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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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1. The Complete Fables (Penguin Classics)
by Aesop
 
2. The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) (Penguin Classics)
by Henri Alain-Fournier
 
3. The House of the Spirits (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
by Isabel Allende
 
4. Fairy Tales (Everyman's Library Children's Classics)
by Hans Christian Andersen
 
5. Dom Casmurro (Penguin Classics)
by Machado De Assis
 
6. Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)
by Saint Augustine
 
7. Cousin Bette (Modern Library Classics)
by Honoré de Balzac
 
8. The Second Sex (Everyman's Library Classics)
by Simone de Beauvoir
 
9. 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
 
10. Labyrinths (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Jorge Luis Borges
 
11. The Master and Margarita (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Michail Bulgakov
 
12. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Italo Calvino
 
13. Outsider (Everyman's Library Classics)
by Albert Camus
 
14. The Plague
by Albert Camus
 
15. Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook)
by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
 
16. Don Quixote (Modern Library Classics)
by Miguel De Cervantes
 
17. Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904 (Penguin Classics)
by Anton Chekhov
 
18. The Half Brother: A Novel
by Lars Saabye Christensen
 
19. The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles)
by Jean Cocteau
 
20. The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream
by Paulo Coelho
 
21. Inferno (Modern Library Classics)
by Dante
 
22. Crime and Punishment (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
 
23. The Idiot (Modern Library Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
 
24. The Count of Monte Cristo (Modern Library Classics)
by Alexandre Dumas
 
25. The Three Musketeers (Modern Library Classics)
by Alexandre Dumas père
 
26. The Lover
by Marguerite Duras
 
27. The Maias
by Eca de Queiros
 
28. The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Umberto Eco
 
29. The Visit of the Royal Physician
by Per Olov Enquist
 
30. Bouvard And Pecuchet
by Gustave Flaubert
 
31. Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
 
32. The Interpretation of Dreams (Modern Library)
by Sigmund Freud
 
33. The Diary of a Young Girl (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Anne Frank
 
34. The Years with Laura Diaz
by Carlos Fuentes
 
35. Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy
by Jostein Gaarder
 
36. Love in the Time of Cholera (Everyman's Library Classics)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
 
37. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Everyman's Library Classics)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
 
38. The Tin Drum (Vintage International)
by Gunter Grass
 
39. Faust (Bantam Classics)
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
 
40. Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol
 
41. Count Julian (Spanish Literature Series)
by Juan Goytisolo
 
42. Fairy Tales (Everyman's Library Children's Classics)
by Jacob W. Grimm
 
43. Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman
 
44. Growth of the Soil
by Knut Hamsun
 
45. Hunger (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Knut Hamsun
 
46. Seven Years in Tibet
by Heinrich Harrer
 
47. The Kon-Tiki Expedition
by Thor Heyerdahl
 
48. Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (Harvill Panther)
by Peter Hoeg
 
49. The Iliad (Penguin Classics)
by Homer
 
50. The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
by Homer
 
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