Voilà les B-sides: les livres on Le Monde’s expert-curated list of 200 that le peuple gave le chop:

• What Maisie Knew — Henry James (1897)

• Little Nemo in Slumberland — Winsor McCay (1905)

• Notre patrie — Charles Péguy (1905)

• The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism — Max Weber (1905)

• The Tragic Sense of Life — Miguel de Unamuno (1912)

• Course in General Linguistics — Ferdinand de Saussure (1916)

• Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus — Ludwig Wittgenstein (1921)

• The Confessions of Zeno — Italo Svevo (1923)

• Being and Time — Martin Heidegger (1927)

• Coming of Age in Samoa — Margaret Mead (1928)

• Berlin Alexanderplatz — Alfred Döblin (1929)

• Red Harvest — Dashiell Hammett (1929)

• Prices and Production — Friedrich von Hayek (1931)

• Aden Arabie — Paul Nizan (1931)

• The Sleepwalkers — Hermann Broch (1932)

• Philosophy of the Enlightenment — Ernst Cassirer (1932)

• The Masters and the Slaves — Gilberto Freyre (1933)

• The Logic of Scientific Discovery — Karl Popper (1934)

• A Study of History — Arnold Toynbee (1934)

• The General Theory — John Maynard Keynes (1936)

• The Crisis of European Sciences — Edmund Husserl (1936)

• Ferdydurke — Witold Gombrowicz (1937)

• Return to My Native Land — Aimé Césaire (1939)

• The Civilizing Process — Norbert Elias (1939)

• On the Marble Cliffs — Ernst Jünger (1939)

• Manhood — Michel Leiris (1939)

• Thomas the Obscure — Maurice Blanchot (1941)

• Le Parti pris des choses — Francis Ponge (1942)

• The Normal and the Pathological — Georges Canguilhem (1943)

• Dialectic of Enlightenment — Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer (1944)

• La bête est morte — E.F. Calvo (1944)

• Four Generations Under One Roof — Lao She (1944)

• Épreuves, exorcismes — Henri Michaux (1945)

• Black Boy — Richard Wright (1945)

• Zorba the Greek — Nikos Kazantzakis (1946)

• The Other Kingdom — David Rousset (1946)

• The Human Race — Robert Antelme (1947)

• The Hunting Gun — Yasushi Inoue (1949)

• Confessions of a Mask — Yukio Mishima (1949)

• The Beautiful Summer — Cesare Pavese (1949)

• The Story of Art — Ernst Gombrich (1950)

• Sociologie et anthropologie — Marcel Mauss (1950)

• The Labyrinth of Solitude — Octavio Paz (1950)

• Foundation Trilogy — Isaac Asimov (1951)

• Meaning in the Visual Arts — Erwin Panofsky (1955)

• The Demons — Heimito von Doderer (1956)

• The Devil to Pay in the Backlands — João Guimarães Rosa (1956)

• Blue of Noon — Georges Bataille (1957)

• The Baron in the Trees — Italo Calvino (1957)

• The Alexandria Quartet — Lawrence Durrell (1957)

• Le Je-ne-sais-quoi et le Presque-rien — Vladimir Jankélévitch (1957)

• Jealousy — Alain Robbe-Grillet (1957)

• Naked Lunch — William S. Burroughs (1959)

• The Wretched of the Earth — Frantz Fanon (1961)

• House of the Sleeping Beauties — Yasunari Kawabata (1961)

• Totality and Infinity — Emmanuel Levinas (1961)

• Diary of a Mad Old Man — Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1961)

• Explosion in a Cathedral — Alejo Carpentier (1962)

• Hopscotch — Julio Cortázar (1963)

• Essays in General Linguistics — Roman Jakobson (1963)

• The Inheritors — Pierre Bourdieu (1964)

• Man and His Symbols — Carl Gustav Jung (1964)

• La Bâtarde — Violette Leduc (1964)

• Gesture and Speech — André Leroi-Gourhan (1964)

• One-Dimensional Man — Herbert Marcuse (1964)

• Dune — Frank Herbert (1965)

• Problems of General Linguistics — Émile Benveniste (1966)

• In Cold Blood — Truman Capote (1966)

• Paradiso — José Lezama Lima (1966)

• The New Industrial State — John Kenneth Galbraith (1967)

• Society of the Spectacle — Guy Debord (1967)

• Writing and Difference — Jacques Derrida (1967)

• Mythe et épopée — Georges Dumézil (1968)

• La Place de l'étoile — Patrick Modiano (1968)

• Ubik — Philip K. Dick (1969)

• Portnoy's Complaint — Philip Roth (1969)

• Eden, Eden, Eden — Pierre Guyotat (1970)

• A Theory of Justice — John Rawls (1971)

• Reunion — Fred Uhlman (1971)

• Playing and Reality — Donald Winnicott (1971)

• Anti-Oedipus — Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari (1972)

• Enemies, A Love Story — Isaac Bashevis Singer (1972)

• The Legend of Bouvines — Georges Duby (1973)

• The Hour of Our Death — Philippe Ariès (1977)

• Method — Edgar Morin (1977)

• Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter — Mario Vargas Llosa (1977)

• Life and Fate — Vasily Grossman (1980)

• The Birth of Purgatory — Jacques Le Goff (1981)

• Wittgenstein's Nephew — Thomas Bernhard (1982)

• The Book of Disquiet — Fernando Pessoa (1982)

• Partie de chasse — Enki Bilal & Pierre Christin (1983)

• Time and Narrative — Paul Ricœur (1983)

• Women — Philippe Sollers (1983)

• Vies minuscules — Pierre Michon (1984)

• Maus — Art Spiegelman (1986)

• Beloved — Toni Morrison (1987)

• Dalva — Jim Harrison (1988)

• The Acacia — Claude Simon (1989)

• Amkoullel, l'enfant peul — Amadou Hampâté Bâ (1991)

• C'était la guerre des tranchées — Jacques Tardi (1993)