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In Sight of Chaos Hermann Hesse 1923 1 Candide Voltaire 1759 2 The 120 Days of Sodom The Maquis de Sade 1785 3 Faust (part one) Johann Wolfgang Goethe 1801 4 The Earthquake in Chile Heinrich von Kleist 1806 5 The Wreck of the Medusa Corréard and Savigny 1816 6 Frankenstein Mary Shelley 1818 7 The Sandman E.T.A. Hoffman 1817 8 The Last Day of a Condemned Man Victor Hugo 1828 9 Woyzeck Georg Büchner 1836 10 The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe 1839 11 Introduction to the Philosophy of History Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1840 12 Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol 1842 13 The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels 1848 14 Moby Dick Herman Melville 1851 15 Hard Times Charles Dickens 1854 16 The Flowers of Evil Charles Baudelaire 1857 17 The Origin of the Species Charles Darwin 1859 18 Maldoror Compte de Lautréamont 1868 19 A Season in Hell Arthur Rimbaud 1873 20 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Mikhail Dostoyevsky 1880 21 A Public Enemy Henrik Ibsen 1882 22 Thus Spoke Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche 1882-85 23 Against Nature Joris-Karl Huysmans 1884 24 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 25 Psychopathia Sexualis R. von Krafft-Ebing 1886 26 Hunger Knut Hamsun 1890 27 The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1892 28 Under Observation Amalie Skram 1895 29 The Island of Dr. Moreau H.G. Wells 1896 30 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 1902 31 The Immoralist André Gide 1902 32 The Call of the Wild Jack London 1903 33 The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1906 34 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Max Weber 1904-05 35 The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism Filippo Tommaso Marinetti 1909 36 Collected Poems C.P. Cavafy 1911-32 37 In these great times Karl Kraus 1914 38 The Golem Gustav Meyrink 1915 39 Abel Sanchez Miguel de Unamuno 1917 40 Collected Poems Wilfred Owen 1917-18 41 The Decline of the West Oswald Spengler 1918 42 Dada Manifesto Tristan Tzara 1918 43 On New Systems in Art Kasimir Malevich 1919 44 We Yevgeny Zamyatin 1920 45 The Trial Franz Kafka 1920 46 The Man without Qualities Robert Musil 1920-42 47 Michael Robartes and the Dancer William Butler Yeats 1921 48 The Good Soldier Svejk Jaroslav H a˘sek 1923 49 About This Vladimir Mayakovsky 1923 50 Sentimental Journey Viktor Shklovsky 1923 51 Red Cavalry Isaac Babel 1923 52 Mein Kampf Adolf Hitler 1925-06 53 Movavagine Blaise Cendrars 1926 54 A Fool's Life Ryunosuke Akutagawa 1927 55 The Threepenny Opera Bertolt Brecht 1928 56 The Enormous Room E.E. Cummings 1928 57 The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 1928-40 58 The Human Age Wyndham Lewis 1928-55 59 Civilisation and its Discontents Sigmund Freud 1929 60 The Permanent Revolution Leon Trotsky 1929 61 All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque 1929 62 Berlin Alexanderplatz Alfred Döblin 1929 63 Prison Notebooks Antonio Gramsci 1929-35 64 A Certain Plume Henri Michaux 1930-36 65 Brave New World Aldous Huxley 1932 66 Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1932 67 Man's Estate André Malraux 1933 68 Requiem Anna Akhmatova 1935-40 69 Wolf's Tavern Gottfried Benn 1937 70 Verses on the Unknown Soldier Osip Mandelstam 1937 71 Nausea Jean-Paul Sartre 1938 72 On the Marble Cliffs Ernst Junger 1939 73 Darkness at Noon Arthur Koestler 1940 74 Theses on the Philosophy of History Walter Benjamin 1940 75 Dialectic of Enlightenment Theodore W. Adorno & Max Horkheimer 1944 76 The Complete Stories Flannery O'Connor 1946-65 77 To Have Done with the Judgement of God Antonin Artaud 1947 78 The Plague Albert Camus 1947 79 Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry 1947 80 Doctor Faustus Thomas Mann 1947 81 The Thief's Journal Jean Genet 1949 82 The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir 1949 83 Ninety Eighty-Four George Orwell 1949 84 The Kingdom of this World Alejo Carpentier 1949 85 Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 1952 86 The Question Concerning Technology Martin Heidegger 1953 87 Poems Paul Celan 1952-76 88 Pedro Páramo Juan Rulfo 1955 89 Return to my Native Land Aimé Césaire 1956 90 Endgame Samuel Beckett 1958 91 Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius Jorge Luis Borges 1961 92 The Wretched of the Earth Frantz Fanon 1961 93 On Revolution Hannah Arendt 1963 94 Hope Against Hope Nadezhda Mandelstam 1964-70 95 Ariel Sylvia Plath 1965 96 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1967 97 Society of the Spectacle Guy Debord 1967 98 Soul on Ice Eldridge Cleaver 1968 99 Trip to Hanoi Susan Sontag 1968 100 The Four-Gated City Doris Lessing 1969.
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