2023 marks the 120th anniversay of the literary prize founded by writer and critic Edmond de Goncourt, first awarded on December 21, 1903 to John-Antoine Nau for his novel Enemy Force. This book recounts the history of a prize that soon became the most prestigious and coveted of them all. A work of encyclopedic ambition, it consists of 120 entries, each recontextualizing an award-winning novel. From between the lines emerges the history of the Académie Goncourt, the prize jury, and the great controversies that rocked the French literary landscape over the last century.