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Old 04-08-2012, 07:51 AM
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Originally Posted by l2ridehd View Post
The list was very weighted to French authors as it was conducted in France by a French newspaper and book store with 17,000 French respondents. There are many really great books that are not on the list and some fairly poor ones that made it. So although probably accurate from the perspective on which it was created, not really representative of a "global" list of the top 100 books of the century.
It does have a lot of French authors in it.

Here is a list of the Top 100 books of all time which does have a small part of The Bible in it. The Book of Job is one of the entries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_100...ks_of_All_Time

At least with the other list I have read about 60 of these.