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

  17. 17.
    Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904
    by Anton Chekhov

  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

  28. 28.
    The Name of the Rose: including the Author's Postscript
    by Umberto Eco

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

  30. 31.
    Madame Bovary (Bantam Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

  31. 32.
    The Interpretation of Dreams
    by Sigmund Freud

  32. 33.
    Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
    by Anne Frank

  33. 34.
    The Years with Laura Diaz
    by Carlos Fuentes

  34. 35.
    Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy
    by Jostein Gaarder

  35. 36.
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  36. 37.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  37. 38.
    The Tin Drum
    by Gunter Grass

  38. 39.
    Goethe's Faust
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  39. 40.
    Dead Souls: A Novel (Vintage Classics)
    by Nikolai Gogol

  40. 41.
    Count Julian (Masks)
    by Juan Goytisolo

  41. 42.
    Grimm: The Illustrated Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
    by Jacob And Wilhelm Grimm

  42. 43.
    Life and Fate: A Novel
    by Vasily Grossman

  43. 44.
    Growth of the Soil
    by Knut Hamsun

  44. 45.
    Hunger: A Novel
    by Knut Hamsun

  45. 46.
    Seven Years in Tibet
    by Heinrich Harrer

  46. 47.
    ?
    Kon Tiki Expedition (Bridge Series)
    by Thor Heyerdahl

  47. 48.
    MISS SMILLA'S FEELING FOR SNOW (HARVILL PANTHER S.)
    by PETER HOEG

  48. 49.
    The Iliad
    by Homer

  49. 50.
    The Odyssey (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Homer

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Comments

Untitled — 5 years ago

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


bah

Fixed... — 6 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…


bah

Missing — 6 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.




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