English PEN's "The Bigger Read"Works of Prose/Epic Poetry not originally written in English (in alphabetical order). (found at: http://www.englishpen.org/writersintranslation/thebiggerread/thebiggerreadlist/)
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The Complete Fables (Penguin Classics)
by Aesop
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The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) (Penguin Classics)
by Henri Alain-Fournier
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The House of the Spirits (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
by Isabel Allende
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Fairy Tales (Everyman's Library Children's Classics)
by Hans Christian Andersen
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Dom Casmurro (Penguin Classics)
by Machado De Assis
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Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)
by Saint Augustine
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Cousin Bette (Modern Library Classics)
by Honoré de Balzac
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The Second Sex (Everyman's Library Classics)
by Simone de Beauvoir
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The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments in the King James Version Translated Out of the Original Tongues (Self-Pronouncing Red Letter Edition Gift and Award Bible Black Leatherflex #162M)
by King James Version
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Labyrinths (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Jorge Luis Borges
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The Master and Margarita (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Michail Bulgakov
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Italo Calvino
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Outsider (Everyman's Library Classics)
by Albert Camus
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The Plague
by Albert Camus
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Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook)
by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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Don Quixote (Modern Library Classics)
by Miguel De Cervantes
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Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904 (Penguin Classics)
by Anton Chekhov
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The Half Brother: A Novel
by Lars Saabye Christensen
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The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles)
by Jean Cocteau
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The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream
by Paulo Coelho
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Inferno (Modern Library Classics)
by Dante
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Crime and Punishment (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Idiot (Modern Library Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The Count of Monte Cristo (Modern Library Classics)
by Alexandre Dumas
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The Three Musketeers (Modern Library Classics)
by Alexandre Dumas père
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The Lover
by Marguerite Duras
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The Maias
by Eca de Queiros
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The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Umberto Eco
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The Visit of the Royal Physician
by Per Olov Enquist
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Bouvard And Pecuchet
by Gustave Flaubert
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Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
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The Interpretation of Dreams (Modern Library)
by Sigmund Freud
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The Diary of a Young Girl (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Anne Frank
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The Years with Laura Diaz
by Carlos Fuentes
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Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy
by Jostein Gaarder
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Love in the Time of Cholera (Everyman's Library Classics)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Everyman's Library Classics)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The Tin Drum (Vintage International)
by Gunter Grass
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Faust (Bantam Classics)
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol
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Count Julian (Spanish Literature Series)
by Juan Goytisolo
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Fairy Tales (Everyman's Library Children's Classics)
by Jacob W. Grimm
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Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman
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Growth of the Soil
by Knut Hamsun
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Hunger (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Knut Hamsun
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Seven Years in Tibet
by Heinrich Harrer
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The Kon-Tiki Expedition
by Thor Heyerdahl
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Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (Harvill Panther)
by Peter Hoeg
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The Iliad (Penguin Classics)
by Homer
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The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
by Homer
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