To compile a list of the 100 livres à lire avant de mourir, we must consider a diverse range of genres, eras, and cultural perspectives. This curated collection includes timeless classics, influential modern works, and essential reads across various fields. Whether you’re a seasoned reader or just beginning your literary journey, these books offer profound insights and captivating stories that have left a lasting impact on readers worldwide.
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Reading these essential books not only enriches your understanding of the human experience but also enhances your cultural literacy. Each book has been selected for its literary significance, ability to provoke thought, and the unique perspectives it offers. From classic literature to modern masterpieces, these works encompass a wide array of themes and styles.
Liste des 100 livres à lire absolument
Here is a list of 100 must-read books, spanning different genres and time periods:
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"Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes
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"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
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"1984" by George Orwell
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"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez
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"Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville
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"War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
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"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
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"The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"The Odyssey" by Homer
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"The Iliad" by Homer
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"The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri
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"Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
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"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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"The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck
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"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë
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"The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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"The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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"Les Misérables" by Victor Hugo
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"The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas
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"Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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"A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens
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"Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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"The Trial" by Franz Kafka
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"The Stranger" by Albert Camus
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"Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov
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"Beloved" by Toni Morrison
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"The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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"The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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"Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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"The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka
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"A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess
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"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
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"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
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"Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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"Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
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"The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
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"The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
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"Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad
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"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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"Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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"The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak
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"The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
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"The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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"The Handmaid’s Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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"A Passage to India" by E.M. Forster
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"The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami
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"Norwegian Wood" by Haruki Murakami
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"The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco
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"The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov
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"Middlemarch" by George Eliot
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"The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer
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"The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu
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"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain
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"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain
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"Ulysses" by James Joyce
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"The Magic Mountain" by Thomas Mann
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"Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert
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"The Glass Bead Game" by Hermann Hesse
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"The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera
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"Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe
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"The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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"The Color Purple" by Alice Walker
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"The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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"The Blind Assassin" by Margaret Atwood
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"The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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"The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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"The House of the Spirits" by Isabel Allende
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"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Díaz
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"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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"The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold
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"The Time Traveler’s Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger
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"The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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"The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt
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"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson
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"The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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"The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone" by J.K. Rowling
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**"A Game of Thrones