English PEN's "The Bigger Read"

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English PEN has decided to launch its own alternative to the <a href="http://listsofbests.com/list/45/">Big Read</a>, which reflects our favourite literature from all over the world. We aim to inspire people to read literature from other countries, about people, places and cultures they might not know, and which they come to discover through books. Originally written in languages from all over the world, these books have made an impression on us in one way or another. We hope you’ll agree that they have all – in one way or another – made a significant contribution towards cultural development.

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

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

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  3. 3.
    The House of the Spirits
    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
    by Machado De Assis

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

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    La Cousine Bette (Classiques Francais)
    by Honore de Balzac

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  8. 8.
    The Second Sex
    by SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

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  9. 9.
    The Holy Bible
    by Various Authors

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  10. 11.
    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov

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    Outsider (Everyman's Library Classics)
    by Albert Camus

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  13. 14.
    The Plague
    by Albert Camus

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  14. 15.
    Journey to the End of the Night
    by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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    Don Quixote de La Mancha (Modern Library)
    by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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    The Half Brother
    by Lars Saabye Christensen

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  17. 19.
    The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles)
    by Jean Cocteau

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  18. 20.
    The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream
    by Paulo Coelho

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  19. 21.
    The Inferno
    by Dante Alighieri

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  20. 22.
    Crime and Punishment (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  21. 23.
    The Idiot (Modern Library Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  22. 24.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas pere

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  23. 25.
    The Three Musketeers (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas

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  24. 26.
    The Lover
    by Marguerite Duras

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  25. 27.
    The Maias (Penguin Classics)
    by Eca de Queiros

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  26. 29.
    The Royal Physician's Visit: A Novel
    by Per Olov Enquist

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    Madame Bovary (Bantam Classics)
    by GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

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  28. 32.
    The Interpretation of Dreams
    by Sigmund Freud

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  29. 33.
    Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
    by Anne Frank

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  30. 34.
    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
    by GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ

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  33. 37.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  34. 38.
    The Tin Drum (Vintage International)
    by Gunter Grass

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  35. 39.
    Goethe's Faust
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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    Dead Souls: A Novel
    by Nikolai Gogol

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    Count Julian (Masks)
    by Juan Goytisolo

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    Grimm: The Illustrated Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
    by Wilhelm Grimm

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    Life and Fate: A Novel
    by Vasily Grossman

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    Growth of the Soil
    by Knut Hamsun

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    Hunger
    by Knut Hamsun

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    Seven Years in Tibet
    by Heinrich Harrer

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    Kon Tiki Expedition (Bridge Series)
    by Thor Heyerdahl

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

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    The Iliad

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  46. 50.
    The Odyssey (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Homer

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Comments

Untitled — 2 years ago

Number 44 should read “soil”, not “soul”.


Fixed... — 2 years ago

I just noticed that the version of The Three Musketeers (at #25) listed here was an abridged version, which is obviously wrong, so I changed that.
Sorry to mess people up a little…


Missing — 2 years ago

Orhan Pamuk’s The Black Book and My Name is Red were missing, so I added those. Also changed Goytisolo to Count Julian (Goytisolo is the author’s name, not the title on the list) and changed In Search of Lost Time to the whole thing, not just Vol. 1.