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. 51.
    Les Misérables (Signet Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

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  2. 52.
    The Three-Arched Bridge
    by Ismail Kadare

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  3. 53.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka

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  4. 54.
    Zorba the Greek
    by Nikos Kazantzakis

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    Mehmed My Hawk
    by Yasar Kemal

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  6. 56.
    Fateless
    by Imre Kertesz

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  7. 57.
    Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
    by Omar Khayyam

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  8. 59.
    I Shall Bear Witness the Diaries of Vict
    by Victor Klemperer

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  9. 60.
    The Koran ( Penguin Classics )
    by Revised Translation by N.J. Dawood

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  10. 61.
    Anna Edes (A Revived Modern Classic)
    by Dezso Kosztolanyi

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  11. 62.
    Identity: A Novel
    by Milan Kundera

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    Dangerous Liaisons
    by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

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    The Leopard
    by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

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    Independent People
    by Halldor Laxness

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  17. 68.
    Giacomo Leopardi, The Canti (Fyfield Books)
    by Giacom Leopardi

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    Le Roman de la Rose
    by Guillame de Lorris & Jean de Meun

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  19. 70.
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    The Story of Ah Q
    by Lu Xu

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  20. 71.
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    The Mahabarata

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  21. 72.
    Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
    by Thomas Mann

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  22. 73.
    Death in Venice
    by Thomas Mann

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  23. 74.
    The Magic Mountain
    by Thomas Mann

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    Little Red Book
    by Mao Tsetung

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  25. 76.
    Embers
    by Sandor Marai

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  26. 77.
    Norwegian Wood
    by Haruki Murakami

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  27. 78.
    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
    by Haruki Murakami

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  28. 79.
    The Communist Manifesto
    by Karl Marx

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    Forbidden colours
    by Yukio Mishima

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    YOUNG TORLESS
    by Robert musil

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  31. 82.
    The Gift
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  32. 83.
    Twilight of the Idols and the Antichrist (Philosophical Classics)
    by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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  33. 84.
    Somersault
    by Kenzaburo Oe

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  34. 85.
    The Black Book
    by Orhan Pamuk

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  35. 86.
    My Name Is Red
    by Orhan Pamuk

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    Pensees
    by Blaise Pascal

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  37. 88.
    Doctor Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak

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    Life A User's Guide
    by George Perec

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    Happy Moscow
    by Andrey Platonov

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  40. 91.
    Soul
    by Andrey Platonov

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    The Return and Other Stories
    by Andrei Platonov

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    Dog Star
    by Agneta Pleijel

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  43. 94.
    In Search of Lost Time
    by Marcel Proust

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  44. 95.
    Zazie in the Metro (Penguin Classics)
    by Raymond Queneau

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    Jealousy: A Novel
    by Alain Robbe-Grillet

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  46. 97.
    The Radetzky March (Works of Joseph Roth)
    by Joseph Roth

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  47. 98.
    Bonjour Tristesse
    by Francoise Sagan

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  48. 99.
    The Little Prince

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  49. 100.
    The Stone Raft
    by Jose Saramago

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