100 Books of the 20th Century - 100 Livros do Século XX
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1900/1920
- Die Traumdeutung - Sigmund Freud
- Tri Sestri - Anton Tchekov
- Nils Holgerssons Underbara Resa Genon Sverige - Selma Lagerlöf
- Little Nemo in Slumberland - Winsor McCay
- Traité de Radioactivité - Marie S. Curie
- À la Recherche du Temps Perdu - Marcel Proust
- Platero y Yo - Juan Ramón Jiménez
- Cours de Linguistique Générale - Ferdinand de Saussure
- Ghare Bhaire - Rabindranath Tagore
- Cantos - Ezra Pound
- Chéri - Sidonie G. Colette
- Clepsydra - Camilo Pessanha
1921/1940
- Sei Personaggi in Cerca d'Autore - Luigi Pirandello
- The Meaning of Relativity - Albert Einstein
- The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot
- Ulysses - James Joyce
- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Sonette an Orpheus, Duinesen Elegien - Rainier Maria Rilke
- Manifeste du Surréalisme - André Breton
- Der Zauberberg - Thomas Mann
- Veinte Poemas de Amor y Una Canción Desesperada - Pablo Neruda
- Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler
- Der Prozess - Franz Kafka
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
- Seit und Zeit - Martin Heidegger
- Romancero Gitano - Federico García Lorca
- The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
- Tintin au Pays des Soviets - Hergé
- Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften - Robert Musil
- The Waves - Virginia Woolf
- Voyage au Bout de la Nuit - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- La Condition Humaine - André Malraux
- A Study of History - Arnold Toynbee
- Poiemata - Konstandinos Kavafis
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money - John Maynard Keynes
- Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
- Den Afrikanske Farm - Karen Blixen
- Mutter Courage und Ihre Kinder - Bertolt Brecht
- The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
- The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
- Sentimento do Mundo - Carlos Drummond de Andrade
1941/1960
- L'Étranger - Albert Camus
- La Familia de Pascual Duarte - Camilo José Cela
- Le Petit Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- L'Être et le Néant - Jean-Paul Sartre
- Poesia - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
- Ficciones - Jorge Luís Borges
- The Open Society and Its Ennemies - Karl Popper
- The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care - Dr. Benjamin Spock
- Het Achterhuis - Anne Frank
- Under The Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
- As Mãos e os Frutos - Eugénio de Andrade
- Le Deuxième Sexe - Simone de Beauvoir
- Kamen no Kokuhaku - Yukio Mishima
- Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
- Mémoires d'Hadrien - Marguerite Yourcenar
- En Attendant Godot - Samuel Beckett
- Il Mestiere di Vivere - Cesare Pavese
- La Cantatrice Chauve - Eugène Ionesco
- A Sibila - Agustina Bessa-Luís
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- Grande Sertão: Veredas - João Guimarães Rosa
- Bayna al-Qasrayn / Qasr al-Xauq' / Al-Sukkariya - Naguib Mahfouz
- On The Road - Jack Kerouac
- Gabriela, Cravo e Canela - Jorge Amado
- La Región Más Transparente - Carlos Fuentes
- The Alexandria Quartet - Lawrence Durrell
1961/1980
- Astérix, le Gaulois - René Goscinny & ALbert Uderzo
- A Colher na Boca - Herberto Helder
- Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John Le Carré
- Die Niemandsrose - Paul Celan
- Négritude et Humanisme - Léopold Senghor
- Essais Critiques - Roland Barthes
- Les Mots et les Choses - Michel Foucault
- Máo zhuxí yulù - Mao Zedong
- L'Ecriture et la Différence - Jacques Derrida
- Cien Años de Soledad - Gabriel García Márquez
- Una Ballata del Mare Salato - Hugo Pratt
- The Politics of Ecstasy - Timothy Leary
- Couples - John Updike
- The Double Helix - James Watson
- Arkhipelag Gulag - Aleksandr Soljenitsin
- Portugal e o Futuro - António de Spínola
- Report on Female Sexuality - Shere Hite
- La Condition Postmoderne - Jean-François Lyotard
- Sinais de Fogo - Jorge de Sena
- Il Nome della Rosa - Umberto Eco
1981/1998
- Livro do Desassossego - Bernardo Soares (Fernando Pessoa)
- Memorial do Convento - José Saramago
- Para Sempre - Vergílio Ferreira
- Nesnesitelná Lehkost Byti - Milan Kundera
- L'Amant - Marguerite Yourcenar
- Less Than Zero - Brett Easton Ellis
- A Brief History of Time - Stephen W. Hawking
- The Satanic Versicles - Salman Rushdie
- A l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie - Hervé Guibert
- The Whole Internet: User's Guide and Catalog - Ed Krol
Just prior to the opening of EXPO 98 in Lisboa, a exhibition was held in Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB) presenting what were considered as 100 of the most influential books of the Century. The list includes non-fictional books, with some emphasis on the portuguese language as well.