W, or the Memory of Childhood
by Georges Perec | 
The Elementary Particles
by Michel Houellebecq | 
Nohow On
by Samuel Beckett | 
The Notebook
by Agota Kristof | 
So Long a Letter
by Mariama Ba | 
The Flight of Icarus
by Raymond Queneau | 
Joy of Man's Desiring
by Jean Giono | 
The Heart
by Maylis de Kerangal | 
The Great Fire of London
by Jacques Roubaud | 
Once Upon the River Love
by Andrei Makine | 
The Waitress Was New
by Dominique Fabre | 
Honeymoon
by Patrick Modiano | 
Farewell Waltz
by Milan Kundera | 
Harvest
by Jean Giono | 
The Song of the World
by Jean Giono | 
The File on H
by Ismail Kadare | 
The Rover
by Joseph Conrad | 
The Last Life
by Claire Messud | 
School Days
by Patrick Chamoiseau | 
Lucien Leuwen
by Stendhal |
Combining fiction and autobiography in a quite unprecedented way, Georges Perec leads the reader inexorably towards the horror that lies at the origin of the post-World War Two world and at the crux of his own identity.