English PEN's "The Bigger Read"

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Works of Prose/Epic Poetry not originally written in English (in alphabetical order).

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  1. 1.
    The Complete Fables (Penguin Classics)
    by Aesop

  2. 2.
    The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) (Penguin Classics)
    by Henri Alain-Fournier

  3. 4.
    Fairy Tales (Everyman's Library Children's Classics)
    by Hans Christian Andersen

  4. 5.
    Dom Casmurro (Penguin Classics)
    by Machado De Assis

  5. 6.
    St. Augustine Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Saint Augustine

  6. 7.
    Cousin Bette (Modern Library Classics)
    by Honoré de Balzac

  7. 8.
    The Second Sex (Everyman's Library Classics)
    by Simone de Beauvoir

  8. 10.
    Labyrinths (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Jorge Luis Borges

  9. 13.
    Outsider (Everyman's Library Classics)
    by Albert Camus

  10. 14.
    The Plague
    by Albert Camus

  11. 15.
    Journey to the End of the Night
    by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

  12. 16.
    Don Quixote (Modern Library Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes

  13. 18.
    The Half Brother: A Novel
    by Lars Saabye Christensen

  14. 19.
    The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles)
    by Jean Cocteau

  15. 20.
    The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream
    by Paulo Coelho

  16. 21.
    Inferno (Modern Library Classics)
    by Dante

  17. 22.
    Crime and Punishment (Everyman's Library)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  18. 23.
    The Idiot (Modern Library Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  19. 24.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Modern Library Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas

  20. 25.
    The Three Musketeers (Modern Library Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas pere

  21. 26.
    The Lover
    by Marguerite Duras

  22. 27.
    The Maias
    by ECa de Queiros

  23. 29.
    The Visit of the Royal Physician
    by Per Olov Enquist

  24. 30.
    Bouvard And Pecuchet
    by Gustave Flaubert

  25. 31.
    Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

  26. 32.
    The Interpretation of Dreams (Modern Library)
    by Sigmund Freud

  27. 33.
    The Diary of a Young Girl (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Anne Frank

  28. 34.
    The Years with Laura Diaz
    by Carlos Fuentes

  29. 36.
    Love in the Time of Cholera (Everyman Classics)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  30. 37.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Everyman's Library Classics)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  31. 38.
    The Tin Drum (Vintage International)
    by Gunter Grass

  32. 39.
    Faust (Bantam Classics) (Part I) (English and German Edition)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  33. 40.
    Dead Souls
    by Nikolai Gogol

  34. 41.
    Count Julian
    by Juan Goytisolo

  35. 42.
    Fairy Tales (Everyman's Library Children's Classics)
    by Jacob W. Grimm

  36. 43.
    Life and Fate
    by Vasily Grossman

  37. 44.
    Growth of the Soil
    by Knut Hamsun

  38. 45.
    Hunger (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Knut Hamsun

  39. 46.
    Seven Years in Tibet
    by Heinrich Harrer

  40. 47.
    Kon-Tiki Expedition
    by Thor Heyerdahl

  41. 48.
    Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (Harvill Panther)
    by Peter Hoeg

  42. 49.
    The Iliad (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer

  43. 50.
    The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer

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