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
  2. 2.
    Le Grand Meaulnes (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
    by Henri Alain-Fournier
  3. 3.
    The House of the Spirits
    by Isabel Allende
  4. 4.
    Fairy Tales (Everyman's Library Children's Classics)
    by Hans Christian Andersen
  5. 5.
    ?
    Dom Casmurro
    by Machado De Assis
  6. 6.
    St. Augustine Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Saint Augustine
  7. 7.
    ?
    La Cousine Bette (Classiques Francais)
    by Honore de Balzac
  8. 8.
    The Second Sex
    by Simone de Beauvoir
  9. 9.
    The Holy Bible
    by Various Authors
  10. 10.
    Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
    by Jorge Luis Borges
  11. 11.
    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov
  12. 12.
  13. 13.
    Outsider (Everyman's Library Classics)
    by Albert Camus
  14. 14.
    The Plague
    by Albert Camus
  15. 15.
    Journey to the End of the Night
    by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
  16. 16.
    Don Quixote de La Mancha (Modern Library)
    by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
  18. 18.
    The Half Brother
    by Lars Saabye Christensen
  19. 19.
    The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles)
    by Jean Cocteau
  20. 20.
    The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream
    by Paulo Coelho
  21. 21.
    The Inferno (Signet Classics)
    by Dante Alighieri
  22. 22.
    Crime and Punishment (Everyman's Library)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  23. 23.
    The Idiot (Modern Library Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  24. 24.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas pere
  25. 25.
    The Three Musketeers (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas
  26. 26.
    The Lover
    by Marguerite Duras
  27. 27.
    The Maias (Penguin Classics)
    by Eca de Queiros
  29. 29.
    The Royal Physician's Visit: A Novel
    by Per Olov Enquist
  31. 31.
    Madame Bovary (Bantam Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert
  32. 32.
    The Interpretation of Dreams
    by Sigmund Freud
  33. 33.
    Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
    by Anne Frank
  34. 34.
    The Years with Laura Diaz
    by Carlos Fuentes
  35. 35.
    Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy
    by Jostein Gaarder
  36. 36.
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
  37. 37.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  38. 38.
    The Tin Drum (Vintage International)
    by Gunter Grass
  39. 39.
    Goethe's Faust
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  40. 40.
    Dead Souls: A Novel
    by Nikolai Gogol
  41. 41.
    Count Julian (Masks)
    by Juan Goytisolo
  42. 42.
    Grimm: The Illustrated Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
    by Jacob And Wilhelm Grimm
  43. 43.
    ?
    Life and Fate: A Novel
    by Vasily Grossman
  44. 44.
    Growth of the Soil
    by Knut Hamsun
  45. 45.
    Hunger: A Novel
    by Knut Hamsun
  46. 46.
    Seven Years in Tibet
    by Heinrich Harrer
  47. 47.
    ?
    Kon Tiki Expedition (Bridge Series)
    by Thor Heyerdahl
  48. 48.
    Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (Harvill Panther)
    by Peter Hoeg
  49. 49.
    The Iliad
    by Homer
  50. 50.
    The Odyssey (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Homer

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tassini

Untitled — 4 years ago

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

Sep 14, 12:42PM | 1 comment | Reply to this

bah

Fixed... — 4 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…

May 09, 04:28AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

bah

Missing — 4 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.

Feb 22, 07:41AM | 0 comments | Reply to this



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