. Moderato Cantabile 1958 Marguerite Duras
44. La Place de l'Étoile 1968 Patrick Modiano.
45. Bonjour Tristesse 1954 Françoise Sagan
46. Leo Africanus 1992 Amin Maalouf
47. I'm Gone 1999 Jean Echenoz
48. Aline 1905 Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
49. Ripening Seed 1923 Colette 
50. My Friends 1924 Emmanuel Bove