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Raymond Queneau, ed., Pour une Bibliotheque Ideal [1956]

103 entries: 73 monographical, 30 otherwise

Ranked

This books is very difficult to find. Thankfully, one the best sites on the web, Bureau of Public Secrets, features a transcription of the 100 entries of that book's final list. In a project similar to J. Peder Zane's, Queneau asked several French authors and critics each to draw up a list of their favorite 100 books. Bibliotheque Ideal includes those responses as well as the overall list seen here.

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  1. The Bible_17

  2. Downs also lists John Wycliffe's 1382 English translation of the Vulgate; Bloom, Dirda, and the Globe and Mail specify the King James Version, translated 1604-11 to English from the Hebrew and Aramaic (Old Testament) and the Greek (New Testament), revised 1769 by Benjamin Blayney—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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  3. Marcel Proust

  4. À la Recherche du Temps Perdu_17
    In Search of Lost Time; In Remembrance of Things Past
    originally published in seven volumes, two of which originally published as two books each, 1913-27—French

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  5. Michel de Montaigne

  6. Les Essais_26
    Essays
    originally published in three volumes: 1580, 1588, and 1595—French

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  7. François Rabelais

  8. La Vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel_22
    originally published in five volumes: Les Horribles et Épouvantables Faits et Prouesses du Très Renommé Pantagruel Roi des Dipsodes, Fils du Grand Géant Gargantua, 1532; La Vie Très Horrifique du Grand Gargantua, Père de Pantagruel, 1534; Le Tiers Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1546; Le Quart Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1552; Le Cinquiesme et Dernier Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1564; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux's English translation—French
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  9. Charles Baudelaire

  10. Les Fleurs du Mal_8
    The Flowers of Evil
    1857—French

    *France* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Great* *Newman*

  11. Blaise Pascal
    Pensées_20
    Thoughts
    1669—French

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    • Molière

  12. Plays_5
    Seventeenth Century—French
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  13. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  14. Les Confessions_14
    1782—French
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  15. Stendhal
    Le Rouge et le Noir, Chronique du XIXe Siècle_18
    The Red and the Black
    1830—French

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    • Plato

  16. Dialogues_10
    early Fourth Century B C—Greek
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  17. Stendhal

  18. Le Chartreuse de Parme_12
    The Charterhouse of Parma
    1839—French

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  19. François Villon
    Le Grand Testament Villon et le Petit. Son Codicille. Le Jargon et Ses Ballades_6
    1489—French
    *Classics* *France* *Ward* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Newman*

    Arthur Rimbaud
    • Poems_3

  20. late Nineteenth Century—French
    *France* *Rexroth* *Ward*

  21. Les Illuminations_5

  22. published in part serially May-Jun. 1886 in La Vogue; in its entirety later the same year—French
    *France* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Ward* *Newman*

  23. Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz

  24. Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz_1
    1717—French
    *France*

  25. Leo Tolstoy

  26. Voyna i Mir"_25
    War and Peace
    originally entitled 1805, published in part, 1865 and 1867; retitled and published in its entirety, 1869—Russian

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  27. Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon

  28. Memoires_1
    written 1739-49; published in part, 1788; in its entirety, 1858—French
    *France*

  29. Miguel de Cervantes
    El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha_37
    Don Quixote
    originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Edith Grossman's English translation—Spanish

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    • Jean Racine

    Plays_2
    Seventeenth Century—French
    *France* *Read*

    • Aeschylus

  30. Plays_3
    Fifth Century B C—Greek
    *Baldwin* *France* *Read*

  31. Fyodor Dostoevsky
    Brat'â Karamazovy_23
    The Brothers Karamazov
    originally published serially 1880 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian

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    • Stéphane Mallarmé

  32. Poems_1
    late Nineteenth Century—French
    *France*

  33. Jean de la Fontaine

  34. Fables_7
    originally published in 12 volumes: first-sixth, 1668; seventh-eleventh, 1678; twelfth, 1694—French
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  35. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  36. Faust_27
    originally published in two volumes: first, Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil, published in part, 1790; in its entirey, 1808; revised 1829; second, Faust. Der Tragödie Zweiter Teil, 1832—German
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  37. Guillaume Apollinaire

  38. Alcools_2
    1913—French
    *France* *Bloom*

  39. Gustave Flaubert

  40. L'Éducation Sentimentale_8
    1869—French
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  41. Homer
    Odýsseia_36
    The Odyssey
    ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B.C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Robert Fitzgerald's English translation—Greek

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    • Pierre Corneille

  42. Plays_1
    Seventeenth Century—French
    *France*

  43. Dante

  44. La Divina Commedia_33
    The Divine Comedy
    originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21—Italian

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  45. François-René de Chateaubriand
    Memoires d'Outre Tombe_2
    published in two volumes, 1849 and 1850—French
    *France* *Ward*

    • Honoré de Balzac

    La Comédie Humaine_5
    collective name for 91 finished and 46 unfinished works; Nineteenth Century—French
    *Powys* *France* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Trinity*

    • Sophocles

  46. Plays_3
    Fifth Century B C—Greek
    *Baldwin* *France* *Read*

  47. James Joyce

  48. Ulysses_20
    published in part serially Mar. 1918-Dec. 1920 in the Little Review; in its entirety, 1922—English
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  49. Choderlos de Laclos

  50. Les Liaisons Dangereuses_6
    The Dangerous Liaisons
    1782—French

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  51. Jonathan Swift
    Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships_29
    Gulliver's Travels
    1726; revised 1735—English

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    • Paul Verlaine

  52. Poems_3
    late Nineteenth Century—French
    *France* *Trinity* *Newman*

  53. Gustave Flaubert

  54. Madame Bovary_29
    originally published serially Oct. 1856-Dec. 1856 in La Revue de Paris; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Frances Steegmuller's English translation—French
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  55. Arthur Rimbaud

  56. Une Saison en Enfer_6
    A Season in Hell
    1873—French

    *France* *Ward* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Great* *Newman*

  57. René Descartes

  58. Discours de la Méthode Pour Bien Conduire sa Raison, et Chercher la Vérité dans les Sciences_17
    Discourse on the Method
    1637—French

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  59. Abbé Prévost

  60. L'Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut_3
    seventh volume of Homme de Qualité, 1731; published separately the same year—French
    *France* *Ward* *Bloom*

  61. Pierre de Ronsard
    Les Odes_2
    originally published in five volumes: first-fourth, 1550; fifth, 1552—French
    *France* *Bloom*

    • Aristophanes

  62. Plays_4
    late Fifth Century B C—Greek
    *Baldwin* *France* *Good* *Read*

    Cornelius Tacitus
  63. Historiae_8

  64. written ca. 100-10—Latin
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  65. Annales_11

  66. written First Century—Latin
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  67. Baruch Spinoza
    Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata_15
    Ethics
    1677—Latin

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    • Friedrich Hölderlin

    Poems_1
    late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuries—German
    *France*

    Gérard de Nerval
    • Les Filles du Feu_1

    1854; stories, essays, and other works previously published—French
    *France*

    • Les Chimères_1

  68. twelve poems originally published in periodicals and earlier books by the author; included in Les Filles du Feu, 1854—French
    *France* *Bloom*

  69. Daniel Defoe

  70. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner_21
    originally anonymously published 1719—English
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  71. Augustine of Hippo

  72. Confessionum Libri Tredecim_23
    The Confessions of St. Augustine
    written 397-98—Latin

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  73. Comte de Lautreamont

  74. Les Chants de Maldoror_2
    The Songs of Maldoror
    1869—French

    *France* *Newman*

  75. Victor Hugo

  76. Les Misérables_18
    1862—French
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  77. Lewis Carroll
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_17
    1865—English
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    • Alfred de Musset

  78. Comédies et Proverbes_1
    title used for varying collections of Musset's plays; Nineteenth Century—French
    *France*

  79. Jules Renard

  80. Journal de Jules Renard_1
    1925—French
    *France*

    Homer
  81. Iliad_33

  82. ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B.C; Cowan and Guinness ("Trinity") specifiy Richard Lattimore's English translation; Mallison ("Smart") notes Derek Jacobi's modern aural version—Greek
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  83. Fyodor Dostoevsky

  84. Idiot_11
    originally published serially 1868-9 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian
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  85. Emily Brontë

  86. Wuthering Heights_17
    originally published 1847 under the pseudonym, Ellis Bell; revised 1850—English
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  87. Fyodor Dostoevsky
    Besy_9
    Demons; The Devils; The Possessed
    1872—Russian

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    • Voltaire

    Stories_1
    Eighteenth Century—French
    *France*

    • William Blake

  88. Poems_2
    late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuries—English
    *France* *Magill*

  89. Fyodor Dostoevsky

  90. Prestuplénie i Nakazániye_23
    Crime and Punishment
    originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1866 in Rússkij Véstnik; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's English translation—Russian

    *Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *France* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*

  91. Plutarch

  92. Bìoi Paràllēloi_18
    Parallel Lives; Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
    First Century—Greek

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  93. Madame de la Fayette

  94. La Princess de Clèves_4
    originallly anonymously published 1678—French
    *France* *Bloom* *Dirda* *Newman*

  95. Karl Marx

  96. Das Kapital, Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie_12
    published in three volumes: 1867, 1885, and 1894—German
    *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *World*

  97. Benjamin Constant
    Adolphe, Anecdote Trouvée dans les Papiers d'un Inconnu_2
    originally anonymously published 1816—French
    *France* *Bloom*

    • Pierre Beaumarchais

  98. Plays_1
    Eighteenth Century—French
    *France*

  99. Agrippa d'Aubigné

  100. Les Tragiques_2
    1616—French
    *France* *Bloom*

  101. Alfred de Vigny
    Les Destinées_1
    1864—French
    *France*

    • Federico García Lorca

  102. Poems_2
    early Twentieth Century—Spanish
    *France* *Ward*

  103. André Malraux

  104. La Condition Humaine_5
    Man's Fate
    1933—French

    *France* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Dirda*

  105. Francois de la Rochefoucauld

  106. Réflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales_4
    originally anonymously published 1665—French
    *Durant* *France* *Ward* *Bloom*

  107. Jean de la Bruyère
    Les Caractères_1
    1688—French
    *France*

    • Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné (Madame de Sévigné)

  108. Correspondence_2
    Seventeenth Century—French
    *France* *Newman*

  109. Emile Littré

  110. Le Dictionnaire de la Langue Française_1
    1863-72—French
    *France*

  111. Alfred Jarry
    Ubu Roi_1
    1896—French
    *France*

    • Paul Valéry

  112. Poems_1
    early Twentieth Century—French
    *France*

  113. Blaise Pascal

  114. Lettres Provinciales_6
    1656-57—French
    *Classics* *France* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Trinity*

  115. T E Lawrence
    Seven Pillars of Wisdom_3
    1922—English
    *France* *Zane* *Telegraph*

    • Prosper Mérimée

    Stories_2
    Nineteenth Century—French
    *France* *Dirda*

    • Paul Valéry

    Variétes_1
    four volumes of essays previously published—French
    *France*

    • Heraclitus

    Selected works_3
    ca. late Sixth-early Fifth centuries B C; only fragments of his work are extant—Greek
    *France* *Bloom* *Dirda*

    • Pierre de Marivaux

  116. Plays_1
    Eighteenth Century—French
    *France*

  117. Victor Hugo

  118. La Légende des Siècles_2
    originally published in three volumes: 1859, 1877, and 1883—French
    *France* *Trinity*

  119. Franz Kafka
    Der Prozess_16
    The Trial
    1925—German

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    • Voltaire

  120. Correspondence_1
    Eighteenth Century—French
    *France*

  121. Guillaume Apollinaire

  122. Calligrammes: Poèmes de la Paix et de la Guerre 1913-1916_2
    1918—French
    *France* *Bloom*

  123. André Gide
    Journal_2
    originally published in two volumes, 1939 and 1950—French
    *France* *Bloom*

    • Hans Christian Andersen

  124. Fables_5
    Nineteenth Century—Danish
    *France* *Magill* *Norway* *Dirda* *Graphic*

  125. Alexandre Dumas

  126. Les Trois Mousquetaires_3
    The Three Musketeers
    originally published serially Mar.-Jul. 1844 in Le Siècle—French

    *France* *Guardian* *Newman*

  127. Giacomo Casanova

  128. Histoire de Ma Vie Jusqu'à l'An 1797 (The Story of My Life)_2
    The Story of My Life
    German translation published in part, 1822-4; abridged and censored version of the original French published 1826-38; original French published in its entirety, 1960-2—French

    *France* *Rexroth*

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  129. Kitab alf Laylah Wa-Laylah_17

  130. The Thousand and One Nights; The Arabian Nights
    Ninth-Fifteenth centuries; Taylor specifies Richard Burton's version—Arabic

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  131. Joseph Conrad
    Lord Jim_6
    originally published serially Oct. 1899-Nov. 1900 in Blackwood's Magazine—English
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    • Novalis

  132. "Poems and philosophical fragments"
    late Eighteenth Century—German
    *France*

  133. Friedrich Nietzsche
    Also Sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen_15
    Thus Spake Zarathustra
    originally published in four volumes, 1883-5—German

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    • Paul Claudel

  134. Plays_1
    early Twentieth Century—French
    *France*

  135. Tristan Corbière

  136. Les Amours Jaunes_2
    1873—French
    *France* *Bloom*

  137. Victor Hugo

  138. Les Contemplations_1
    1856—French
    French

    *France*

  139. San Juan de la Cruz (Saint John of the Cross)

  140. La Noche Oscura del Alma_2
    Dark Night of the Soul
    written 1578-79 and 1584-85—Spanish

    *France* *Ward*

  141. Nikolai Gogol

  142. Mërtvyâ Duši_11
    Dead Souls
    1842—Russian

    *Classics* *France* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Harvard* *Newman*

  143. Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)

  144. Aeneid_26
    First Century B C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Dudley Fitts and Robert Fagles's English translation—Latin
    *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Smart* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic*

  145. Georges Bernanos

  146. Journal d'un Curé de Campagne_1
    Journal of a Country Priest
    1936—French

    *France*